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proyb2on Windows is doomed

If we could run entirely in a web browsers, it's a real alternative for everything. Probably Web Assembly might be the answer.

proyb2on ARCore: Augmented reality at Android scale

XCode 9 has implemented refactoring:

https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/De...

proyb2on List of Core ML Models for iOS 11

Lenovo and Asus are the only 2 with Tango without much fanfare.

Google licensed one of the AR patented from Flyby Media which Apple has acquired and its patent portfolio, we see why Apple could developed it faster.

proyb2on Ask HN: What to do if my cofounder and I develop feelings for each other?

Romance can happen to couples in the same school, workplace and community.

proyb2on Ask HN: What is your professional opinion of Wordpress?

Amazon has plenty of books about Wordpress, read up.

proyb2on Building the XNU kernel on macOS Sierra

At least Khronos will be creating Meta API for Metal, Directx and Vullan to address the difference, I hope that would just work and solve around Vulkan fragmentation and complexity that cant fit into all Apple SDK.

proyb2on Developers Are Already Making Great AR Experiences Using Apple's ARKit

I have been coding on laptop, it's kind of bad of our back body, AR can help to bring 360 degree display so we won't have to switch/toggle our workflow all the time for hundred times a day.

proyb2on Ask HN: What Is Your Experience as KickStarter Backer

10 projects backed.

Some on time, delay, more delay and never come and consider lawsuit.

proyb2on Sony plans to make vinyl records again

When I heard Bosendorfer Grand piano on vinyl, I was shocked and deeply into the low bass richness that I could never hear in high definition audio.

proyb2on WebVR Showroom

Safari in iOS 10.x could view WebVR smoothly is a surprising experience. I have thought it wasn't supported.

proyb2on Maersk IT systems infected with ransomware

DBSchenker and many logistic companies are still running Windows XP on some legacy PC. I have encountered one PC had ransomware too.

proyb2on Java Platform Module System: Public Review Reconsideration Ballot

I wonder what Java developers' opinion on this?

proyb2on Apple’s AR is closer to reality than Google’s

1. Vulkan vs Metal 2 in fragmentation devices. All Apple SDK include CoreML is running on top of Metal 2. If I'm right, only a small number of Android apps and 3D gaming utilize Vulkan.

2. Pushed for Healthcare, Android lack the ability to safeguard patients' data since Android is open source and could be steal

3. ARKit is one of the many AR out there, still early to judge whether iOS can get AR wide adoption by developers, it's easy to develop while Androis flagships could work on AR using 3rd parties SDK seem not as smooth as ARKit without Tango enabled and need lot of testing on different devices than on iPad and iPhone.

4. Camera quality are subjective, Flickr have plenty to show creative photography. I always feel most flagships can take good and bad photos just like DSLR, if you don't know how, you are just an owner, not a photographer. Just like, you are just a player, not a professional.

HEIF is an awesome format which can recreate bokeh close to DSLR and other effects without a specialize hardware.

proyb2on Play Framework 2.6.0 released

Ah, I've completely forgot about Play Framework. The interesting contribution I did made was just to give a slogan "high-velocity web framework". The website haven't change much over the years. Looking now, Rocket is indeed more of a high-velocity web framework https://rocket.rs

proyb2on MacOS High Sierra tech preview: A quick look at the stuff you can’t see

Webp didn't took off as we would like, I'm still using JPEG, SVG and PNG for all artworks. I believe Microsoft and major graphics editing have plans to support HEIF because their software are running on macOS and iOS. Affinity Photo and Designer surely will.

Web browsers might supported HEIF largely because Imgur and other image hosting will benefits from smaller size.

proyb2on MacOS High Sierra tech preview: A quick look at the stuff you can’t see

It won't matter since Metal was released in 2014 and Vulkan in 2016 including OpenCL will be merged into Vulkan API.

If most developers are targeting iOS and macOS for gaming, it make sense to use game engines, if I understand some developers had shared their discussion in /r/vulkan found it was harder to code in Vulkan than Metal 2?

proyb2on ARKit

Using Metal 2 optimize, it's solid and I was even fooled by a red chair. IKEA would love this.

I realize on Google I/O 17 demoed Tango using Asus ZenFone with low frame rate is still not impressive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ey47-i33bLI

I thought Samsung S8 should have AR on a premium phones.

Compare to 60-120fps on iOS 11, yup, Apple Metal 2 could boost by reduce latency from 16.6ms to 8.xms and even more with direct display, it matched PlayStation VR refresh rate, real world tracking is what we need. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yphh1Ue3D6g

proyb2on ARKit

Way more than 3D, I'm surprise it can remember position and flat plane accurately and butter smooth fps.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yphh1Ue3D6g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YzayB99piE

proyb2on Ask HN: Invest in Sailfish OS?

Do Sailfish have their own app stores like PlayStore and AppStore? QT tooling for Sailfish is a bit hard sell than Kotlin and Swift were employed.

If Swift could run on Sailfish, it's even worth to invest.

proyb2on Our grant application was leaked to a competitor, who is now planning to sue

Which countries are you applying at?

proyb2on Apple Monitoring Blood Glucose

I disagree, most people tend to unknowing overwork or having excessive intake. There are situations when someone tried to add artificial sweetness, the gadget are there to inform you in time rather than months.

Hostpitals has been participating in health research because they want to make these accessible for you 24 hours.

proyb2on Apple Monitoring Blood Glucose

I don't think you could say for the general young generation.

Google, Apple and Samsung have been vie for these feature in 2014.

It is not uncommon to focus on health space when the technology is mature, we can't live and worry about our health.

What is the point if you have the greatest smartphone watch and still lead unhealthy lifestyle?

proyb2on Ask HN: Would it make sense to have a website to keep track of your address?

I know the trick you are thinking, no one implement it for privacy reason.

proyb2on PyCon 2017 – Talk videos

I find all the video titles in PyCon 2017 aren't well presented or worth to watch than PyCon 2016. Displaying code against the white background is awful.

proyb2on [dead]

Misleading. The agency is promoting AMP instead of a normal website as the world fastest. We could have the world fastest website with Svelte.js or other smaller libraries.

proyb2on Beyond Streets and Avenues: Simple Visual Guide to Different Types of Roads

Roundabout - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCXtcXD17qU

Taxiway - is a path for aircraft at an airport connecting runways with aprons, hangars, terminals and other facilities.

proyb2on Swift is like Kotlin

I believe it was discussed in Swift Evolution, not confusing.

    0...1 //0 to 1

Note: triple dot.

    0..2 //error: repl.swift:1:2: error: use of unresolved operator '..'


    0..<1 //0 to <1

proyb2on Mavo – A new, approachable way to create Web applications

There isn't a tutorial on how to save data or layout, there someone mentioned REST.

proyb2on Fwaf – Machine Learning Driven Web Application Firewall

All I got is blank page.

proyb2on Ask HN: Which developing nations have interesting tech stories at the moment?

For all tech news in Asia: https://www.techinasia.com