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Players can join/leave anytime during the game. When the last player leaves, the game quits.
Hope to have time to make a side-by-side versus mode, as I can imagine that being a lot of fun.
Was very confused about Facebook talking so much about hardware.
Essentially their job is dealing with things that border on being illegal. Determining how far you can get to illegality, while remaining technically inside legality.
For the first time the notion of "newspeak" in real life has clicked for me. I'd never grokked the idea from the novel, other than as some fear mongering fantasy that Orwell invented for the sake of compelling irony. But now I see, names actually make sense, from a certain angle. They weren't purely ironic devices.
For the record, I'm NOT comparing Microsoft to Big Brother. Just funny to draw that parallel in naming choices.
LibGDX is using RoboVM these days instead of Xamarin, due to the price. Also anecdotally they found RoboVM runs even faster than Xamarin [2], despite being a young project.
[1]: http://blog.robovm.org/2014/03/robovm-0010-is-here.html
Incidentally, Netflix has started using HTML5 instead of Silverlight/Flash, but only on Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 8.1, since HTML5 DRM extensions are available on that platform: http://www.extremetech.com/computing/159960-netflix-switches...
1. Go to about:config
2. Right-click anywhere, New -> Boolean:
signon.overrideAutocomplete
Value: true
More info: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=425145
EDIT: Based on the milestone set on that issue, this setting requires Firefox 29. Another workaround is this bookmarklet: https://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/forms.html#remember_... referenced from comment https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=425145#c16
https://www.facebook.com/business/news/Testing-a-New-Way-for...
The second thing on the page:
Control with a word. Or a touch. Or a twist.
CarPlay features Siri voice control and is specially designed for driving scenarios. It also works with your car’s controls — knobs, buttons, or touchscreen. And the apps you want to use in the car have been reimagined, so you can use them while your eyes and hands stay where they belong.
List<Widget> filtered = filter(widgets, new Filter<Widget>() {
@Override public boolean keep(Widget w) {
return w.getColor() == RED;
}
});
List<Integer> weights = mapToInt(filtered, new Mapper<Widget, Integer>() {
@Override public Integer map(Widget w) {
return w.getWeight();
}
});
int sum = sum(weights);(Is there any newer official documentation for maps? I couldn't find anything.)
No. If you jump to the end of the long discussion, the last comment says:
I'm sure there will be a similar discussion in the near future (especially as things such as SPDY / HTTP 2.0 get more traction), but for the time being, we'll stick with the CDN.
> Most legitimate Websites will not use hidden or obfuscated JavaScript, and few will redirect users without authorization, he explained.
Those make sense as example heuristics for detecting malware-serving sites. What part doesn't make sense? I don't know of legitimate websites that obfuscate their JS. (Minification doesn't count.) Presumably they've found malware websites in the wild that obfuscate.
Redirecting users in a jarring way is something malware sites actually do. Like going to example.com and it immediately redirects you to adsfa8sdjfa9sd8jfasd.com. The security guy isn't saying redirects are categorically bad, just that it's another heuristic that raises the chance you're currently viewing a malicious site.
Of course it applies to outgoing calls from businesses, as that's the entire point of the law.
The successor to Gitosis.
Here's a UN press release from 2009 titled "Food Production Must Double by 2050 to Meet Demand From World's Growing Population":
> Motivation = (Expectancy x Value) / (Impulsiveness x Delay)
> Increase the size of a task's reward (including both the pleasantness of doing the task and the value of its after-effects), and your motivation goes up. Increase the perceived odds of getting the reward, and your motivation also goes up.
> The denominator covers the effect of time on our motivation to do a task. The longer the delay before we reap a task's reward, the less motivated we are to do it. And the negative effect of this delay on our motivation is amplified by our level of impulsiveness. For highly impulsive people, delays do even greater damage to their motivation.
The rest of the article is worth reading. (It's short; 2/3 of the page is footnotes and comments.) Firstly for the examples that root the equation in reality. Secondly for suggestions on increasing the numerator and decreasing the denominator.
You mean Rap Genius?
2 important points from the FAQ [1]:
Q: Are apps that use the Amazon Mobile Ads API required to be distributed through the Amazon Mobile App Distribution Program?
A: Yes. Apps that use the Amazon Mobile Ads API must be distributed through the Amazon Mobile App Distribution Program before they can be distributed through other Android platforms.
Q: Which regions are supported?
A: The Amazon Mobile Ad Network serves ads to U.S. users.
Also it apparently doesn't play well with AdMob mediation. You have to use custom code to mediate between Amazon and other ad SDKs [2]. No info about which mediator SDKs are currently supported.
[1]: https://developer.amazon.com/sdk/mobileads/faq.html [2]: https://developer.amazon.com/sdk/mobileads/with-other-sdks.h...
It's writing a Markdown document, where the code blocks, indented 4 spaces, are executed. And the rest of the document is essentially nicely-formatted comments in the form of Markdown.
Out of curiosity, were you given any indication this would happen? Or were you drawing from Google's similar policy?
Until all eyes are on you, and you know they're calling for blood. Then it becomes very easy.
It's clearly a way to adapt the tablet multi-pane paradigm to fit on small screens. Based on my Android experience, this unified approach requires a lot less work than maintaining completely separate layouts (and Activity design) for tablet and phone.