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No, IL2CPP is proprietary Unity tech.

My guess is that Netflix found people were more willing to pause, than cancel, and that the net result of removing pause left them with more revenue.

There’s been bad press for Blender? Genuinely curious!

Amusingly, the resulting pen-spring cannons I made were much more powerful and “dangerous!”

As a mobile dev, any effort to abstract away platform fragmentation craziness is highly commendable in my eyes. Excited to see where this takes you!

Is there anything in place to prevent bad actors from deploying fraudulent ad-click tools to takedown accounts?

(What you said makes sense to me, I just don’t know if/how ad networks could differentiate between the account-owner committing fraud and a malicious 3rd party.)

Mobile devs are smiling while reading this headline: always assume network loss or unavailability at any time time, especially the worst time possible!

I read that to mean: .NET won't get OS-specific functionality on Android and iOS until .NET 6.

As a primarily native-client dev who has developed for most major desktop and mobile platforms, I hope MS achieves it's goal of .NET being a truly solid cross-platform option, but in a way that enables clean and efficient native-code interop.

Having used C++, some insane hand-rolled solutions, PhoneGap/Cordova, Unity, and now Kotlin MPP, I know that the "cross-platform" dream is messy and fraught with disaster, but I've come to really appreciate C# and .NET for day-to-day client dev.

I don't feel like this precludes him from working on AGI -- and for him, it seems to be related: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=2110408722...

Their reasoning: "We love Rust, but it has a steep learning curve that may exclude data scientists and other non-expert programmers who frequently use TensorFlow." [1]

(I can't comment on that because I don't know Rust nor am I a data scientist!)

[1] https://github.com/tensorflow/swift/blob/master/docs/WhySwif...

> "the same fumes"

But, they're not the same. I had to dig around a bit to verify, but melting lead creates lead fumes: https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/lead/exposure.html

You do not have to bring lead to boiling create lead fumes (aka vapor).

Here's the OSHA documentation on lead: https://www.osha.gov/chemicaldata/chemResult.html?recNo=500

They have specifications for testing lead (and other metal) content in the air from soldering operations: https://www.osha.gov/dts/sltc/methods/inorganic/id206/id206....

Melting lead also creates lead vapor, so it doesn't require that you touch or eat it.

I think that the only role the mass of a lever would play in contributing to torque is through inertia.

You make good points, and I think I am overreacting!

Frankly, it's misleading/silly for me to complain about Swift additions since I don't have the opportunity to write much of it, and primarily only read/consume it with Obj-C code. (I have no choice in this matter.) Basically the language already has a high cognitive load for me, so of course any additions feel burdonsome.

Also, I'm unfamiliar with using KeyPaths like that, so I'm clearly way off on my reaction to them.

The general goals of Swift make me want to learn it better and use it, honestly.

I was all prepared to disagree with you until I read the details ... and yeah, I agree.

I generally love syntax sugar that makes me more productive, cuts out boilerplate, and reduces cognitive overhead... but for me, callAsFunction and even maybe Key Path Expressions as Functions are going to ADD cognitive overhead.

I suppose if I only used Swift, and used it every day, they would be OK, but otherwise it's just more fiddly things that deviate from existing patterns.

iOS and Android ripping each others' good ideas off is good for us. =)

Thank you for taking the time to clarify this in layman's terms!

This is the same kind of stuff Adobe and MS sue companies over — no hosting apps in the cloud without a license that explicitly allows for it.

Improbable didn’t want to pay for it, so they ran with the standard licensing hoping to prove out their product before Unity shut them down. Their board of investors were either OK with this, or were kept ignorant.

If the conversation started over 2 years ago, it was probably around the time SoftBank was doing due diligence for the $502 mil funding round. https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/improbable#section-f...

Gambling on dodging legal issues with someone else’s software is a stupid move, and Improbable’s customers & investors are paying for it.

Yeah, I don't think it's particularly healthy if you only place value on the anecdotes because of the Big Name Companies involved. My rejection/acceptance stories are all with no-name companies, and yet I've found the successes I'd hoped for.

However, I think there's some value to taken from it when thinking of it in terms of "hey, I got rejected for similar reasons, but that doesn't mean I can't bring value worth hiring me for."

Oh, I agree it sounds poorly managed. I expect the first month or two to be a complete disaster in terms of bugs.

For the sake of discussion, here's what the author says: http://rosie-lang.org/blog/2018/02/25/why-rpl.html#why-not-u...

I guess pest is comparable then, but wasn't mature when the author started work on Rosie?

(I'd be curious for a proper comparison, but I'm not really knowledgeable in this area -- I had no idea there were so many alternatives to regex: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_parser_generator...)

Well, Fallout 76 is multiplayer, so that complicates things heavily in terms of bugs and polish compared to those other titles you listed.

As well, this is Bethesda's first multiplayer game, so expect it to have a lot more bugs than your typical Bethesda launch.

I'd build his/her CRUD app, and make sure it wasn't shitty, if I felt it had potential to be a useful product and also felt like the people I met would be good to work with/for.

I've learned the hard way that I much prefer quality of life over "sexy dev work." (...and obviously take both if I can find it.)

As both a mobile developer and a consumer, I'll praise the iPhone over other smartphones all day long as an amazing and great product that just works.

Unity supports Metal, it was shown on stage during the keynote: https://blogs.unity3d.com/2018/06/05/wwdc18-book-of-the-dead...

Apparently Valve shipped a DOTA 2 update a few days ago that is using it:

https://twitter.com/Plagman2/status/1002324195135520768

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Dota-2-I...

So that's pretty promising!

At least there's this kind of thing happening: https://www.khronos.org/vulkan/portability-initiative

I assume he'll publish the details after Apple has fixed it.