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the people going here are actively jumping out of an airplane. they chose to do this and are well aware of the risks. is it dumb? possibly. is this some mad profiteering stealing money from millions and casually ignoring people dying left and right in some cold-hearted money-making scheme? absolutely not. disclaimer: i'm one of those dumb ppl who jumped at this place - quite enjoyed it. slow news day i guess.
the ceo invested $230M+ of his own money into the company. if the guy wants a market-rate jet benefit, give the man the jet.
Re:Our next-generation model: Gemini 1.5 on Thursday February 15, 2024 @10:33AM (#39383908)
signup on mobile too big, doesn't fit submit button :\
Re:Apple Unveils MacBook Pro Featuring M2 Pro and M2 Max on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @11:02AM (#34414135)
Happy to see more Wifi 6E finally on Apple products
Re:Proxmox VE 7.0 Released on Friday August 27, 2021 @07:49PM (#28334243)
one day we'll get native Docker support... love the distro otherwise
Re:PeerJS – Simple peer-to-peer with WebRTC on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @01:05PM (#25660373)
here's a really great article by the people who wrote WireGuard as to why P2P is really hard to do: https://tailscale.com/blog/how-nat-traversal-works/
Re:There is no evil like reCAPTCHA on Monday August 05, 2019 @12:09PM (#20615229)
turn on comments on your blog without recaptcha, i dare you.
Re:Welcome to OpenGL on Sunday June 21, 2015 @12:18AM (#9752150)
i guess Nehe is no longer a thing... :)
Re:AWS Lambda as a back end for a single-page app on Saturday May 16, 2015 @04:45PM (#9557540)
the first time i found it to be about 1-2 seconds, afterwards it's more 0-1s
Re:RSA-210 factored on Sunday October 06, 2013 @09:58PM (#6506215)
For us that don't understand, what does this mean? Is RSA less secure now?
Re:Warning: Google Authenticator upgrade loses all accounts on Wednesday September 04, 2013 @04:55AM (#6326371)
this is especially bad for mtgox as it does not have backup codes or cellphone backup.
Re:Pandora Paid Over $1,300 for 1 Million Plays on Wednesday June 26, 2013 @02:23PM (#5947929)
If I learned anything from reading this article, music royalties are an extremely hard and complicated thing. Hat tip to them for even attempting to do business in this kind of insane environment.
Re:Mark Zuckerberg addresses PRISM on Friday June 07, 2013 @08:23PM (#5843001)
or all these companies are intentionally making similar press releases in hopes people will catch on that theyre being coerced into denying involvement. this way they're (assuming they have one) fulfilling their denial obligation with the NSA, yet still are protesting what they dont actually want to be doing
Re:Your First iOS App – 100% Programmatically on Tuesday April 16, 2013 @02:17PM (#5559802)
This article, although still great for beginners to get started, is using dated techniques that should be avoided.

In the past, developers would have resorted to starting with interface builder to do their designs. As they continued the development process, theyd notice that more and more of their views had to be done in code because Interface Builder wasn't powerful enough to do what they wanted. It could then be understandable why for newer projects, someone would skip Interface Builder altogether and go for code-only from the start.

Things have changed now though. Auto-Layout is extremely powerful in both Interface Builder and through code. Out of the box your visually designed interfaces now support powerful alignment and resizing irregardless of screen size. This is a big deal because there are a lot of screen sizes in iOS these days (iphone4, iphone5, ipad, all of these in landscape and portrait and yet again all these permutations with and without the keyboard open). auto-layout makes internationalization super easy too as all objects on your interface are designed to get bigger as words get longer (such as in German), yet have all associated objects around them still be perfectly aligned. Even right-to-left languages (and interface re-ordering) is supported without any additional code.

Looking at the code in the article, none of these are supported. If you even turn your iphone landscape the ui will be cut off. Let alone supporting ipad, keyboard open, longer words in the buttons/labels, etc.

I highly recommend new iOS developers to start with Auto-Layout from the getgo: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/UserE...

It's like tables vs css. Use CSS, it's much more portable.

apparently this is not new. last year American Airlines did something similar with AwardWallet: http://awardwallet.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=1567
Re:Faster Zombies on Wednesday August 01, 2012 @10:53PM (#4326971)
this is exactly why big companies need to invest way more time in risky, it-would-be-cool-if, projects

most studios would have avoided even trying to work on a linux port to their games often citing that there arent enough users to justify the engineering time. yet the unintended consequence of this [allegedly bad business decision] was that they found sizable optimizations to even their flagship Windows version as a by-product of linux optimizations. this in turn brings the system requirements down for the game on Windows, more people can play it, and more profits. all because of the effort used to port to Linux.

cool stuff valve.

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