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Re:Slack Is Down? on Monday January 04, 2021 @10:16AM (#25632313)
Down on US East and US Central for me
Re:Airbnb’s Stunning IPO on Friday December 11, 2020 @12:46PM (#25388448)
Airbnb is great until you get a bad experience. For hotels, there is a floor for bad experiences - it can only get so bad, and the customer service is usually decent. I used airbnb until I had a single terrible experience and worse customer service that did not help me because I had no proof of the incident. Been using hotels ever since.
Re:A first look at Unreal Engine 5 on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @01:18PM (#23169193)
Not unreal engine, but you might be interested in https://aframe.io/
Re:iPadOS on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @03:58PM (#21063976)
Sidecar as a pen tablet could be a game-changer.

My fiancee has been looking for a mobile drawing computer. The only thing I could recommend until now was the Surface Book since Apple doesn't make anything mobile that could run the full Adobe suite. If you can sketch with the iPad Photoshop and there is sidecar support for Illustrator and the other apps, it might be a good deal.

Re:This Startup Does Not Exist on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @08:51AM (#19254262)
Re:Google's cross-platform Flutter UI toolkit goes 1.0 on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @01:37PM (#18602281)
iOS, Android, and Fuscia. I just found out that there is now Hummingbird for web as well.
Re:Amazon Quantum Ledger Database on Wednesday November 28, 2018 @12:49PM (#18553729)
Quantum just means something that can be counted or measured, usually in discrete amounts like whole number. Assuming the audits and entries are discrete and transactional, the word makes sense. But yeah, it just looks like they are trying to go for marketing buzzwords.
Re:High score, low pay: why the gig economy loves gamification on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @03:10PM (#18505639)
Oh I must be thinking about Target self checkouts specifically. They have a nice ringtone when you use it compared to the normal beep from the cashier.
Re:High score, low pay: why the gig economy loves gamification on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @11:14AM (#18503700)
Unfortunately I don't foresee it being recognized or fought against. Especially in high turnover work forces such as ride sharing and "part time" low-income jobs. The gamification may engage the employees for just enough time to provide more profit than the turnover would cost.
Re:High score, low pay: why the gig economy loves gamification on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @11:09AM (#18503657)
Decent read as the manipulative uses of game design are often overlooked. Think about how "fun" it feels to scan your own items at the checkout and hear those nice tones. Uber and Lyft drivers have Pavlovian response when they hear a new ride beacon ready to accept.
Re:Visualizing quaternions: An explorable video series on Friday October 26, 2018 @02:52PM (#18311836)
I was just watching this in my other tab... https://imgur.com/a/aGj6tXy
Re:Mozilla Announces Experimental Partnership with ProtonVPN on Monday October 22, 2018 @05:14PM (#18278583)
ProtonVPN is the same company as ProtonMail. The company has had a good rep, reminds me of Lavabit.
Re:Thefuck – Corrects your previous console command on Thursday October 18, 2018 @03:22PM (#18251324)
Tab autocomplete works nicely when configured
Re:Helm: Personal Email Server on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @10:06AM (#18239114)
This is a market cash grab that preys on peoples' ignorance and fears. Fancy looking hardware for an excessive cost that isn't stand-alone. For e-mail. Really?
Google Inbox :(
Re:React Native Is a Bootstrap for Mobile on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @12:27PM (#18077595)
Have you tried Flutter?
Re:Ray Tracing Is No New Thing on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @12:14PM (#18077448)
Obviously. Good article but clickbait title. "A History of Ray Tracing" would have done the job.
Show me the finished product. Stop promising to self-promote.