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New comment by zyb09 in "SpaceX BFR [video]"

zyb09 — Fri, 29 Sep 2017 13:38:08 +0000

They have enough money to give building the first ever BFR a shot. If it turns out good and the reusability works, they can do a lot of contracts with it, like servicing ISS, and launching a new big space telescope. From there on the advantages and possibilities of having a reusable high payload system will be very clear, and with 3-4 of them, a moon base would already be possible. We'll see what happens but the plan looks solid at least.

New comment by zyb09 in "If America Lost Its Electricity: An Electromagnetic Shock"

zyb09 — Wed, 13 Sep 2017 15:02:36 +0000

You sound like a good guy to be around :)

New comment by zyb09 in "If America Lost Its Electricity: An Electromagnetic Shock"

zyb09 — Wed, 13 Sep 2017 11:40:05 +0000

I think what he is trying to say is, that developers will be useless dead weight in this kind of post apocalyptic scenario. Everybody will be out of there normal day jobs, but a lot of people can contribute to survival with their skillset. Doctors, mechanics, farmers, caretakers, hand labor, etc. will be in high demand. Office people & developers, not so much.

New comment by zyb09 in "Apple suffers 'major iPhone X leak'"

zyb09 — Sun, 10 Sep 2017 18:41:13 +0000

A bit sensational to call a reference to an unknown product that's likely going to be unveiled in 2 days, as well as some minor feature like Animojis, a major leak. This is what suffering a major leak looks like: http://gizmodo.com/5520164/this-is-apples-next-iphone

New comment by zyb09 in "Apple MacBook Pro lasts 135 minutes longer on battery in full screen mode"

zyb09 — Mon, 07 Aug 2017 18:11:33 +0000

OSX is still pretty great. After Snow Leopard, for a while it looked like OSX is gonna turn into "iOS Desktop Edition", starting with Lion. But that never really happened, Sierra is a very nice OS, and High Sierra is basically the same thing with the OS using Metal.

(Now if only Apple would sell a Macbook or iMac with 512 SSD & 16 GB RAM for a reasonable price)

New comment by zyb09 in "Building account systems"

zyb09 — Sat, 05 Aug 2017 14:37:52 +0000

Good links, thanks. At WWDC Apple was saying that Chinese, Japanese & Korean localisations for iOS Apps are often overlooked, and their data shows they should be the first ones to be added after English, even before localising for the more traditional languages.

I was looking into getting my app translated, but haven't even thought about OAuth providers.

New comment by zyb09 in "A tall chimney to facilitate heat exchange in the atmosphere"

zyb09 — Sat, 05 Aug 2017 03:40:45 +0000

Its 125 billions, not 1250 billions. Also US deficit is around ~500 bil now (way less then 1250b, but more then 125b)

New comment by zyb09 in "Building account systems"

zyb09 — Sat, 05 Aug 2017 03:15:44 +0000

It's not that bad. The only thing Google/FB/Twitter gets to know is that a user Y is using app X. Nothing more, and not detailed usage stats, just the basic fact.

For that they handle the complete user registration, recovery & auth process for you, with all the work and pain attached to it.

Granted if your OAuth provider were really evil, they could log into the users App X account and access whatever data he has inside the app, so you have decide if that a concern or not.

New comment by zyb09 in "Building account systems"

zyb09 — Sat, 05 Aug 2017 03:04:05 +0000

Anyone know if there is a good commonly used Chinese OAuth provider? Or Japanese and Korean for that matter?

New comment by zyb09 in "Apple to discontinue iPod Nano and Shuffle"

zyb09 — Fri, 28 Jul 2017 20:25:30 +0000

I've seen tons of people using iPod touches as dev devices. Much cheaper having multiple iPod touches running older iOS, or iOS betas, then having that many iPhones.

New comment by zyb09 in "Dell 38 inch UltraSharp monitor"

zyb09 — Sat, 22 Jul 2017 11:13:45 +0000

Probably a lot less volume being sold on ultra wide monitor panels. Therefore higher price.

New comment by zyb09 in "More Good Programming Quotes (2016)"

zyb09 — Sat, 22 Jul 2017 07:33:34 +0000

I thought these two were pretty good:

“Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.” — Linus Torvalds

That's how I always feel when people have lengthy discussions about spaces vs tabs. Good truth coming from the man himself.

“Sufficiently advanced trolling is indistinguishable from thought leadership.”

Kinda scary true, when you see how some online communities, that started mostly as trolling, became real idiologys over time.

New comment by zyb09 in "The security content of iOS 10.3.3"

zyb09 — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 06:42:23 +0000

That would be absolute madness. Can you imaging Apple pushing a 137MB file to all active iOS devices over cellular? I'm sure the carriers would appreciate :)

New comment by zyb09 in "LWJGL: Lightweight Java Game Library 3"

zyb09 — Wed, 19 Jul 2017 06:09:43 +0000

I've been using LibGDX for a small little thing, and honestly can't recommend it. I had the app for a few years, and whenever I wanted to update things after a few months, so many things would just break. Be it the build-system, the APIs, RoboVM or some randoms project settings - it was always a headache to get it running again. When RoboVM shut down, there wasn't even any clear way to get it running on iOS again for a while, leaving me with an undeployable app.

If you're investing into anything serious, I would strongly recommend going with Unity over this.

New comment by zyb09 in "The iPhone killed my inner nerd"

zyb09 — Fri, 30 Jun 2017 10:00:32 +0000

I wonder if this will have an effect on how kids get into programming. Back when I was a kid we had MS-DOS, my primary motivation was to install and play games, but there was this easy built-in pathway of: Hey, you can do a lot more with this machine if you want, including making your own games.

Nowadays consuming and developing are so disconnected, it seems almost impossible for the younger generations to just stumble upon it like many people did back then.

New comment by zyb09 in "Nintendo Announces SNES Classic, Comes with 21 Games"

zyb09 — Mon, 26 Jun 2017 18:34:27 +0000

You can always build your own EmuBox, that does the same job and much more. For people who can't do that, I recommend looking into it, there are pre-build options, which require less effort to get running. Or "hire" a friend to build one.

Nintendo will always be the only one who can legally sell a finished product like that.

New comment by zyb09 in "The top iPhone apps are taking up a lot more space"

zyb09 — Sat, 24 Jun 2017 19:26:00 +0000

The thing is having your app be 200 MB is not actually a big issue in the real world. So why do space optimization? Time is limited and there's always other things to be worked on.

New comment by zyb09 in "Apple Mac computers targeted by ransomware and spyware"

zyb09 — Tue, 13 Jun 2017 17:58:46 +0000

yeah very good argument. you never install anything from the command line or what?

New comment by zyb09 in "Websites people say have changed their lives"

zyb09 — Sun, 23 Apr 2017 11:12:43 +0000

So is this just a big page of links? Are AIs writing blog posts now?

New comment by zyb09 in "Super Mario Run"

zyb09 — Fri, 16 Dec 2016 09:46:51 +0000

Just collected the black coins in 1-1, and some in 1-2. The black coins seem to be what this game really is about, and damn does it a good job with it. Actually amazed at what it does with just a 1-button input method.

Sad to see so many people critize the $10 price tag. Obviously that was expected, but as an iOS dev myself, it always saddens me too see the rejection of people to basically pay for anything on the AppStore.