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my main complaint with the rift is often overlooked, (edit: this is simply untrue, it appears since i walked away from the stereoscopic vr world the issue of ipd has certainly been addressed and efforts have been made to assuage the problem)

and unfortunately i think will only start to be addressed when the number of people who spend more time with the device increases,

the headset is one size fits all

the center of the split screen, the stationary lenses, and i'm assuming the stereo render all presume everyone's eyes are the same distance apart and perfectly level

which is simply untrue, and without configurable variables those minute discrepancies will result in peoples' brains working much harder to compensate

my eyes went cross for an hour after taking off the headset the last time i ever used my dk2, i wonder if i will be reading someone else's similar story in the near future
Both you and the OP are incorrect. The file is not included in the app (only referred to), but is only downloaded by iOS itself - or anyone who points a web client directly at it, of course.
DK2 devkit ran on my 2010 air.
What you've identified is a primal dismissing of criticism as a discussion technique with any merit. The same could be directed back at your comment, which would create a funny but useless negative feedback loop. As in, your criticism of the author for not having an engineering background means nothing because if you have an engineering background you're not qualified to render an opinion of a journalistic enterprise.
This exists for Python [0]. The reverse is also interesting (Go -> Java/Python/Ruby) and once I get some spare time, I'll play around with using libjvm to load and call jar files from Go.

[0] https://github.com/go-python/gopy
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Another big-picture problem with the news: It's boring to be around people who are reading it.

I also find it's boring to be around people who are Google Searching, or using Facebook.
Except the Vive with steam has much better infrastructure/depth and existing userbase.
I just pulled a few 990s for professional engineering societies. Except for their CEO/ED and one or two key regional managers, they make far less than $400k/year. That said, I looked at PLOS's 990 and saw numbers that were a) much smaller than I expected based on the $400k comment and b) in line with but slightly higher than what I saw from, say, the Society or Petroleum Engineers or Society of Automotive Engineers.
How do languages like C deal with interrupts? Is it possible to deal with asynchronous exceptions if your handlers are reentrant?

I suppose this would still have issues dealing with unfinished work under a mutex.
Lol, good luck shoring up Bing.

I'm sorry but Bing has no real value proposition vs. Google or even Yandex. :/
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Congrats to the Rift team. Shipping is a huge milestone!
Looking at the screenshot I thought "Wow, I can see why Github would be annoyed at that" before realising that was their proposed not-at-all-like-github-now-honestly new UI.

Their demo looks like they just stole Github's CSS templates.
> By running on emotion, facts don’t matter.

I think he's right about this and I find it pretty depressing.
> On the other hand, the battery is long gone

There are businesses who will take your old battery, crack it open and put in fresh cells. Or you can do it yourself.

> there is no floppy, no CD ROM, no builtin ethernet, so I cannot get any data on or off that device or install a different operating system.

You have a 16 bit PCMCIA slot, and you can still find cards for that if you look hard enough. (I picked up an original Orinoco wifi card for under $10.) Remember, the gold stripe on the card means 32 bit. Avoid those.

And the standard way for working with these old computers is to get an external HDD case and swap out the drive. Or anything that you can use as a USB-IDE adapter. Then you can install whatever you want. Though you really shouldn't use spinning rust that old. I typically use a 16GB CF card in a CF-IDE adapter. (I do this in my 600E, for example.) It works very well since the protocols are the same.

Edit: So maybe CF cards don't work in the 701, see http://www.os2museum.com/wp/butterfly-conservation/
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Finally, I can play "world of world of warcraft"!
The serials seem to have started at xxxxxxx23xxxxx. I'm not sure how serial they are after that, but that puts things on the high-end estimate at hundred of thousands, not millions.
I appreciate you creating this, looking at what is being censored is always a great way to understand the world around you.
This is actually the best "available for everyone" (eg, not remote surgical assistance etc...) use case in my opinion.

Especially for people working in open-floor plan offices.
Round of applause for everyone involved for staying level-headed and agreeable.
What would the effective resolution be? Any good for detailed work?
Really disappointing to see that SteamOS is just a second thought even for Valve's own projects, seems like they don't really care about it after all.
Still too low res for work use. Next gen, maybe.
So what's a good balance between proactive testing and reactive customer support?
Cool, news to me! I'd love to be wrong.
I thought about that, but if you do the math the resolution is far too low. Maybe after a few generations it'll be a viable replacement for a multi-monitor setup.
I think that simply reinforces the idea that YouTube comments aren't worth reading :)
Quick google for "oculus interpupillary distance":

http://www.roadtovr.com/oculus-says-consumer-rift-has-ipd-ad...
Yeah I don't think the President will catch much more flak than he has, but I do think it is clear from his comments that he does not understand the technology. That is too bad because he could really help inform and prepare the country for the future if he could stand up and relay some hard truths to the public while suggesting ways we can deal with new threats that are coming. The last thing we want is a leader to throw up his hands and say, "I do not understand this threat, and I have no idea how we're going to deal with it". He almost choked up on words like this at SXSW [1]. He cannot see a way forward because he does not even understand the problem.

[1] https://youtu.be/wfsIZioIpdI?t=46m
As best as I recall, in that paragraph they did not say they would comply, just that they would make every effort to assist.

I believe the subtlety was lost on those who want to believe Apple is being hypocritical.
Seems to me that nearly every UI component in the screenshot is stock Bootstrap.
Why is software still being named for the language it was written in?
This looks like another Informatica deal [0]. It actually makes a ton of sense. Yahoo needs to get out of the scrutiny of the public markets and into a private ownership that wants long term results (EBITDA growth year over year) and less trendy bets that try to raise the status of the company (i.e. Tumblr).

[0] - http://www.computerworld.com/article/2960729/enterprise-appl...
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Well, I'm sure there is, but it doesn't really give him any idea how to find it.
Safari kept crashing for me (and occasionally other apps, but don't know if related, just thought they were buggy apps) on my iPhone 5. I originally thought it was a problem with some sites being horribly broken, but it was also happening on mainstream sites such as wsj.com.

After I installed the 9.3 update, the crashes stopped. Maybe the firmware update and device reset clears that database.

Or it could be completely unrelated. Whichever, that's my anecdote.
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USA never used SCART. Went straight from UHF antenna to component. NES and SNES shipped with RF cables - the earliest with component was the N64.
I think it makes more sense to make NuSaver

Yes, this is what I meant. How big a justification does he need to refuse code when such a thing is possible?
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I don't have access to the full article, but the premise is interesting. at what transaction volume would I be better of running my own fgpa hardware?
Based on my (admittedly sesame street) understanding, DX12 wasn't a 'slight' perf improvement over DX11 (which was already industry-leading) but drastic one.
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i had an idea that if I were a US bank I would create a USD token on Ethereum that would be redeemable at my bank (or my network of banks). A eUSD token would created via smart contract and be pegged to the dollar and thereby tradable on the Ethereum network. Individuals and business could then do business in USD (or any fiat of choice for that matter. Obtainable on an Ethereum exchange or through said bank(s)). Other implications: An accounting firm could create a smart contract that calculates and or files my taxes. A business structure (LLC, IPO etc) in can be written into a smart contract. And so on.
I'm sorry to hear you had problems installing GitLab. Maybe it was an SE Linux problem? https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/omnibus-gitlab/blob/master/doc... You can configure an alternative ssh port for the Omnibus packages in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/blob/30e4d3ce9a18340... If you encourter problems again please email support@gitlab.com and include a link to this comment.
Correct, the interface between the phone and the headset is the charge port, but there is an additional port on the Gear VR itself to allow for charging while being used.

The original Gear VR ("Innovator edition") could not be charged while used though if I remember correctly.
Apparently you need 1 real monitor for each 'virtual' monitor.

>The latest version (0.9.5) now supports multiple monitors as long as they are connected to the same GPU as the Rift. i'm working on adding support for multi-GPU and Optimus configurations. Multi-Monitor is only available in curved mode at the moment but I'll add support for flat mode at some point too.
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I have different point of views. For me, Integration tests are always better.

I normally structure two type of integrations test:
5-10 minutes tests that run before every checking.

Over night, over weekend tests that runs every night and every weekend.

5-10 minutes are enough time for 200 UX features level tests for both embedded system and Web backend/frontend integration type project, for me,

With those test coverage in place. The worst time I receive the feedback from the test failures are one day or one weekend. All the changes are all within my mind that might cost the failure.

BTW, ALL checkin code should be passing ALL integration tests. If they don't, the highest priority is fixed the test failures and not develop any new feature.
I can not reply to your last comment, but "port 80 request denied". And where do you store your MySQL data? The point being nothing is impossible, just prohibitively hard.
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Here's an article from Google on their move away from more end to end and integration tests, and towards more unit tests. I think it justifies it pretty well:
http://googletesting.blogspot.com/2015/04/just-say-no-to-mor...
That assumes a lot. My code may utilize one dependency that itself utilizes a few dozen useless ones. Whereas someone else may carefully choose 20 dependencies, none of which include any dependencies.

The issue is measuring the trustworthiness of a dependency, and recursively doing that operation throughout the dependency graph.

Simply focusing on the number of dependencies or the size of a dependency is silly.
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A lot of the bugs in our code are completely avoidable, but people get in the mindset of, "I need to move fast, bugs don't matter!"

Even if you don't have QA, when you write a bug, at least ask yourself, "what could I have done differently to avoid that bug in the future?" In some cases, it's as simple as, "put repeated code into a function so it doesn't get written twice." That will cut your chances of getting a typo in half.
This could potentially be an issue with any app that uses an association file.

edit To clarify, you need to use an association file on your website that references your app. What triggers the bug seems to be unknown, but appears to involve shared credentials.
What am I missing here?? I thought look and feel wasn't copyrightable. Didn't we learn that in the 80's?
Thanks for the feedback. I added you comment to https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/14548
> Trump is well on his way to owning the identities of American, Alpha Males, and Women Who Like Alpha Males. Clinton is well on her way to owning the identities of angry women, beta males, immigrants, and disenfranchised minorities.

> “If this were poker, which hand looks stronger to you for a national election?”

I dunno, does he think that there are more "alpha" males than "beta" males? Does he think that there are more women who "like alpha males" than "angry" women? I don't know what his definitions of "alpha" and "beta" are, but... well, it sounds like there would be a lot more "beta"s, right? And given the election is based on numbers...
PS4 VR full setup looks like ~$850.

If it were an open dev platform I'd be considering it.
the installation doc is not complete, at least not so simple like a 'unzip; ./gogs web', you need create a database, set up users etc, those really should be documented for a good first-time experience.

also after installation it refreshes into localhost:3000 instead of my-remote-host:3000, so you have a dead page after the installation.

yes they're easy to fix, but it's good if they're documented
So, you'd be interfacing with a virtual world of your virtual terminals which are running on a virtual machine in the real world?

I just realized I had not really considered how many possible uses VR could have.
Ocean City, Maryland

Here is one of the stories about the program:
http://oceancitymd.gov/oc/ocean-city-police-undercover-offic...
Have you tried it on CV1? I mean actually you couldn't have cause it's not out. (edit: this reads snarky, sorry, was just a bad edit.)

I haven't but from what I understand it's good enough quality and ergonomics for all day use.
The Gear VR has an extra USB port that you can connect to a charger which keeps the phone powered while in use. Or (more convenient) you can connect it to a self-contained brick battery you could wear on your waist.
> My understanding is that Vulkan does NOT deprecate OpenGL, at least not for most use cases.

It's clearly deprecate it in case of games and even more in the case of VR since you need high-end hardware that all support Vulkan.

For other games and low/middle-end hardware you simply don't want to use OpenGL for cross-platform game since it's total mess on Windows thanks for Intel, AMD and Microsoft. So it's only usable on Linux / OS X and this is why PC game developers don't use it.
If package management is important to you, you might want to try an operating system that integrates it natively.
I've been following VR for the last year or so. There is no question that the Rift has better specs and can do better graphics than the Gear.

But I've read more than a few people in the VR space (game journalists, developers) say that there is something special about the Gear because there is no cable. There's nothing you have to keep conscious of so you don't trip over it or feel it on your back breaking immersion.

The Gear VR could be enhanced with better tracking, and as new phones come out it will get better processing power. I think Fowler is right.

VR is very new. Let's say your a consumer who wants to play with it. What's a better investment? $2200 in a PC and a Rift, or $100 that clips on your phone (assuming you're on Samsung)?

If you just want to try it for now, play around a bit? The Gear is very compelling.

(I'd love one, but I use an iPhone. I've got a PS VR on order though.)
They're surprisingly heavy. The 330 weights 20 tons.

I guess it's all the shielding etc.
Sure - a lot of things aren't digitalized, but that doesn't mean it's lost - yet. A lot of it still exist in physical and analogue form - in archives, collections and private as well as public libraries across the globe.

There are however some quantity of people who equal "not being digitalized" as "being lost" (I'm not saying you're one of them). That would however not be true, at least not yet.

That said, there are people who have an over-confidence in technology or digitalization, which think we should forgo our analogue copies of any or everything. Some people use the argument that "Everything of value, has been digitalized". (Not everyone is a curator... tho)
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That's a pretty reasonable price point for early-adopter hardware (think "new Macbook with USB-C port"). Some people in the space I've talked to say that the Oculus isn't expensive enough -- the components don't "wow" enough to make the early adopters want to build stuff with it.

If you want something cheaper, there's always Google Cardboard...
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> Vulkan is a lower-level API that OpenGL can be implemented on top of

Well you could do that, but the higher-level graphics APIs use fundamentally different abstractions which need to be awkwardly translated into a format that the GPU expects.

If you put an OpenGL wrapper on top of Vulkan, you lose most of the performance benefits.
Upgrading everything without cause is one of the worst ideas I've heard in a long time. It leads to a lot of unnecessary work that could likely have been avoided otherwise, not to mention breaking the app itself. And if you end up on a version of a dependency that no longer works or is no longer supported in favor of a new package? What then? Rewrite all my code? What incredibly stupid advice to upgrade everything. The rest of the article is not much better either.
You might also look at last week's articles about Tony Fadell and NEST.

Boston Robotics and Nest were both heavily characterized as having issues working with Google proper. And both Nest and now Verily have both been recently characterized as having issues with leadership.

Apparently Tony Fadell told the Dropcam founder that he hadn't 'earned the right' to report to him.

It seems Alphabet companies have a lot of trouble brewing these days.
They're lined with Kevlar and all kinds of stuff.
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Comparing the number of Steam accounts to WoW accounts is comparing apples to oranges. (And also makes an implicit assumption that everyone who has a Steam account has a gaming PC, which is not a good assumption.)

In 2004, Steam had no noteworthy buzz and its only purpose was Half-Life 2 DRM.
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I was a big fan of his fiction work when I was a kid, but my favorite book from him was "Understanding Physics". It's an easy to read, notation-light, plain language book that covers pretty much every physics-related topic a layperson could care about.
I think they do care about it. The guy in that support thread said they're working on it just earlier this month. I think that's at least a step up from "maybe someday."
Absolutely!! I mean, we can quibble over the exact meaning, but the oculus team took so long precisely in order to have a wide-adoption product instead of a tech demo, which was available over a year ago.

The Big Question we all have right now is precisely this: will VR enter mainstream or will it be a gimmick? Oculus is supposed to be leading that charge. If they can't break into some huge number of homes, then the VR ecosystem will die before it gets started. Goodbye JauntVR, etc.
Trump only needs one "Reichstag fire", such as an October terrorist attack, to win in a landslide.
Oh, I didn't know they fully dropped this "osvrd" support together with Linux SDK and it's irreplaceable. Looks like I'll need to wait for some other device to buy...
After reading this article, it's no wonder. Conrad hasn't been a real technical person in decades. He's a hard-charging business type who learned from a billionaire real estate guy.

Nothing wrong with that personality type it's just totally not a fit with Google or frankly with managing any sort of technical people.
If any go mainstream it will be the PS VR. Sony has 30m consoles out there, and it only costs $500 to get setup with PS VR. Total price is about $800-900.

Plug and play, games work great because they're designed for the system.

On the other hand with the Rift and the Vive you need a PC which has to be up to spec, the hardware is more expensive, etc.
We have syntax highlighting within diffs since 8.4 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/2109 so please consider upgrading.

I don't understand what you mean with instantaneous merges, did merges seem faster in the past? We do have a feature that allows you to merge when the build is successful, saving many people lot of time http://doc.gitlab.com/ce/workflow/merge_when_build_succeeds....
>> The iOS 9.3 release suggests Apple's QA process is rather lacking

You can say that again. My battery runs down far more every day than it did before, my email doesn't fetch on schedule or push anymore, and things crash that never crashed before. 9.3 has been a mess so far.
Yeah thats my use case as well, but i m holding off to the second version which should be more ergonomic. We need to start inventing portable/wearable keyboards
I disagree, I use Bing on regular basis (also their rewards which I use to donate to local school helps). The results are comparable with Google, and are not that far off by any standards. Its the habit of Googling rather than Objective result set, that is impediment to Bing adoption. Now that Cortana is on Windows 10, lets see.
JavaScript could benefit from a better standard language. But this isn't the biggest concern since the language is "friendly enough" to write most tasks in.

The other point this article points is that the JS committee is adding more features to the language. While most of them are great, if they keep adopting every feature form other languages that they think are "neat" the language will become like the chicken-pig-goaty thing the article describes.

It will become C++Script.
> Typically many game developers have no clue about Linux programming either. So poor performance doesn't surprise me.

But ultimately, this is a weakness of the Linux platform.

Most games today are cross-platform, so there is a core set of assets and code that has to remain the same across every platform to ensure the game plays the same way. This means that (for right now, anyway - Vulkan was designed to help with this situation) most hardware-specific workarounds/optimizations have to be done in the drivers -- and there are LOTS of them. Game-specific things like "run this shader code, but this model of card has graphical bugs when features x, y and z are active together so stealth disable feature x" or "this card supports this transform algorithm but its output is inconsistent with the version we developed it with, so disable it for this hardware" happen at the driver level. Same thing happens on consoles, but they usually have more direct control over the hardware so console developers have gotten used to this type of driver optimization.

This optimization doesn't happen on Linux (or Mac for that matter), so any games that get ported are just unoptimized.