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Looks like Vulkan support didn't make it to this release.

https://blog.qt.io/blog/2016/02/16/the-qt-company-joins-khro...

Stephen Hawking has concluded in his book "The Grand Design": "So it seems that we are no more than biological machines and that free will is just an illusion." [1]

Machines don't have afterlife. So, enjoy every moment you live right now! :)

[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/deepak-chopra/stephen-hawkings...

Samsung Galaxy S7 will be shipping with Android 6.0 and Vulkan API support. Exciting to see how Vulkan performs on mobiles.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Galaxy-S...

The French are going to get a new standardized keyboard, partly to protect the language. [1]

Would dropping circumflexes help creating a simpler keyboard?

[1] http://www.theverge.com/2016/1/21/10805562/france-change-key...

Here's a full list of conformant products:

https://www.khronos.org/conformance/adopters/conformant-prod...

I don't know why some dates are in the future..

The reason I have been waiting for Vulkan is to get rid of OpenGL driver bugs. I hope that being closer to metal means less bugs.

There was one good point, which was also my conclusion:

"Given all that, I wonder if it makes sense to prefer plain old functions most of the time. Is that right, or am I overlooking something?"

The response was yes. Avoid impl methods which take a mutable self.

Interesting, on the Southern hemisphere, the sundial needs to point to the South Pole and the design needs to be altered:

"in the Openscad script you can set a flag that will simply rotate upside-down the whole swiss cheese inside the gnomon, and build a ‘Southern-hemisphere’ version of the gnomon. This way, the ‘roo can simply use this Southern-hemisphere sundial exactly the same way a cow or a penguin would use their Northern-hermisphere version the sundial, with just one difference: the ‘roo will have to point the tip of his sundial toward the South Pole." [1]

[1] http://www.mojoptix.com/2015/10/25/mojoptix-001-digital-sund...

True, but I didn't think that we should go to Ball's Pyramid and eat them up. I was thinking about mass production. Think about chicken: there are more chickens than humans on this planet [1].

These creatures have such a great name! Nobody wants to eat crickets or worms, but who could resist a tree lobster? It is such a great marketing name!

[1] http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/07/global-liv...

Edit: you are right that being a food source for humans doesn't guarantee survival. It only happens if the food source can be mass produced.

Are those edible? They look like a good replacement for shrimps. Nothing would guarantee their survival better than becoming a food source for humans!

US customers here must mean that if you sell directly to US customers. If you sell via App Store to end users in US, then this is not needed, because Apple will be your customer (Apple Luxembourg for Europeans), not the end user.

I believe those are closed systems not connected to the internet. It still would be better to upgrade them (for easier access to spare parts, knowledge, etc).

Otherwise they end up like this French airport which was shut down just few weeks ago because their Windows 3.1 failed.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10559687

It is a strange world! (and a planet)

Again, the reality is stranger than fiction. I don't think any science fiction movie would have depicted a planet with a giant heart on it. It would have been just ridiculous!

Another way to understand the distances is the old scroll-through solar system. If the moon is one pixel, then Pluto is pretty far away.

http://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.h...

Safari / Webkit used to be the leader and get all the new features: CSS Animations, transitions etc.

Since Google started developing Blink for Chrome, it is now getting all the new features, such as CSS will-change, http2, shadow dom, css motion paths, ...

Safari / Webkit isn't anymore the leader. Occasionally, it receives some odd Apple specific features, like masked favicons [1] or force touch events [2].

[1] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-whatwg-archive/2...

[2] https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/mac/documenta...

I think WebVulkan would be great with WebAssembly! The nice thing about those technologies is that they are low-level APIs, which means less rooms for bugs.

WebGL, HTML, DOM, and most other web technologies suffer from not being consistent and they are full of bugs. How many graphics cards have been blacklisted from WebGL because the drivers don't have the required features or have too many bugs? [1][2]

[1] https://www.khronos.org/webgl/wiki/BlacklistsAndWhitelists [2] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Blocklisting/Blocked_Graphics_Drive...

It's great that Google Android will support Vulkan. Now, the support list seems to be: Android, Windows, SteamOS, Tizen, and many Linux distributions including Ubuntu and Red Hat. [1]

It's sad that it doesn't include Apple, most likely because they have now their Metal API.

[1] http://venturebeat.com/2015/08/10/khronos-wins-support-from-...

EDIT: here's another list of hardware vendors: AMD, ARM, Intel, Imagination, NVIDIA, Qualcomm, Samsung.

https://www.khronos.org/news/press/khronos-expands-scope-of-...

Web Components are not needed for that. SVG2 will include the video element [1], just like html, and it should be possible to clip, mask, filter etc. it.

It may take several years before that happens, but it should be coming.

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG2/embedded.html#VideoElement

I think the open source obsession is a bit sad. Open sourcing would mean an end to another entrepreneur and indie developer.

So, instead of open sourcing, I think these should happen:

1. He should get partners who can take care of Sublime Text if he isn't able to do it himself.

2. If Sublime Text is about to become abandonware, then it would be better to sell it to another small company, which could carry on developing it.

The MIT license says: "The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software."

Typically, "Software" means also binaries [1]. The MIT license text is usually included in the software documentation or about box. If you are not sure where to put it, then ask the open source project owners how to attribute them.

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/a/10681216

I was also disappointed that Soylent doesn't ship to Europe.

So, I have been drinking Ambronite [1]. It has a similar idea, but it is a bit more expensive, because it is made of real food ingredients.

[1] http://ambronite.com

Yes of course.

Do those moons really have a flowing ocean under the icy surface or is it water trapped in rocks?

Earth has a huge "ocean" deep in its mantle, but it's inside rocks. http://www.livescience.com/1312-huge-ocean-discovered-earth....

Nice to see you trying print media.

I saw the announcement on Arctic Startup website, is the new magazine connected to it or is it completely independent?

I'm wondering if the money from magazine can fund Arctic Startup, which was almost shut down few years ago.

In the video (at 35:39), they show the future plans and the plan is to start using bits of Servo code in Gecko. So, they will replace small parts of C++ code with Rust. http://youtu.be/7q9vIMXSTzc?t=35m39s

One plan was to first replace easy parts, like image decoders (bmp/ico formats). https://github.com/servo/servo/wiki/Mozlandia-Rust-In-Gecko#...

It won't be a one big replacement, more like a gradual take over.

Indeed, this is a solved problem. Use ngettext, see its page for all different language variations (even the Slovenian four different forms) https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/Plural...

There are healthy alternatives for Soylent. I've tried Ambronite. It's made of real food and is organic, but it's also more expensive. Its taste is quite strong when mixed with water. Mixing with juice or fruits makes it better. I just wish the price will come down.

http://ambronite.com

The reason could be that Russia started banning bitcoin websites. https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/russia-blocked-several-bitco...

As a Mac user, I only download applications from the wild-wild-web if the developer is a big player, like Google, Mozilla or Adobe (except I refuse to install Flash).

I think it is just too big risk to download from a small business which I don't know and run their application outside the sandbox.

So, I'd recommend that you have some version in MAS, otherwise you may lose customers.

I'm currently rewriting my Mac application. Its prototype was written in Qt, but I'm now dropping Qt for several reasons:

1. I demoed my application to my friends and they all complained that it didn't behave exactly like a native Mac application.

2. Qt5 has a lot of UI bugs on Mac OS X.

3. The LGPL license of Qt may not compatible with Mac App Store [1].

4. I could buy the commercial license of Qt, but it's $215/month for Mac OS X. I don't know if my app is going to sell at all, so I can't afford that kind of burden.

[1] http://blog.qt.digia.com/blog/2014/10/01/benefits-of-the-ind...