Huh, I wonder what that'll mean for cross-platform compatibility. As they say in the post, Allegro supports a lot of platforms, whereas if they end up just targeting DirectX 11, that pretty much locks out everyone other than Windows and Xbox, doesn't it?
I believe they support Linux as a first-class citizen, even with removing Allegro! I've had VERY good luck with Factorio running through Steam, on Debian Linux (both 8 and 9). I have also ran it on Mac OSX and Windows 7 without any issue.
That game is so rock-solid as far as stability/system support that I would literally buy it again out of general principal =)
This is quite an assertion. I am not privy to jobs vision for the iPad because I haven’t seen much written specifically and it’s evolution is pure speculation as he’s dead now. But you can’t extrapolate from the iPhone and call it a day. And the iPad and the Watch as well are not practically products that have matured under the jobs umbrella. Critical consensus has been pretty positive about the progression of MacOS under Jobs (it was quite a rocky road but look by 2008).
You are overgeneralizing. Also I quite enjoyed working with students about 14 years my junior, so that’s like just your opinion, man. (I also have a suspicion you’re much younger than me, which I find amusing).
> I don't think anyone needs a degree anymore to get to where they're going.
There are plenty of professions outside of tech where formalized education is held in the same regard as 100 years ago. The “times have changed” thing is very much a tech bubblethink. Good luck entering medicine or academia without a degree. There are outliers in these fields but that isn’t anything new.
>Good luck entering [...] academia without a degree.
Given that a PhD is basically a training course on how to be a professor, I think that one might actually be fair. The harshest criticism of PhDs is that they are only vocational training for professors, even.
Dear lord sounds like you got lost from comp.lang.c. How did it get into the spec? Because Unix did it that way. Just like gets made it into the spec. It’s not like that was some willful good design. The history of C and it’s standarization is inextricably ties to the history of Unix.
Luckily this is really not a problem in practice on iOS. Main reason I switched after years of frustration with Android. I use a ton of apps and the worst offender for background use is Hangouts of all things (I guess not surprisingly). So I guess I’m giving up a little bit of battery life but it’s really just one poorly designed app (I do not use hangouts nearly enough to justify its share of background draw)
This trope is like 2016 (or whenever the hell it was) either way it’s old and it’s dumb. Buy a dongle, attach it to your headphones and leave it or get air pods. That is what the market is doing. I mean I’m not thrilled with lack of a headphone jack but the overall market for iPhones doesn’t really care.
China the SARs and Taiwan. It’s meant to be least politically charged since you refer to both Taiwan and mainland without, you know, without specifying which one is the more legitimate China.
I think the point they were making is that if you were going to build something like this you would use a digitizer. That would probably be a cheaper build at this point.
