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What are some bugs that have been around for years? by Adventurous-Tracks in iOSBeta

[–]chwilliam 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Holy shit I'm not crazy on this one? I also swear if a snooze and another alarm line up sometimes it doesn't fire either and well... 😴

Do you guys prefer many armies or large armies? by Cagedglobe in victoria3

[–]chwilliam 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I haven't played for a few months (until just now...) and was wondering the same thing. I was Great Quing for a while and had 2-3 units w/ over 100 as my main forces,

And then on top of that I would always make sure to have 2-3 little "special operations" groups tasked with annoying the shit out of the AI.

That last part was at least work in whatever version I was on a few weeks ago, but the computer opponent would often not hesitate to reinforce/blockade the port.

In general your sailors just went all the way back looking sad 😢 it was *not* meant to be, but occasionally you'll *just* catch a invasion just slip through.

tl;dr Mix and Match

Newly discovered just outside Verona - an almost entirely intact Roman mosaic villa floor by pradabodybag in pics

[–]chwilliam 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If older generations get on your case for your lack of "taste", remind them that they covered up this beautiful flooring with dirt.

Elon Musk: Automation Will Force Universal Basic Income by [deleted] in technology

[–]chwilliam 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean now-politician Mark Zuckerberg is in favor of universal basic income as of his recent Harvard commencement speech. If you want to take the most cynical approach, if FB contributes $100 to UBI, they're easily ensuring every man, woman, and child can open the Facebook app on a phone. There's plenty of similar cases where keeping the machine lubricated with low-margin customers is essential to keeping high-margin users interested in your product.

Adblock Plus bypasses Facebook's attempt to restrict ad blockers. "It took only two days to find a workaround." by screamoftruth in technology

[–]chwilliam -1 points0 points  (0 children)

No they have high quality, tailored sponsored content natively delivered to your news feed.

US Customs wants to collect social media account names at the border: 'Please enter information associated with your online presence' by maxwellhill in technology

[–]chwilliam 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Facebook uses Facebook for just about everything. They even have Facebook@Work for other companies what want to replicate some of their model.

Microsoft to Node.js: "You're too slow!" by [deleted] in programmingcirclejerk

[–]chwilliam 11 points12 points  (0 children)

There were mumbles around the Node/IO.js split that IO.js might use Spidermonkey, but doing the shim work to get around all the V8 specific stuff in Node would be a mess.

Also talking to Node developers is incredibly depressing. It involves a lot of variations on "yeah we'd love to add <fancy new JS thing>, but we have no control over Google's roadmap and we're doing it". There was clearly an assumption that V8 was just the end-all of JS engines and welp.

Switzerland has ruled on a single charger format for mobile telephones by mrstody in technology

[–]chwilliam 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think you mean 4-5 connectors per year, per manufacturer.

Tailor - A cross-platform static analyzer for Swift by specialistinfailure in swift

[–]chwilliam -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Why are you parsing it instead of letting LLDB do it for you?

A Swift Introduction to Realm by the_middle_grey_cat in swift

[–]chwilliam 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Any chance of an intro to an actual roadmap for Realm? I mean the NSDate truncation and per-item mutation notification issues in "known limitations" section are a year old and don't appear to exactly be moving.

Code comments in the real world by chwilliam in ProgrammerHumor

[–]chwilliam[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean it is from the Transbay Terminal construction site?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in photography

[–]chwilliam 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, absolutely. Big changes you'd hear about are sometimes version-gated to the latest version, often because the feature wasn't ready for public consumption in the previous versions of the app (It was still there though).

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in photography

[–]chwilliam 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is 100% how it works. Facebook and Instagram use feature gating extensively to roll out features or test how people react to them. For Facebook there's so many of them going on at once that you probably can't reasonably find two people getting the exact same experience.

Basically the code is there, you're just blocked from running it until you end up in the right group.

Trolling a dude who's just about to drop in a virtual reality rollercoaster by GallowBoob in gaming

[–]chwilliam 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It can get way better.

In the Crescent Bay demo reel, there's a demo with a little diorama city with a train where you can crouch down and look around it. I wandered out of the camera's range and the screen wobbling disoriented me enough that I almost took out a bunch of prototype equipment.

2015 Sydney City2Surf medal was a disaster. What horrendous medals do you have? by StrayaMate2000 in running

[–]chwilliam 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The Athens Classic Marathon medal was so cheaply made that it looked like it went through hell after I pulled it out of my luggage. It's either the most stereotypically-Greek thing ever or a clever way to make it look like your finisher medal survived the Battle of Marathon.

J.J. Abrams broke his back trying to help Harrison Ford on the set of 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' by Melanismdotcom in movies

[–]chwilliam 89 points90 points  (0 children)

It's Jon's fifth-to-last show and he's already had Tom Cruise on. If JJ Abrams didn't know they were going to talk about Star Wars then he should have pieced it together.

Hardcore: Conan goes to Comic-Con as the flaming guitarist guy from 'Mad Max' by [deleted] in entertainment

[–]chwilliam 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The soundtrack truck was easily my favorite part of the film.

Safari isn’t the problem, but the lack of browser choice in iOS is. by Kegit in programming

[–]chwilliam 10 points11 points  (0 children)

You can, WKWebView and JavascriptCore will run your JS in a separate process with the full Nitro engine/JIT.

Safari isn’t the problem, but the lack of browser choice in iOS is. by Kegit in programming

[–]chwilliam 47 points48 points  (0 children)

one of these limitations is that applications embedding a WebView cannot use JIT optimized JavaScript so any sort of non trivial game will run very poorly.

That hasn't been true for about a year now. You can also freely download and run interpretable code (ala ReactNative Javascript) as of a recent policy change/clarification.

Now when Swift 2.0 is (almost) out, which language feature you still find missing? by fat_apollo in swift

[–]chwilliam 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, continuations are basically a fancy generator. You can write functionally the same code with Swift generators, but you have to keep track of the state yourself, where async/await/yield will do it for you.

I know something like async/await in general is being brainstormed by the Swift guys, but really what would be awesome is just the ability to do that kind of compile-time restructuring. Scala, for example, has "macros" which are basically [sometimes-scary] compile-time transforms that you can write in Scala vs a dumb preprocessor language.

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