As someone on reddit mentioned yesterday "Jia Cheong Tan" is an anagram of "CIA Agent John". Which may be accidental or a funny pun by the backdoor coder.
You can disable that the dialog shows up, then it's just a subtle icon.
That it often doesn't show up at all is indeed a bit confusing. I can translate german to english or french to german, but english to anything doesn't seem to show up on english websites even thought it's an option when I'm on a non-english website.
Not just with his family. He actually wrote himself an AI with some 60 page Excel monster which could play the game quite well. I worked with him for a short time around end of the nineties and he was incredibly dedicated to his game. He experimented a lot with different game scenarios, for example there is a quite fun Catan card game out there. And he came up with a bunch of scenarios for the PC game we were doing back then. He was also was a super friendly, down to earth person who showed up at game fairs talking to his player base.
70% of the people in current Bundestag have finished University and another 15% some other colleges. 5% studied without finishing. With a clear upward trend in those numbers each legislature period. I'd consider that a high enough number for people representing society. Thought technical degrees are sadly rather low (don't have exact numbers, but seem to be around 10% of those with degrees). Source (in german): https://www.bundestag.de/resource/blob/272942/924eeff93db104...
Just got the new Firefox on my tablet earlier and ublock origin did unfortunately not work well after the update. Ads are no longer removed, but replaced by whitespace with a loading icon in the middle. I'm still considering if I find that more or less annoying than browsing with ads enabled.
Unfortunately just the kind of experience you can expect when buying non-open systems. Company loses interest in hardware - it can stop everyone developing for it. If they would at least open it up for sideloading so the hardware isn't doomed to become electronic trash.
You can sideload. I've sideloaded some things on Quest, and as far as I can tell from googling it's the same on Go (I don't own one though).
However, in practice it's not going to get any new software, because developers will be writing for new generations, and porting to hardware with a slower GPU speed is more effort than it's worth.
Registered developers can do sideloading, no info yet if that will continue to work. Or if it will be possible for users to register as Oculus developers in the future or if that is shut down as well.
If hardware can still be used there are generally people around who continue to use it in some way. And the hardware of the Oculus was pretty nice actually (even if many here don't seem to like it because of only 3-dof).
Despite my desire to have open systems everywhere, I think this issue falls more under the bucket of being an early adopter of a technology. New tech can always die like that.
But of course we need the early adopters, otherwise things never evolve to the point of being mature, so thanks to early adopters for being our guinea pigs.
To my view, pretty much everybody buying VR headsets today is still an early adopter :)
I don't know about Palm as I never had one. But I can still code for my first Android phone. And I do not ask for support, but for opening up sideloading so users can install apps from PC when the shop closes.
You do like hardware getting locked down for development less than 2 years after it's release? (edit: OK, a bit over 2 years - 31. May 2018, still not that old)
I don't care about the shop. I just wish people could continue to develop for it as it is (or now was...) a pretty fun device to experiment with VR.
I haven't seen that tool yet (been a few months since I developed for Oculus), so I can't tell yet anything about that (and looks like a Mac app from screenshot, so not sure if it'll work for me).
The first solution described there needs users to register as developer (not just unlock it as in Android phones) and being able to use adb. We will have to see if that continues to work. No info about that yet. It's definitely not completely disconnected from the online stuff. For example - when the system needs updates you can't do any development in that time (I learned about that when after some weeks pause it prevented me completely from developing for nearly a full day because of outstanding updates).
The second solution is using the shop which as the as described by the original article will be shut down and not even updates to existing apps will be possible anymore.
Yes, while maintaining code which other people wrote who are no longer around I often have to figure out what they might have tried to do. Being able to see how code looked before someone rewrote it can often give you an idea what it's about. Even better if the people even used good commit messages which explain why they fixed something and why they did it the way they did it.
Sometimes code only makes sense if you can see it's evolution.
Also knowing who wrote it you can ask those people sometimes about it.
Not sure about boot speed. At least on my system booting Debian became noticably slower in Debian 8,9 and again in 10. Maybe simply because software got larger or because I didn't do clean installs but upgraded my existing system, I don't know. But the only boot speed improvement I got in the last years was switching to SSD. Thought I do like that with systemd you can at least find out easier which parts slow down the boot process.
Ogre is a free open source library with a liberal MIT license unlike Unity or Unreal which are both proprietary tools. And in many projects you'll write your own editor so the lack of a good editor doesn't always matter. Being open source has a few advantages: You can adapt the engine to your project. You can learn how the engine really work. You can debug into the engine itself on troubles. You are less dependent on a company staying around maintaining a proprietary engine. You can influence the direction of development with patches.
