Your web browser may have also spent some time packing rectangles into rectangles. I recall reading this article a while back about how Firefox does/did it.
Plus there are a fair few programs that render text by rendering the font into a texture atlas once and then using the GPU to copy from the atlas. Your terminal emulator may be doing this, for example.
He's appeared in several of related threads here on HN. He is always asked about his lawyers, and he repeatedly claims that they're cool with his behavior.
I’m somewhat doubting that actually is his lawyer, though no one appears to be denying that it is.
It just feels so very odd. Why would Matt’s lawyer care what people say here? He doesn’t have to convince of us anything. The PR folks would like to convince us of stuff and I wouldn’t be surprised if they showed up, but why legal?
And what kind of lawyer says that about a client in an ongoing case on a public forum using an account in their own name?! It’s a level of unprofessionalism that I struggle to believe a reputable lawyer would engage in. If Matt is unreasonable to the point of needing to make a public comment, Neil should have just forced him to find new council and quit.
I’ll likely never have need for this specific type of council, but if I do there’s a brand new list of people I won’t hire with only a single name on it.
Just read the article that the guy wrote about the trademark and you'll have no choice but to conclude that he got his law degree from an internet college.
The article is also far more PR-y than I would have expected; the only law-related item is basically just a very long explanation of consideration and an assertion that what they’ve done counts as consideration. I have no idea if it does or not, but putting a lawyers name at the top doesn’t convince me it’s correct any more than if PR wrote it.
The whole thing is strange, and I can’t figure out why anyone would tie their ship to Matt in this storm. He’s a liability not just to himself, but to everyone supporting him as his antics start to reflect on his supporters. Even if people did support his position, Matt is preventing them from doing so publicly without also looking insane.
That makes me doubt it’s his lawyer. Lawyers shouldn’t publicly discuss their clients in a manner that paints them in a negative light. Fire the client first.
> He is always asked about his lawyers, and he repeatedly claims that they're cool with his behavior.
Even there he's inconsistent. He spent a day or so talking about how his lawyer said "If you're in the right, talk all you like!", then a few days after that made an announcement about how he'd retained a lawyer just that day.
Haxe can compile to even more targets these days, like C++, JVM, C#, PHP, Lua, etc. It also includes an interpreter to run without compiling, and there’s a newer, faster VM for Haxe called HashLink.
I think that the author was a bit unclear in regards to the word "gay". It almost sounded like the author thinks that using the word "gay" in any context should be considered bad. After I went back to read that part again, I realized that they were referring to people saying "that's gay" to mean something along the lines of "that's bad" or "that's something I don't like". This was a common phrase among teens and 20-somethings 15-20 years ago, but it is rightly considered in poor taste today.
Maybe I read it too fast, or maybe my brain was still focused on my work tasks, and that was taking priority over my casual skimming of HN. It doesn't really matter. All I know is that I suddenly had to go back and re-read that part because, for a moment, it seemed to me that the author might consider "gay" to always be a pejorative. And maybe others were incorrectly interpreting it the same way that I did at first.
I also considered that other commenters might not think using "gay" as a perjorative was a big deal, but HN rules encourage the assumption of good intent.
Apache funding goes to stuff like infrastructure and administrative stuff. Developers writing code for Apache projects are volunteers and are not paid by Apache. If they’re lucky, their employer might pay them to contribute to the Apache project.
Have you tried creating a .pkg file instead of .dmg? Much better user experience, in my opinion. The developer controls where the .app goes, and there’s nothing for the user to unmount when finished.
There’s a safer way to run self-signed software on macOS, for anyone that prefers not to do the master disable. First, try to run the program. When it fails, open Settings.app and go to the security section. You’ll find the most recently blocked program name mentioned and an Allow button that will remove the block. Then, you can run the program. You need to do this only once per program.
Right click open. Fail. Right click open again, hit okay, and it will succeed. It remembers your decision. This has been the magic incantation since signing was introduced.
Ideally, the layout would adjust the spacing between items, so that one item is always partially cut off. I don't know whether Apple does that or not (or if it's their small number of possible iOS device resolutions, like you suggested). However, that seems like something that Google should consider as a way to improve the Android experience.
If I discover a new movie trailer on my phone, and I want to watch it on my bigger TV screen, it's much easier to immediately cast the video that I've already pulled up than to try to find the same video with my TV remote.
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