This looks really awesome! But same question here:
GSheets has let me write JS (Google Script) in the spreadsheet (w/ multiplayer, free db & API hosting like features with a little bit of JS, ++) and now has some Gemini support rolling in.
Excel is rolling out support for Python and Jupyter as well.
I'm trying to wrap my head around who the ideal user/customer is here w/ a hair on fire problem, and what problems are being addressed that are overlooked by the 2 most popular spreadsheet tools.
Performance and creating a first-class experience supporting coding languages natively... With legacy systems like Excel and Sheets, they are adding piecemeal upgrades with not necessarily the best experience or performance. As we're in the early stages, we're focused on developers, engineers, and data folks who feel frustrated with the technical limitations of legacy offerings.
Star Citizen's developer, Cloud Imperium Games, was pretty forward about getting a blazing deal on a bunch of churned out crytek engine devs a few (weeks/months) back; I recall hearing a lot of discussion on their subreddit/forums/chat about the issues at crytek that lead to this migration, so the parents statements certainly don't disagree with other facts that I trust.
Two weeks ago. Here's the comment from Sean Tracy regarding an old procedural city generation demo at Crytek:
> We had plans at Crytek back when Marco and a team of guys worked on this (and now we are looking to hire some guys from that old team ;) "spoiler alert" ).
The CIG Frankfurt office (Foundry 42 Germany) is already staffed by a bunch of former Cryengine devs who left Crytek 2-ish years ago amidst rumblings of people not getting paid.
There's also Amazon Lumberyard, which is effectively Amazon giving away Cryengine (or an offshoot of it) for free with ties to Twitch and their cloud infrastructure. That launch came across as a "we badly need money from someone" partnership on Crytek's part, you won't find their name anywhere on Lumberyard.
no proof that would not make it so that peoples' future is not ruined. they all depend on not pissing off the wrong people in order to get the money they are owed. reality is that no one within crytek trusts the management since they have lied for several months about what is going on.
i heard that a sister studio in bulgaria no longer has management because of the disconnection in the company.
In Germany not paying on time results in a default 40 euro fee being owed. Also any costs incurred because of not being paid on time are also owed.
Further more withholding pay all together is a criminal offence which I believe carries serious jail time.
After months of not getting paid you should lawyer up. The legal system is very much on the side of the employee, if you get fired for getting a lawyer, you'll get even more money and possibly rehired. (I know one person who got their job back after going to a lawyer, it was very much not the outcome they wanted.)
yes, some of the reviews are referencing the last time we did not get paid which was in 2014. it is however much worse this time and management is not caring at all to fix it.
"blocking GitHub is not really a viable option" he said.
Tell that to the world's craziest democracy - India, which banned GitHub, Vimeo, Pastebin and a bunch of others in December last year.
Some bans were lifted later.
Source : http://www.zdnet.com/article/india-blocks-32-websites-includ...
Agree with this. Anyone who thinks blocking GitHub is not really a viable option has never been on the other side of the GFW.
The Chinese government will happily block any site they want to and they have little/no regard for the popularity or usefulness of the site in question, and often they will block popular foreign sites to help copycat local versions thrive.
Off the top of my head they block Facebook, Twitter and Youtube entirely and Wikipedia selectively (used to be permanently also). I can tell you they don't care about blocking GitHub.
The also have the ability to dynamically block sites based on page content rather than just entire domains, so it would be perfectly feasible for them to block just the project pages and not the entirety of GitHub.
You can't selectively block content on an SSL connection w/o having a back door to the encryption keys used to secure the connection. A man in the middle attack would be detectable unless the root certificates were compromised.
> Agree with this. Anyone who thinks blocking GitHub is not really a viable option has never been on the other side of the GFW.
Before long time ago, people hosting tons of anti Chinese government stuff on Google, especially Common Storage Service, yes people say China wouldn't dare block Google.
I think that action was somewhat different in nature, though. It's an instance of Vogon-type bureaucracy that sends blocking orders to Internet service providers without an understanding of the issues. I presume the Indian government is not actively trying to shut down VPNs that people use to access this kind of resources.
In short, I believe the Chinese government knows what it is doing, while the Indian government does not.
By the way, in my career of 25 years of professional software development, I've only once delivered something that was certified to be bug-free.
That was when the company transferred our work, and the test servers, to India. We shipped the machines, and to send them, they had to be packed on pallets. The pallets were wooden. For Indian customs bureaucracy, I had to arrange a paper called phytosanitary certificate, which states that the wood has no bugs.
Only Gist was blocked, not Github. It was a knee-jerk reaction to a court order after ISIS made a series of threats and some Indians were found to be in contact with the ISIS. All those sites were unblocked soon after.
"World's craziest democracy" - that really made me smile :)
I don't think the Indian Government's competancy in IT (and many other things) come close to that of China; but hey atleast we don't have a muzzle over our mouths (that's partly a lie).
Well, display hardware isn't the problem. 4K, 8K, there's no end to it.
Cascaded displays using multiplied layers seem to help achieve benefits like sharpness at super high resolutions & effectively smoother results at low frames per second (staggered) video playback.
This helps remove a major obstacle that high-res display technologies will face in the short term, which is processing power.
Presently, high-end graphics cards can barely crank out 30 FPS at 4K resolutions for games. Also, any compression artifacts etc. in textures are much more pronounced on high-res/big sized displays. While requiring the need to change the workflow (of game development) a little bit, cascaded displays can potentially help render higher resolution, better quality/sharper images at lower frame-rates (i.e. much more cheaply) while still providing that 60fps feel.
Personally, if this takes off, I can see it saving the XBox One's ass, as a lot of the complaints from gamers have been regarding it's inferior capabilities for rendering high-end games (It renders many games at 720p 30 frames/second, while Playstation 4 is able to crank out 1080p for the same titles), and also, play another factor in prolonging the shelf life of the present generation of consoles, by enabling them to deliver much better graphics with the same hardware. Kind of like what Normal Maps (among other things) did for Xbox 360 & PS3, you can see the difference in graphics between a game released in 2005 vs a game released in 2013 on the same hardware. Among a lot of other factors, that was why it took 7 years before we saw the next generation of consoles being released. Comparatively, the Xbox 360 came out within 4 years of the release of the original Xbox.
TL;DR - It's not about the display hardware itself, it's about the ease of rendering graphics to meet the demands of high-end display.
I'm not sure if processing power is going to be any different here. To get acceptable results from the proposed method you need twice the resolution (two displays) and twice the frame rate. Which translates, surprise, to four times as much processing power needed, just as a quadrupling of the resolution would.
I think they actually propose something like rendering two 1080p streams at 60hz to get the effect of both higher resolution than 1080p and higher framerate than 60hz. That's their intent, apparently, who knows if the staggered frames actually create problems for viewers if the frame rate isn't just doubled.
Oh yeah, sorry about that, I forgot that it's hard to see the advantage in video playback.
However, in games, when rendering a Full HD frame twice (with different settings/specifications), you would see a huge advantage in terms of the memory & some benefits in the amount of processing power required.
GSheets has let me write JS (Google Script) in the spreadsheet (w/ multiplayer, free db & API hosting like features with a little bit of JS, ++) and now has some Gemini support rolling in.
Excel is rolling out support for Python and Jupyter as well.
I'm trying to wrap my head around who the ideal user/customer is here w/ a hair on fire problem, and what problems are being addressed that are overlooked by the 2 most popular spreadsheet tools.