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Re: Apple Music now live on Amazon Echo speakers using Alexa

tad — Fri, 14 Dec 2018 13:13:11 -0000

I am able to play one of my playlists from Apple Music, but it refuses to shuffle it, rendering it pretty pointless. If anyone can get an Apple playlist to shuffle, please let me know how!

Re: Have iPhone 8 rumors stopped you from buying a new iPhone this year?

tad — Wed, 03 May 2017 16:48:49 -0000

I bought a 7 Plus last year, and will buy whatever's next the moment that I can. Not holding off on anything.

Re: How Cloudhead Games is Building an Immersive Episodic VR Adventure With ‘The Gallery’

tad — Thu, 29 Sep 2016 18:32:11 -0000

Is there any way for early Vive adopters to get a free copy of Ep 1? It's bundled with current Vives...

Re: UPDATE: VR Community Divided After Report Ties Palmer Luckey To Pro-Trump Meme Group

tad — Fri, 23 Sep 2016 17:24:19 -0000

Yup. Exactly the same. I'm also worth $700M and am spending tons of my own money to support a presidential candidate who openly courts white supremacist groups.

Exactly the same!

Re: UPDATE: VR Community Divided After Report Ties Palmer Luckey To Pro-Trump Meme Group

tad — Fri, 23 Sep 2016 16:49:01 -0000

Apologizing for those who support racists, misogynists, xenophobes and all-around bigots makes you look somewhat worse than foolish. If I look foolish, then ok, I'm fine with that. Also, I'm not your "dear" anything.

Re: UPDATE: VR Community Divided After Report Ties Palmer Luckey To Pro-Trump Meme Group

tad — Fri, 23 Sep 2016 10:45:39 -0000

I had been really looking forward to buying the Touch Controls. I'm no longer interested. I will not buy any more hardware or software for Oculus as long as Palmer is working for the company and until FB and Oculus disavow him completely. I will probably also be selling my Rift.

Virtual Reality is a technology which has the potential to help humanity leap forward. The Trump campaign is the exact, evil opposite of that. Screw Palmer. I hope he loses his fortune.

Re: L45-TaskIt_Adding_Completion_Sort_Descriptor

tad — Sat, 02 May 2015 18:01:25 -0000

For what it's worth, I've decided to stick with 6.3 as long as I can since it's no longer in beta.

The only thing I had to change to get this to work is to edit the Entity default Configuration and change the TaskModel class name to just TaskModel (instead of PRODUCT_MODULE_NAME.TaskModel).

I didn't have the same problem with controllerDidChangeContent that someone else reported. Everything appears to work fine.

Once I'm completely unable to get code with 6.3 to work, I'll fall back to 6.2, but I'd really rather not.

Re: Task It: Add a Task

tad — Fri, 01 May 2015 13:28:22 -0000

In the addTaskButtonTapped method, when I typed "var task = TaskModel(" I didn't get the autocomplete stuff. I typed everything in manually and it works, but I thought it was odd that it didn't show up.

Re: REV-L5.5-PUT_AFTER_TaskIt(MISSING VIDEO)-Task It- UITableViewDataSource and UITableViewDelegate

tad — Mon, 13 Apr 2015 13:36:52 -0000

Not very important, but the file name for this video is JrVFRtNTF6iaLSRcuRlQ.mp4 - was kinda tough for me to find in my downloads. :)

Re: L1_TaskIt_Setup_Options

tad — Mon, 13 Apr 2015 13:02:14 -0000

I wish you had started the TaskIt project with a quick overview video. It's kind of weird, and less motivating to just jump in blind. i.e. show us what it'll look like when we're done with it and what all we'll learn. I think I remember a video like that for the Slot Machine.

Re: L107-Accessing_Properties_in_a_Function

tad — Mon, 06 Apr 2015 12:36:57 -0000

Dude: 2:07AM. That's a bit past my bedtime. 😃

Re: Mutating an Array

tad — Sun, 05 Apr 2015 10:47:47 -0000

I'm guessing that some of this unpredictability is either a sign of Swift's newness, or just a symptom of learning the language.

Hopefully as time goes on, Apple will iron over some of the oddities of the language. Right now I'm mainly thinking about converting Strings to Doubles and generating random numbers, but the seeming unpredictability in whether or not you have to name a parameter is up there too...

Re: Mutating an Array

tad — Fri, 03 Apr 2015 16:48:24 -0000

Why does .removeAll require us to specify the name of its only parameter? .append will NOT allow us to specify the name of its parameter. I thought swift required we leave off the parameter name for the first parameter.

What's up?

Re: L039-String_Interpolation

tad — Wed, 01 Apr 2015 13:48:51 -0000

I download each video as I get to them, and just noticed this video is named "SEDjQsGEQDysEtxKDabS.mp4" 😃 I don't think this makes any difference, but all of the previous videos had sensible names.

Re: L011-Adding_a_Button_and_a_Label

tad — Mon, 30 Mar 2015 13:01:26 -0000

Interesting - System Bold is not showing up when I try to change the font. Only System and System Italic. I'm running Xcode 6.2

Re: L007-Setting_up_a_New_View

tad — Sun, 29 Mar 2015 13:32:32 -0000

I'm having issues with the audio cutting out sometimes. I have to go back 4 or 5 seconds to get the audio to start again. It happened a couple of times in this video and several previous ones as well.

Re: Using Amazon Echo to Control Lights and Temperature < Constant::TINKERER - Zach Feldman's Blog

tad — Thu, 12 Feb 2015 11:42:28 -0000

Ok cool. That's exactly what I'm doing then, except I'm creating a node service to do just that.

Instead of regex, I'm thinking about just splitting the command into an array and then looking for commands and parameters. Fun stuff!

Re: Using Amazon Echo to Control Lights and Temperature < Constant::TINKERER - Zach Feldman's Blog

tad — Wed, 11 Feb 2015 22:45:37 -0000

I just wrote a SUPER simple implementation based on your work using your javascript as a start and my own Node service. I'm thinking this can extend to IFTTT to do all sorts of other stuff too, assuming that IFTTT has a decent API. Right now I can turn my lights on and off just fine via Echo. VERY COOL! Thanks for your brilliant piece of javascript! :)

Re: Using Amazon Echo to Control Lights and Temperature < Constant::TINKERER - Zach Feldman's Blog

tad — Wed, 11 Feb 2015 20:19:45 -0000

I'm not clear on why you need the language parsing bit. If you require particular commands, can't you look for those strings on the history page and then, based on any accepted string, just hit the Phillips API? Or is it more complicated than that? (Yeah, you'd probably have to parse the Nest commands...)

Re: Where You Can Check Out Apple Pay Today - by Adriana Lee

tad — Mon, 20 Oct 2014 15:22:53 -0000

The Factoria Mall Panera Bread location in Bellevue, WA was a total fail when I tried to use ApplePay at lunch. Their machines didn't seem to support NFC (no logo or surface to touch phone to) and when I asked, they just replied with a blank look and told me I could pay in the Panera iOS app. They had no idea what ApplePay was.

Re: Let's Code: Test-Driven Javascript

tad — Mon, 06 May 2013 13:40:34 -0000

Hey guys, I just got a notification (since I left a comment on the issue James left) that this is now fixed. Just 3 little lines of code. I haven't tested it yet, but I will this evening after work!

Re: Let's Code: Test-Driven Javascript

tad — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 20:07:31 -0000

Seems like it's still broken in 0.5.8. Bummer. Hopefully they'll fix it before too long!

Re: Let's Code: Test-Driven Javascript

tad — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 20:01:24 -0000

Ah - it looks like you're covering that in episode 40. Maybe my comment here can point any other windows users to that episode from here. Very frustrating - I worked on this for 20 or 30 minutes before I gave up and found ep 40! :)

Re: Let's Code: Test-Driven Javascript

tad — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 19:56:52 -0000

I'm stuck here towards the end of this episode. I'm running in windows.

When I run Jake, the testFiles.exclude method doesn't seem to be working at all. The line:

testFiles.exclude("src/client/**");

in particular doesn't seem to work. In the testServer task, Jake complains about the describe keyword in _client_test.js.

Why isn't the exclude working? Is this something you find out in a later episode?

I'm going to fiddle around with it and see.

Re: Let's Code: Test-Driven Javascript

tad — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:04:10 -0000

Testacular is now Karma.

http://karma-runner.github....

It looks like the need to do an npm rebuild in windows is gone.

I did an npm install karma and it set everything up and didn't look like it tried to do any sort of build. The build folder you added to your gitignore doesn't exist on my box.

After committing everything to git, I went to my integration box (also running windows) and did a git pull

After that I was able to just run karma via the .bat file we set up.

So - looks like with karma maybe there's one or two fewer steps. At this point, I'm really hoping most everything else will work as it did with testacular. If not, I'll need to try to find an older version, and I'd rather not do that.