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Re: Google I/O 2012

#11

Post by ZenDan » Tue, Mar 13, 2012, 5:36 PM UTC

This was going to be my first year at IO until I saw the ticket price. $900!!!

Re: Google I/O 2012

#12

Post by breckinloggins » Tue, Mar 13, 2012, 5:37 PM UTC

vibrunazo wrote: post #7

I'm trying out the demo chrome experiment on the page. It seems there's a bug that the "Keep trying" pop up just won't go away after the tutorial. Or is it just me? I'm using Chrome 17.0.963.65.

Some bugs I noticed (Chrome 17.0.963.79):

- There seems to be several bounding box issues for collision detection. Specifically, the track component affects the surrounding space in odd ways.

- If you move a small component inside the radius of a larger component, there appears to be no way to select the smaller component without moving the larger component back out of the way. I was expecting a "click again to select the next object in the z-order" functionality.

Re: Google I/O 2012

#13

Post by johnzimmerman » Tue, Mar 13, 2012, 5:40 PM UTC

moses1400 wrote: post #8

Double the price of last year.

It is, but the increased price might be because there is an extra day this year.

Re: Google I/O 2012

#14

Post by mrpollo » Tue, Mar 13, 2012, 5:49 PM UTC

might be nothing but i found traces of "vipcode" on the javascript of the building game here:

https://developers.google.com/events/io/input-output/

code here:

https://developers.google.com/js/script_foot.js

search for "vipcode"

Re: Google I/O 2012

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Post by nickbarnwell » Tue, Mar 13, 2012, 5:50 PM UTC

johnzimmerman wrote: post #13

moses1400 wrote: post #8

Double the price of last year.

It is, but the increased price might be because there is an extra day this year.

Isn't that atypical of incremental pricing? One would expect the marginal cost of the third day to be lower, if anything.

Re: Google I/O 2012

#16

Post by Strom » Tue, Mar 13, 2012, 5:50 PM UTC

stevejabs wrote: post #3

So much for a coding challenge to get tickets. "Registration will be first-come, first-served so make sure you're online promptly at 7AM PDT on March 27."

Well, you could code a script that registers for you, before any human.

Re: Google I/O 2012

#17

Post by yock » Tue, Mar 13, 2012, 5:51 PM UTC

vibrunazo wrote: post #5

samstave wrote: post #2

Thats the thing that sucks about such events; $900 is very expensive. If anyone wants to sponsor a fellow HNer, I'll give you a bunch of digital Karma :)

Doesn't the free phones pay for it? I'd suppose those early limited edition devices are worth more than the ticket.

They might be worth the price of admission squared. It simply doesn't matter if the cost of that admission is out of reach. I worry that an ever increasing ticket price will put this event, if it hasn't already, squarely in the realm of corporate-sponsored attendance.

Re: Google I/O 2012

#18

Post by elefont2 » Tue, Mar 13, 2012, 5:53 PM UTC

moses1400 wrote: post #8

Double the price of last year.

there is a bright side to it - the 'sold out in a hour' situation last year was ridiculous. While i would have preferred a coding challenge to eliminate that problem, a price increase is another method of fixing it.

Re: Google I/O 2012

#19

Post by Tichy » Tue, Mar 13, 2012, 5:54 PM UTC

[deleted] wrote: post #6

stevejabs wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cheaper than WWDC and it's likely you'll get a bunch of free hardware.

[deleted]

They didn't get rich by giving stuff away.

Re: Google I/O 2012

#20

Post by vincentmac » Tue, Mar 13, 2012, 6:08 PM UTC

Good to know I can fax them if I have any questions. https://developers.google.com/events/io/register