This was going to be my first year at IO until I saw the ticket price. $900!!!
Same here I thought it was going to be free. Wishful, naive...
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#62Google tax! Hail to our new Google overlords.
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#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Another way would have been to announce that they won't be giving away any hardware, that would have kept away the "it pays for it self and I get some cool goodies" crowd away so real developers could go.
They should charge the $900 and not give away any hardware without announcing whether or not they're going to. They'll be able to have $400 tickets next year without selling out as fast.
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#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
Cheaper than WWDC and it's likely you'll get a bunch of free hardware.
Which means any healthcare related company isn't likely to attend, since this "free hardware" is against gift restrictions relating to healthcare related businesses.
I don't see why it would be -- couldn't you characterize it as development kit? I assume it belongs to the employer not to the attendee, but that's just a company rule. I thought the rule was you couldn't pay "kickbacks", not that you couldn't receive them, and a phone is hardly a healthcare service itself anyway.
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#65Looks like no preregistration for past attendees like previous years: https://plus.google.com/111395306401981598462/posts/Ty3M5UDd... Ruben Orduz - +Google Developers No pre-registration for past attendees? Also confirmation about no test for registration would be much appreciated. Google Developers - Just to confirm, registration will be first come, first served on March 27th. We spent a lot of time thinking about t…
not true, I just got my I/ON pre-registration email
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#66Anyone have a guess as to why they use a jpg sprite instead of an animated gif for the bouncing orb? Is it just a color space thing?
No need to guess. Here's a very complete and detailed article about precisely why and how this particular animation works the way it does: http://awardwinningfjords.com/2012/03/08/image-sequences.htm...
That only explains why use a sprite sheet. But not why use jpg instead of gif. Neither it talks about the alternative of gif animation. Does the javascript dom method really offers better performance than a simple gif animation? Or were gif animations taken off the equation before that comparison for other reasons?
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#68Think about this... Google charges you $900 to attend a conference that they will "teach you" how to build apps that work on their systems which benefit them way more than you.
I know Apple charges a developer fee as well.
Amazing how this hacker/developer world works - pay for access to their app stores, pay for conferences to learn how to make apps for their app stores, etc.
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#69Think about this... Google charges you $900 to attend a conference that they will "teach you" how to build apps that work on their systems which benefit them way more than you. I know Apple charges a developer fee as well. Amazing how this hacker/developer world works - pay for access to their app stores, pay for conferences to learn how to make apps for their app stores, etc.
this amount includes the gadgets that they give to people. last year there were three if i remember correctly. one was for game devs only.
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#70Think about this... Google charges you $900 to attend a conference that they will "teach you" how to build apps that work on their systems which benefit them way more than you. I know Apple charges a developer fee as well. Amazing how this hacker/developer world works - pay for access to their app stores, pay for conferences to learn how to make apps for their app stores, etc.
Bear in mind that all of the I/O developer session videos get posted at no cost after the conference.