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Comment · 7 years ago
Commercial games are shipped on a quick schedule, so this doesn't always apply unless its a project that's maintained/cleaned up.
What I'd like to see (2D games): Permissively licensed, widget / sprite tooling, handling of rotation, blitter, canvas resizing, scaling.
Anecdote: I made a request for a Zelda clone to make their code available via a commercial-friendly license here: https://github.com/solarus-games/solarus/issues/826
Look at this, well-maintained C++ bits and pieces wrapping around SDL2, that could easily apply to more than just this game:
https://github.com/solarus-games/solarus/tree/dev/src/core
https://github.com/solarus-games/solarus/tree/dev/src/graphi...
If something is open sourced, I highly prefer it if generic parts are available for everyone to use on their own projects. Keep the creative work proprietary / GPL / etc.
One reason we do open source is we don't want to perpetually reinvent the wheel. Projects last longer when they have users. And in this case of a library, your stuff is directly used by developers, further increasing the likelihood of reciprocal contributions / sharing the burden of maintenance.
Comment · 7 years ago
I can't imagine how boasting about superiority working out in well in the end. There has to be an Aesop's Fable short story for this.
Bragging about being smarter is a standing invitation to receive passive aggressive behavior from others. People will unfairly try to find flaws, and who can blame them? They're acting innately better than their peers - while at the same time not being wise enough to be humble / modest.
I also worry it ends up having a person with potential ending up hiding behind a cryptic / abstract facade, afraid of failing when not being an instant prodigy at a new skill. Don't we will have to work our way up and build a track record of some sort?
What does being intelligent mean anyway?
Ultimately, if someone wanted to be recognized as smart, wouldn't at least some "normal IQ people?" have to understand and appreciate the value of something they synthesized/made?
Comment · 7 years ago
Thanks for this and the additional information above. Both answers were informative.
This is the first time I heard of AcousticBrainz and its sig (https://acousticbrainz.org/e73f3d92-4e9f-4db4-943a-41978d9db...). Nice! From the ones that brought us MusicBrainz right?
> what do you have in mind actually? I am not sure since the goal here is to play the music on the device from which you access to the server.
ncmpcpp is a music client, but for the mpd music server. Not sure if LMS <-> MPD do the same things. compare ncmpcpp to mpc, but w/ ncurses + c++. It has directory-based navigation which makes it easy to move through music.
Look forward to watching this project grow!
Comment · 7 years ago
Amazing. Requests:
- Would prefer a permissive software license. Not much benefit to GPL. I've seen nice projects I'd have contributed / shared with where collaborative opportunity didn't happen. Too many obligations, sweeps in too many situations, and a lot of gray hairs explaining it being a net negative. I try to encourage a philosophy of YAGNI when doing open source licenses, sheerly for the sake of backward compatibility with licenses.
Don't you want your code / project to be inter-operable as possible, even with other licenses? Do you want to make development contributions streamlined as possible (even from the parade of horribles, e.g. the corporation profiting from your work with no intention of reciprocal contribution? Why impede their success? It's not your loss), or do you want potential contributor's interest to derail into a cost-benefit analysis of running afoul of GPL terms until they find an alternative?
- ncurses / ncmpcpp-like frontend. vim keybindings
- directory-based navigation. easier to navigate around, supports file structures where id3 tags aren't in place yet
Questions:
- Any info on the recommendation engine? How does it work?
- Does musicbrainzId support include id3 tagging?
Congratulations again on the project!
Comment · 7 years ago
We use https://www.figma.com at work. Give it a shot!
Comment · 7 years ago
They can paywall / block incognito all they want.
Just delist the (paywall'd) articles. That's the annoying thing - when articles come up on Google and you can't read them. Please fix this.
If people want to pay, that's fine. Perhaps ISP's should pay for these websites via their plans so there's no more need to login.
I don't want to login to something just to browse a feed. I believe people would be happy to pay for these websites, but in a convenient way, ahead of time. Allow IP ranges, create a browser plugin that reauthorizes the site session even in incognito / w/o password saving. Innovate like Spotify did.
Annoying and badgering the user is 101 UX antipattern. One reason some don't buy is they don't want to encourage it.
It's fair to hold them to a high standard because many of these websites are articles and presentation is supposed to be a forte. You don't battle the adblockers and incognito modes - you fight to make it easier and more convenient for your readership.
Comment · 7 years ago
Title: please note this is a review of the book here: https://www.amazon.com/Private-Government-Employers-Universi...
Aside: If you like to compare-contrast US<->EU, I found this paper interesting: Why Doesn’t The US Have A European-Style Welfare State? (2001) https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/glaeser/files/why_doesnt_t....
Comment · 7 years ago
It's not at that point yet. PRC does have a garrison inside HK but they're sitting still. It's possible they could go in plain clothed to collect info and provocateur to discredit the protesters. It'd cause a pretty big meltdown if they were busted doing that.
Aside from that: HK has control over its statutes. https://www.elegislation.gov.hk/index/en/subject
Basic law (the part PRC plays a role) is the constitution. For an overview: https://www.basiclaw.gov.hk/en/facts/index.html
Aside, Here's a better article: http://www.thestandard.com.hk/section-news.php?id=210397
Comment · 7 years ago
Good find, I was looking at https://github.com/itsonecube/jtk/blob/3d28ed3/LICENSE
Comment · 7 years ago
What kind of license is it? Any possibility of ISC / MIT / BSD?
Nice to see CMake!
And also nice to see an effort to make something lighter than glib.
It may be worth looking at BSD's base system in /usr/src to see code you can use as a reference, or add in a generic way. Take a look at #ifdef in ISC/MIT/BSD applications to see if you can port it in to offer portable functions.
Hm, examples: https://github.com/tmux/tmux/blob/master/compat.h -> https://github.com/tmux/tmux/tree/master/compat
For inspiration, all SDL2 is a cross-platform wrapper which probably has chunks that may be useful: https://github.com/spurious/SDL-mirror/tree/master/src, SDL_net: https://hg.libsdl.org/SDL_net/file/c5b3c4171459
Maybe the above is relevant / helpful / an inspiration.
We need a lite, portable glib alternative. I'm guessing it must be hard to do. I wish there was a a library where we could just pick what we want and not have to buy into an object model, which inevitably entails a lot of dependencies downstream.
Good luck with this! Look forward to watching it grow. Starred.
Comment · 7 years ago
ergodox ez: https://ergodox-ez.com/
- very solidly built. perhaps best build quality of any keyboard i ever had
- the z and / keys are ctrl keys, and you need to type , and / twice to type those keys
- there are "mod" keys, which shift into secondary, third, ... layers
- you can control the mouse from the keyboard. i don't use it, but would like to see development in this area
- when you transfer back to a normal laptop keyboard, you have to orient yourself again
- firmware can be customized: https://configure.ergodox-ez.com. You register, "fork" the config, download the firmware and flash it. There's a graphical flashing tool that works on Ubuntu (probably other distros too) called wally (https://ergodox-ez.com/pages/wally)
- it's shipped from TW (Formosa!!), you have to pay a lot of money to ship it back if you want to do it within the return period.
- expensive
- my "a" key sticks sometimes. i haven't nailed down why yet.
have also tried kinesis advantage. recommend it. it takes up more space, but is also well built. it has a feeling like it's medical/industrial grade. above average build than even an expensive mechanical keyboard.
check out g305 for mice. it's small, accurate, and wireless
Comment · 7 years ago
Look up Yamato battleship on youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYrj3gzXgeA, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_battleship_Yamato)
The interpretation I've found is after these battles (with US Carriers vs Japanese battleships in WW2) the tendency was to favor aircraft carriers and phase out battleships.
One big reason is how versatile and integral a carrier is in to a fleet. Carriers can send out scouts, attack, defend from hundreds of miles away from the carrier (where the ship is beyond the horizon, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radar_horizon).
The weakness of a battleship is the target has to be tracked, and I think the best way to do that would be aerial recon. Battleships like Yamato then had pontoon type scout planes, but nothing like a carrier.
Without a carrier accompanying it, Yamato wouldn't be able to create a defensive perimeter of fighters to ward off dive bombers. I don't think it'd be able to effectively counter a fleet with carrier in the end.
More on Yamato: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ten-Go
Anyone here know more about this and can link some vids/resources on naval stuff?
Comment · 7 years ago
I don't think that's what they're saying though. They're talking about what the mailbox while it's in use. I didn't find anything mentioning boxes being property of the USPS, they use the term "authorized repository." When it's in use, it's still property of the private entity, but it's usage is subject to the rules of USPS. (I'm not a lawyer)
My understanding it they can remove the USPS box (looking at what postal workers said on Quora), but they wouldn't be part of the mail system anymore. I guess they could have mail forwarded to a new box, or else it'd be undeliverable.
https://www.nytimes.com/1981/06/26/us/justices-upholds-law-p...
> Writing for the majority, Associate Justice William H. Rehnquist said that no one was required to receive mail or to have a mailbox but that once a postal customer provides a box for receiving mail he implicitly agrees to abide by postal regulations on its use.
Audio/transcript: https://www.oyez.org/cases/1980/80-608
Comment · 7 years ago
Used fire before and find it works quite well. Especially after dealing with click and having difficulties with it.
The neat thing about fire it maps a python file directly to a CLI. If you're in a pinch and want to be able to test a script easily (without having to wire in tests), this tool can help.
The docstring parsing will be very helpful. Especially since fire works by reading through a file.
Also nice work on the NamedTuple support (https://github.com/google/python-fire/pull/161)
I never knew fire had support for completion. Nice!
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