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Comment · 8 years ago
Comment · 8 years ago
Could this have planets?

Well not planets, but my question is more general - could a star moving this quickly have a planetary system - obviously this one would not if it got shot out of a supernova.

Comment · 8 years ago
What are you using to make the menus pop and slide?
Comment · 8 years ago
I'm just saying heck I wish I could take my own advice.

I am empathizing with the OP about how hard this point of a project is.

Perhaps I'm being too dry.

Comment · 8 years ago
Hey wow that's great advice I think I'll learn from what you say here.
Comment · 8 years ago
With the possibility of the worst form of judgement - disinterest/ambivalence.
Comment · 8 years ago
Are you me?

Programming feels like productive work, and indeed it is, up until just about the point you are at. Now it is not productive work any more, in fact, once the product is finished, programming is counter productive work. Other things need to be done and you don't know how to do them and if you do, are not in the habit of doing them. IOt is easy to get up in the morning and write code, harder to do unfamiliar things.

--> self sabotage (deeply seated need to actually not succeed)

--> fear of the unknown

--> avoidance of a change in work habit - from programming to...... ? what does one do post launch

--> fear of the likely outcome which is zero feedback, zero users

Curious - how close are you to launch, what remains to be done, and what does the software actually do?

Can I suggest perhaps be really ruthless about the remaining tasks - likely many of those launch tasks just are not important, even though the completionist in you thinks they are. For example - terms and conditions document? Ditch it until users are interested. Privacy document? Same. Purchase? Drop it.

See what I mean? If people like what you have built and use it, then the world will not come to an end because you did not have those things... and user interest will motivate you to implement them.

It's incredibly hard to work on something with no user interest. Just dump what you have built out there and see what happens.

Comment · 8 years ago
val list = listOf("Saab", "Volvo")

val map = mapOf("firstName" to "John", "lastName" to "Doe")

The above seems a really strange decision for a "new" language - why would you not just use the most common structure, being JSON?

Comment · 8 years ago
I love the weird, awkward social situations in the video at the tapwithus website, featuring people interacting with the tap keyboard secretly while they are talking to other people - magnificently strange.

The police will arrest you for wearing brass knuckles if you are caught using this device.

This seems to be capturing finger movements that would otherwise map to a keyboard. I wonder if there is an even more optimal way to capture finger movements and map them to input, if the idea of mapping to keyboard finger movements is discarded.

Comment · 8 years ago
I seem to recall the author of the old post ditched Erlang at some later point.

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