vesak

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Comment · 7 years ago

Congratulations for being the last straw. I'm getting out of this site for good.

Comment · 7 years ago

Nice alternative to Spotify is Apple Music. They recently opened up their API (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/applemusicapi) which has been used to create a nice web interface by https://musi.sh/

Their suggestions AI is quite a bit behind Spotify's unfortunately. Dunno if that's by a lack of design or because of Apple's privacy stance -- probably the former.

Comment · 7 years ago

>A strict type > would be very weird because besides returning TRUE and FALSE it'd need to throw a TypeError, I guess?

Yes, which would make it behave exactly like probably every language with strong runtime typechecks. Very weird indeed. It's obviously much more preferable that the code sometimes does the wrong thing without warning.

And of course with static typing, it would be extremely weird since the code wouldn't even pass the compiler!

Comment · 7 years ago

What's the equivalent of === for < and > in PHP?

Comment · 7 years ago

Yet another reason not to use Spotify. Their IPO was a huge red flag, of course.

Comment · 7 years ago

At this point, the 7 won't probably get updates nearly as long as the XR will.

Comment · 7 years ago

Note that Dendrite is doing a bit more fancy architecture. https://github.com/matrix-org/dendrite/blob/master/DESIGN.md -- there's a bunch of readers and writers, with Kafka in-between to mediate flow of messages.

Whether that's a good or bad thing remains to be seen, but I'm a bit skeptic towards complicating things from the get-go.

Comment · 7 years ago

>who needs $10,000/month to live

Those who have a monthly mortgage payment of $9000. Substract $500 (or more if the government doesn't help you with their costs) for each child in your household.

Comment · 7 years ago

You've done great work as a whole, as you probably know. Try not let the lowlifes get to you.

Comment · 7 years ago

Yes! And I’d like to add that a lack of such criticism just feels wrong. Like I’m researching into a cult instead of a tool.

Comment · 7 years ago

Haha, ok. I'm even lower on that scale: not even a hobbyist game programmer.

I thought they actually just use structs and whatever data structure works.

Comment · 7 years ago

Game programmers use entity systems, not OO... or do they?

Comment · 7 years ago

Here’s a few guesses:

1. It’s not 100x (or even 2x) faster or significantly more stable than Apple Music

2. It’s always easier to make a nice app when starting from scratch versus trying to fix existing older software to be nice

3. Apple did a good job with their APIs