EamonnMR

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by EamonnMR 6y ago
The answer is a definitive no. Matt Burch has made it pretty clear that he is not gonna open source it. Luckily there are two very good clones (Naev and Endless Sky) and a third got kickstarted (Cosmic Frontier.)
902.
by EamonnMR 6y ago
You can get a windows version at http://escape-velocity.games
903.
by EamonnMR 6y ago
At our company we use a ton of services that operate essentially as as functions on a Kafka stream (well, they tend to read/write in batches for efficiency) but we write event streams we want to query later into a regular database for
904.
by EamonnMR 6y ago
Kafka is a very nice communication channel. You can dump the results into a database and query it if you need a database.
905.
by EamonnMR 6y ago
I hope they are able to reopen some day. Still hurts that they had to let everyone go
906.
by EamonnMR 6y ago
"I will walk through your walls" is somehow incredibly intimidating despite being a totally nonsensical threat. Great book, but they didn't make it seem like a lot of fun to work on NT.
907.
by EamonnMR 6y ago
I wonder how this compares to Xiaomi's MBP clones. The x220 is starting to show its age and modern apps feel crowded on its small screen.
908.
by EamonnMR 6y ago
I think the reason Lego is so compelling is that the fact that you can internalize the list of pieces and understand how the system works adds appeal to just looking at a model- a sort of "wow, look how they did that" factor.
909.
by EamonnMR 6y ago
I'd love something like this for MySQL. Or really anything to remove the headache of installing MySQL client libraries in python and ruby.
910.
by EamonnMR 6y ago
Windows NT and MacOSX are both scratch rewrites. Though the author of the comment may be referring to the fact that Android and iOS dominate the space now.
911.
by EamonnMR 6y ago
Video replaced flash movies and nothing replaced flash games, there's just a hole.
912.
by EamonnMR 6y ago
This is awesome news. Exactly the type of thing they're great at, for exactly the right technology, just as it's reaching EOL. I was worried the IA folks where too in love with with the early PC era to care about the end of the PC
913.
by EamonnMR 6y ago
If you liked apple because it ran your Mac apps, you already got off that train when they moved to Intel in the first place.
914.
by EamonnMR 6y ago
We used to use that in 'production' to clean up CSVs that got exported with a weird byte at the beginning
915.
by EamonnMR 6y ago
Branchable, sharable undo buffer
916.
by EamonnMR 6y ago
The ability to drag the notes to create arbitrary slides is really, really cool. I wish DAWs had this feature.
917.
by EamonnMR 6y ago
I wonder if much of Apple's desktop success came from educating a generation of students with Macs... and I wonder if that bodes well for Chromebooks into the future.
918.
by EamonnMR 6y ago
According to this article all of the Project Managers where fired: http://www.slate.com/blogs/business_insider/2014/04/25/googl...
919.
by EamonnMR 6y ago
I like the recommendation at the end for Life In Code by Ellen Ullman. Definitely read it; it's very good and says a lot of things that need to be heard.
920.
by EamonnMR 6y ago
Flu has a unique capability to recombine that allows it to mutate more readily than other viruses. Hoping that the more simple coronavirus will be less fortunate. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antigenic_shift
921.
by EamonnMR 6y ago
If court picks weren't political, political parties wouldn't fight to their last breath for them.
922.
by EamonnMR 6y ago
Can recommend PyScroll / PyTMX - made it very easy to make an RTS interface: https://github.com/EamonnMR/OpenLockstep
923.
by EamonnMR 6y ago
Pygame is great if you want to enjoy the process of low-level game programming but also want to abstract away the lowest levels. If your goal is to build a product (rather than enjoy a process) picking up a game engine is probably going to
924.
by EamonnMR 6y ago
Pydantic is extremely useful for validation and tab-completion. We've begun using it everywhere.
925.
by EamonnMR 6y ago
Yeah cookies are a red herring and I'm disappointed that the result of GRPD has been to add a nag modal to ask for cookie permission - correct behavior should be for the browser to be configured to auto-accept or auto-reject cookies ba
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LiveCode is a modern day HyperCard (2019)(andregarzia.com)
139 points by EamonnMR 6y ago|68 comments
927.
by EamonnMR 6y ago
They have a social contract with the creators: you upload content for free and users will watch content for free. If they went fully paid creators and viewers would go somewhere else in Ain instant.
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by EamonnMR 6y ago
> Although notifications on the web are useful for a variety of applications The notification nag modal has been a scourge since it was introduced. They admit as much here: > Abusive notification prompts are one of the top user compla
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by EamonnMR 6y ago
Actual control is irrelevant; it's the feeling of control and the ability to excercise control on others that is the bribe. That said, I think that most people will never run afowl of the above rules so it's not like they'd n
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by EamonnMR 6y ago
Which in theory should prevent you from getting AWS'd

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