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cdirkx

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2017-12-31

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  • The argument is that Silksong will completely absorb any potential market for you new indie game had during that period. People will be too busy playing another game, leading to poor numbers during launch. It's hard to recover from that.

  • The problem is that technology exponentially increases the negative effects of bad actors. The worst a sociopath could do in the stone age was ruin his local community; while today there are many more dystopian alternatives.

  • I don't think this is unique to code, but a limitation of filesystems in general. You could make the same argument for photos: I want them sorted by date, by tag, by person in the image, by location.

    I can do this in Lightroom or my "Photo" app, but then you are always reliant on some third-party tool. It would be nice if there was some native way for files to not have to commit to a single hierarchy, but able to switch views on the fly (without it being insanely slow for larger amount of files).

  • By explicitly being obviously a scam, scammers can preselect for the most gullible people

  • Quite some years back I worked with JetBrains MPS which used a "projectional editor" instead of a text editor. It was pretty neat to be able to enter "code" as mathematical expressions, or even state machine tables or flow diagrams with actual nodes instead of a text representation.

    Sadly not much has happened in that space since then, but it was cool to think about what our tools of the future might look like. (of course ignoring all the practical reasons why we're probably still using regular text files in 100 years)

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