I like the basic premise of GoVTT, that you trust the players to not cheat. I've got a project on the back burner to allow people to play online games the same way they play in person: rules are agreed upon and enforced collectively instead of imposed and enforced programmatically. I figure to start with ordinary playing cards, then build up from there.
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Excellent! I'm working on my own workbench. I'm still at the design and layout stage, because, like pretty much every client I've ever had, I've fooled myself into thinking I have special requirements that can't be met with an existing, proven design.
I dealt with a similar situation by simply purchasing the code from my employer. I guess that technically it was a form of licensing, because we both had the right to use, modify, and resell as we saw fit as long as there were no infringements on branding or trademarks.
They may not offer favourable terms, but it might be worth asking.
I always read a lot. 100+ books a year, plus magazines. Then I got a job in the boonies and got home only on weekends. All of a sudden I was reading a book a day. Even with the library and used book stores, that was financially ruinous for our young family. So I bought a VIC-20, a used b&w tv, and the programmer's reference manual to take out to the work camps.. The savings on books paid for the system in just a few months.
One thing led to another and a decade or so later I made the transition from hobby to career. Now I'm retired and looking to reboot as a hobbyist.
Hell, I barely know 20 people, let alone 20 people who both use Android and would be willing to participate. 😀
Thanks. Done and done.
I started and ended my working life as the proverbial blue collar worker, mostly a labourer. Programming was my hobby and I loved it. I lived and breathed and dreamt programming.
I went pro for one reason and one reason only: money. Well, okay, there was some satisfaction in helping nice people solve interesting problems, something that is rare when working as a labourer.
I knew my days were numbered when an HR goon started using transparent misinterpretations of various motivational theories to lecture me on how money really didn't matter that much to me. She was right in the sense that prefer I time at home to getting paid time-and-a-half for overtime, even when I'm clearly underpaid, but completely out to lunch when considering my desire for hobbies and travel.
Money may not be a very good motivator, but lack of money is one hell of a demotivator!
Yes. What I thought, or at least hoped, we would get was something like podcasts. Everyone puts out whatever, there are some official networks, but everything is available through your app of choice. Ad supported by default with easy ways to pay for reduced ads and no ads, and major distributors (like Spotify, Amazon, and Apple) where one subscription gets you access to almost everything.
I'm just getting back into programming as a retirement hobby after leaving the field due to burnout 15 years ago. That means I'm only just starting to figure out editors and such.
I don't know of any code editors that use tab stops the way a word processor does. A word processor uses tab stops specifically for alignment at defined positions rather than tab characters equivalent to specific number of spaces (or tab key to insert specific number of spaces). Without the ability to set positional tab stops, I don't know that proportional fonts will be all that great for most people.
I took a look at your link to almost proportional fonts. Thanks. I don't know how I missed that, given that iA Writer is one of the editors I've been playing with for general purpose writing. (I've become disillusioned with the state of modern word processors.)
I've long preferred proportional fonts and positional tab stops like what you find in a WYSIWYG word processor. Got a tab position wrong? Drag it as appropriate or, if necessary, add a new one. In fact, during a period where I was doing far more writing than programming, in the days before code completion, I preferred my WYSIWYG word processor to my code editor. I had appropriate scripts and macros for cleaning up imported text files and to always save both native format and a text file with spaces in place of tabs. I also had different templates for different languages so that I could have custom processing for different languages. (It helps that a big part of that job was teaching people how to use word processors as far more than just electronic typewriters.)
Now, of course, the programmer's editor is an advanced tool tailored to the job, making it lunacy to even consider a word processor as code editor. Which doesn't mean that there aren't word processing concepts that might be valuable.
Nick Gravgaard has some good writing on the subject and links to a variety of resources, including to at least one proportional font designed for programming.
Sometimes removing the mystery enhances the joy, sometimes it opens more joyous mysteries, sometimes it sucks out the joy. Read on at your own risk.
Pong is one of the earliest video games. There are a number of ways to play it online. Here is one of many examples.
Golang is a computer programming language.
Raylib is a library used to simplify the creation of video games. My initial thought, based on the name, was that it was specifically a ray tracing library, but it seems to be much more than that.
Following the actual link in the submission takes you not to a playable version of the game, but to the website where you can download the actual program code to run on your computer. Having the actual program code allows for inspection of the code, implying that the request for comment is not just on playability, but how well the code itself is written.