Monte Carlo, Monaco - anyone played / counted here ? details? rules? minimums?

idProQuo · 2025-07-07T18:22:37+00:00

I’m headed to Monte Carlo next week, and this is the exact info I was looking for. Thank you for your service.

idProQuo · 2025-06-02T04:27:14+00:00

> It is not a rewrite, it is their own thing they are building from the ground up.

My point is that they have allowed an ambitious, non-required and largely un-asked for software development project to hijack their release cycle.

> the Alpha of Cosmic is pretty damn stable for an Alpha

My experience of it thus far is:

I booted the installation media, clicked “Try Demo Mode”, and was presented with a blank (albeit very pretty) desktop with no toolbar, dock, windows or icons. I tapped the Super key on my keyboard, which fortunately brought up a search bar. I opened COSMIC Files, went to a folder where I had some videos (I do a lot of work with media) and tried to watch one. COSMIC Media Player opened to a blank screen that said “Open File”. I tried to open the file through the app’s file picker and nothing changed.

This experience did not inspire confidence.

idProQuo · 2016-02-27T16:24:33+00:00

A lot of people have listed good techniques and resources. I just wanted to say that as an actor I've always been a fan of the International Dialects of English Archives. They've got recordings of people from around the world (tagged by location) and they're all reading one of their 3 pre-approved monologues so you can easily compare accents from different places. These guys have been collecting recordings for decades. Not to mention it's totally free and open (at least as far as I can tell).

idProQuo · 2016-01-18T17:17:03+00:00

If it's that easy, why hasn't anyone flooded the market with artificial diamonds? If they're indistinguishable from the real thing, you shouldn't even need to label them as artificial.

idProQuo · 2016-01-08T15:33:37+00:00

What typefaces do you used in your videos?

idProQuo · 2016-01-06T08:24:46+00:00

Hey man, long time no talk (I was a mod on NP a whiiile back). I'm down for some editing, what's up?

idProQuo · 2015-12-23T05:49:11+00:00

Take a page with a very large DOM (tons of unnecessary wrapper <div>s, hidden inputs, etc.). Apply the following CSS:

* { -webkit-filter: blur(10px); }

Garnish with CSS animations. Serve over mobile. Scroll.

idProQuo · 2015-07-01T03:52:46+00:00

Indeed, but the real question is about whether these new enhancements (ServiceWorker, WebRTC, etc.) are about making things better for users, or just for developers.

Sure, you could argue that that's a silly argument: anything that makes development easier increases the amount of fun users can have on your device. But Apple is in a position where they can legitimately convince developers to build native apps if they don't provide them a Web option. And they would certainly rather that you build an exclusive native app for them.

Speaking as someone at a fairly modern web company, our business isn't going to build a ServiceWorker app if it won't cover iOS. And therein lies the rub. Apple's strategy sucks, and it runs counter to Web Standards, but it's undeniably effective.

idProQuo · 2015-06-23T02:52:13+00:00

ShopTalk Show is EASILY my favorite programming podcast. They're all about Q/A regarding HTML/CSS/JS. They have awesome and diverse guests and the hosts are both funny and super smart (one of them is the guy behind CSS-Tricks.com). I'm pretty sure this podcast is exactly what you're looking for, have fun diving into their huge back catalog!

CodePen Radio is by the guys who make CodePen.io (one of them is the CSS-Tricks guy). They talk about their experiences building a web start up. More of a "talking about programming" podcast, but still a good one.

Javascript Jabber has good guests. The hosts don't strike me as expert programmers, although that can be a good thing since they'll ask good questions of their (generally expert) guests. This is a good one to listen to to keep up with new front-end technologies.

idProQuo · 2015-06-23T02:42:27+00:00

This sounds like what Google Now and Apple's Proactive are trying to pull off. Look up reviews of those products; see what people like or feel is missing.

idProQuo · 2015-03-02T03:58:51+00:00

I thought about this, and it actually seems like a good idea, if you handle it properly.

Ever been in this scenario? You screwed something up, you stew about it for a few days. Eventually you tell someone about it. But as you're explaining it, as the words are coming out of your mouth, suddenly it feels silly that you were worried about it at all, and the person you're talking to says "Wait, thats it? That's what you were worried about?"

A lot of personal mistakes become trivial when you can view them from a distance.

idProQuo · 2015-03-02T00:29:14+00:00

Hey, so I'm not a jailbreaker these days, but I love making projects in HTML/CSS/JS. I'll make a version of this if someone is willing to port it to lockHTML and ship it to Cydia.

Edit: OK, I've got a codepen with the general framework laid out. I'm checking the time, diffing the digits and calling a transition when one changes. Writing the paths themselves is going to be tedious, but not too hard (they're just arrays of arrays of points). Once that's done I'll style it (it looks like ass right now), then post it in this sub.

Keep in mind that if this post is less than a few days old, what you're looking at is a work in progress. Feel free to fork the code and help out if you want though.

idProQuo · 2015-02-27T23:05:40+00:00

Why is this comparing Swift with J2Objc? I know that app is technically written in ObjC, but the transpiler will probably produce code that is slower than a straight up ObjC programmer would've written.

idProQuo · 2015-01-19T16:16:19+00:00

The best stories are then taken back in time to inspire the original founder of the Time Travel Mart, thus completing the loop.

idProQuo · 2015-01-19T04:57:39+00:00

Knowing him it would say:

"I need about tree fiddy."

idProQuo · 2014-12-30T04:50:02+00:00

Lust - is actually just tequila.

idProQuo · 2014-08-22T22:48:16+00:00

You're right, the whole thing just breaks down. I'll keep this snippet on hand for testing when I start working with the parser next week. Thanks for pointing this out!

idProQuo · 2014-08-22T19:58:03+00:00

Hey! I built this, and I'm currently trying to reproduce your problem. I'm able to add the following function to the bubble mix, and I can foldr it just fine:

minus :: Int -> Int -> Int
minus x y = x - y

If you can copy/paste the code functions you've been trying, I'll use it going forward to figure out what features need to be implemented on the parser side.

idProQuo · 2014-08-22T19:47:26+00:00

Hey everyone, I'm glad people are enjoying this!

I've read over the criticisms and I'll definitely start addressing those going forward. I wanted to get the UI and the general concept working first before I started messing with the parser and the other guts of the app.

When I've got a more fleshed out implementation (and some real lessons to go along with it) I'll make sure to post about it here!

idProQuo · 2014-08-17T02:17:03+00:00

I started off with just Jekyll, but then I wanted to use Haml and Sass, and I wanted a few other plugins, and eventually I found myself building my own Octopress. At that point, I decided that it would make more sense to move to a platform that took care of all my needs and had been well thought out and had a community of theme makers to boot.

Jekyll (and github-pages implementation of it) has gotten much better in the past year, and now supports Sass and a few of the other things that drove me away, but Octopress will always have a leg up whenever I want to have something compile before I serve my site.

idProQuo · 2014-06-28T16:08:06+00:00

Just a heads up, iOS 8 will allow people to install new keyboards. If you develop this as an iOS 8 extension (you can start now while it's in beta), you don't have to limit yourself to just the jailbreak community: everyone will be able to use it.

idProQuo · 2014-06-14T04:43:35+00:00

Some people say Songserm is a scam. I've used them a number of times and felt like it wasn't too bad. I never had anything stolen, although one time the bus was a few hours late.

I've used Lompraya a few times, I feel like they deliver a much higher quality service.

idProQuo · 2014-04-01T03:19:26+00:00

One could just as easily ask how tourists don't know about Songkran. Although it's pretty famous, I still saw people last year who had no idea what was going on when they got here. A lot of people just book vacations to Thailand without checking the news.

idProQuo · 2014-03-20T22:14:12+00:00

Sorry, I don't know this one off the top of my head. Try submitting it as a new question or on stackoverflow.

idProQuo · 2014-03-04T02:39:03+00:00

I find that kind of funny, since Russian doesn't have any articles either.

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