manytimesaway

I am absolutely not a fan of "new style technology" as you might have understood.

I used to run Odoo on-premise for a small company about 3-4 years ago. The upgrade path (with the OpenUpgrade fork) was awful, many features (that WYSIWYG editor, Odoo Studio?) were locked to the cloud version, and there was little to no documentation. IIRC we even had to drop it because the delay between on-prem updates & cloud updates was too high.

And there were mentions of Flask in the logs, so no it wasn't just Werkzeug (which is synonymous with Flask since its inception, anyways).

I do not have fond memories of editing invoice templates blindly.

Odoo suffers from others issues though. Not sure if this is still the case, but the mix of inline Python 2 Flask + XML was basically tech debt-as-a-service.

Also the very ugly death they gave OpenERP/Odoo on-premise.

Do I really need to pull out all of the exemples of Google support being the absolute worst on Earth?

Microsoft arbitrarily banning IPs/AS from its infrastructure with no recourse or acknowledgement of the issue (such as 365 lying about accepted mail traffic through SMTP)?

I don't know, Google, Microsoft and Oracle seems pretty resilient then.

> 15 months of fobbing him off, and once the case has been raised publicly the very senior guy _suddenly_ sees it as a priority despite it being just an edge case.

That's basically how this whole industry works? How would you justify the outrageous cost of product management layers otherwise?

Not saying that this is the right way. But it's not a very surprising story, no matter which company (be it Google, Microsoft, OVH...).

Works everywhere on modern hardware only.

> Web apps work everywhere. The web has grown increasingly powerful and capable. Why would I invest in a technology that can only run on a single OS? Doesn't make sense.

You mean the hypertext platform that has been shoehorned into Java's paradigm, suffering from the same boof-o-rama as Windows, and whose lowest common denominator to support must be Safari for iOS?

Very depressing to see this next to the "LinkedIn uses 2.4GB of RAM" post.

None of these are true. It's "The Operating System" according to era documentation.

People seems to forget that besides console offshoots, the original Transport Tycoon (Deluxe or not) has not been legally available for what seems to be an eternity, without paying crazy eBay prices.

This is a much better compromise than usual in the gaming industry.

>Chris Sawyer is on record being really hostile to open source reimaginations

No he's not. This is internet gossip.

I guess they're talking about the Carmack-led id, which was much less successful & cohesive than the previous iteration of the company.

The "one kind of experience" is probably referring to Carmack's comparing story in a video game to story in an adult movie.

Segagaga is a one-of-a-kind oddity on a console full of one-of-a-kind oddities, and it's been pretty hard to translate. It's been on the backburner for years.

Things are much more nuanced than this, at least on SEGA's side.

The Mega Drive derivated from the System 16, but was itself converted into an arcade system.

Titan-Video derivated from the Saturn, according to sources online.

NAOMI/NAOMI 2/Hikaru were derivated from the Dreamcast during development, and there is significant overlap in specs between them and the DC.

Chihiro derivated from the OG Xbox.

Right, because the Deck is open source hardware...

This is the same for Tomodachi games, isn't it?

One More Time was seemingly released in October 2000 and is the only single that was released before the record (not taking in account the leaks).

The earliest copies of music videos being sent to stations are dated from around February 2001.

Discovery was released in March 2001.

The first single bundled with a music video was the fourth one and was released in October 2001.

The earliest broadcast of the four initial videos seems to be August 2001.

So no, music videos and single releases were not really bundled together.

That's not what the Wikipedia page says and it's not even sourced.

Production of the movie started right at the end of the lengthy recording sessions (reminder that Discovery started being a thing late into the Homework recording sessions, with Short Circuit & One More Time being early productions) but it's rather uncertain how this process started. The one thing that I'm 100% sure of, is that the entire production was funded by DP themselves, and they are probably the only owners of the golden master of the movie. (Hence their media team's fault about the absolutely crappy 4K remaster and noise around it, that led to that awful Epic collaboration).

Singles were released at rather odd intervals for Discovery in particular (according to Bangalter, all songs were conceived as potential singles) and music videos were released after the singles.

EDIT : To be honest, it's a bit tricky to be 100% sure about the actual process, with most of the claims being unsourced random internet shenanigans, and the tendency of some people (hi Pedro) to rewrite history whenever they wish.

The tempo app that the author developed.

This particular sequence in the movie (which is actually named Interstella 5555) is one of the most important ones in the plot.

Discovery has been explained many times by DP to be about childhood, not having any specific "theme" besides mixing disco and rock. Hence the name "disco very" and the "pun" in Veridis Quo. (which also happens to be a major sequence in the movie. Although DP never cared to enter the details of that particular composition, most likely memory hole'd by the protagonists.)

So no, this is definitely not the theme of the song. There are several years between the actual songwriting and the release of the movie. Heck, if you actually see the movie, the ending sequence kinda explains that this is "one" of many interpretations of the record...

Taking a look at past interviews, it is more likely that 5555 is about what surrounded the actual release of Discovery (hugely anticipated sequel to a magnum opus that was wildly different from expectations) rather than an idea that was here from the start; see also Human After All for a continuation on this theme.

Very unlikely to be an actual easter egg. This was posted on the (awful) DaftPunk subreddit a while back, and reads just like some hidden advertisement.

The record was released way before the movie, so no this is not the song's theme.

Summing up the entire FPS genre as Doom-like is unfair and discredits you more than anything else. Heck, even Doom and Quake are wildly different.

FPS haven't been under the spotlights for a while, these days it's mostly MOBAs.

This is a really really bad comment. I've never heard of the framework you're talking about and I thought you were talking about the Firefox prototype.

"How to become unbannable"

Step 1 : go with the one company that's known worldwide for abusive & permanent bans with no recourse.

This post is a bit too generic, but it's true that using your own domain for mailing is the best solution to avoid getting locked out. Although you need to pick a good registrar, too...