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Early test screenshot from a lighting test video, still some tweaking to do..
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Mouser, is that you in that photo?-BGM (October 01, 2020, 11:04 AM)
In our excitement at reunion, let us not forgot Codex.-JavaJones (September 30, 2020, 06:28 PM)
I watched a few of the videos. It all seems a bit stream of consciousness from what I’ve seen so far. Is there a design document for it that's available to read? Maybe I haven’t watched the right video - or enough of them yet. But I’m having a little trouble getting my head around the central paradigm and design of the thing.-40hz (September 30, 2020, 08:09 PM)
Hope to see you visit more regularly- it's not been the same without you!-wraith808 (September 29, 2020, 03:09 PM)
Probably a lot less discursive and wordy too.
-40hz (September 29, 2020, 09:07 PM)
Good seeing you and some of the Vieille Garde regulars again. It’s been far too long. I definitely missed the civility and high level of discourse that characterizes DC’s forum. This place is like an oasis of civilization compared to some of the online circles I’ve (more of necessity than choice) been moving in lately. It’s refreshing.-40hz (September 29, 2020, 11:49 AM)
Should these current posts from 40hz not be transferred to the thread for hearing from members that haven't been active when DC celebrated being online for 10 years? While 40hz may not have been "away" for that long, it does feel that way sometimes.-Shades (September 29, 2020, 11:07 PM)
My latest project, a custom board game table top for recording youtube board game videos:
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Maple rails, with a 3' x 4' center playing area, inset about 2.5" deep, with a recess to hide mat edges. The bottom is hard wood veneered plywood (cherry). I could have used standard plywood for the bottom as I can't imagine ever playing on it without a mat, but I happened to have a good full sheet of the cherry veneered plywood so I used that, and finished everything as if it were going to be seen.
I used my "normal" finishing method, which I swear by, and think I have described above: Analine dyes followed by 6 or so coats of Arm-R-Seal semi-gloss, followed by 2 coats of Arm-R-Seal satin, about 8 hours apart each coat, sanded lightly 300grit between coats. Takes lots of time but its smooth as silk and almost foolproof.-mouser (September 28, 2020, 12:45 PM)
That’s an extremely interesting approach. It has echos of an older technique that’s usually referred to as a ‘memory palace,’ where one’s classification of stored information is mentally linked to mnemonic imagery that most often takes the form of rooms and places in a real or imaginary building, or the landmarks found along a familiar walk.-40hz (September 28, 2020, 08:53 AM)
And the top answer to that question is really great. Both in explaining that, for trivial cases, using MVVM (or any design pattern) is unnecessary and only adds complication, and also in explaining what benefits MVVM might have on a project over the course of its lifetime.-Deozaan (September 27, 2020, 07:44 PM)
Surprisingly, Windows only accepts the .ico format.-Tuxman (September 28, 2020, 03:47 AM)
you look at revenues over time to see the worth of a companyIf you try to do this, you will end up losing money.-wraith808 (September 24, 2020, 11:52 AM)
Sales are part of the picture.
Profits, if you are able to work out what they really are, make another part.
Assets a third.
But if you buy a business, you will never get the sales or profits it made in prior years. You only have a right to what will happen in the future, so you have to predict.
The stock market, especially tech, had been too high for a few years before the dot.com bust. Buying at the top always loses you money for a few years however well you try and calculate value. Despite that, if you'd held a balanced portfolio of tech stocks then till now, do you really think you'd be poorer now?
The thing to remember about emerging industries is that it is very hard to predict which businesses will be the big winners. Some will stutter, some will meander, but most will fail.
The Roam valuation is based simply on an evaluation that they might be a big winner. $9m is nothing to get in at the base level. The investors will be aware it will probably fail, but they know that the small number of bug winners more than pays for the losers.-Dormouse (September 24, 2020, 12:29 PM)
I'd dispute that figure above, which is why I don't really count it as already there currentlyWhy would you dispute it?-wraith808 (September 24, 2020, 10:21 AM)
It ought to be a simple calculation. Investors paying $9m for ? = $200m valuation means ? = 4.5% of the enterprise, post investment. Always possible it was actually $9m for 5% of the business as it was, in which case the calculation ought to have been (9x20)+9 = 189 which is still pretty close.
Not seen anything about other conditions, options etc though I'd expect there are some. But it's hard cash he's already spending.
You can't get a better test of value than people paying hard cash for something.-Dormouse (September 24, 2020, 11:20 AM)
It might come in somewhere at the 100s of millionsAlready there.-wraith808 (September 20, 2020, 08:12 PM)-Dormouse (September 20, 2020, 09:17 PM)
VS Code is pretty much replacing every editor I have
-4wd (September 22, 2020, 07:54 PM)
the standard valuation of a company is 4 times revenue, and they aren't making $50m a year.That very much depends on the company and prospects (and a host of other things).-wraith808 (September 20, 2020, 05:53 PM)
Look at the current value of Snowflake-Dormouse (September 20, 2020, 06:04 PM)
For my money, now that it has its foot in the door, I think it will get to being a $ billion company.-Dormouse (September 20, 2020, 07:24 PM)
You have to remember that no-one actually thinks it's worth $200m.-Dormouse (September 20, 2020, 04:31 PM)
Strange thing is that you could achieve the same thing in Obsidian just as easily.-Dormouse (September 20, 2020, 03:34 AM)
https://www.makeuseo...t-walkie-talkie-app/-wraith808 (September 18, 2020, 08:03 AM)
AFAICS, only nr. 7, Intercom, supports Bluetooth, but 1 is enough-Ath (September 18, 2020, 08:31 AM)
