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Re: Comments by a developer inside the Windows Media Player source code

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Post by schoen »

senkora wrote: post #56
exikyut wrote: post #49

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YouTube's keyboard handling is Insanely Intuitive™, I must absolutely agree. Usefully, the up/down keys don't change the volume unless the player is also focused. What's incredibly sad is that j/k/l were agreed upon to rewind/pause/forward the video, and these generally work unless you're in a textbox... but dedicated keys were not similarly approved to control the volume. -- My current winner for Absolutely Favorite…

> Vim "up" [j] is assigned to "next", and Vim "down" [k] is assigned to "prev". j is down and k is up in vim

Originally derived from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADM-3A#ADM-3A, which I only learned (maybe from HN) long after becoming a vi user.

Edit: I've wondered whether the Dance Dance Revolution on-screen arrow order https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_Dance_Revolution#/media/..., which I also have deep in my muscle memory, is somehow also related to the hjkl arrows (as it also goes ← ↓ ↑ → horizontally).

Re: Comments by a developer inside the Windows Media Player source code

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Post by 20thCB »

leephillips wrote: post #26
EasyTiger_ wrote: post #14

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Have never come across the word before either. Makes you think - did the person say the word to convey some kind of meaning? Or to sound super-smart to their peers?

It could just be that the developer’s native language happens to be English, reads books, and he/she used a familiar word without thinking twice about it. Because this is, in fact, a fairly common word.

It's not common at all.

Re: Comments by a developer inside the Windows Media Player source code

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Post by dorkwood »

leephillips wrote: post #26
EasyTiger_ wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have never come across the word before either. Makes you think - did the person say the word to convey some kind of meaning? Or to sound super-smart to their peers?

It could just be that the developer’s native language happens to be English, reads books, and he/she used a familiar word without thinking twice about it. Because this is, in fact, a fairly common word.

It is a pretty rare word to come across in modern writing.

"And a sea of pulchritudinous models would have served as a lesson on how not to choose words: the ugly pulchritude sounds like the opposite of what it means, and it is one of those words that no one ever uses unless they are trying to show off.” https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/40167209-the-sense-of-...

Re: Comments by a developer inside the Windows Media Player source code

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Post by Moru »

exikyut wrote: post #49
dijit wrote: post #21

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I think you’re mistaken, YouTube (in all the forms I use it with a keyboard at least) supports spacebar as a pause key. Your browser might try to pop you down half a page if the thing that is selected or highlighted on the page is not the video player itself though. But it works 100% of the time in fullscreen.

YouTube's keyboard handling is Insanely Intuitive™, I must absolutely agree. Usefully, the up/down keys don't change the volume unless the player is also focused. What's incredibly sad is that j/k/l were agreed upon to rewind/pause/forward the video, and these generally work unless you're in a textbox... but dedicated keys were not similarly approved to control the volume. -- My current winner for Absolutely Favorite…

Wait, a mouse driven application is using the right hand keys for shortcuts? Yes, that sounds very handy for a left hand mouse user.

I prefer to be able to set my keys myself. I use the left hand WASD keys together with ctrl+shift for most things so I can control the music in any application (with winamp). No need to find buttons, the hand is already there even if I'm using the mouse with the right hand.

Re: Comments by a developer inside the Windows Media Player source code

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Post by Jare »

cm2187 wrote: post #9

Lecturing on keyboard shortcuts when windows media player is the only video player in the world not using the space bar as a shortcut for play/pause.

Amazon Prime web player uses it but does not force keyboard focus on the place where it can detect it, so many times you have to click first before it will pause on space bar.

Focus handling is generally terrible in web apps, but few instances infuriate me like this one.

Re: Comments by a developer inside the Windows Media Player source code

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Post by Jare »

chapium wrote: post #5
cybert00th wrote: post #4

Pulchritude!? Boy, I had to look that one up!

Looking it up, I still have no idea what it means. The best I can gather is its beautifully wholesome. Other sources say beauty, but it seems like such a specific word for a form of beauty.

"Pulcritud" and "pulcro" are not everyday words in Spanish, but pretty frequent. Mostly used to describe something that has been cared for and set up in a deliberately clean and orderly way.

A guy with an unshaven face, wild hair, casual or wrinkled clothes, etc would never be described as "pulcro", even if they otherwise look very handsome, beautiful, or attractive.

Re: Comments by a developer inside the Windows Media Player source code

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Post by astrobe_ »

leephillips wrote: post #26
EasyTiger_ wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have never come across the word before either. Makes you think - did the person say the word to convey some kind of meaning? Or to sound super-smart to their peers?

It could just be that the developer’s native language happens to be English, reads books, and he/she used a familiar word without thinking twice about it. Because this is, in fact, a fairly common word.

A Redditer notes that a similar word is common in Spanish. For speakers of Latin-derived languages (French, Spanish, and of course Italian), English vocabulary quizzes are generally a bit more easy because English took its literary words from old French and Latin. Thanks William The Conqueror for that.

That said, as a french speaker I would have had no idea what this word means if I did not took Latin in high-school.

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