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Vodka is a creative coding environment for creative writers (LISP)

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Re: Vodka is a creative coding environment for creative writers (LISP)

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Post by jolux »

sillysaurusx wrote: post #37
mjh2539 wrote: post #22

If you can't think of a descriptive name for your tool or product, maybe you should pause, think on it, and resist the temptation to pick a completely irrelevant one-word noun. Call me a codger. I don't care. This crap was old ten years ago. It's still old.

Searching "Vodka coding environment" works fine. "Vodka coding" also works fine. Both of those show this project in the top results. Your critique can also be aimed at yahoo, google, amazon, and so on. All of those are irrelevant one word nouns. Go is probably the worst offender, and yet people just search golang and it works fine.

Google is a brand name, the noun is googol.

Re: Vodka is a creative coding environment for creative writers (LISP)

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Post by sillysaurusx »

jolux wrote: post #41
sillysaurusx wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Searching "Vodka coding environment" works fine. "Vodka coding" also works fine. Both of those show this project in the top results. Your critique can also be aimed at yahoo, google, amazon, and so on. All of those are irrelevant one word nouns. Go is probably the worst offender, and yet people just search golang and it works fine.

Google is a brand name, the noun is googol.

It’s a typo, actually. They intended googol and wound up with google.

Re: Vodka is a creative coding environment for creative writers (LISP)

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Post by mjh2539 »

sillysaurusx wrote: post #37
mjh2539 wrote: post #22

If you can't think of a descriptive name for your tool or product, maybe you should pause, think on it, and resist the temptation to pick a completely irrelevant one-word noun. Call me a codger. I don't care. This crap was old ten years ago. It's still old.

Searching "Vodka coding environment" works fine. "Vodka coding" also works fine. Both of those show this project in the top results. Your critique can also be aimed at yahoo, google, amazon, and so on. All of those are irrelevant one word nouns. Go is probably the worst offender, and yet people just search golang and it works fine.

"Yahoo" is nonsense, I agree; "google" is relevant in the sense that they index a lot of websites; 'amazon' hearkens to the myriad variety of different books they sold.

Re: Vodka is a creative coding environment for creative writers (LISP)

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Post by fctorial »

Crashes with this error when I visit the url:

[$] ./runserver.sh Server running at http://127.0.0.1:3000/ internal/fs/utils.js:230 throw err; ^

Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, scandir './sounds' at Object.readdirSync (fs.js:887:3) at getAudioFileIncludes (/mnt/DATA/src/vodka/server/webserver.js:104:17) at transformHost (/mnt/DATA/src/vodka/server/webserver.js:117:14) at /mnt/DATA/src/vodka/server/webserver.js:137:12 at FSReqCallback.readFileAfterClose [as oncomplete] (internal/fs/read_file_context.js:63:3) { errno: -2, syscall: 'scandir', code: 'ENOENT', path: './sounds' }

Re: Vodka is a creative coding environment for creative writers (LISP)

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Post by dang »

lambda_obrien wrote: post #36
EpicEng wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"It allows you to fail multiple times without changing the product name" Great.

How do you think progress is made if not by failing and trying again? and again, and again.... etc. Of course, you're the "epic" engineer, so I bet you're really good at everything and never fail, right?

Please don't cross into personal attack in Hacker News comments. We're trying for a different sort of conversation here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: Vodka is a creative coding environment for creative writers (LISP)

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Post by msla »

mjh2539 wrote: post #22

If you can't think of a descriptive name for your tool or product, maybe you should pause, think on it, and resist the temptation to pick a completely irrelevant one-word noun. Call me a codger. I don't care. This crap was old ten years ago. It's still old.

Hm. I guess that means the Windows project is doomed. Good to know.

Re: Vodka is a creative coding environment for creative writers (LISP)

#48

Post by ngcc_hk »

Should it be more a text result and an underlying text based code (word perfect) And further a notebook like for the underlying (python and R notebook). 2 windows showed next to each other.

Somehow this text is the program Then turn into box ... not sure.

Re: Vodka is a creative coding environment for creative writers (LISP)

#49

Post by kleer001 »

lambda_obrien wrote: post #38
kleer001 wrote: post #17

Uhhh, what problem does this solve?

Not everything has to solve some problem, some things are for art, or love, or because you were bored.

Art solves aesthetic problems, constraints drive creativity.

Love solves the problem of reproduction, competition and evolution.

Boredom solves the problem of creativity, it's the other side of the coin, a kind of destruction at the very least of time. What's the edge of that coin? Maintenance.

Re: Vodka is a creative coding environment for creative writers (LISP)

#50

Post by kleer001 »

throwawaybutwhy wrote: post #44
lambda_obrien wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not everything has to solve some problem, some things are for art, or love, or because you were bored.

...or intoxicated. Hence the name.

There's so many types of stories behind the naming of things, Vodka could be a backronym or a personal story or getting drunk.
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