It's cute, but I suspect the rightsholders for the character won't be thrilled about the name appropriation.
Marcel the Shell
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#22Hate to be "that guy", but it's kinda sad that they pretty much stole the name... especially when the (fantastic!) movie with the original character came out recently in 2021. https://youtu.be/k98Afd7Nf3Y
I wrote marcel. I picked the name because of the short that preceded the movie!
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#23I’m not sure this would be the way to go, but it’d be awesome if most Unix command-line tools had a way to accept and output JSON objects.
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#24It's cute, but I suspect the rightsholders for the character won't be thrilled about the name appropriation.
They are two very different products in completely different markets. In many jurisdictions any such lawsuit would have no standing.
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#25Hate to be "that guy", but it's kinda sad that they pretty much stole the name... especially when the (fantastic!) movie with the original character came out recently in 2021. https://youtu.be/k98Afd7Nf3Y
I wrote marcel. I picked the name because of the short that preceded the movie!
Out of curiosity, did you reach out to them? I think the project is neat, just feels a bit like you're leaning on an established (and extremely creative) piece of work instead of creating your own brand. Hope I'm wrong.
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#26It's cute, but I suspect the rightsholders for the character won't be thrilled about the name appropriation.
They are two very different products in completely different markets. In many jurisdictions any such lawsuit would have no standing.
Being legally right and being morally right are often two very different things though. Like, they even have the full domain name of the original thing. If I were the owner of the original video and the subsequent film, I know I'd be, at least, annoyed.
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#27I’m not sure this would be the way to go, but it’d be awesome if most Unix command-line tools had a way to accept and output JSON objects.
This is a place where marcel's python grounding is really useful. Reading json, marcel generates a stream of nested dicts and lists. That stream can be turned back to json for output.
Similar for CSV.
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#28I’m not sure this would be the way to go, but it’d be awesome if most Unix command-line tools had a way to accept and output JSON objects.
I will note that Powershell has typed inputs and outputs and that can be very powerful. Now if it weren't so verbose...
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weird to say, but powershell should also be on your list.
Yep. It's a very clean, powerful and well thought out API. And I'm saying that coming from a place of love towards unix and its pipes. I'd almost argue it's better than the unix model. Almost . Been able to give poweshell commands in FOIA litigation and its power is on full display with one liners where it's hard for a gov agency to say no to something so simple.
That’s really interesting; how do you use powershell in that context? I’m assume it isn’t just
Here’s FOIA request for the output of the command
find /home/jbiden -name “*secret*doc”
haha.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wrote marcel. I picked the name because of the short that preceded the movie!
Out of curiosity, did you reach out to them? I think the project is neat, just feels a bit like you're leaning on an established (and extremely creative) piece of work instead of creating your own brand. Hope I'm wrong.
Actually, I did. My daughter loves marcel the shell, I was writing a shell, so it's an obvious choice. It is far enough afield that I can't believe they would care. But I reached out to them, and explained what I was going. They were amused, said they might want to object later, but they never have.