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Re:The future of VR is web based on Friday February 16, 2024 @12:44PM (#39400373)
there is no VR in the future IMHO :)

Ask HN: How to say no to a GitHub issue feature request?

Feeling very upset about a feature request.The main reason is, the requester behaves like I am hired to customise the software for him. And I should keep working until he is satisfied.Even if I don't like it, they keep saying this is very good feature, blabla...What should I say? F... off?For these kinds of people, they will never understand the manner of GitHub and do some PR.And they won't...

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IMHO, your usage of Tone.js may not be a strong enough argument for your point. Tone.js is simply too high-level to offer the features mentioned here.
Re:OP-1 field on Thursday May 12, 2022 @03:52PM (#31359404)
have read some comments here:

> "They have the best designers, i feel like in the US we have no taste, i knew this couldn't be an American company." -- @iamricks

how about monome (https://monome.org/norns)?

@chaosprint

glicol is cool. another two interesting live coding languages are tidal (https://tidalcycles.org) and orca (https://100r.co/site/orca.html)

Ask HN: Can one contributor of an open source software forbid someone's fork?

I never expect this to happen but it does happen in real world.In project ABC, a contributor Foo comes up with a new API while contributor Bar believes that this API "confuses everyone".Apparently Mr.Bar is rude and arrogant, but what happens next is that Mr.Foo creates a fork.After a few iteration Mr.Foo creates a new repo ABCx with the same code from his fork, and of course with some...

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