In trying to figure out what to name the bit of the game that actually 
manages state and (say) determines legal moves and such, vs the part that 
draws the board, vs the part that maps the input buttons into moves, I 
realized I had the classic Model/View/Controller paradigm going on.

Unfortunately, I also realized that all three of these terms are already 
co-opted by the gaming library.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
    Ada - the programming language trying to avoid
    you literally shooting yourself in the foot.

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On 5/26/2010 8:56 PM, Darren New wrote:
> In trying to figure out what to name the bit of the game that actually
> manages state and (say) determines legal moves and such, vs the part
> that draws the board, vs the part that maps the input buttons into
> moves, I realized I had the classic Model/View/Controller paradigm going
> on.
>
> Unfortunately, I also realized that all three of these terms are already
> co-opted by the gaming library.
>

MyModel/MyView/MyController  ;-)

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Kyle wrote:

> MyModel/MyView/MyController  ;-)

My Documents, My Music, My Photos, My Little Poney?

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On 5/27/2010 8:27 AM, Invisible wrote:

> My Documents, My Music, My Photos, My Little Poney?

It irritates me that Windows 7 went back to that. In two ways:

1) I've always been annoyed by "My Documents" I thought Documents was 
just fine.

2) Now there's a compatibility link to "My Documents" in explorer in 
addition to the "real" "My Documents"

.. anyway..
-- 
~Mike

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> 1) I've always been annoyed by "My Documents" I thought Documents was 
> just fine.

The best part is when you're on the phone to somebody.

"Yeah, click on My Computer."
"What, YOUR computer?"
"No, no, the icon labelled 'my computer'."
"Oh, right..."
WTF?

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Mike Raiford <"m[raiford]!at"@gmail.com> wrote:
> 1) I've always been annoyed by "My Documents" I thought Documents was 
> just fine.

  Not to defend Windows, but I think that the idea is that when there are
multiple accounts on the same Windows computer, "My Documents" always points
to the documents directory of the *current* account. If you log in to another
account, "My Documents" will then point to the documents directory of that
account instead.

  The "My" part makes it clear that it's the private documents directory of
your account, not a shared one which is common to all accounts.

  As said, not to defend Windows or anything, but I actually think that's a
relatively sound idea.

-- 
                                                          - Warp

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Mike Raiford wrote:
> It irritates me that Windows 7 went back to that. In two ways:

Bleh. I hadn't heard that.

> 2) Now there's a compatibility link to "My Documents" in explorer in 
> addition to the "real" "My Documents"

And Vista has a soft link from "Documents and Settings" to "Users", and 
similarly for the public directories.

Softlinks lead to evil, I tell you! ;-)

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
    Ada - the programming language trying to avoid
    you literally shooting yourself in the foot.

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Warp wrote:
>   The "My" part makes it clear that it's the private documents directory of
> your account, not a shared one which is common to all accounts.

Some versions of Windows are nice, in that the file is technically
   \users\darren\documents
and
    \users\fred\documents
but explorer shows them as
    "My Documents"
    "Fred's Documents"

If they're actually screwing with the file names again, such that you have 
to edit programs or something, that's annoying.

Of course, they could be doing it on purpose, to get people to use the APIs 
that say where to store documents, rather than just hard-coding paths. Sort 
of like a UNIX system changing from /usr/darren to /home/darren to 
/mnt/home/darren to encourage you to open ~/darren

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
    Ada - the programming language trying to avoid
    you literally shooting yourself in the foot.

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This is funny =)
http://www.computeruser.com/articles/who-s-on-first.html

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