![]() Daenerys may be a war criminal, but Jon would still need her for her army and her dragons to save humanity.įrom a quick glance at the audience reactions to the final season, you'd think it was the decision to turn Daenerys evil that pissed everyone off. This would've put the show in a much more interesting place going into the final season: Daenerys would be given narrative time to reckon with what she'd done, and Jon would be forced to figure out how to navigate this new dynamic. It's not hard to imagine a different season 7 where Daenerys, frustrated by how poorly her attempts to humanely conquer Westeros had gone so far, decided to reject Jon's advice of focusing on the White Walkers and go full Mad Queen in the season 7 finale. Throughout the fourth episode of season 8, " The Last of the Starks," Daenerys went from a war hero who just risked everything to help Winterfell, to a desperate and insane tyrant ready to burn countless civilians to get the throne. ![]() ![]() The main threat to all these characters had been defeated, the story felt like it was winding down, but the show was still having Daenerys go through a major last-minute character-defining personality change that felt disconnected from everything that had come in the seven and a half seasons beforehand. Not only did it come across as an anti-climax, but it made the episodes afterward feel like an extended epilogue. And once the Night King was handily destroyed, they went straight back to the petty political power games as if none of that had ever happened. The selfishness of so many of the main characters never had any consequences humanity was perfectly safe after all. As it turned out, it was okay for most of the characters to ignore the White Walker threat for seven seasons straight. ![]() By defeating the White Walkers halfway through the final season without many major casualties, the show undermined that theme. ![]()
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![]() ![]() When it's done well, it works out better for everyone. The developer has the incentive to keep service excellent and new features coming, otherwise subscriptions will drop off. Rather than having to save big ideas for major version releases, new features can be rolled out gradually and incrementally as service improvements, instead of dangling them as enticements to get people to spend money on upgrades. Without a discount, you're going to spend $60 a year on TextExpander, a utility whose previous release cost $35, once. That helps to predictably support current and future development efforts, instead of having to plan development cycles on the expectation of a big windfall whenever there's a major new release. A subscription model offers a regular flow of income, and stops the developer from having to run on what Smile CEO (/e?link=https%3A%2F%2F"the upgrade treadmill." Devil's advocateĪs hard as it may be to shift perspective, consider the developer's point. There are plenty of other productivity apps and suites besides Microsoft Office. Likewise, some designers still hold out with their Adobe Creative Suite 6 software or have migrated to other non-Adobe products all together. Smile's move is likely to spur at least some of those developers to redouble their efforts to win hearts and minds away from Smile. Other text expansion and shortcut utilities for Mac and iOS are available. Software as a Service certainly doesn't work for everyone, and Smile is bound to lose some customers as it makes this migration. Our subscribers pay a flat monthly fee and in turn, we back up their computers to our data center.) (In the interest of full disclosure: I work for one of those companies I'm talking about: - we sell cloud-based backup services for Mac and Windows users. Family plans, added iCloud space and optional services like Apple Music have many of us tithing to Cupertino faithfully every month. iCloud is free, unless you need more space. If you want to use Apple Music, that's another $10 per month. Buying an iPhone or a Mac is just the start. Office 365 users got the earliest look at Office for Mac 2016 when it made its debut last year.Įven Apple's gotten into the act. Microsoft has done the same with Office, and while Office 2016 is also available with a perpetual license, Microsoft gives users plenty of incentive to subscribe to Office 365 instead, with more flexibility and better features. ![]() An ever-growing constellation of new apps and services continue to give creative professionals reasons to subscribe to Creative Cloud products. ![]() The company went all in on the service model a few years ago by focusing development of their creative apps as the Creative Cloud. Smile joins some big players at it seeks to reinvent TextExpander as a service instead of as an app you pay for once until the next major upgrade. Adobe Creative Cloud on Mac (Image credit: iMore) ![]() ![]() ![]() If it is purple, you only need to hit it once. If the Boss Galaga is green, you have to hit it twice to destroy it. Be very patient, and do not try to hit the Boss Galaga in mid-flight it is very easy to miss the enemy and hit your own Fighter! Wait until the Fighter is within an inch of the bottom, line up with it and hit the Boss Galaga exactly in the center. It always follows the same pattern it heads for one side or the other, with one loop in the middle. If your captured Fighter still has its Boss Galaga, it will eventually swoop down on you with its escort. Some players use this as a expert's technique to store a captured Fighter. Be very cautious about shooting at the last wave of aliens when they enter! Your captured Fighter will appear at the tag end, then take its place at the top of the formation. But all is not lost it will reappear as the last ship to enter on the next entrance screen. It will disappear off the bottom of the screen and go away. If you shoot the Boss Galaga that captured your Fighter while it is in formation, eventually the captured Fighter will swoop down on you. For instance, you can shoot at an enemy to the side of a captured Fighter, have the Fighter and its escort swoop off and run right into your shot. Be very careful where you shoot when you have a captured Fighter in formation. If you shoot your own Fighter, you get 1,000 points, but lose the extra Fighter-you don't want to do this under any circumstances. Now one of your Fighters is in the enemy formation. ( Note: Never get captured when you're playing with your last Fighter.) Don't destroy yourself If you have another Fighter, you begin playing with it. ![]() At that point, the message "FIGHTER CAPTURED" is displayed and the Boss Galaga returns to the top of the formation dragging your Fighter behind. ![]() If your Fighter is in range, it is caught and whirled up to rest beneath the Boss Galaga. ![]() If your Fighter is not in range of the beam up field, eventually it retracts and the Boss Galaga drops straight down to return to formation.A strange sound begins, and a fan shaped blue energy field emanates from the bottom of the Boss Galaga.The Boss Galaga stops two inches above the bottom of the screen.During mid-battle section, a Boss Galaga peels off and dives straight down in a markedly different pattern from the usual one-loop off the side.By doubling your firepower, this maneuver can give you the opportunity to achieve the maximum bonus in Challenging Stages. One of the most interesting, unique, and useful features of Galaga is the tractor beam performed by the Boss Galagas. Galaga Hints, Tricks, Secrets and Walkthrough Getting captured During the entire stage, the player may fire upon the enemies, and once all enemies are vanquished, the player moves onto the next stage. At the beginning of each stage, the area is empty, but over time, enemy aliens fly in formation, and once all of the enemies arrive on screen, they will come down at the player's ship in formations of one or more and may either shoot it or collide with it. The gameplay of Galaga puts the player in control of a space ship which is situated on the bottom of the screen. It is the sequel to Galaxian, released in 1979. Galaga is a fixed shooter arcade game developed and published by Namco in Japan and published by Midway in North America in 1981. If you grew up in the 80's you shouldn't need additional gameplay instructions. On mobile phones and Iphone use the gameplay control buttons shown on your screen (only on mobile) to play and start the game. On a computer you can click the Game Window Size button to rotate between default, 1.5X and 2.X game window size. Click Game Window Size Button to Zoom Game Size between default, 1.5X and 2XĬlick on the game window and hit the ENTER key to start Galaga (you might have to hit start twice). ![]() ![]() Make sure to update comments and docstrings when you change the code they describe. Why? It's easier to tweak and understand code that has clear explanations about its purpose. Avoid comments that do little more than repeat what the code already says. Judiciously use comments to explain sections of code that would not immediately be clear to someone else. Why? Our documentation is meant to be used with marginalia or the Instant Clojure Cheatsheet. It saves time to have a good docstring describing the behavior of a function so someone doesn't need to jump to its implementation to work out how it behaves it will make debugging or tweaking it easier in the future.įormat docstrings according to Markdown conventions. Aim to keep the barrier to entry for a potential contributor as low as possible. Why? Code is read many more times than it is written, and a potential contributor (or even yourself in the future) won't necessarily understand the purpose of it, even if it seems clear to you when you wrote it. If there are other functions that have similar purposes, explain how the use-cases for this function differ. A useful docstring should clearly explain the purpose of the function, its inputs and outputs, and anything else that is otherwise not immediately clear. Please do not hesitate to fix them if you come across them.Įvery public var in Metabase must have a useful docstring. We have a lot of stuff incorrectly marked ^:const in our codebase. ( vec ( sort ( for [ns-symb ( ns-find/find-namespaces ( classpath/system-classpath)) A good function or variable name should make its purpose immediately clear. Avoid unconventional abbreviations like tbl and unclear variable names like xs'. acc, i, pred, coll, n, s, k, and f are examples of well-known conventions any Clojure developer has seen them before and can tell you what they mean. ![]() Prefer longer, more verbose names for functions and variables avoid abbreviations unless they are well-known and conventional in the Clojure world. Why? This makes reading and editing the :import declaration easier and faster for everyone involved, and prevents duplicate imports. Use prefix notation: Īctually the same advice for keeping namespace :requires applies here: let clj-refactor handle it for you. Keep namespace :imports ordered alphabetically. If nobody requires clojure.pprint, calls like clojure.pprint/pprint will cause an Exception. Why? Using an external function without requiring its namespace means it becomes implicitly dependent on some other namespace requiring (i.e., loading) it. Īvoid using fully-qualified namespaces rather than an alias so it is clear the namespace has been required without needing to refer to the ns declaration. don't use clojure.pprint/pprint without requiring its namespace. Make sure to :require any namespace whose functions you refer to, e.g. Why? If we are consistent with our namespace aliases, people won't need to refer to the namespace declaration to determine what namespace an alias is for. ![]() įor example, metabase.util should always be required like ![]() Why? This makes reading and editing the :require declaration easier and faster for everyone involved, and prevents duplicate :requires.įollow namespace aliasing/refer patterns used elsewhere in the codebase. Don't worry, if you get it wrong, we have a linter that will let you know about it. You can M-x cljr-clean-ns to have clj-refactor put everything in the right place. Keep namespace :requires ordered alphabetically. It also helps prevent shady kittens from introducing potentially dangerous dependencies that could cause security vulnerabilities. Why? This makes maintaining the dependency list easy and helps us avoid introducing duplicate dependencies. Table of Contentsĭependencies in deps.edn should have a comment explaining their purpose. Be sure to follow all of the guidelines in that style guide as well unless otherwise noted in this document. The guidelines below are additional guidelines on top of the Clojure Style Guide. Metabase has very strict code quality standards for the backend codebase open-source code has a long life so a bit of extra polish is worth it. ![]() ![]() When a Bronco shopper asked if Cyber Orange would carry into 2022, Ford rep Mike Levine responded, "Not sure if Cyber Orange will still be available for MY22. The final reason is that Ford has admitted there are new colors coming. The second is that the lineup doesn't have anything in the blues, a nearly unthinkable scenario to contemplate The Blue Oval allowing next year. The first reason is that none of these colors are new, and culling three color choices without replacement, on what is still an enormously popular vehicle, is top five in the list of 101 Things Not To Do. For a few reasons, assuming this is accurate, we believe the screenshot is a list of just the carryover colors for the next model year. The 2021 Bronco offers 11 colors - the forum image has left off Antimatter Blue, Rapid Red, and Velocity Blue. The eight colors on the screenshotted image are Shadow Black, Iconic Silver, Area 51, Carbonized Gray, Cactus Gray, Race Red, Cyber Orange Metallic Tri-Coat, and Oxford White. A Bronco6G forum member named Brice posted what he believes is a leaked image of the 2022 Bronco range. The Ford Bronco heads into its second production year in 2022, and we know there are changes coming - the exterior color palette has been a subject of conjecture on forums and Twitter questions between Bronco enthusiasts and Ford reps all year. ![]() ![]() ![]() Learn more about how to get the most out of Windows 11 here! Windows 11 How To Windows 11 was officially announced on June 24th, 2021, and is slated for an October 2021 release.Teams How To Do you need to get more out of Microsoft Teams? Here’s where to start!.How-To Looking for some help with Windows 10, or just some good tips? 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