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Zoom 5.0 6 years ago

According to their 10-K filings, zoom has more than 700 heads in RnD in China, and about 5 subsidiaries in China IIRC, but none of those are listed as subprocessors of personal data, which I, personally, find somewhat hard to believe

Zoom 5.0 6 years ago

Attention tracking ... Oh great... I'm sure we all have been waiting for more big brother features like this one

I'd love to give this another go, however, my experience with the first remarkable are reMarkably poor, and the new revision supposedly has the same display hardware

- the display is not very sharp, has poor contrast, and no active illumination

- also, despite there being no display illumination, reading in the sun was not possible, as it immediately resulted in the display bulging notably from the absorbed sun/heat.

- seriously buggy software

Let me know, if you have information that the new revision has improved on those aspects.

I completely agree! All the hours (more like days/weeks) I already spent trying to make CMake do what I want... It only strengthens my dependency on CMake in the end :-/

If it takes you too long, maybe you're doing it wrong then? Are you sure you are solving a real problem with it?

I don't mean to insult you, so please don't take this the wrong way... The Point I want to make is this: Is it even a reasonable project to build a build system that does everything for everybody? It would appear -- from plenty of evidence around in most open-source projects -- that mostly each of them had to work around at least a couple of restrictions in their off-the-shelf build-system, and I haven't seen a reasonable sized project that got away without additional scripting.

So if the developer already has the need for custom scripting, why not take python? And if it Takes less Time+LOC to roll your own project-customized build-system than it would take you to integrate a "general-purpose" build-system... There is a very strong case for a small python script like the one presented here.

This is awesome! Instead of getting all mixed up in the discussion about which of the existing build-systems is best, and instead of trying to figure out how to work around all of the (mostly arbitrary from user perspective) restrictions, it is a very rational and pragmatic choice to just get it done and make it do what you want.