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On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 12:28 PM, Ciaran McCreesh |
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<ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Mon, 24 Mar 2014 10:55:38 -0400 |
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> Damien Levac <damien.levac@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> A lot of people already replied to this question: package search. |
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> Sure, but can you point to prior examples of this kind of stuff |
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> actually working? |
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eix -C allows you to search for categories. It's horrendously |
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under-powered, but almost a useful prototype of what could be. |
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Pandora uses this general concept with superb granularity for graphing |
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similarities in music. That the MGP data is only used for a streaming |
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service is depressing. |
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Alternativeto.net is software oriented and has a good bit of this. |
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Results? http://alternativeto.net/tag/tiling/ Bam. Tiling window |
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managers. (These are almost certainly all user-sourced; notice the |
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innocent misuse in that list.) |
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The various Danbooru-style sites will generally show off impressive |
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community-sourced rigour as well as proving the efficacy of |
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alias/implication at scale. I have a lot of respect for their |
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collective pep. Most are NSFW, but this one probably won't be (much): |
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http://safebooru.org/ |
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The Library of Congress? (The modern library is practically built on |
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this sort of metadata.) |
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Regards, |
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Wyatt |
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