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Re: Use Svelte with SASS/SCSS in VSCode

jobelenus — Tue, 10 Sep 2019 14:29:17 -0000

Node exists on that path, confirmed. The output only shows the "syntax errors" for sass. I don't see any execution details. Do you happen to know the cmd that vscode runs against that node path so I can try it manually and see what happens?

Re: Use Svelte with SASS/SCSS in VSCode

jobelenus — Tue, 10 Sep 2019 11:27:37 -0000

Hrm I'm on OSX, with `npm run dev` working just fine. I have the svelte plugin for VSCode and put my node path into the setting. It is a node in my .nvm folder, and its world executable, so it ought to work. But I am still seeing syntax errors in VScode, which is very annoying. Anything I might be missing?

Re: 'He Lived On His Bike': Friends Recall Cyclist Killed In Boston's Back Bay

jobelenus — Wed, 03 May 2017 10:28:44 -0000

You are a terrible person.

Re: Tuesday Tips: In Defense of Lateral Cutting, Presented By Five Ultimate

jobelenus — Tue, 08 Dec 2015 17:24:47 -0000

Beau's is from the middle

Re: Quote Of The Day: The Future Of Professional Ultimate

jobelenus — Mon, 31 Aug 2015 14:25:02 -0000

How can a victory on the pro tour be consider the defacto-championship if we have to wonder how many years it will be around? If MLU or AUDL folds, what will past championships mean?

Re: Are Ultimate Players Overly Reliant on IB?

jobelenus — Wed, 26 Aug 2015 13:01:20 -0000

Its not IB that you need to worry about with drinking alcohol. Alcohol itself promotes inflammation. Other NSAIDs like acetaminophen should NOT be mixed with alcohol. Acetaminophen reduces the ability of your liver to function. Which means the alcohol won't get processed by your system and will be very toxic.

Re: Here Is The Best Ruleset For Ultimate: Fouling Out, Stall Clock, And No More Picks

jobelenus — Thu, 11 Jun 2015 13:51:23 -0000

The automatic-7-stall would be hard. First, it would only work with a giant scoreboard, buzzer, and person to watch for it. Second, it should matter that a defender has to be guarding the thrower, as you wrote it they don't have to and the thrower has 7 seconds to throw. Marks should be necessary for stall counts to initiate.

Re: Stop Defending What Cincinnati Did

jobelenus — Fri, 27 Mar 2015 11:48:44 -0000

This gets done every year at Nationals. The starters sit for entire games in pool play. Don't see any outrage there.

Re: Basic Concepts Of Person Defense In 42 Seconds

jobelenus — Tue, 03 Mar 2015 17:12:17 -0000

I know we probably don't have great on field audio, but if I had my guess the TMF was likely due to Farrell's reaction. We see him throw his hands up, and with the intensity of he defense we can only guess as to what came out of his mouth. But if it was the finals, a very close game, and I was shutting down my mark, and he calls a foul on me, I would be rightly pissed too. Farrell is certainly outworking Reb here.

Edit: this is actually a good example of why a "non-contact" sport can actually have legal contact. Basketball is a non-contact sport, but nothing that either Farrell or Reb did here would ever be called a foul. I would hope that this level of contact does, one day, become legal in ultimate, especially at high levels (youth level is different, just like youth basketball).

Re: USAU Board President Responds To Tiina Booth Column

jobelenus — Mon, 02 Feb 2015 20:04:23 -0000

Personally, I find it quite scary that what was once a written by-law about proposals gets removed from the by-laws at the recommendation of outside groups who USAU seeks influence with. That sounds precisely like the kind of thing the members of USAU are to be afraid of because now the USAU is no longer bound by its by-laws to reply to proposals in a specific way. Everything can be addressed in whichever way as required to get or not get something done (as this event is showing)

Re: USAU Board President Responds To Tiina Booth Column

jobelenus — Mon, 02 Feb 2015 15:05:52 -0000

It feels like, to me, that part of the fear about ESPN, and the gender equality policy comes down to growth. The partnership with ESPN is supposed to generate growth in ultimate--both in numbers of people who watch it and people who play it. And if the current policy of USAU is for gender equality, but ESPN has a full say in how the product is produced, and thus received, we/the peanut gallery have to conclude that ESPN has a large amount of influence in *who* will be influenced to come into the ultimate tent as a player or as an audience.

Restated another way (as an ad infinitum argument): if ESPN were to only broadcast mens games, then any growth in the sport of ultimate would be to/on behalf of the mens game. Those new people would not care/be totally uninterested in the gender equality policy. And if growth is significant (as USAU wants it to be, and the ESPN audience is giant) then we have significantly changed the demographic of "who cares about what" in our community. And that can be a very scary thing.

So, even if ESPN does broadcast women's games -- but gives them zero primacy in broadcasts, pre/post game commentary/analysis, interesting storylines (because whether or not we tell the stories, the stories are there), there will be less growth in numbers for the women's game as a result of the ESPN partnership.

Re: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly: Submitting A Proposal To The USA Ultimate Board

jobelenus — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 15:29:16 -0000

I had a similar discussion with KDub on reddit a little more than a week ago here: http://www.reddit.com/r/ult... regarding some of the same questions:

My main point is this: "I don't think the governing body of a sport can realistically be the players association--not when money and status get involved. Increasingly, as sports become monetized, those who rise to the status of "decision makers" are those with the money. Money talks. Players don't have the money. To consciously choose that players talk and money takes a backseat is not proven. The entrance of an outsider CEO to direct the organization also speaks against the org or the decisions as being "player driven". Basically -- unless players are making the decisions its not a players association. I don't think players need someone else to tell them what is best for them."

And I think your experiences here go a good distance towards confirming some of this. Do we, as players, truly get represented, by a dozen or so board members sitting in Colorado. Is that how the women players who are playing the game, and those who worked on and signed this document, feel? Obviously they don't. You signed a document, and got shut out of a process that is "for your benefit". These are all giant red flags for me that to say USAU is "out of touch" would be putting it lightly. They have an agenda (and there is *nothing* wrong with that) the problem is, they are the only ones with the power to advance an agenda. While all of us are sitting over here wondering whats happening with our sport.

Re: Charlie Hebdo and Freedom of Speech

jobelenus — Thu, 08 Jan 2015 15:01:15 -0000

"That anyone could be willing to kill someone else over cartoons" -- this is specifically NOT what has happened. A racist cartoon provided an opportunity, a target, for a person to kill. The murderers are a part of a society that is routinely oppressed, ridiculed, threatened, assaulted, and finally killed, by both individuals and governments. A cartoon was, at best, a straw that broke the camels back that provided a target.

Re: Should We Reduce The Number Of Games Played Per Day At Tournaments?

jobelenus — Fri, 21 Nov 2014 11:01:07 -0000

Seeing the comments come in already, I think there has to be a comprehensive solution. If all the TCT/college tournaments are 3 days long with 3 games a day--which would be VERY HARD to do, for organizers (cost and venue considerations), and for the players (cost and taking even more time off)--then you can lower the roster cap a few players, since you won't need that depth. And that lower player cap *could* help with team parity issues (which the TCT format wants to want to address).

Keeping a 2-day tourney with 3 games a day could be done--without lowering the number of teams in a tourney which will screw with the ranking system--by changing the formats. Less teams per pool, and more stratified bracket play where you end up with a ceiling. These formats make pool play matter more, while eliminating the infinite backdoor (which has created some great stories, so that change may be looked down upon)

Re: Random Thoughts on Sports Performance Training – Installment 7

jobelenus — Tue, 18 Nov 2014 10:43:59 -0000

Definitely interested in what you find from the rotational training. Been playing around with some of it myself, but unable to find longterm plan/progression patterns

Re: In Defense Of The Triple Crown Tour

jobelenus — Wed, 22 Oct 2014 11:20:51 -0000

Wow, this is a terrible comment. Assertions without any data to back them up.

First you have to show that Machine spent more money than everyone else in the Pro Flight -- and that they "won" because they didn't play the "best" teams because the best teams couldn't afford it. Last I checked none of the Pro Flight teams missed Pro Flight tournaments.

USAU's second largest budget item is creating more teams in youth age brackets (read: High School ultimate teams). Changing the nationals format to TCT did nothing to change this budget reality. You *could* say they should prioritize the budget to spreading youth ultimate OVER running TCT tournaments. But that would essentially mean there would be NO nationals tournament.

Re: The Future of Defense in Ultimate: Why Lou’s Help Defense Series Matters

jobelenus — Thu, 14 Aug 2014 17:13:47 -0000

He has one at skyd

Re: The Future of Defense in Ultimate: Why Lou’s Help Defense Series Matters

jobelenus — Thu, 14 Aug 2014 16:40:32 -0000

It's certainly not a change to the game itself, and certainly not at the highest level. But that these tactics are often being used at the highest level is finally reaching other levels of ultimate. I can speak from the low-mid tier teams that switching is highly discouraged in general. And any attempt to actually pull off a successful switch, or even a help-D, is rarely successful. My pet theory (brought up more in my other comment) is that so many ultimate players have not played other organized sports where even at the lowest levels of pickup/high school teams (like basketball) advanced switching/help-D happens regularly. And coaches go on to teach and expect players to be able to do it. I think Lou is talking about the future expectation that players will, by default, have to be able to do this, rather than cover it as "this is something interesting that good teams are able to do well"

Re: The Future of Defense in Ultimate: Why Lou’s Help Defense Series Matters

jobelenus — Thu, 14 Aug 2014 11:05:52 -0000

I'm glad you brought up basketball. I grew up playing basketball far before I played ultimate. Help defense is prevalent at all levels of the sport -- even the pickup game. On our relatively bad high school team we were pulling off cascade switching. Coming to play ultimate I am surprised (but based on these articles I probably shouldn't be) at the general inability for experienced players to successfully pull off switches and help defense. My summer league team has several players who go to NE Regionals every year (among all the open/mixed/womens divisions) but help defense is still something that does not come naturally at all to ultimate players

Re: How Will Club Shift To Summer Affect The Game?

jobelenus — Fri, 25 Apr 2014 10:20:59 -0000

I do hope USAU has a plan to help the northern teams (Seattle, Portland, NY, Boston, Chicago, as well as Wisconsin and Michigan) be able to start their tryouts and practices earlier -- because indoor space is damn expensive. And the TCT has already put a travel requirement (which means a $ requirement) on teams. This will only increase the costs.

Re: The Ongoing Score Reporter Fiasco

jobelenus — Mon, 14 Apr 2014 11:28:32 -0000

I'm a software developer. Offering my services. I'm always surprised for a sport that is compromised of so many software people we can't have nice things

Re: Wisconsin Coach Hector Valdivia On Pro/Club Schism

jobelenus — Fri, 04 Apr 2014 15:56:49 -0000

My "Let's watch the elite players" was a response to all these tweets, columns, and podcasts. The USAU current plan is emphatically NOT revolving around elite men, unlike the AUDL/MLU.

Re: Wisconsin Coach Hector Valdivia On Pro/Club Schism

jobelenus — Fri, 04 Apr 2014 15:24:49 -0000

Charles, several players are already making the choice to not play semi-pro and only play USAU, even without schedule conflicts. As I stated before, I don't see anyone choosing the other way. It looks clear to me which system elite players are valuing more: Nationals.

If elite players are not interested in having an influence on the future of Ultimate/how ultimate is played/viewed/run then we shouldn't be weighing their choices as for the future of ultimate -- which is what ALL these columns have been about "Let's watch what the elite players do to tell us about the future of ultimate" (which is why the decisions around gender-equality and IOC recognition MATTER).

Re: Wisconsin Coach Hector Valdivia On Pro/Club Schism

jobelenus — Fri, 04 Apr 2014 13:10:06 -0000

This is very good criticism, though I'm a noticing the double-sidedness of this problem. First, players say playing in TCT is expensive. Could the length of the season and required tourneys for pro/elite be a cause behind this? I certainly think so. Therefore, shortening the season could lower costs, no? And lower the costs across the board, even for non-elite teams.

IIRC, one point of moving the club season earlier was so that Nationals could be held somewhere NOT in Florida or Texas, e.g. a larger market that is going to be more visible??

Of course this schedule-moving is a slow process, and there is every reason that USAU should work WITH the local TDs for these epic summer tournaments we all love (and the TDs are often working with USAU on some level already) to better arrange things for everyone's benefit. This is something we should be pushing on USAU to do (not expecting them to do with no pressure, and then railing on them when they fail)

Re: Wisconsin Coach Hector Valdivia On Pro/Club Schism

jobelenus — Fri, 04 Apr 2014 13:02:04 -0000

"especially if the bulk of the top end talent migrates to one of the pro leagues over USAU"

As I stated, this is pure conjecture, since nearly everyone (to a person) who plays in MLU/AUDL already plays in USAU... its a possibility people stop playing in USAU, however, nobody has indicated a willingness to do that yet, and instead some players who played MLU/AUDL last year have decided to forgo playing semi-pro to focus on Nationals within the USAU TCT.

"Is this really true, or do we just want it to be true?"

Is there currently a union? No. So the only influence they have on things is to choose to not play (which they cannot do once they've signed a contract, or face the penalties contained within the contract), or exert social pressure. Those are not structural functions to guide how decisions are made. Could there be a union. Sure. Is there? No.

"And lastly, is it really fair to ask players to not join the pro leagues "for the good of the sport"? If you're asking players to forgo all the benefits of pro league participation are you willing to personally subsidize those same players to continue to play in USAU? If the culture of USAU ultimate is so important are you willing to spend $5000/yr to save it? Because that's basically what it boils down to."

These are good questions. And ultimately what it does come down to, though I'm not sure "save it" is the right word -- its not going anywhere. I, for one, am willing to spend my money and time on directing where I would like the sport to go, in addition to playing the sport -- instead of someone giving me money to play, asking others to pay money to watch me play, and having far less direction for how the sport is watched, played, officiated, ruled, etc. (All that said, I'm no elite player and probably couldn't make a Nationals level team or a semi-pro team even if you gave me the next three years to try.)

I don't know how much others believe they can have an influence, or necessarily care what happens. They can have an influence, and they ought to care what happens if they actually love this sport and believe its different from other sports. Folks found this sport and enjoyed it differences and community. Shouldn't that remain for the kids of the future to find and become a part of? Rather than going down the road of Yet-Another-Monied-Sport?