Last time I needed a maze I implemented Kruskal's algorithm, which is generally useful for finding the minimum spanning tree of a graph. You just run it on a lattice graph where all edge weights are the same and you have yourself a perfect maze.
I know you mean well, but this isn't necessarily an appropriate place or method for advertisement. It's a serious thing, and insinuating that your app will/can 'solve' other's depression can be seen as belittling others' emotions.
As a side note, preventing suicide is very different than supporting someone with depression. Suicidal thoughts are cause for major alarm, and call for emergency intervention. Depression is typically a longer, slower ordeal. It still certainly warrants seeking help, but the kind of help needed isn't something that an app can provide (at least from my personal perspective). But what an app _can_ provide is a way to find help and connect to those sources easily, whether it be in case of a crisis or just simplifying a process which can be overwhelming, particularly for someone dealing with depression for the first time.
Just some thoughts for you, and hopefully an explanation for the downvotes. You have an opportunity to help people with this project, and I hope you do well with it. Best of luck.
Because Manhattan distance isn't an admissible heuristic for an 8-connected grid I think it breaks the A*'s guarantee of optimality. I don't have an example, but it might be a place to start looking.
I wholeheartedly agree with 1 and 2, but I'm less enthusiastic about 3 and 4. I can't imagine that you meant it this way, but it can sometimes come across as "you have no valid reason to feel sad," which then makes some people feel badly about feeling badly, and the loop closes in on itself. At least that's where I find myself in trouble sometimes...
You're right, but I like to say that just to to make sure people with depression don't redirect their problems towards something else, like politics or people.
I used to blame many things for my problems, including me. I kept thinking about that "positive" mentality, for a long time. It can start to make sense at one point or another. If you're depressed, I think it's important to have a minimum of knowledge about questions on the meaning of life or something like that. If it can make you think in a healthy way and prevent people to turn into stupid things, I don't think it's really insignificant.
Good life philosophy can help you make better choices. I'm not talking about religion, I'm just talking in general, how do you look at the world.
I agree that philosophy won't really help, but it would be stupid to just not talk about it a little.
Pretty great cookbook I've taken a few meals from:
http://www.leannebrown.ca/cookbooks/
Rather than cheap food that happens to be edible, she tried to focus on actually good food that happens to be cheap. Really well done. Free electronic copies are always a plus too...
A book that has been fascinating me lately is How to Cook a Wolf[0] by MFK Fisher[1], which is absolutely lovely, inspiring and amazing. A sort of home ec., slice of life bunch of anecdotes, ideas and story-telling.
I think the idea behind the bigger font sizes is that the space between your head and the screen is typically greater than that between and a book you're reading. I would agree that this takes a bit far, but it may look nice on a mobile device.
I'm probably not the one to be giving advice on the matter, but there are some pretty nice ways of wasting time that aren't reading and playing video games. At least for me, taking care of kids and simple chores like doing the dishes are both fantastic ways to not be a bum without actually doing anything that I consider to be work. It might just be a perspective thing regarding what counts as "wasting" time.
Yeah you're right of course. I worry though that to "do it right", to get rid of my pathological need to work that I have to go too far the other direction for a while. Not that I wouldn't do dishes and stuff like I do now, but if I'm worried about what I should be doing every day it kind of defeats the purpose. Maybe I'm more worried about it than I should, but I'm pretty sure I use being busy as a shield against being 50% househusband. (I realize this I stupid. I wish being self aware were enough to change a thing)
