BrandonLive

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by BrandonLive 10y ago
Just FYI the sleep experience should be the same on the Surface Book. If you close and open it should resume immediately. If you close for two weeks and open, it willl have dozed to hibernate and should resume from hibernate in about 5 seco
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by BrandonLive 10y ago
Has literally nothing to do with the underlying platform. That's not how web development works.
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by BrandonLive 10y ago
It is impossible to know just from the fact that it's using SQL...
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by BrandonLive 10y ago
Oh, if you can, stick to trackpads without custom drivers ("Precision Touch Pads" in Windows). Surface trackpads all fall into this bucket.
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by BrandonLive 10y ago
That's very odd, especially as Windows' trackpad support is so very far ahead of what Linux has. That said, scrolling and zooming is dependent on the app... Legacy apps and those which do their own non-native (non-DManip) scrollin
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by BrandonLive 10y ago
Nothing said here is true. Windows 10 is not a "privacy nightmare" (ironic coming from an Android user!), nor a usability one. There are no unprompted upgrades, but it is aggressive about keeping your device up-to-date (will auto
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by BrandonLive 11y ago
Regarding the AppX thing... Actually AppX packaged apps (even from the Store in AppContainer) have always had direct filesystem access, but only from their install directory and to/from their AppData directories. It's only access
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by BrandonLive 11y ago
That's not how I read it. Rather, it makes sense for a cloud-focused company/development team to focus on efforts aligned with that cloud-focused strategy. The work in .NET Core and ASP .NET Core clearly fits this description.
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by BrandonLive 12y ago
Since most browsers shipped these together (as they're closely related), it would be very surprising if this didn't happen at the same time for both.
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by BrandonLive 12y ago
I use them in my apps. Very useful for many situations, and automatically able to handle different scale factors, high contrast modes, etc. Microsoft also has a bunch of useful glyphs in their Segoe UI Symbol font, for the same purpose.
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by BrandonLive 12y ago
Can't get past the first slide on phone (IE 11, WP 8.1). That's pretty lame. Edit: I guess that's why the PDF link is there.
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by BrandonLive 12y ago
NOBODY thinks that Facebook is a place to see all your friends' updates. And it has never been anything like that. What Marc was getting at was that this is A/B testing. Everybody does A/B testing these days. Claiming it is
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by BrandonLive 12y ago
Umm, why not? I use IE 11 in day-to-day usage and as my primary dev target. Chrome is god awful on my machine (it sucks on high DPI displays, has terrible touch support, worse/slower UI responsiveness and animations due to single UI th
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by BrandonLive 12y ago
Umm okay, but that rather misses the point. The point of this library is that it provides the same behavior (for 99.99% of cases) and the same abstraction (so same readability / maintainability) as the functions it replaces, but with
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by BrandonLive 12y ago
Exactly. Although, I am curious if there's a reason the JS engine (possibly working with the DOM implementation) can't optimize that to one look-up, if the JS in the loop doesn't change that part of the DOM or call anything
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by BrandonLive 12y ago
Depends on what you're doing. On mobile, those can end up providing much faster user interactions than doing everything via canvas (which it seems is your proposed alternative). For example, with IE on Win8, your DOM UI is actually com
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by BrandonLive 12y ago
Isn't the point of this that the script code doesn't need access to anything via getComputedStyle? It's the user telling the script what color something is.
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by BrandonLive 12y ago
Absolutely nothing to do with that. Wacom would love to be in the SP3. But weight, thickness, cooling, display quality (and writing feel due to extra layers between the glass and display panel), and battery life all conspired against them.
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by BrandonLive 12y ago
That's all baseless speculation. In fact in Microsoft's culture decisions like that are almost entirely made by individual contributors working with trios of front-line managers/leads (dev/test/pm).
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by BrandonLive 12y ago
Stop saying they ignored it. A) The product hasn't even shipped yet. That may be an option or made into one in an early update. B) There may be a technical limitation to disabling or rebinding it (e.g. without impacting either other bu
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by BrandonLive 12y ago
Indeed. Also, I thought for sure that 8.3 file name creation was off by default starting in either Win8 or Win7. Maybe it depends on whether you upgraded from an older version or which SKU you install?
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by BrandonLive 12y ago
Misleading troll is misleading. Word has great co-authoring support if you use Word Online (free equivalent of Google Docs which the desktop/tablet/phone client can work with natively), SharePoint, or Office 365.
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by BrandonLive 12y ago
That used to be true, but these days IE is pretty aggressive about disabling things, and telling you when they're slowing you down. Doesn't help everyone but seems to help some.
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by BrandonLive 12y ago
FYI, Windows doesn't interpret mouse movements as swipe gestures. Certain trackpad ODMs (i.e. Synaptics) did that, and did a terrible job of it.
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by BrandonLive 12y ago
That post was from two years ago. There were a lot of reasons the old start menu was removed. I listed some technical reasons why "just leave it in as an option" isn't as easy as it sounds. It is not a straw man to say that i
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by BrandonLive 12y ago
You must not use Visual Studio (or IE). Not only do both of those already do this for JS, but VS does the same thing for C++ and C#.