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Kuraj
9y ago
> apple directly supports its phones for 4 or 5 years And it keeps getting better. http://iossupportmatrix.com/
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9y ago
I'm currently looking at the Surface Pro LTE for this very reason.
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> Stop using commercial VPN providers. At the very least, don't use the free ones.
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I still hold onto WPF for my pet projects. It was around when I was taking my baby steps with GUI development, and nothing else I tried later came even close.
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For this to work, you first have to get yourself into the mindset than when you are working, you're kicking ass. I'm having a lot of problems with this.
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> They could make "discord for business" that is literally the same app and have great success. Discord is sometimes known as "slack for gamers" so you're effectively describing Slack :)
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Is there any way I can simulate a MIDI keyboard, since I don't have an actual device?
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I agree! I love this feature. It's so good that I sometimes don't even notice that my music ended.
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> That's why ubuntu is a popular choice. I stopped rooting for Ubuntu to win the casual user, when they moved the caption buttons from right to left, and deliberately didn't provide an option in the UI to turn it back. You may
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> so people choose "next to free" instead of "completely free" exactly why? I mean I am not one to bash Microsoft out of principle, but this is easy to understand - people choose Windows because that's what every
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> As a side note, developers who do "only development" and offload all weird bugs to someone else tend to create less maintainable software overtime My problem is that I have become that someone else.
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> And it's impossible to put the tabs beneath the address bar I do not understand the significance of having the address bar above tabs from the UX perspective. If anything, I feel that it should be below so that it can appear as a
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I understand the performance concerns but comparing a graphical IDE to a command line based text editor is rather dishonest.
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As a .NET developer, I am provided with a MSDN sub by my employer and it comes with a monthly Azure allowance I can spend on whatever. So somewhere down the road, even if I quit and decide to work with FOSS, for me the reason might be famil
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> Why would anybody use a programming language with zero documentation for anything? What alternative do you suggest? Not putting it out there until it's production ready?
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> I'd argue that it shouldn't ever be done in Javascript, because that means implicitly trusting the client, which is always a bad idea. It absolutely shouldn't be done in Javascript only .
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If I remember correctly, the author of Terraria was also just learning C# as he went on with this project. It's a huge success story in my book.
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I don't really understand how Edge having its own rendering engine would make me any more excited for it.
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Check out the UI of Adobe Photoshop. They use numeric text boxes which also pop a slider when given focus. You can also let the users drag the textbox left and right directly (with some visual cue), thus achieving the same functionality as
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It has its upsides, I guess - such as it would be instant to learn (if a bit cumbersome to use) for someone who already has experience with physical interfaces.
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The article itself is very interesting but the skeuomorphic UI looks horrible to use - especially the knobs, because there is no intuitive AND practical way to emulate twisting stuff with a mouse pointer. Can anyone with practical experienc
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9y ago
What's your opinion?
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I agree. For all the backlash this has received, it does sound like a reasonable explaination. I can think of much worse fuck ups than this.
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9y ago
12 megabytes doesn't sound too bad for the things you mentioned, especially if it's a constant cost.
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9y ago
Are you kidding me? At his age I didn't know what programming was . Give him a break.
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Do you keep it up to date? Because I'm afraid MS has backported the spying part.
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9y ago
Or to put their win32 app in the Windows Store using the Desktop Bridge (a.k.a. Project Centennial)