WayneBro

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by WayneBro 10y ago
I agree. Also in this particular case, an added challenge is that the frontend has to work offline and my customer wants to self host everything instead of using an easy 3rd party solutions like Firebase, even as a proxy.
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by WayneBro 10y ago
Another interesting crustacean is the Mantis Shrimp - it's got a fast and powerful punch that reaches 73 feet per second (50 miles per hour) within 3 milliseconds - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtNAqK_V-lg
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by WayneBro 10y ago
That's where the "smart" comes in. It wouldn't be smart to build something that is un-maintainable or prone to breaking in the future if that's what was needed, would it?
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by WayneBro 10y ago
I wish frontend work were as easy as gluing things together. My life would be so much easier. I built the entire stack for my current project and the frontend (Angular/Ionic) has taken the most work.
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by WayneBro 10y ago
> We decided against a checkbox because users already have too many checkboxes, and mostly don't understand any of them. How did you decide that it was too many? Also, if users don't understand any of them, what's the big
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by WayneBro 10y ago
OK, so ContentChanged is new since the last time I looked - thanks for that! However, IPC via files is still a PITA in general compared to something easy like sockets. Using an external IP address is a terrible solution for communicating wi
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by WayneBro 10y ago
> They aren't going to just dump it all because you and a few others find the priviledge model inconvenient. > But, no, it won't allow unchecked IPC... And I'm not asking for either. How about just giving the user a sim
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by WayneBro 10y ago
They already did UWP-only Windows. That was WindowsRT. Nobody bought into that either, but Microsoft still really, really wants that closed-market, walled-garden style business model to happen somehow and so they're going to keep tryin
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by WayneBro 10y ago
Give it a try. You can't send requests to `localhost` or `127.0.0.1` at all. AppService is largely useless for IPC between UWP and Win32 since the UWP app can't initiate a request to the Win32 app. Another thing you can't do,
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by WayneBro 10y ago
Not yet. Their next strategy is to try and use ARM (again) to shove UWP down your throat. I love Windows but I seriously will not touch UWP until they loosen up the sandbox restrictions so that I can do regular IPC with a win32 desktop app.
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by WayneBro 10y ago
Meh. The bug requires you to connect Windows to a malicious SMB server. Now that everybody knows that, if anybody is really concerned, they can stop SMB connections from LAN to WAN by blocking TCP 139, 445 and UDP 137, 138.
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by WayneBro 10y ago
You don't know that. You think you know something based on what you can see, but that is all.
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by WayneBro 10y ago
Pffft, it takes a lot more than a contract to maintain an empire the size of Microsoft. Their tech beats OSS in many areas and there is definitely a reason that people continually pay to use it.
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by WayneBro 10y ago
That's because Microsoft took over the entire world of computing by selling easy to use GUI tools instead of command line tools.
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by WayneBro 10y ago
Ender's Game, another sci-fi book turned movie, is also recommended reading for military personnel including the Marine corps - http://guides.grc.usmcu.edu/content.php?pid=408059&sid=57756...
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by WayneBro 10y ago
Right, but it was introduced to C# over 8 years ago so it's a bit of a moot point, wouldn't you say? `Dim`, a poorly worded keyword by today's standards, is a perfect example of the kind of leftover crap that C# doesn't
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by WayneBro 10y ago
Which windowing system does it more easily and more obviously than Windows 10 though? Here's a 2 minute demo of "Snap Assist" which is turned on by default in Windows 10. Near the end you can see the user snapping three docum
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by WayneBro 10y ago
You don't write your type twice in C# either. So, the second example would be: var d = new Dictionary<string, string>(); `Dim` is worse than `var` because nobody uses the word "Dimension" when they're talk
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by WayneBro 10y ago
> Most devs simply hate Windows... I don't think so. Most devs on HN seem to hate Windows, but everywhere else they love it. The startup scene seems to hate Windows, but most programmers aren't working for a startup either. Eve
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by WayneBro 10y ago
Addressing religion as a whole is nonsense IMO. It doesn't exist by itself and you certainly cannot attribute the same qualities to every single religion. The major religions are a mix of philosophy + politics. Philosophy in general is
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by WayneBro 10y ago
I was responding in kind, thank you very much. Repeatedly responding to me with the same point and misrepresenting my position is equally rude. This person keeps saying that I'm "making a mistake" and that's all I'm
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by WayneBro 10y ago
Oh I see your problem. Your perception is way off. Please allow me to correct your misunderstanding once again and hopefully for the last time. You seem to imply that there is this perfect thing called science, which is wholly separate fr
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by WayneBro 10y ago
Certainly not. I build private/enterprise apps for Android and iOS using Ionic/Cordova. I don't use Apple's app store at all. When I show my customers what a giant PITA it is to work with Apple and iOS, many of them star
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by WayneBro 10y ago
I build iOS apps but I avoid giving Apple any money wherever I can. I buy all of my Apple hardware used from third parties. I don't buy any apps, music or books from Apple. I only use free apps. The only time Apple gets a cent from me
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by WayneBro 10y ago
That Mac Mini would run fast again with Windows 10 on it though. This tiny little Zotac ZBOX that I got for $150 off Amazon has a less powerful CPU than the 2010 Mac Mini from the article and Windows 10 flies on it. https://www.a
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by WayneBro 10y ago
> Science as a process is virtually infallible, but science as practiced by humans in human-run institutions is very very far from infallible. Hyper group-think is one of the more unfortunate aspects of our modern technological dilemma.
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by WayneBro 10y ago
No, that was my point. You were trying to say that it's OK because it correct itself over time. However, that fact does not really help us in the present time.
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by WayneBro 10y ago
There is no science without people though...and people are not immune from mistakes.
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by WayneBro 10y ago
Incorrect. "Science" is the reason why we had things like lobotomies in the first place. Your entire arguments rests on a "No true Scotsman"-like logical fallacy.
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by WayneBro 10y ago
I am about to release my largest Ionic project to date. It is a highly dynamic data entry and reporting system for field workers. My client is able to create and publish new data entry forms and reports from the private back and angular web

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