WayneBro

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by WayneBro 10y ago
With a permission setting? There are permissions for which apps can use my Mic, Camera, Contacts, Call history, etc... Microsoft could easily add one that lets me run UWP apps with a higher privilege that allows IPC with Win32 apps. As it i
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by WayneBro 10y ago
There is going to be a Win32 subsystem on phones. That's the next thing Microsoft is trying. They already showed Windows 10 running on arm with Win32 apps running on it. The things I mentioned or not permissions. They are limitations.
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by WayneBro 10y ago
Exactly. They are not blocking anybody from dual booting here. They simply not supporting this one configuration that he is running.
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by WayneBro 10y ago
UWP is a sandbox. I wouldn't call that native. You can't even do any sort of local IPC with it if your other process is Win32. Furthermore: - You can't run a UWP as Administrator. - A UWP app has less access to the system and
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by WayneBro 10y ago
Why should Microsoft cater to people who want to boot Linux? It's not their OS. Apple doesn't either. The Linux community has to build all sorts of workarounds for Apple's crummy practices. Furthermore, if you rarely booted L
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by WayneBro 10y ago
You're the only one here complaining about it. There hasn't been any big backlash about this instance or any others. So, unless you have some proof that a sizable portion of people are being offended by this, let's assume tha
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by WayneBro 10y ago
Gee, I've been using Windows since version 3.1 and never ever, ever had a major problem with the allegedly bad desktop security. Also, Linux since RedHat 5...and I've definitely spent way more time configuring Linux to do shit t
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by WayneBro 10y ago
It's not the same thing as the back navigation on Android. Also I find swiping very imprecise compared to a statically located back-button near the bottom of the screen. Apps implement swiping differently. For some of them we have to g
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by WayneBro 10y ago
I actually switched to iOS for the past few months as part of an experiment. I have mixed feelings about it. I think it's greatest advantage and disadvantage is that it's a sterile environment. No third parties can mess with it. U
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by WayneBro 10y ago
Yes, nobody would rather pay for anything though - so what kind of argument is that really? It's like saying "Who would pay extra for higher quality tools?" - the answer is: Lots of people would. Personally, I pay for the bes
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by WayneBro 10y ago
> ...can't do any of the stuff i3wm does.. What exactly do you think i3wm can do that Windows 10 can't be made to do? Windows 10 has tiling and workspaces. I can add any number of automations via AutoHotKey. > Users don&#x27
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by WayneBro 10y ago
I build Node.JS apps and Cordova apps all day long on Windows 10. What's your problem?
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by WayneBro 10y ago
> So no, Windows doesn't work on 'practically any hardware' - you need to have the right drivers for it, same as linux/bsd/whatever. Sure. But it seems silly to acknowledge that fact while omitting the fact that
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by WayneBro 10y ago
> Package managers... But bash on Windows includes apt. It's all of Ubuntu running on the Windows NT kernel instead of the Linux kernel... > WMs... Windows has one of the best window managers around and you can make it do pretty
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by WayneBro 10y ago
More hardware support, more software, better software, more users... What's your point?
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by WayneBro 10y ago
> I was expecting some details... Pretty sure I mentioned those in my initial complaint. > If you exclude extra-vague words... OK, is "the only search engine that matters" too vague? How about "the only app store that m
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by WayneBro 10y ago
I do use diffs for code review. I simply use a much, much better native tool instead of a crappy web tool.
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by WayneBro 10y ago
I've been using BitBucket for years and the lack of syntax highlighting for diffs has never even occurred to me. Why would you want to use such a limited diff tool at all? Personally, I use the best diff tool that I can find and so far
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by WayneBro 10y ago
Looking at the list of code that this person created, I don't think it's wanted on Windows anyway. It's just a bunch of low-level utils that are already built-in to Windows or have better third-party alternatives. If this guy
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by WayneBro 10y ago
Furthermore, I find Windows more developer friendly than any other OS. The Linux community would have me doing rote memorization of shitty command line apps from the 1970s to do my programming. No thanks! I'll stick with my modern GUI!
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by WayneBro 10y ago
That's a bit of a non-sequitur. I understand corporations order the wrong configuration all the time... At least they have a configuration to choose from! If they shopped Apple, they'd get 3 choices: Cheap overpriced crap that the
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by WayneBro 10y ago
> Worse in which regard? Their respective business models? > Actually I do shit every day... OK, but we're on HN and we're talking about building software and/or webpages... So let me rephrase - you can't make soft
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by WayneBro 10y ago
Apple and Google are far, far worse than Microsoft ever had been and I'd take a Microsoft monopoly any day of the week over those two. You can't do shit these days without having to deal with Apple's ridiculously selfish and
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by WayneBro 10y ago
Meh. I have a Mac Pro a MacBook Pro and multiple Linux boxes. I use them all for different things. Windows is still the best all-around general purpose OS in my opinion.
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by WayneBro 10y ago
This is the typical response I get from Apple users whenever I ask how to do something with a Mac that just can't be done. I've been hearing it for 20 years from Mac users: "Why would you want XYZ feature anyway?" It&#x2
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by WayneBro 10y ago
I am a die-hard Windows user and I don't care about games as much. In my opinion, Windows is just the best all around OS. While I do use Mac and Linux wherever third parties require it - I prefer Windows by far. I also think it's
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by WayneBro 10y ago
A full general purpose OS with a touch screen is definitely not a gimmick. Surface devices (and the many other brands of Windows tablets that sell, which nobody ever seems to mention) are changing the landscape of enterprise computing in a
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by WayneBro 10y ago
> You do not need your body after you are dead. How do you know? Have you ever been dead? Do you know any people who have died? > This is good for society. You don't know that either, unless you know the future. In this particula
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by WayneBro 10y ago
The vast majority of businesses run on Windows too. So, Windows is quite obviously a much, much better choice for general purpose computing than whatever hipster-fad OS you prefer :) Also, I thought hipsters-fad followers were natures way o
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by WayneBro 10y ago
No, I'm pretty sure sctb is a little to heavy-handed with this off-topic detachment bullshit. He also detached my comment in which I responded directly to a statement that somebody made, but not the statement itself which. Both my comm

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