WayneDB

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by WayneDB 14y ago
OS X is less of an entertainment platform than Windows and it's also less of a business platform than Windows.
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by WayneDB 14y ago
In my experience, people who don't have any complaints about Javascript don't know many other languages very well.
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It's not really a stretch because they don't want you to use the Internet without using Google. That's why they prompt you to immediately sign into Google with their browser and their mobile OS. Narrowing the argument to only what they do o
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by WayneDB 14y ago
I hold the same opinion so I can answer for myself - Mainly I judge them by their actions and it seems obvious to me that Google is working against the anonymous Internet . They seem to want to tag and track everyone with a real name and t
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by WayneDB 14y ago
Also - Am I the only one who thinks that Apple's products aren't really very good?
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Direct link to PDF, look on page 8 or just search for Palm: http://www.antitrustinstitute.org/~antitrust/sites/default/f...
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by WayneDB 14y ago
I agree that a sovereign nation shouldn't be borrowing from anybody in order to trade with other nations, but isn't the Asian economic miracle also driven by slave labor?
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by WayneDB 14y ago
And they said that HTML/CSS/JS is still a kludgey solution for documents, apps and just about everything that it's being used for?
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by WayneDB 14y ago
"because all our content was restricted to the iOS platform..." They chose to restrict their content to iOS because of laziness; they did not want to look for a cross-platform solution. What do you expect Android users to do when you give
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by WayneDB 14y ago
I don't know why they don't open their store to desktop apps. Maybe they have an agreement somewhere which hinders that action.
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by WayneDB 14y ago
I didn't say that ECMA created or endorsed C#. I said that it's an ECMA standard because no matter how much posturing anyone wants to do, it is one. Features of C# 3.0 and 4.0 have too been included in the ECMA standard. So yes, we can defi
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by WayneDB 14y ago
Neither are Linux package repositories always up to date.
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by WayneDB 14y ago
Yeah, but Linux sucks on the desktop for reasons that are completely different than the types of reasons that are being enumerated here for Windows. For instance: Fragmentation. Relatively low quality desktop software. Unavailability of cer
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by WayneDB 14y ago
So, nobody should learn a language unless it's the "default language" for a platform? What is Python, Ruby or PHP the default language of? Should anybody be learning Perl, Haskell or Objective-C in your opinion?
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Totally dude. Because C# only runs on Windows. You can't use it to build apps for the iPhone, Android, OS X or Linux at all. Nope.
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by WayneDB 14y ago
One problem with your statement is that C# is not only "Microsoft tech". C# is an ECMA language for crying out loud.
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by WayneDB 14y ago
I have been running Windows Server 2012 (Standard) as my main desktop for the past couple of months and I absolutely love it... I installed it onto an IBM x3100 M4 open box special ($400!) that I had picked up and after I added 32GB of RAM,
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by WayneDB 14y ago
The separation makes sense to me because of screen real-estate. On a tiny screen, there's only so much functionality that I want to offer in one single view. To your other point, Eto and Xwt ride on top of .NET/Mono which is stable and curr
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by WayneDB 14y ago
I'd like to see the code-base for a serious application front-end that covers both desktop and mobile because I don't think it's a viable solution for anything more complicated than a TODO list. What successful products can you point to tha
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JavaScript is the new Perl(ocpsoft.org)
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by WayneDB 14y ago
Along the same lines is AppJS - https://github.com/appjs/appjs
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For anyone looking to use native UI components and not HTML/CSS/JS, take a look at these two which seem to be growing rapidly: https://github.com/picoe/eto https://github.com/mono/xwt
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I refer to all app stores in the generic form for this very reason. The more people that use the term generically, the quicker Apple will have it taken away.
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by WayneDB 14y ago
You're missing my point. If the legal exactitude of the name is relevant to some functionality, then yes I do think that most decent engineers will naturally tend to want a reference of some sort. Otherwise, they just change whatever broken
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by WayneDB 14y ago
Should I care? If I am designing a system that requires only a full legal name...then it depends on the law of the target region. If it's for almost anything else...I'm not going to waste my time unless there are more than a few complaints.
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by WayneDB 14y ago
"Just a reminder"...sure. It's funny how "just a reminder" always sounding patronizing, particularly when there's no good solution that covers every base. Not only is the tone super pedantic, but the author berates people for creating simp
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by WayneDB 14y ago
It is too pedantry, when at the end of the article you're suggesting that anyone is sub-genius for simply not caring about the same things that you might! Especially when a significant proportion of developers are not going to be adve
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by WayneDB 14y ago
That article seems like a bunch of useless pedantry to me. "...refer people to this post the next time they suggest a genius idea like a database table with a first_name and last_name column." So what's his suggestion then? Take this list o
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by WayneDB 14y ago
I'm speaking from personal experience, so no it's not at all baseless. Furthermore, I don't need to satisfy your list of requirements. Those are your requirements. I want my apps built with the best power-tool that was designed for the ta
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by WayneDB 14y ago
Don't feel inferior for not using vim. People who claim that vim/emacs are the ultimate environment typically have a very narrow world-view in my experience. There are absolutely no absolutes!

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