WayneDB

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by WayneDB 14y ago
* ActiveX, COM and COM+ are all still widely used. * Courier Tablet was never even a product. * DAO was useful for over a decade and you can still write programs that use it today if you want to. Plenty of people do. * DDE still works, matt
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I would like to see this correlated with the type of software being worked on.
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by WayneDB 14y ago
Because I like a good game of hard-ball I guess :) That, and Apple has always annoyed me since I can remember...so for me personally, it's just nice to see them lose.
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by WayneDB 14y ago
You could start with C# 4.0 / .NET 4.0 which is supported on XP. .NET 3.5 has a much higher install-penetration than .NET 4.0 though, so if you're really concerned with making installations hassle-free, you might want to consider starting w
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by WayneDB 14y ago
I hope Google waits a few months and then rolls out a premium-purchase maps feature. Then, when Apple demands their 30% and Google refuses, Apple has to pull the app again and frustrate all their users again. Not saying that's what will hap
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by WayneDB 14y ago
I'd love to see Xamarin grow enough to offer the dev-tools for free. Obviously that'd mean making money off of something other than dev-tool sales. I can think of lots of ways you could use Mono to break out of that market. Any plans to mov
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by WayneDB 14y ago
Eto looks interesting, thank you. How do you feel about Mono Xwt? - https://github.com/mono/xwt
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by WayneDB 14y ago
How would you feel if you saw a post about Erlang or Clojure on a site called "Music News?" I probably wouldn't be such a cry-baby asshole complainer about it.
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by WayneDB 14y ago
I'm not saying that running your own servers is always easier, nor is my stance one of emotional based paranoia. I'm saying that "private cloud" products that you host yourself could be just as easy to setup and use as cloud-based produ
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by WayneDB 14y ago
That's a really easy decision for you to make when it's not your business that's being held hostage. Personally, If I can't run something on my LAN, I don't want it. So, I love hearing about these issues; I'd like to someday see developer
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by WayneDB 14y ago
Here are some decent options: - https://appharbor.com/ - http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/public/servers/pricing/ - http://aws.amazon.com/windows/ - http://www.hostgator.com/windows-hosting AppHarbor is not a VPS, it's managed applica
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by WayneDB 14y ago
If people start veering towards more work on a tablet, then the tablet is going to have to take on more characteristics of the PC like a keyboard and some of the features of a more flexible/general purpose OS. So, what do we have then? Do w
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by WayneDB 14y ago
Once you add a keyboard to a tablet, it's just a laptop with a touch screen, but whatever you call it, I just hope the keyboard has tactile feedback, the screen is big enough to see what I want, I can add a mouse and most importantly : I c
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by WayneDB 14y ago
It's not unheard of. I've had Dell service people out to my office on the same day. I don't think Apple even offers on-site service.
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Can't wait to see what you've got!
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by WayneDB 14y ago
I would like for a site to exist where I can go and find an expert on whatever I need and consult with them over whatever communications method they prefer (Skype, Google Hangout, Phone, etc). The experts would work for tips/donations, an h
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by WayneDB 14y ago
I think that you're reading the tea-leaves all wrong. You also have made a few unproven claims. Chief among them to my mind, is that Microsoft has made a "significant investments in JavaScript and node.js". Significant compared to what? Cer
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by WayneDB 14y ago
Sure, some people who are trapped in XP at work might care, but do you really care that you don't get IE10? You still have decent browsers to choose from (Firefox, Opera and older versions of Chrome if you can find them). To better explai
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by WayneDB 14y ago
With all 300 views...I doubt it will change anything at all. (EDIT: MY opinion will say the same until that view counter says a million and I highly doubt it will even get close. The only people who really care anyway are the "trolls" that
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by WayneDB 14y ago
Not if you're running Windows 7. If you're running XP or Vista and you're happy with that, then you probably don't care very much about which browser you're using.
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by WayneDB 14y ago
they fucked it up with Windows 8 ...only in the eyes of hipster geeks who probably haven't spent any real time with it. I've been using it on my main workstation for the past few weeks and I think they did a great job. EDIT: Oh, I forgot t
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by WayneDB 14y ago
For just $35/month and a one-time purchase of about $100, you can have a decent enough smart phone: http://www.virginmobileusa.com/cell-phone-plans/beyond-talk-... Hopefully the coverage is good in your general area as it is in mine. (It
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by WayneDB 14y ago
I do agree with your larger point that building your own here is undesirable, however the web server wouldn't have to have root by using IPC or other kinds of tricks. In any case, wouldn't it be even more secure if the server just pushed
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by WayneDB 14y ago
I think that our definitions of easy differ. I don't consider any of those kits very easy to deal with, despite the fact that I am fully capable of building apps with them. They're certainly nowhere near the realm of kits like RealStudio/Re
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by WayneDB 14y ago
The Synology was purchased primarily to store our large collection of media files. It arrived, I inserted my hard drives, plugged it into the LAN and booted it up. I don't consider this as part of the setup for sharing. The sharing features
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by WayneDB 14y ago
Haha, yeah that was kind of a joke and it's why I put the word "cloud" in quotes :) (However if I own a couple/few of these boxes at different sites and they all sync up to store things redundantly then the line is blurred just a bit. The S
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by WayneDB 14y ago
I never liked the idea of hosting my own files on someone else's server (Dropbox) or sending them through a middle-man. That's why i just run my own "cloud" on my own premises. If I want to give someone access to a file, I just throw it on
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by WayneDB 14y ago
Personally, I want to be able to easily make cross platform apps that use Native components, not HTML5 apps.
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by WayneDB 14y ago
OS X shortcuts are actually shortcuts, except when they're not... How about Command-Tab? There's only one way to access that functionality. How do you capture a screen in OS X without the secret "shortcut" keys or the command-line? How ab
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by WayneDB 14y ago
And yet OS X, the OS that is lauded by many around here to have an excellent UX, has so many hidden controls that nobody could possibly remember them all. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1343

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