WayneDB

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by WayneDB 14y ago
The very small list of unsupported APIs are extraneous and unnecessary in the context of cross-platform code. So, what APIs are you referring to, specifically? http://www.mono-project.com/Compatibility The big ones are: WCF, WPF, WWF...
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That has very little to do with developer-friendliness... The ability to run my development OS in a virtual machine, preferably on a hyper-visor, is paramount. Am I supposed to buy one physical machine per configuration that I want to tes
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by WayneDB 14y ago
...Apple, which gives all its development tools away for free... I have to purchase some overpriced PC hardware to run Xcode though. Meanwhile, I can run a complete Windows development environment of in a remote hyper-visor VM on commodit
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by WayneDB 14y ago
Slight correction and additional facts: The Newton was not a tablet. Nobody referred to it as a tablet at that time and nobody categorizes it as one now. The Psion Series 3 PDA arrived on the market before the Newton in 1991, and had a siza
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by WayneDB 14y ago
Maybe we don't have to blame him for anything, but we can still have the opinion that he's a childish asshole.
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by WayneDB 14y ago
Nothing ever changed because of a big backlash on Reddit or Hacker News. Nope, no way, uh-uh. What an impossible leap of imagination this article is!
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by WayneDB 14y ago
Why do maximum security sites always disable auto-complete for username and password? That seems less secure to me. If I always have to type in my password, chances are that I'll choose a password that can be easily remembered or I'll be fo
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by WayneDB 14y ago
Whitelisting is a wholly different concept than being locked into a single vendor's app store. Being forced to abide by a single whitelist provider would be similar, but I personally won't be buying into those platforms and if I don't have
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by WayneDB 14y ago
> ...play by the already established rules. That's weak sauce. If nobody ever complained about anything and just played by the rules, nothing would ever change. > The apple...closed markets are designed 100% to be the benefit of the
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by WayneDB 14y ago
You obviously don't understand smartphone tech because it's just a computer. > Why can't we tackle people during a soccer game? Same shit. Not really. There are no rules against complaining about Apple's rules. Customer complaints chan
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by WayneDB 14y ago
You don't download software off the net unless it's vetted first by Apple? Have you never installed Chrome, Office or Photoshop? Maybe you haven't considered the alternative. It's something that Apple users don't really get much of, but the
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by WayneDB 14y ago
Oh, that is the general consensus. I'm sure of it and I have a sea of negative reviews to back that up. From the Anandtech review, final words - "If you're ok being an early adopter, and ok dealing with the fact that mobile devices are st
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by WayneDB 14y ago
I don't want to have to go through anybody to be able to get my app to my customers. This tendency towards closed-off app stores is really depressing.
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by WayneDB 14y ago
I think the general consensus is "do not buy" because there are no apps for it and it can't run Windows desktop apps. I would wait for the x86 version at the very least. http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/23/microsoft-surface-rt-review... htt
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by WayneDB 14y ago
That's no reason to be condescending and rude. Not everybody knows about that stuff.
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by WayneDB 14y ago
As a matter of fact, nothing even comes close to the balance of stability, backwards compatibility, consistency, robustness and flexibility that Windows offers. What do you think is better and why? Perhaps "better" should be defined. I ce
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by WayneDB 14y ago
Do you have a citation for that? According to Nielsen, Americans spend about 35% on "Other", so I'd like to know where your 90% figure comes from. Page 3 here - http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/social/ Older numbers from 2010 - http:/
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by WayneDB 14y ago
Perhaps the distinction is that the Mono devs favor wrapping native UI kits instead of inventing a platform independent abstraction.
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AppHarbor. Any other questions?
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Yeah and we'll probably only have to wait another 5 years! It's funny how .NET languages can have a consistent, predictable and precision framework built up around them and yet somehow we're supposed to believe that JS is better than byte
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by WayneDB 14y ago
You didn't refute one fact. You only corrected his wording and I'd actually say that the word "stole" is correct given the fact that all of this was done in secret. See definition #4 here http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/steal?s=t "
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by WayneDB 14y ago
You're saying "the answer" as if there's only one answer for every single developer out there. Perhaps you get taxed mentally when switching between IDEs...I certainly don't.
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by WayneDB 14y ago
A good PHP IDE would present a GUI for editing the php.ini. "A multiplicity of IDEs...isn't really the answer either, I think." Why not? Just because all you have is a hammer, doesn't mean every problem is nail. Different programs for diffe
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by WayneDB 14y ago
Excellent, thank you very much for that. I may actually spend the time to learn how to use mutt.
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by WayneDB 14y ago
Open source it.
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Javascript is quirky. It's a great language, but c'mon...please. That horse has been beaten to death and the long discussion on this topic alone is proof of it's quirkiness and it's numerous pitfalls. The idea that (optional) strict typin
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by WayneDB 14y ago
"I'm not clear why we regard it as news when he does." Go read the front page right now. Do it. Half the items on there are just stuff that people want to talk about. Notch's new office (oooooohhh!). Yet another Apple/Samsung article (woah!
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by WayneDB 14y ago
"If you don't use vim you won't understand." Well, thanks for your insight but that was kind of a dick way to put it. What do you think is so hard to understand about the advantage of common key-bindings between applications? Great trade-of
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by WayneDB 14y ago
Why the vitriol? Why should we care what you think? (Seriously...why?) Roughly half the items that appear on this feed are not news, you know. (There's an interview with Brian Kernighan on the front page right now. Are you going to compla
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by WayneDB 14y ago
"...it’s got a lot of advantages over many other email clients." The advantages were never enumerated. Most of the article was spent teaching you how to program ^H^H^H configure the thing. What are the advantages?

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