WayneDB

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by WayneDB 14y ago
I'm not sure what you're responding to. What is par for the course when using a centralized app store? I simply stated that if you must go through a third party to get your apps to the consumer, then that platform (or at least that part of
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by WayneDB 14y ago
What's the rumor? That half the staff was fired or that Noah uses the particular M.O. that was presented? Can't you easily verify either of these for us?
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by WayneDB 14y ago
So, I guess they found a way to scale PHP then, didn't they? <Insert obligatory comment about how all code is translated to something else before execution>
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by WayneDB 14y ago
> Windows isn't going to be a closed platform - if anything Metro makes Windows more accessible to a larger number of developers. If I have to go through Microsoft to get a Metro app onto Windows, then at the very least...the platform
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by WayneDB 14y ago
I think the idea comes from observing Microsoft's own behavior: - They foist the Metro UI on you by starting your "desktop" OS directly to that new UI as if to say "not only is this new UI not going away, but we're going to force you to loo
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by WayneDB 14y ago
Those kits still do work for the platform they were built for though. New platform, new kits. Same as any other company.
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by WayneDB 14y ago
And which one of those doesn't work anymore?
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by WayneDB 14y ago
I've had Windows 7 running at peak performance for years in boot-camp, on my early '08 Macbook Pro. My understanding is that any general-purpose desktop OS is susceptible to slow-down over time unless you properly maintain it. In the case o
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by WayneDB 14y ago
I have a problem with some of Google's web apps, where they don't let me middle-click a link to a separate document. I use the heck out of tabs and I can't stand when they mess with that ability. I CAN middle-click the following Google link
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by WayneDB 14y ago
Why not try all three over a few weeks? It doesn't take long to get them installed in order to play around.
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by WayneDB 14y ago
I wasn't planning on running Photoshop or Crysis. I don't even run them on my half-dozen other computers, but I do run hundreds of low-requirement programs. The "full OS" experience, to me, is not simply side-loading either. I want an OS th
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by WayneDB 14y ago
The GitHub analogy doesn't seem to fit. I can continue to use git regardless of whether GitHub is up, down or sideways. I'm glad to hear that a downloadable version is on the horizon though! Thank You.
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by WayneDB 14y ago
> Because MS is not a premium product. In your opinion... I'd be willing to pay extra to be able to run a full OS, specifically...Windows, on my iPad instead of iOS. Being able to do what I want easily: that's premium to me. Locked down
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by WayneDB 14y ago
Please make this a downloadable app that I can run on my desktop, if it's not already (I can't tell yet). I will never "sign in" to use a dev tool and I'm certainly not alone.
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by WayneDB 14y ago
Yes, but that's also why I said that they didn't "create" the modern smartphone. Everything that they "created" already existed before they came along. There's no doubt that they packaged things very nicely and have been very successful, bu
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by WayneDB 14y ago
XML isn't a hipster technology though! How can I be a good hacker if I can't be a hipster too?
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by WayneDB 14y ago
As if "the retina age" were an actual thing. How many people have them now?
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by WayneDB 14y ago
Sorry, but many, many people actually loved and bought other smartphones before Apple. Apple stands on the shoulders of giants like Nokia, Palm and Blackberry (aka Crackberry).
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by WayneDB 14y ago
The value judgement on Flash wasn't the point. The point is that I can do what I want to regardless of someone else's value judgement. And I'm far from alone. Over a half million people downloaded it from Google's app store and I'm sure tha
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by WayneDB 14y ago
>> Since we will be using all of the above for the next 20 years... As if Apple had invented all of those things. They didn't. Far, far from it.
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by WayneDB 14y ago
A list of barely perceptible (and some unproven) differences won't help Apple as the market share steadily trends away from them. I like to keep it simple. Larger screen, faster processor, expandable storage, Flash, Google Navigation, freed
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by WayneDB 14y ago
My wife, who has tiny hands and zero hand-eye coordination, operates the S3 without a problem. I think confirmation bias may be affecting your anecdotal evidence.
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by WayneDB 14y ago
They do interrupt a certain amount of my bandwidth, which they must use to download the ads.
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by WayneDB 14y ago
That wasn't the reason given though. He didn't say he did it just because Steve Jobs did it. He said that he did it for the same reason that Steve Jobs did it...which is that he doesn't have to think about what to wear.
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by WayneDB 14y ago
Thanks Erik! I haven't touched Script# due to the fact that development stalled and it (was) closed source. Looking forward to seeing how this performs.
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by WayneDB 14y ago
I don't see the problem. - If I had written Javascript, I would have to debug the Javascript that is running in the browser. - If a tool writes Javascript for me, I have to debug Javascript running in the browser. A better wish would be: I
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by WayneDB 14y ago
You know what would be a really nice addition to this? Relative range options embedded directly in the picker, with labels like "this week", "next week", "this year", "last 30 days", etc.
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by WayneDB 14y ago
Incorrect. Microsoft invented XmlHttpRequest during the time that they had the dominant browser. They also brought Windows from 95 to NT, 2000 and 7, with plenty of innovation, during the time that they had the dominant operating system.
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by WayneDB 14y ago
It seems clear to me that Apple avoids competition whenever possible. - They don't license their OS and they have taken many legal and technical steps to discourage end-users from running it on non-Apple hardware. - They lock you into their
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by WayneDB 14y ago
Firefox Beta + Flash 11 is working very well on my Nexus 7. Streaming video is excellent and the user interfaces are quite responsive. It's not as stable as the desktop version, but I don't see any problems with the quality of video.

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