WayneDB

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by WayneDB 15y ago
Here is what I use: "Google Tracking B-Gone" userscript - http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/47300 as well as "Restore the Google Cached Link" - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nhihjhedaljdlpkcpf... (There's also scroogle.or
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by WayneDB 15y ago
I don't think it's the lone anti-feature that causes this "ludicrous, lazy" thinking. Apple software is absolutely full of inflexible, careless and/or poorly conceived anti-features. Not to worry though, it only took them 20 years to decide
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by WayneDB 15y ago
"Nearly all configuration files are in one of two places" That's entirely incorrect. There are many, many programs out there that do not follow the convention.
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by WayneDB 15y ago
"fixed client behavior" What _isn't_ fixed client behavior on the web? Browsers don't just interpret HTML any which way that they want to.
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by WayneDB 15y ago
How has Windows changed more drastically than OS X since 2001? To me drastic means that something very basic has changed and/or compatibility has been lost. (Things like resizable windows, full screen apps, broken finder plugin compatibilit
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by WayneDB 15y ago
Sorry, but I disagree that this is a must-have. Resharper slows VS down immensely and adds way too much cruft in my opinion.
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by WayneDB 15y ago
Hanlon's razor (aka "cock-up before conspiracy") is nothing more than an opinion. Whether we should regard selfishness as malice or not is beside the point, but it is quite clear to me that people in general often act out of selfishness!!
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by WayneDB 15y ago
I run Windows 7 in Boot Camp every day and it easily outperforms OS X on the same exact hardware for most common tasks (browsing files, the web, starting up apps, etc). The Windows desktop GUI system is more stable than anything else out th
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by WayneDB 15y ago
I wonder if it will keep replacing the shortcuts that I've removed.
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by WayneDB 15y ago
I read this as "Medical Patients Must Die", but it might as well have actually said that, since money and "getting mine" is really the only thing that matters the vast majority. If the troublesome patent goes away, you can rest assured that
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by WayneDB 15y ago
Without a lengthy article explaining why, by just looking at the picture frame - I would have never known the difference.
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by WayneDB 15y ago
Do you really think that, without the USB connector being nearly identical, that Apple wouldn't be taking them to court?
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by WayneDB 15y ago
Gee, I guess it's worth about $500. The same price you'd have to pay for a mac mini.
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by WayneDB 15y ago
Exactly which feature do you think can't be had by Windows developers for free? I suppose you could argue that "oh, with Apple I get it all in one package..." Big deal. You also have to buy an overpriced PC to run OS X and you can't even ru
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by WayneDB 15y ago
You get Subversion and Git with Xcode and that's it. Exactly 2 choices. This is simply not a big deal in Windows where SCM can be directly integrated into the graphical file browser!! Furthermore, VS Express can easily be configured to supp
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by WayneDB 15y ago
But you can get VS Express for free. The only major thing it doesn't have that VS Pro has is the plugin system, which XCode doesn't even have to begin with!
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by WayneDB 15y ago
"Xcode is a fully-fledged development environment" - which lacks even the most basic plug-in system! Furthermore, on the far more extensible Windows OS, you can integrate source control into Windows Explorer...another program with a plugin
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by WayneDB 15y ago
You are truly free according to the license and the law. That fact has nothing to do with how people will treat you if you choose a decidedly less free license like GPL. Honestly, this is like complaining that people got upset at you for br
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by WayneDB 15y ago
Still. Why complain? Continuing a back-and-forth over a couple of silly comments certainly doesn't help. It doesn't make people go away or make them change to your liking. I guess the questions to ask are "What can I do?" and "How much is i
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by WayneDB 15y ago
So go bury your head in the sand on some other site where conversations are limited to things like battery chemistry then. I don't think anyone would really care if you did that. Don't be surprised though when the intelligent, compassionate
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by WayneDB 15y ago
I use an ad-blocker mostly for self-defense, but also because corporations generally play hard-ball with the populous and so I generally enjoy passively disrupting their systems. There's no other way to deal with zero-day exploits that are
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by WayneDB 15y ago
The web browser is being sold to developers as a "general applications platform" to compete with native applications. Since native environments often give the developer a greater degree of language-choice freedom as well as greater degree o
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by WayneDB 15y ago
This other comment was meant for you as well - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3266443
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by WayneDB 15y ago
One last note - if you decide to explore these books or if you already have and you're using your new golden rules - BEWARE "Nondualism" as described here - http://www.enlightennext.org/magazine/j34/stacey-intro.asp Rationalizing everythi
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by WayneDB 15y ago
I'm not aware of any studies here, but it's been said many times that solutions to tough problems often present themselves while the ponderer isn't thinking about the problem, sometimes upon waking up or just before falling asleep.
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by WayneDB 15y ago
Please read my other comment on this thread with some links to articles that might interest you. - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3264078 Krishnamurti has a lot to say about meditation, I also recommend the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali,
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by WayneDB 15y ago
I learned to meditate by reading and listening to Krishnamurti (among many others). "Meditation is not different from daily life" he says. "It can be done all day." It's exactly like being in the zone that you get into when you code, play
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by WayneDB 15y ago
I hear what you're saying. Personally, I would have to change my entire life to do so. Microsoft basically puts food on my table. I enjoy building enterprise and desktop software, developer tools, etc. I don't enjoy building web software or
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by WayneDB 15y ago
What do you mean by "support such a company"? I buy their products and enjoy their technology even while i abhor some of their business practices. I'm sure plenty of people hate Apple's and Google's business practices too, but still use the
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by WayneDB 15y ago
The US already does produce and distribute illegal drugs. They just do it in secret. If you think I'm crazy, just search for: CIA Cocaine. They've actually been caught red-handed a few times.

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