WayneDB

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by WayneDB 15y ago
Should I upload a picture of my Macbook Pro keyboard? Because the funky characters are not on there. Just the words, Fn, Control and Alt/Option. Command is the only one that has a symbol as well as a word.
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by WayneDB 15y ago
Well, there are a couple of subtleties that are being addressed, that maybe need to be said better. 1) Mac keyboard shortcuts are confusing and inconsistent compared to other OSes. They're not as discoverable. Maybe this is why it seems lik
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by WayneDB 15y ago
That's cool with me. I choose technology on quality alone, with regards to my use cases. I certainly don't tell people that they shouldn't use what they're using, I just give my opinions. People such as yourself are often telling me I shoul
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by WayneDB 15y ago
ctime is change time, not creation time. http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/20460/how-do-i-do-a-... "Note that the ctime (ls -lc) is not the file creation time, it's the inode change time." So, like I said...yes you do have to roll y
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by WayneDB 15y ago
So you don't use any proprietary technology then? What kind of car do you drive?
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by WayneDB 15y ago
Sure. That's nice about HTML, but too bad you lose almost every other quality thing because of it. I don't understand why everyone is so hung up on HTML though. The internet is not HTML, the internet is TCP/IP and all the protocols that rid
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by WayneDB 15y ago
I prefer being hostage to Microsoft rather than Apple, the Gnome team or the KDE team. Outside of building your own OS and your own user interface, you only have slightly more of a degree of freedom with 'nix. At least my master gives me a
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by WayneDB 15y ago
Fine. Let's compare it to any native grid that runs on your preferred OS then.
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by WayneDB 15y ago
How about an email application that handles keyboard acceleration really well? This can be done easily with Silverlight (in or out of the browser), but not so much with HTML. That's why Gmail has crummy keyboard handling. In Thunderbird, I
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by WayneDB 15y ago
The trirand grid that you linked to doesn't even get keyboard or mouse focus right. It doesn't even get row selection right. If you think that's a good grid, I don't expect you to see anything remarkable about the grid I posted.
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by WayneDB 15y ago
You're allowed. I'm also allowed to not be held hostage by a "standards committee" that never gets anything done.
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by WayneDB 15y ago
I wasn't saying that Silverlight reached the same market penetration as VB6. What I said was that Microsoft isn't going to take it away and make it not work. Like VB6, you'll still be able to run it if you want.
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by WayneDB 15y ago
Please, show me your best HTML UI components and we will compare them to the native ones or even the Silverlight ones that are available (from Telerik, DevExpress, Infragistics, ComponentOne, etc) Can you even get a data grid that is half a
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by WayneDB 15y ago
Incorrect. Silverlight runs out of browser.
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by WayneDB 15y ago
Right, because the fact that I mistakenly referred to the wrong amendment invalidates my entire point. And NO, my problem is not with the word reasonable. Your problem is that you want to continue empowering the state to erode your freedom
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by WayneDB 15y ago
This is exactly the problem. HTML/CSS/JS is disgusting to someone who knows the power of a good native SDK. People who only do web dev just don't know what quality is.
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by WayneDB 15y ago
Oh, so everybody should just do HTML no matter what, from now on, for ever and ever, amen? Nobody should ever invent a competing technology because HTML is good enough for you? Is that it?
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by WayneDB 15y ago
You're comparing apples to oranges. IE6 is a browser, Silverlight is a plug-in. Using Silverlight doesn't mean that you can't switch browsers.
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by WayneDB 15y ago
Not really. Silverlight will be about as dead as VB6. Plenty of companies out there are still using VB6. It's not like Microsoft is going to take away the download or something, they'll just stop developing it. Also, why "good riddance"? Do
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by WayneDB 15y ago
If there is no compelling suspicion, why then would a search be needed? Are you saying that we should get rid of the second amendment or change it? IMO, we certainly should draw the line at "a judge has to sign a piece of paper...". Why wou
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by WayneDB 15y ago
They are tampering with your car though. Your feelings about the matter don't change that fact. Where exactly do you draw the line on LEO getting physical with you or your things? Would you mind if they started putting things on the roof of
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by WayneDB 15y ago
I love this idea. They can also get big too, here is one from Spain that employs ~80K people - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation Where would you recommend looking for help and information on doing this in the US?
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by WayneDB 15y ago
Good point.
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by WayneDB 15y ago
You know, I didn't think about how similar Redis and Mongo are at the core when I first read your comment. The first thing that jumped out at me was the large set of disparities. Thanks for that explanation. I agree that Mongo seems to have
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by WayneDB 15y ago
I agree with your responses to 1 and 2. I take issue with the example for 3 though because Redis is nowhere near the complexity or feature set of MongoDB.
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by WayneDB 15y ago
"We have a responsibility to ourselves and to the Web to follow the principle of universality." Not feeling that at all, so speak for yourself. If I want to target a specific browser or device, I do it when it makes sense. Screw universalit
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by WayneDB 15y ago
Has any application ever "jacked" all of your data? Is the app store really going to debug apps for everyone? How do over a billion PCs run Windows when there's no app store doing this for them??
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by WayneDB 15y ago
Fine, Microsoft didn't do anything new with Kinect either. That still doesn't prove that Apple did anything original.
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by WayneDB 15y ago
The idea of tablets and portable devices has been around since the fifties, they didn't invent multi-touch and they built OS X on the back of Unix. How am I wrong?
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by WayneDB 15y ago
What accomplishments? Making lots of money? They haven't introduced anything new, they've taken ideas that have been around forever and made some high-quality versions of them. Big deal. How excited can you get about that? Meanwhile, Micros

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