WayneDB

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by WayneDB 15y ago
Yes. Superficial, non-technical safety via obscurity which lasts forever since OS X will never break 10% worldwide usage market share. iOS might be another story, but smartphone and tablet usage in general is still dwarfed by Windows usage.
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by WayneDB 15y ago
Oh please. Compared to over a billion PCs worldwide? If you are going to build a bot-net, would you really target the Mac? Gimme a break dude. Considering the vast difference between Windows and OS X APIs; it's quite clear why mal-programme
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by WayneDB 15y ago
Thanks for proving my point. It's not _technically_ safer. It's security by obscurity.
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by WayneDB 15y ago
Why don't you just tell me why you think the Mac is safer despite empirical evidence the says otherwise? That'd probably be quicker than me trying to explain to you why the Mac is worthless target. (Actually a no explanation is typically ne
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by WayneDB 15y ago
No, it's not safer than I'd like to admit just because you don't agree with my analogy. I am relying on empirical evidence, thank you very much. Are you one of those people who thinks that the Mac has fallen first at Pwn2Own because it's a
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by WayneDB 15y ago
It may not be true anymore, but that doesn't mean that Hollywood made everything up about that! Ever heard of Jesse James? The point is...thieves go where the money is. Okay, so fine you don't like my analogy. Let's fix it for you then: If
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by WayneDB 15y ago
Why are Banks known for getting robbed more often than Bakeries? That's where the money is. The reason you've been hearing about Mac popularity with regards to viruses is because it's true, despite the fact that you'd like to think otherwis
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by WayneDB 15y ago
I am close to two sets of families who each adopted multiple kids. One family adopted 2 kids from Russia and the other adopted 2 from China. The first family also had multiple children biologically. Honestly, the 4 adoptions seemed much eas
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by WayneDB 15y ago
I love children but I am looking forward to NEVER having them. My sister's got a couple now and my cousin's boys are carrying on the family name for the people in my family who care about that. I think it's incredibly selfish to bring new k
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by WayneDB 15y ago
A standard way to take some HTML/CSS and Javascript and bundle it as a component for use in other web apps. (Something like Microsoft's HTML Components (HTC) - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms531018(v=vs.85).as... )
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by WayneDB 15y ago
Linux Mint 11 is a fantastic distribution for anyone who isn't into Unity or Gnome 3. I wish I had started using it sooner.
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by WayneDB 15y ago
Oh, sorry I didn't see that you were not the original commenter. None of this was directed at you. My original response was in proportion to the original comment. I think that responding in the way that I did does change behavior. Kind of l
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by WayneDB 15y ago
Except there is a plugin for Linux. It's called Moonlight. Why wouldn't you just install that? It worked fine for me on my Linux box as well as on OS X. Also there's a difference between complaining just because you hate Microsoft and calli
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by WayneDB 15y ago
Yes there is. It's called Moonlight. I went there in Linux Chrome AND Firefox with Moonlight installed and watched the video fine.
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by WayneDB 15y ago
Seriously? Do you not understand what a plugin is? Takes about 30 seconds to install one time and you're done. But no, you'd rather spend that 30 seconds replying with your complaint. That's because you're a hater. Once you realize that and
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by WayneDB 15y ago
Actually, many people have tried to build refactoring and editing tools for JS and they always hit the same limitations. The language is just not conducive to tooling. Without a great refactoring tool, big projects become difficult.
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by WayneDB 15y ago
If you've grown up using the poorly crafted Mac OS interface, you probably don't realize that almost everything else is slower, despite that one really fast menu access (by mouse only). However, I can Alt-Tab to an app and bring up it's mai
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by WayneDB 15y ago
georgemcbay basically said [why shouldn't Google do what they want with their browser?], to which thristian replies [because...Microsoft]. I think that's a bullshit argument, especially since there's nothing about Dart that threatens to tak
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by WayneDB 15y ago
Wow, really? Grow up? Nobody said it was all good for everyone. I made a counter-point that was clearly as balanced as the original point. Anyway, it really depends on your point of view. Personally I love the IE6 stagnation and other failu
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by WayneDB 15y ago
People also used to program computers with punch-cards. Everyday. Of course they can use Javascript. You didn't address any of his points though. Where are the great Javascript tools and IDEs? There are tons of them for languages with stati
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by WayneDB 15y ago
Where are all the great JS tools and IDEs then? You simply cannot compare JS tooling to what can be had for a popular statically typed, inheritance based language. It's a whole different league. P.S. Snide remarks such as that make you soun
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by WayneDB 15y ago
Yeah, but with significant whitespace you create problems like "spaces vs tabs". I like semi-colons for the same reason that I prefer statically typed languages - exactness.
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by WayneDB 15y ago
"So, three cheers to Explorer for defeating Netscape and improving client-side development for everybody, right" Abso-friggin-lutely! You should be thanking Microsoft and Internet Explorer for upping everyone's game. They're the ones who in
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by WayneDB 15y ago
C# 1.0 was "terrible" for the reasons of being practical. You can design the most beautiful language in the world, but if all of the features you designed into it add exponential degrees of complexity to the rest of the system (parser, comp
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by WayneDB 15y ago
I don't visit the front page of google.com often anymore, but I happened to arrive there the other day and I saw that big blue arrow animation. I thought it was an obnoxious, pitiful advertisement, another reminder to me that Google is just
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by WayneDB 15y ago
A few of points: 1) Perhaps you don't use .NET a lot so maybe you're not as aware of all the great tools that are available (open or commercial). 2) .NET developers are more likely to be commercially minded. In other words, their tools aren
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by WayneDB 15y ago
I don't think you realize that Silverlight is XAML, WPF is XAML and Metro is XAML. It's all the same stuff. With relatively minor changes we'll be able to run our Silverlight or WPF XAML in Metro and _continue_ to be able to run it the desk
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by WayneDB 15y ago
Looking forward to seeing this!
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by WayneDB 15y ago
I apologize in advance if this opinion offends anyone, but every HTML UI kit that I've seen simply can't hold a candle to native kits such as WinForms, WPF or even Cocoa. I would really love a write-once browser based solution, but I just
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by WayneDB 15y ago
Broken is a point of view. Backwards compatibility is important to Microsoft.

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