WayneDB

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by WayneDB 13y ago
Go is alright, but I don't understand their naming convention for packages. Why "fmt" instead of "format"? OK, I guess they think abbreviations are useful...but then they went with "database" instead of "db", "encoding" instead of "enc" and
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by WayneDB 13y ago
I think this company's name really throws me off. I keep forgetting what they do and invariably I think "They offer some kind of parsing service".
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by WayneDB 13y ago
There is a mistake in your docs page @ http://www.infraprint.com/docs 4th line of the Input example is missing an end-quote.
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by WayneDB 13y ago
Easy setup and realtime pair programming are great. Auto-updates are good, but only if I like the updates :) Forced updates could be annoying and potentially catastrophic if handled wrongly, breaking users' workflow. A pre-setup environment
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by WayneDB 13y ago
I don't care about your ideology. I want good software.
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by WayneDB 13y ago
Are you sure that you like the idea of in-browser editors? The only feature that I see as useful is the "zero deployment/any device" and I can't imagine that feature coming in handy very often. What else do you like about them? If you like
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by WayneDB 13y ago
> And the single biggest channel for that is the open web. No, streamed or buffered audio and video are the biggest channel for that. Look at the report that I posted. > Web technology does all the interesting things... My full, un-
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by WayneDB 13y ago
That was included in my answer. Technically :)
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by WayneDB 13y ago
Incorrect. TCP/IP is the universal language that the Internet speaks. HTTP merely rides on top of it...just like SMTP, FTP, SSH, IMAP, DHCP, POP3, IRC and BitTorrent. Take a look here - http://www.sandvine.com/downloads/documents/Phenomena
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by WayneDB 13y ago
These are hackey kludges that nobody uses though. Who cares if you can run Quake or Skype in a browser? Nobody wants that because browsers suck. They're just so, so, so limited compared to native tech. Mozilla should be working on getting u
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by WayneDB 13y ago
You really don't know if you made "the right choice" for your emotional well-being because you can only see one of any number of possible outcomes. If you'd have gone with Big Bad Microsoft, a lot of things could have happened. At the insta
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by WayneDB 13y ago
Why not Windows?
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by WayneDB 13y ago
> I have YouTube videos uploaded which can only be seen by me - with my two-factor authentication. How can you be so sure? I think a Google employee or a three letter agency could probably look at them if they wanted to. What if Anonymo
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by WayneDB 13y ago
You responded to someone who said "I disagree that it's expressive in comparison to other modern languages." Why would a person of that opinion value a small amount of code sharing over language expressiveness? So, there's your answer as to
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by WayneDB 13y ago
One does not have to believe that "all of the real computation happens on the server" to not want to use Javascript if one doesn't have to. Where are these mythical Node.js applications that share so much code with the client though? What f
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by WayneDB 13y ago
There's no evidence that the GitHub list is comprised only of entries where the developer chose the language because they truly enjoyed or liked it. The only reason that Javascript is at the top is because of the Web's popularity in my opin
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by WayneDB 13y ago
I think an even easier way is to use .NET/Mono with the open source library called EPPlus which lets you read and write Excel 2007 (Office Open XML/xlsx) files. http://epplus.codeplex.com/
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by WayneDB 13y ago
I don't want or need to publish many of my videos or photos online. They are private; I'm a fairly private person. Also - where am I supposed to put the terabytes of legally obtained digital media that I own? Can you upload every movie yo
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by WayneDB 13y ago
YouTube or any other Internet Only service does not solve the problem of playing my videos very well. Why would I want to upload gigabytes of video instead of downloading a small program to play them locally? If I care about archiving thing
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by WayneDB 13y ago
He forgot to put .DS_Store files in his .gitignore.
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by WayneDB 13y ago
That's 3.75 hours with a video continuously looping. I get 6 - 7 hours on a low brightness with normal usage (web, email, visual studio, sql server, etc.)
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by WayneDB 13y ago
I wonder how Google would react if the websites that fuel it's search database started having TOS terms for search engines like "In your search results, you must also display the advertisements on the pages that you scrape". A few sites doi
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by WayneDB 13y ago
I miss jump lists on pinned start menu items. I never liked pinning things to the taskbar because when you run those apps, the launcher becomes the taskbar item and you lose the launcher. So I always pinned things to the start menu. Now I c
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by WayneDB 13y ago
They don't. Did you know that Android is more susceptible to malware than XP is though? There are ways to protect business computers from the Big Bad Internet too. Can you think of any? I certainly can...
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by WayneDB 13y ago
So, that's why even third-party programs are consistent with things like "Ctrl + N" to start a new document? Sorry, that's an Windows standard and it didn't even start with Windows.
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by WayneDB 13y ago
"...a message can be in more than one folder if it pertains to two different subjects" That's not a benefit. It complicates things. Folders are simpler - one location, one parent, one place to go and find it. Average users can understand fo
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by WayneDB 13y ago
How about if I'm a typical Office user? Though there's a lot more to UX consistency than keyboard shortcuts...since we're on the topic...I wonder if these Gmail shortcuts are even consistent within Google's own offerings. Anyone wanna look?
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by WayneDB 13y ago
Yeah, that's great except it's completely non-obvious and totally inconsistent with every other application that I use.
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by WayneDB 13y ago
I work with many companies that are still happily running on a 13 year old Windows OS. They don't pay Microsoft for upgrades, support incidents or software assurance because all of that is optional . With Google, you will always be the pro
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by WayneDB 13y ago
No, the better answer is a simple hierarchical folder system. People only use search exclusively in Gmail because they don't have folders.

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