blakeyrat

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by blakeyrat 10y ago
C# does all this stuff far clearer and cleaner (and probably more performant). If they had taken more ideas from C# (especially ExecutionContexts), a lot of his complaints would fade away. He actually explicitly calls this out towards the
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
God bless you for being the only one on this comments page (as of right now) to mention HyperCard.
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
> But I still feel Windows itself is not a productive OS. I'm big on keyboard shortcuts but MS is very much mouse based. Maybe you should read the help file instead of going on "feelings". Every UI widget in Windows can be
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
I just wrote a post making this same point, but you did it so much better. Thanks.
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
I dunno. Microsoft's problem is that they kind of seem to give up on a technology and let it wither away. People were excited about it, it was making forward/upward progress for a few years. Microsoft bought Nokia, and people go
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
The ACCOUNT is shared. But the PURCHASES are not.
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
It has Skyrim-- only 5 years late! So impressive. The fact that they're showing off Skyrim, a 2011 game, in their 2017 console launch video doesn't say much for their hardware's abilities. It says a lot about how beloved Sk
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
> If you're living in C# land that's not always boring either, as soon enough you have a GC nightmare. You mean garbage collection? I'd love to hear about the "nightmare" you had. The worst I've ever had to
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
1) We had those before React.js and all the modern JS frameworks 2) A lot of people don't like having "rich applications built on the clientside", because in their experience that means buggy, broken applications that never w
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
The Xbone and PS4 can both play Skyrim and Fallout 4. Nothing Nintendo's put out can come close. Just sayin'. Different people have different priorities when it comes to gaming.
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
Microsoft never dropped local multiplayer. Just as many kids younger than you have those same nostalgic memories about going over to a friend's house and playing 4-player Halo 2 or Rock Band. They might not "focus" on it (wha
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
It has a bad UI. But the real killer is: games are still tied to hardware, not user account. Which means, if your console dies, you lose all your purchases. (Unless that's changed VERY recently.) If you're used to the Xbox store l
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
There is no way Google has UX designers. I simply do not believe it. (Probably not Amazon, either.)
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
I really wish Netflix had the YouTube-esque ability for users to make and share playlists. All the Star Trek series and films are on Netflix. Wouldn't it be great to have a playlist of every episode by original air date? (So you don&#x
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
I'm nostalgic for Blockbuster's disk-by-mail service, which had a much better selection than Netflix's ever did. (Ironically; considering how poor the selection in actual Blockbuster retail stores was.) Whenever I wanted some
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
> But file-locking is realistically just not implementable in a distributed source-control system. Ok. Then I guess it was a bad technical choice to pick that system if it prevents you from matching the features of your competitors, wasn
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
They could offer "premium" accounts, the way Amazon does or Hulu used to, where there are no ads and some add-in services are discounted or free. Or they could offer little widgets you can buy and post on your profile page, like L
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
Even if you don't take them seriously, they can still do a lot of damage. Even ignoring the psychological elements of being constantly denigrated, these groups can usually drive people off of Twitter by sheer mass of tweets. "Just
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
I doubt 50 people is enough to even field the various legal requests Twitter gets during a normal month.
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
Twitter hasn't gone down in ages. (At least 2-3 full years.) It's reliable enough that hundreds of sites use Twitter as their "if our site is down, check for updates here" alternative.
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
Well like I said above, I look at it as a "condition of employment" piece of software. Nobody would us Lotus Notes for email if they had their own choice in the matter. Nobody would use OracleApps for time keeping if they had thei
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
I want to thank you for posting. I know that the groupthink around Git, especially on forums like this one, is so powerful that by even mentioning that Git has flaws and isn't some kind of angelic perfect software from heaven runs the
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
> Suddenly you mention TFS as an example of something good. You need to work on your reading comprehension. The only claim I made about TFS is that it has a feature (locking files) that Git doesn't. I cited it as an example that Git
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
> Oh that's nonsense. Ok... > First of all, because git is a CLI application you can easily build a GUI for it, Actually you can't, because Git has features like "pre-commit hooks" and it's literally impossibl
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
Git was made in, what, 2005. We knew about discoverability then. We knew about accessibility then. We knew about user testing, about UX. Git makes use of zero of those concepts. In fact, it seems to be actively hostile towards its users^. W
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
Only certain types of information. It's not a great way to display, for example, a comparison between two similarly-edited movie trailers. Or a map of Bremen. Or the annotations on your 2016 second quarter financial sum-up spreadsheet.
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
Git is just repeating all the same mistakes all over again, just when it looked like things were starting to maybe get a bit better. I'm amazed you're citing that as a positive example.
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
> The police departments have nothing to gain and everything to lose from this How about respect? --- Of course, the Seattle P.D.'s implementation of body cameras merely revealed that not only were they incompetent at policing, th
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
> Bluetooth USB dongle I admittedly don't use Bluetooth and every time I've tried it's been a horrible experience. > USB wifi module. Mine works fine, no driver download. > Logitech webcam. Mine works fine, no driver
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
No it was not bad. It was a great phone. I still use mine. And I enjoy it. I don't agree with you that it was merely "not bad". Is it really so impossible for you to understand that I might feel differently about the produc

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