bradwestness

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by bradwestness 14y ago
Holy hell did they ever boil the ocean on that one. Looks more like a project management suite mislabeled as a to-do list.
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by bradwestness 14y ago
They're basically just Hello World apps for persistent data.
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by bradwestness 14y ago
I always end up falling back to a combination of Google Tasks (because it's on iGoogle, which is my homepage) and just writing stuff on a legal pad. If I'm out and about, I'll just text it to Google Calendar.
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by bradwestness 14y ago
No, I'm saying that technology changes, the web changes, your organization changes and the content on the website changes. To act like it's even desirable to have all of the same documents at the same locations on your website in 20 years i
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by bradwestness 14y ago
Organizations with large websites use content management systems. Vendors of content management systems come and go as technology changes. Usually, changing the CMS a website uses necessitates URI structure changes depending on the conventi
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by bradwestness 14y ago
Did Winamp ever have a built-in music store? I was under the impression that people basically stopped caring about Winamp mostly because the newer versions of Windows Media Player (7 and up) were "good enough" that mainstream users didn't s
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by bradwestness 14y ago
Because this site (movies.io) will inevitably get shut down within the week.
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by bradwestness 14y ago
Well, Flock is discontinued and both are really just re-skinned versions of Firefox.
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by bradwestness 14y ago
As is including Firefox and Opera, but not the second most popular browser. Although it's very possible that they decided which browsers to include back in '09 or earlier and just haven't revisited the decision since. http://en.wikipedia.o
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by bradwestness 14y ago
It does seem kind of funny to point people to Opera over Chrome and/or Safari. If you're afraid of showing too many options, why wouldn't you just list the most popular two or three that you support? Chrome is, after all, more popular than
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by bradwestness 14y ago
He's also constantly inundated with arguments/accusations/requests from idiots. If you ever read through some of his Linux newsletter arguments, you can see why he'd develop a take-no-prisoners style of communicating.
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by bradwestness 14y ago
Google+ seems to have been adopted by a lot of major players in the tech industry. Quite a few notable people post on it pretty regularly, possibly because it's hard to effectively tweet about technology issues in 140 characters. I'd probab
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by bradwestness 14y ago
Yeah, the most important part of managing your e-mail is training people not to e-mail you 10 times a day expecting prompt responses, especially for things that are not really urgent. The prevalence of cell phones and always-available inter
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by bradwestness 14y ago
Yeah, it's kind of funny how everyone thinks that because I'm a computer programmer I must have a fancy phone with a data plan and always return all my calls and texts and everything immediately. Not that I can blame them, in my experience
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by bradwestness 14y ago
Is being an interesting, neat art project not enough? Not everything has to be making some grand statement about the meaning of life.
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by bradwestness 15y ago
It's stupid that my crappy old LG phone had an "Alarms Only" mode, but modern smartphones don't. I never replaced my old alarm clock when it stopped working, because I just used the alarm mode on my phone. Now, my new smartphone doesn't hav
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by bradwestness 15y ago
If you want to donate five dollars to charity, by all means do it yourself. If you want to buy a stand-up film for $5, then do that. He made no promises that he would use the money for charity, or for anything in particular up front. How do
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by bradwestness 15y ago
There are also things like JAWS screen readers and other add-ons that educational institutions MUST use to comply with ADA regulations which, surprise, generally depend on specific versions of IE to function (though personally the ones we u
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by bradwestness 15y ago
Then they'll get viruses and have to reformat, or call Microsoft support and find out that it's pirated (if they didn't already know) and eventually end up upgrading. If nothing else, the fact that hardware vendors no longer make Windows XP
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by bradwestness 15y ago
Yes, but you still have to install MSysGit or whatever, which is a ridiculously huge download just to do version control requests. Plus, running the commands to generate public and private keys and all that junk is super counter-intuitive,
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by bradwestness 15y ago
LINQ works /with/ entity framework, as well as with XML and generic collections. Entity Framework is not a replacement for LINQ. Also, I think it's a natural progression for the project to start out as a "skunkworks" system, and be graduall
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by bradwestness 15y ago
I really hope this leads to better Git tools for Windows developers. I've attempted to host several C# projects on GitHub in the past, but I always end up giving up and using either CodePlex or BitBucket because it's so much easier to get u
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by bradwestness 15y ago
I actually wrote a PHP framework with the intention of mimicing the ASP.NET MVC file structure layout and "convention over configuration" ideology, though it's not compiled so it's probably slower than YAF. http://www.killstone.net/softwar
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by bradwestness 15y ago
I think the more likely interpretation is that they're "betting on the future"; i.e. that tablet and other "portable" devices will continually get more powerful and that letting services and applications run in the background will continual
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by bradwestness 16y ago
It seems like this is basically just a way of the author saying "I can't be bothered to be accountable for my work or work in teams. If you make me test my code or talk about it I will curse at you and quit." I wouldn't want to work with so