mariusmg

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   by mariusmg 14y ago

   A good text editor with intellisense and refactoring is all most developers need. Unfortunately this beast don't exists so we're stuck with VS/Eclipse/etc for static typed languages. At least they should try to make IDEs more modular so the
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   by mariusmg 14y ago

   It means they bought LucasArts too. Not that LucasArts were great in the last decade or so but Disney sucks as a "parent" for game dev companies (RIP Blackrock).
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   Ditching the mouse and going keyboard only(mariusgheorghe.info)

   1 points by mariusmg 14y ago|0 comments
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   by mariusmg 14y ago

   This guy is biased. That's all.
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   by mariusmg 14y ago

   There are 2 big problems with the Windows Store submission right now: - it takes a LOT of time to get a answer. From my experience it took 2 weeks (working days) until i got a answer back. - they don't list at first submission ALL of the re
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   by mariusmg 14y ago

   They do NOT "sell" Metro for the desktop.
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   by mariusmg 14y ago

   Win 8 is a better OS than Win 7. Sensibly faster, proper multi monitor support, lots of cool improvements (explorer, task manager etc). It's sad that most people can't see behind Metro. Press Winkey +D on that start screen and start enjoyin
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   by mariusmg 14y ago

   Let's be clear on 1 thing. WinRT IS a (right now pretty bad and incomplete) alternative to Win32 (sure WinRT is implemented using Win32 but that is simply to reuse code). The WinRT implementation doesn't have anything to do with the scope
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   by mariusmg 14y ago

   OK...but why ? It's not like Unity is a good fit for a 7" tablet.
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    by mariusmg 14y ago

    Isn't it enough to take down the DNS servers to make TPB unusable for sharing (at least to add new torrents) ? Achieving fault tolerance using a few cloud providers is nice (and expensive) but they're still far from raid proof (all it takes
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    by mariusmg 14y ago

    "No Start button" Great thing actually. Instead of hitting start and fumbling with the mouse to find a certain app, you just start typing the app name, press Enter and done. "Start-up screen is kind of overwhelming and inefficient". The ne
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    by mariusmg 14y ago

    Actually Win 8 is a great OS (from my personal point of view is Ms best OS so far). So saying no one wants it it a stretch.
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    by mariusmg 14y ago

    Do the Bitbucket employees have access to your private repos(s) ? Honest question.
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    by mariusmg 14y ago

    Shift + F2 opens the command line but pressing Shift +F2 again doesn't close it. That's.....unexpected (and annoying).
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    by mariusmg 14y ago

    Just want to say that not adding a "boot to desktop" option (and working to actually disable the task scheduler trick which enabled boot to desktop) was a dick move. As a keyboard only user, Win 8 doesn't mean anything to me because i basi
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    by mariusmg 14y ago

    No, they don't want "Metro-only" . This is bullshit. Stop spreading it.
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    by mariusmg 14y ago

    Hypocrisy. My least favorite sin.....
18. 498.▲
    by mariusmg 14y ago

    Yes, you actually can. A start screen tile in Windows 8 can launch a both Metro and desktop apps.
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    by mariusmg 14y ago

    The friggin Windows Store is optional. Nobody is forcing you to use it if you don't want to. The "platform" is just as open as it was before.
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    by mariusmg 14y ago

    I'm from Romania. Coding in your native language is likely used as a safeguard....it means it will be very hard to outsource the product :) . Coding in your native language on a OSS project is even worse.
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    by mariusmg 14y ago

    I'd never understood while people code in their native language. It's just so.....wrong.
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    by mariusmg 14y ago

    Technically. In reality WinRT is missing A LOT of stuff from WPF (heck WinRT doesn't even reach parity with Silverlight). Simple stuff la x:Static, x:Array are not available. WinRT 1.0 is basically a subset of Silverlight with a few specifi
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    by mariusmg 14y ago

    Yeap. For Android tablets it costs something like 1-2$ to "brand" it.
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    by mariusmg 14y ago

    Winkey +D That's how i deal with it.
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    by mariusmg 14y ago

    Yeah, Apple clearly invented plastic and shapes.
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    by mariusmg 14y ago

    Never gonna happen (regarding the SDKs).Sure...some things might be somehow similar (XAML) but some codebase won't run on all 3 type of devices. Different things for different hardware. Only thinking at how inefficiently apps are bui
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    by mariusmg 14y ago

    They're being sold at a price which guarantees a (probably good) profit. To compete on that market you basically need a name. Rather than trying to invest lots of money in marketing and try to "compete" with LG/Samsung/etc those guys prefer
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    by mariusmg 14y ago

    If the user shuts done the machine while the OS is writing a file, that file is corrupted/incomplete. That notification is way better than ending up with a broken save.
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    by mariusmg 14y ago

    If you're doing an "ambitious" type system, you might as well do your own VM. Trying to shoehorn stuff into jvm/clr/parrot/whatever is hardly ideal.
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    by mariusmg 14y ago

    I got a 7 years old desktop which will get updated to Win 8. I would be surprised if i would NOT be able to update....