miffy900

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by miffy900 4y ago
> The idea that Safari is anywhere near what IE was is ludicrous. People forget that Microsoft disbanded the IE dev team from 2001 for at least 5 years - IE6 remained unchanged from 2001 to 2006 and received absolutely no feature updates
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by miffy900 5y ago
What you're talking about falls under Fair Use. Free speech protections don't provide any such right.
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by miffy900 5y ago
This reads like you’ve never written a serious app in either JavaScript or Typescript. Willingly using JavaScript over Typescript in 2022 is insanity. There’s a reason Typescript won out over Dart and Flow - and why Javascript preprocessor
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by miffy900 5y ago
It would’ve been really interesting if WinFS actually was released. It had a very interesting type system. Probably would’ve been more suited for servers than desktops/clients.
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by miffy900 5y ago
> "does Apple’s walled garden prevent the creation of businesses that consumers would like to do business with if only they had the opportunity" They already do prevent certain businesses from operating in the App Store anyway,
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by miffy900 5y ago
> Maybe / maybe not. It's relatively easy to translate C to unsafe Rust, which is a mostly automatic process. This makes no sense; extending C code with Checked-C would still be easier as with Checked-C you wouldn't do any
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by miffy900 5y ago
> It's a trap, in other words. Usually with a trap, there's typically some sort of follow-through. Let's say I fell for Microsoft's .NET trap 10 years ago. What did Microsoft do, now that they trapped me? 1. Ported .N
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by miffy900 5y ago
> I base this prediction on my study of similar situations in the past. The track record here is clear and unambiguous. Open, shared systems always beat out closed proprietary systems. The author goes on to list examples in credit cards,
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by miffy900 5y ago
To be fair, they were at it for about 6 years before giving up (2009 to 2015); which is a really really long time to spend trying to get momentum going.
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by miffy900 5y ago
It is annoying, but CMD+? (help menu search) I think makes up for it. It's far more useful for when you're navigating an unfamiliar interface.
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by miffy900 5y ago
If you're going to use XML, I would consider it mandatory to also use XSDs (W3C XML Schemas). XSDs is something I think people need to pay more attention to when dealing with XML; the type system that the W3C XSD standard lays out (whe
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by miffy900 5y ago
> I think they are shell shocked from vista and will never make drastic changes again. Did you ever use Windows 8? Because that released in 2012, just 5 years after Vista. Drastic, un-asked for changes that ruined the user experience; hi
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by miffy900 5y ago
> ...it would basically hand the market over to Apple. They're the only company with the vertical integration to be capable of supporting all their hardware and software properly for this sort of time span. Microsoft has no trouble
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by miffy900 5y ago
What about Apple's fight with the FBI over iPhone encryption? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI%E2%80%93Apple_encryption_d... It's definitely not common, but it happens.
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by miffy900 5y ago
> • If something fails where you thought it would fail, that is not a failure. Well, if you thought you'd get a negative result (or failure of something) and then a negative result occurs, the result is still negative, it's jus
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by miffy900 5y ago
> Plus you can't share UI code between Android and iOS. You still need to build the UI's natively with no code reuse. Utterly false - Xamarin Forms is totally cross-platform UI; you're probably mistaking it for Xamarin Nat
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by miffy900 5y ago
I may be misreading your comment, but in case you're not aware .NET 5 supports Windows 7 as a deployment platform: https://github.com/dotnet/core/blob/main/release-notes/5.0/5... And it do
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by miffy900 5y ago
They haven't announced supported platforms. They probably won't though. Windows 7 exited extended support more than a year ago, so I wouldn't be surprised if they dropped 7.
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by miffy900 6y ago
I would argue it's definitely not a fad (at least in the sense it's something that's been happening only very recently); people have been fasting for literally thousands of years, though mostly for religious reasons. It has a
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by miffy900 6y ago
So you offer a free tier, then the next tier is $200 a month? Seems a bit steep does it not? What about a $50 plan for like say 10 million rows?
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by miffy900 6y ago
I live in Aus also, and there are people here who work full-time and still need to avail themselves of local charities, for food boxes and such, but the relative size of that demographic seems to be smaller here compared to the US.
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by miffy900 6y ago
>I have a $3000 1 year old laptop, and sometimes slack gets so slow I have to kill the browser process and start over again. The issue is not hardware. Keep in mind, the 1st gen iPad was single core and only had 256MB of RAM, which was t
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by miffy900 6y ago
Nope, not true. Steve Jobs initially envisioned the iPhone as a device with no 3rd party app support. Even internally, Apple execs at the time had to lobby him to change his mind: https://9to5mac.com/2011/10/21&#x2
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by miffy900 6y ago
This seems like a weird thing to say, considering Windows Phone (specifically v8) introduced the whole flat-design thing.
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by miffy900 6y ago
> Indeed, Wikipedia defines the very term as follows: “Alternative medicine describes any practice that aims to achieve the healing effects of medicine, but which lacks biological plausibility and is untested, untestable or proven ineffe
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by miffy900 6y ago
.NET 5 unifies Mono and .NET Core, not .NET Core and Framework. Previously Mono and .NET Core had different base class libraries and machine code generators (Mono using LLVM).
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by miffy900 6y ago
I'd say it seems like a kind of re-invention of the UI for SharePoint lists. I wouldn't be surprised if the backend for this was really just some generalization of the existing code base that implemented SharePoint list functional
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by miffy900 7y ago
> https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues > Please count the number of open bugs You do realise the large number of open issues almost certainly relates to Typescript's compiler and language impl
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by miffy900 7y ago
I remember I made a mini-ITX LANParty build back in 2010. Worked great for so long until I upgraded in 2016. So disappointed when they exited the mainstream consumer MB market.
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by miffy900 7y ago
Well no, one upgrade path is to port to .NET Core 3.1 which supports WPF apps.

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