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by pbz 13y ago
Sometimes when things are too much in proportion we're left admiring the structure and not bother with the content. If something triggers our OCD, the padding in this case, it forces our attention to that spot. It's similar to how we're dra
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by pbz 13y ago
Why waste a good opportunity for more PR?
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by pbz 13y ago
No, there isn't one, there are many, and they lobby for their benefit. If that interest happens to benefit the general population then great, otherwise they keep quiet or they run campaigns to try convince you kill yourself for your own goo
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by pbz 13y ago
Well, after removing all the default headers, there's the CSRF token, certain paths that will bypass a regular 404 detection, and so on... There are ways.
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by pbz 13y ago
And if you want to take it to the "next step" and not rely on strings, having everything compiled and checked by the compiler, while staying low level: http://bltoolkit.net/ or https://github.com/linq2db/linq2db
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by pbz 13y ago
I would take the approach of broadcasting the vote to several monitors. When you place a vote you get a confirmation number. That vote is then uploaded to N third parties that later verify that they all got the same votes. Then the voter co
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by pbz 14y ago
I would recommend BLToolkit (and the newer lighter version Linq2Db -- not to be confused with Linq to SQL). You keep an abstraction level above raw SQL via LINQ and with multiple DB providers you can easily switch between databases without
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by pbz 14y ago
That cuts off the motivation to compete against their peers and deprives them of the data that would allow them to analyze themselves in relation to others.
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by pbz 14y ago
It has been, and it still is, thankfully to a somewhat lesser degree. Even Stallman said "we should discourage people from writing programs in C#". This, of course, is just the tip of the iceberg. Whether .NET is different from Mono is not
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by pbz 14y ago
Then how do you explain that with mono? It's open source, but since it used MS's specs, with OS license, it has been vilified by the open source community. The reality of the matter is that while developers like to think they're rational, t
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by pbz 14y ago
No, it wouldn't. Let's be honest, people would say it's from Microsoft and not use it for that very reason. Could be better than JVM and still most wouldn't use it. Linus was right, the hatred of Microsoft is a disease, and a lot of people
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by pbz 14y ago
We need to separate LINQ, the C# language feature, from the library implementation, LINQ to SQL or Entity Framework. The later does tend to cause issue because it offers a rather leaky abstraction over your database and poor performance. Bu
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by pbz 14y ago
What, no way to sign up for an email list? Patio11 will not be pleased...
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by pbz 14y ago
I suppose they made it work the same as email. Once you sent something you can't take it back, but you can delete your copy if you want.
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by pbz 14y ago
"Honestly, I've grown to like it." One thing I've learned while designing UIs is that if it takes a techy X amount of time to figure something out, it takes between X * 10 to X * 100 for a regular person, so you really want to aim for a sup
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by pbz 14y ago
The fact that Dell doesn't offer Linux as an option means there's no market for it. Come WRT and iOS you won't even have the option to easily install a different OS.
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by pbz 14y ago
Options don't come for free though. Every option in the chain doubles the number of configurations that the manufacturer has to maintain. So, yes, better for consumer, but not better / easier for OEMs.
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by pbz 14y ago
What if one of the libraries you call into use it?
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by pbz 14y ago
Exactly, as long ad it's legal, everything should go. Imagine HN banning posts about some topic because it rubs the majority's sensibility the wrong way. Without freedom of speech the Internet as we know it wouldn't exist. That's far more i
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by pbz 14y ago
But if you don't raise the salary you're not going to attract better people. I bet if you doubled the pay you would have far better people to select from.
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by pbz 14y ago
I would prefer if they would tie their pricing to the size of a repository or the number of collaborators, but not the number of repos. I have a paid account that I would like to dump a lot of old projects that I hardly ever change. I would
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by pbz 14y ago
Then I should be able to search the "Windows" app, and have a list of other apps underneath. Search in all three categories by default and let me filter later if I want - it would rarely happen.
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by pbz 14y ago
Not really: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=m...
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by pbz 14y ago
WellnessFx is a very neat idea. I wish they would allow you to get your own blood work and type in the results yourself and only charge for the analysis. Personalized medical advice would not be possible for plans like this - can't really t
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by pbz 14y ago
This is a classic example of solving the vendor's problem rather than the user's problem. A unified UI is scratching MS's itch. They have a problem with tablets eating away at their pie so they sacrifice usability because they don't want to
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by pbz 14y ago
I didn't know about it, thanks.
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by pbz 14y ago
Why would you need any toolbars? If I could I would disable the top menu as well...
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by pbz 14y ago
Having to take the mouse to an area of the screen that doesn't have any UI clues that something may happen is not a mouse paradigm. If I show you a window that doesn't have the red X in the top right corner, would you still take the mouse t
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by pbz 14y ago
I'm a developer and I don't like it. It's like a house that makes you go through the bathroom to get to the living room, that has the light switches hidden, and one room is decorated by IKEA while another is stuck in the seventies. Sure the
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by pbz 14y ago
They're forcing touch paradigms, like seeking screen edges with the mouse since you can't swipe, essential a workaround, onto desktop environments. With previous mobile versions they were forcing the mouse paradigm where touch would've work

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