snuxoll

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2311.
by snuxoll 13y ago
> Resharper You've kind of hit the key here, Visual Studio alone is decent, but Resharper is really what makes the experience for me. I don't know a single .net developer who could live without it.
2312.
by snuxoll 13y ago
Unless of course you're not on a Google sanctioned platform, guess I don't get in on all the fun because I decided to buy a Windows Phone.
2313.
by snuxoll 13y ago
XML didn't kill federation, it just formed the base of a poorly designed IM and presence protocol. Federation was a great idea, but you're right, it always ends up getting killed because people want to keep their users. Unfortunat
2314.
by snuxoll 13y ago
Except you can't ever 'not think about XML' when using XMPP, especially when working with it's "well-defined ways of extending on top of it" that completely destroy any sanity that XML is supposed to provide. I
2315.
by snuxoll 13y ago
I've actually had an idea in the back of my head for an extensible JSON IM/Presence system, maybe it's time to get to work on that. XMPP was never really meant to be in my opinion, it had a bunch of great ideas but it failed
2316.
by snuxoll 13y ago
> Maybe even Microsoft or Yahoo would switch and it would pressure others creating a cascade. Microsoft actually made XMPP federation a big deal with Lync Server 2013, there used to be an entire server role that needed to be installed f
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by snuxoll 13y ago
> (not sure why it isn't used much lately) Because it never gained traction and Facebook Connect pretty much killed it because it doesn't require setup of an additional service. Mind you, Facebook Connect is a big privacy and s
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by snuxoll 13y ago
The point behind me going through five phones in three years is irrelevant except to point out my experience with it, I have always gone through phones quickly because I like having the latest and greatest, before I got my HTC Surround I ha
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by snuxoll 13y ago
It's all about perceived value, which is ironically the point the post is trying to discuss. People seem to not think they are getting $70 from their text editor, that they use on a daily basis, often for commercial purposes.
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by snuxoll 13y ago
This is one area where I wish iOS and Android would copy from Windows Phone, apps can have a 'trial mode' (which often is used to just have a free, ad-supported version) that you can download without payment, it can be time-limite
2321.
by snuxoll 13y ago
> But you'd never buy one yourself, because there's just nothing there you can't get on an iOS or Android device, at leats not enough to make any difference. Being someone who picked up a HTC Surround on launch day, follow
2322.
by snuxoll 13y ago
It makes sense when you take into account the ability to sell your digital copies, which current solutions do not allow. Otherwise, nothing is preventing you from selling your copy of Halo 5, unplugging your XBO and playing it offline for 1
2323.
by snuxoll 13y ago
RT doesn't meet the criteria of "easy to use and setup", unfortunately. Great product, but installation isn't anywhere as simple as signing up for these SaaS products.
2324.
by snuxoll 13y ago
I've personally been pretty happy with SalesForce's Desk.com, it offers a great interface, one agent is free and you have the option of flex agents ($1/hr) instead of paying for a full seat every month when you just need an occasional helpe
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by snuxoll 13y ago
> Edit: I just ran it a again to check. The bzfilelist process does an lstat on every file in the system one by one. Wow, so it doesn't even listen for fsevents? What a terrible design, I understand running a full scan every now and the
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by snuxoll 13y ago
> Turns out that the BackBlaze filelist service (that watches for changes to files) is very poorly behaved. Initially we discovered that it fights with apple's mds That's really disturbing, does it misbehave and interact with /dev/fseve
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by snuxoll 13y ago
Sure it can, as can its evolution in the form of UEFI's Secure Boot, the problem is everyone wants to label these as technologies to enable lock-in instead of technologies to provide a trusted boot chain to ensure your system isn't compromi
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by snuxoll 13y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the POINT of "agile" (seeing as you just used the word) software development to both increase communication AND eliminate distractions by keeping a single line of communication open between the product own
2329.
by snuxoll 13y ago
You're missing the value-added component here where tarsnap compresses and deduplicates data.
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by snuxoll 13y ago
> aside from a self-compiled Linux kernel. Likely sitting on an unencrypted /boot, waiting to be replaced by one with a keylogger, am I right? Of course a sane person doesn't trust a system that's been compromised before nuking it and r
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by snuxoll 13y ago
Really neat, but the dependency on Backbone is going to get in the way of adoption.