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by watmough 15y ago
Any particular reason? It does seem like if the WIMP interface to Metro can be made to work well, that many many users will flock lemming-like to Metro-style apps. As a developer, I want to be where the users will be.
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by watmough 15y ago
I tried it for a bit, then happily re-imaged back to Snow Leopard. There's just too much goofy laptop oriented crap that I don't want. I was laughing out loud reading that article. And grimacing, as someone who works late in a quiet house,
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by watmough 15y ago
Yes, here's a place they really could have done something cool with the UI, and spiffed up a be-cobwebbed corner of Explorer. In XP, there's a folder that you can put folder and program shortcuts in, that will populate the send to menu. In
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by watmough 15y ago
One possible approach that might have helped in the Air France case might be to let the pilots know what the plane doesn't know, instead of bombarding them with the unsolvable problems it did know. At one point, they were at full thrust, no
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by watmough 15y ago
Damn, I knew I should have put something in about 900 lines of code in a night. Oh well. ;-)
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How I posted my résumé on Monster, then wrote a Cocoa app.(acktechnology.posterous.com)
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by watmough 15y ago
One of those people who did credit Burroughs, was Prof Ron Morrison at St Andrews. His students often heard little snippets about the B5000, sometimes coincidental with diatribes against Pascal, particularly the arbitrary limitations like t
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by watmough 15y ago
"I was surprised to learn (and until it is confirmed elsewhere, I remain skeptical) that the UK and Holland threatened to freeze the funds of all Icelander-held bank accounts." Here's some indication that all the assets in the UK of Landsba
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by watmough 15y ago
I'm running about 6 years behind in my reading, in that I have about 6 years of books piled up in my bookshelves. Real World Haskell is pretty near the end of the queue. Anyone have similar problems, or have any tips on 'getting to read'?
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by watmough 15y ago
A large part of Apple's success is the NeXT heritage in the form of NextStep that was the sapling that has grown into Tiger, Leopard, Snow Leopard and now Lion.
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by watmough 15y ago
Jony Ive is still there right? Look at how he's progressed from the toilet seat portable, to the Pismos, to the Luxo iMac, to the white iMac, to the unibodies. Sure Steve was there, praising and berating, but I doubt Steve himself would hav
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by watmough 15y ago
That reminds me of something the New Scientist published years ago, ahh yes, the thermonuclear cat flap... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Paul_Pedrick#Chromatical... You couldn't make this stuff up.
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by watmough 15y ago
Yes, I was still using my original iPhone, for at least, ooh, 6 hours after the iPhone 4 launched. To be fair, I did resist the 3G and 3GS.
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by watmough 15y ago
This is starting to look like a move to have engineers promoting various aspects of Windows 8. Great stuff, and I hope it keeps up. These two videos make me feel like I want a copy of Windows around again. In particular, the showing multipl
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by watmough 15y ago
"but i'm not surprised most people these days haven't heard of him" Isn't this why encyclopedias exist, and exactly why this entry shouldn't be deleted? Personally, I'm in the 'keep' camp, I can't understand why people would want to delete
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by watmough 15y ago
"We are experimenting with reputation derived from complete anonymity since we believe that anonymity is required to maximize sincerity. " Interesting. Where do "real name" Amazon.com reviews fit in? These make a selling point of being attr
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by watmough 15y ago
I have to say that I was really impressed by the Netflix and Mail demos in this talk. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsZX2dJW5Ss Assuming the speed was there, and it will be as hardware improves, WebOS could take over as a cross-platform
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by watmough 15y ago
Wait, incremental search is under '/'... Oh, sorry.
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by watmough 15y ago
This is really sad. I would have liked to have seen webOS carve out a decent niche against Android and iOS, especially seeing that application development could be largely JavaScript-based with C++ for the high-performance parts. Commiserat
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by watmough 15y ago
If you're on a Mac or Linux, it's easy to switch to a click-through model where you don't have to click a window before selecting a tool. It renders GIMP usable on a Mac if you do this. Personally, I just haven't managed to get into Pixelma
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by watmough 15y ago
I've never liked wrist braces. Much better, in my opinion, to exercise and not bash your wrists up with too much programming. If my mousing wrist does ever get sore, I have a Logitech Marble trackball that I use until any pain goes away. Mo
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by watmough 15y ago
Seconded, I'd much rather add applications as needed. Also, the growl notification is a good idea. And my own small idea: what if I want an application to check for updates? Can I say "allow application to connect for this application sessi
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by watmough 15y ago
I started getting annoyed with Word when it couldn't even force the caret to black when typing. Watch your caret, it's flashing, now type and it stays black. If a "Word Processor" can't even manage such a basic thing, it's lost the plot. I
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by watmough 15y ago
One of the great joys of using the FireFox Nightly, is that stuff like this usually works. Unless you need total extension compatibility, these have seemed rock-stable over the last month or so. http://nightly.mozilla.org/ <--- tr
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by watmough 15y ago
You might want to get your vision checked, adjust your screen resolution, color balance your monitor, and try and find a healthy relaxed posture. Mine is feet resting on my lower desk frame taking the weight of the back of my thighs, with m
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by watmough 15y ago
Another really fantastic way to get healthy is to own a horse, and take care of feeding it, schlepping hay bales, cleaning it, cleaning tack, riding, the whole bit. There's other animals, but not any I can think of that demand the physical
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by watmough 15y ago
It's refreshing to see such a great communicator. He spoke, off-the-cuff, for over an hour, at a level that seemed pitched to appeal widely. The best thing, though, was the obvious love and enthusiasm he has for his team and their software.
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by watmough 15y ago
There are 40+ million in the US on food stamps. The World is a harsh place, and politicians are doing very little to help ensure a more even distribution of the wealth, even within a relatively rich albeit divided country like the US. These
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by watmough 15y ago
I don't know much Python, but I'd likely be correct in assuming there are quite a few proven http client libraries in existence. This looks like another reason to believe that if you build a better solution, even when the space is well-cove
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by watmough 15y ago
I listened to his whole talk, and it was quite eye-opening. And sure enough, just the other night, I ran into a really hard to find memory leak in some new code. At that point, I regretted tailoring a couple of strictly speaking, unecessary

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