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by wvenable 2y ago
Users don't want sandboxing! It's frustrating enough on iOS and Android. They want to be able to cut and paste, have all their files in one place, open files in multiple applications at the same time, have plugins, etc. Having
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by wvenable 2y ago
UTF-16 also didn't exist when the decision was made. It was UCS-2. Microsoft absolutely made the right decision at the time and really the only decision that could have been made. They didn't have the luxury to ignore internatio
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by wvenable 2y ago
The OS X story is even worse than that. When Apple first released OS X to developers, like Adobe, they balked. They weren't going to port their Mac applications to this "new" operating system. Apple had to take another yea
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by wvenable 2y ago
> Windows 11 is irritatingly macOS-like and for some reason I bet dollars to donuts that all the designers who come up new Windows designs are using Macs. The old Windows UI was designed out of painstaking end user testing which was famo
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by wvenable 2y ago
The problem with WSL1 was the very different file system semantics between Windows and Linux. On Linux files are dumb and cheap. On Windows files are smarter and more expensive. Mapping Linux file system calls on Windows worked fine but
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by wvenable 2y ago
It is not a liability because most of what you are talking about is just compatibility not backwards compatibility . What makes an operating system Windows? Fundamentally it is something that runs Windows apps. Windows apps existed 15
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by wvenable 2y ago
Nobody wants something 100% new. Users don't want it. Developers don't want it. You can make a new OS but then you'll have zero developers and zero users. Yet this fantasy exists. And as soon as you make something new, it&
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by wvenable 2y ago
> Couldn't they move the compatibility for larger parts to a VM or other independent Subsystem? A huge amount of the compatibility stuff is already moved out into separate code that isn't loaded unless needed. The problem too,
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by wvenable 2y ago
How does one get a job like this? Just writing absolutely wild and weird projects? I do weird/fun stuff on my own time but I get paid to do mostly boring stuff.
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by wvenable 2y ago
Using composite keys can help prevent you from representing invalid states in the database or in your application. They can be guardrails.
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by wvenable 2y ago
Python is pretty magical in places. PHP is slightly magical in places. But Ruby is magical everywhere.
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by wvenable 2y ago
Composite keys are fine as long as all the key columns are surrogate keys.
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by wvenable 2y ago
As someone who has worked in a lot of languages and a lot of frameworks, I never understood the hype around Laravel. It's very opinionated as to how you structure your application but it gives you very little for forcing all that stru
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by wvenable 2y ago
I was being charitable.
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by wvenable 2y ago
PC GEOS had no future because it was written in object-oriented 8086 assembly language. This made it very small and efficient but effectively tied it to that 16bit platform. When PCs moved to 32bit and protected mode with the 386 there wa
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by wvenable 2y ago
> Yes, the solution is more speech. I think we've reached the point now that there is more speech than any person can consume by a factor of a million. It now comes to down to picking what speech you want to hear. This is exactly
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by wvenable 2y ago
I didn't see this the first time: GROUP AND ORDER BY component_id DESC; Is this kind of syntax combining grouping and ordering really necessary in addition the pipe operator? My advice would be to add the pipe operator and no
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by wvenable 2y ago
That's kind of why we have computers, though. To do things beyond our natural capabilities.
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by wvenable 2y ago
> Section 9 “Authorization” of the June 2021 EULA disproves that claim. Yes, that binds the user to authorize their copy. The company must therefore provide the means for them to authorize. As for the legality, this is pretty contentiou
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by wvenable 2y ago
I see your point. But it actually concerns me more if the Dorico discount is contingent on explicitly preventing re-installs of the app. It's one thing to be merely negligent in providing a way for users to continue using the product
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by wvenable 2y ago
Why should their agreement with Steinberg factor into this? There is no need to maintain the auth server just make the one-time cost of removing the requirement of the auth server. As for this particular EULA, if the publisher stops selling
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by wvenable 2y ago
They should just remove the need for the auth server entirely. Whether or not it benefits very many people is beside the point; it's the principle. Allowing their users to continue to use the product that they have fully paid for is
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by wvenable 2y ago
It's not their job to revoke access to a product that I paid for regardless of the reason. If they sold me that product I should be able to pop that software into a Windows 10 VM and use it till the end of time.
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by wvenable 2y ago
If you agree that losing access to new installs after a year sucks, and you understand why paid users are angry I don't know why you keep replying. This is an unnecessary user-hostile thing to do and, in my opinion, should be illegal.
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by wvenable 2y ago
There is nothing unreasonable about the demand that continue to make software that they sold installable by the owners. That's completely reasonable. It's actually far more unreaonable to sell someone a product and the next day
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by wvenable 2y ago
> I’ve watched loads of Windows software become incompatible And I've seen a resurgence of old software running with very compatible PC emulators and older versions of Windows still installable. In theory, this software could run f
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by wvenable 2y ago
Upgrade? What my CPU melts and I need a new computer. This has nothing to do with Microsoft of Apple. All they have to do is allow their product to continue to be installed -- it's easy. Nobody expects anything else from them. I
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by wvenable 2y ago
> Do you call all products and business that fail or go out of business “stealing”? I have plenty of products from companies that go out of business. Some of them even have servers that they depend on. At least one of the companies did
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by wvenable 2y ago
"...will continue to work as long as your current computer is working." This doesn't seem dumb to you?
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by wvenable 2y ago
I bought Office 2013 over 10 years ago and I still install it on my desktop. It is available as a Windows app right? It takes a lot for Microsoft to make their OS be incompatible with apps.

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