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GeneralRe: Oh look: a new ASP.NET releasememberJeffrey T. Fritz18-Feb-13 9:15 
The new support for CoffeeScript, LESS, and JavaScript template libraries is quite impressive. The LESS editing and support is top notch, I haven't seen anything that compares in speed and features.
NewsI couldn't find the rebuttal to an earlier item anywhereprotectorPete O'Hanlon18-Feb-13 7:41 
So here's[^] the rebuttal to this[^] thread.
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NewsWhy Google's stores shouldn't look so much like Apple storesmemberJohn Isaiah Carmona17-Feb-13 22:51 
Some engineers have never dated a real person.
They've tried to, but it's hard for them to appreciate that real people don't necessarily use data to make decisions -- especially when it comes to love.

Never dated a real person ?!
GeneralRe: Why Google's stores shouldn't look so much like Apple storesmemberAdam David Hill18-Feb-13 0:04 
The moment when you realise your partner of many years is in fact an android. Sigh | :sigh:
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GeneralRe: Why Google's stores shouldn't look so much like Apple storesmemberTesting 1 2 ... uh... 7?18-Feb-13 3:40 
Quote:
The moment when you realise your partner of many years is in fact an android ice cream sandwich.
FTFY
GeneralRe: Why Google's stores shouldn't look so much like Apple storesmvpEddy Vluggen18-Feb-13 0:30 
John Isaiah Carmona wrote:
but it's hard for them to appreciate that real people don't necessarily use data to make decisions -- especially when it comes to love.

No, it's not. One gets used to the irrational thing called a "user" and "manager" very quickly, and no, I do not mind them taking important decisions based on horoscopes. I mind cleaning up the mess after the decision.
 
So, you go dating and stop making decisions.
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GeneralRe: Why Google's stores shouldn't look so much like Apple storesmemberharold aptroot18-Feb-13 1:08 
Why doesn't the link go to a relevant article and what does the title of this thread have to do with any of this?
GeneralRe: Why Google's stores shouldn't look so much like Apple storesmemberjesarg18-Feb-13 2:58 
That's just the journalist's way of being overdramatic; what they really meant to say was that the Google stores look unappealing (which is normal for their inexperienced first attempt at creating store layouts).
 
The author probably spent all night thinking up the best way to call the store "nerdy-looking".
NewsHow Domains Became BackwardsprotectorAspDotNetDev17-Feb-13 12:33 
http://david.newgas.net/how-domains-became-backwards/.
 
Q: Why codeproject.com/Members/aspdotnetdev instead of com.codeproject/Members/aspdotnetdev?
A: Because of email addresses and ordering specific to general (aspdotnetdev@codeproject.com).

GeneralRe: How Domains Became BackwardsmentorKeith Barrow17-Feb-13 23:29 
In which case, shouldn't they have gone aspdotnetdev/members/codeproject.com.www//:http Unsure | :~

JokeRe: How Domains Became BackwardsmemberBrisingr Aerowing18-Feb-13 4:47 
or
 
vedtentodpsa/srebmem/moc.tcejorpedoc.www//:ptth?

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GeneralRe: How Domains Became BackwardsmemberForogar18-Feb-13 5:30 
Ylesicerp, sey.
- Life in the fast lane is only fun if you live in a country with no speed limits.
- Of all the things I have lost, it is my mind that I miss the most.
- I vaguely remember having a good memory...

GeneralRe: How Domains Became BackwardsmemberJibesh18-Feb-13 7:05 
WTF | :WTF: WTF | :WTF:

NewsOperating system SmackDown: Windows 8 blitzes XP on 7 year old hardwarestaffTerrence Dorsey17-Feb-13 12:06 
I know there’s this unwritten law that newer software requires more resources but my experience with Windows 8 has always been that’s it’s way faster certainly than Windows 7 was on the same hardware, but it’s my recollection that XP was never really as snappy as 8 is now on any hardware. So I dug up the oldest, crustiest hardware I could get my hands on and did some tests...
No one's forcing you to upgrade. But the results are clear: it may be a good idea.
GeneralRe: Operating system SmackDown: Windows 8 blitzes XP on 7 year old hardwarememberRon Anders17-Feb-13 12:40 
Yup.
 
I had the consumer preview of 8 running on a celeron laptop.
It was very fast on that box.
 
I has Vi-Start on it booting straight to the desktop for sanity's sake however.
 
If MS had not forced metro on us it would have been a home run as it is, many unsuspecting consumers are coming back to the stores where they bought the fancy new windows 8 machine wanting it off the box to no avail. - This comes from people who work at the local retail outlet here in town that have sold some of the windows 8 pcs.
 
I don't know what is in the Koolaid up there but MS better give us back our windows 7 desktop with the speed of 8 or their going to be run over by those whom they fear that caused the metro to eek into the pc in the first place.
 
Apple smart enough to run two os's - one for the hand helds and one for the PCs\
GeneralRe: Operating system SmackDown: Windows 8 blitzes XP on 7 year old hardwarememberAlexCode17-Feb-13 21:00 
I personally don't feel Metro is standing in my way... it's just a different "Start Menu".
After that is just a minimalistic UI that I actually prefer over transparencies and smoke.
 
I'm currently working on both Windows 7 and 8 and I don't feel uncomfortable switching between them.
 
Cheers!
Alex
GeneralRe: Operating system SmackDown: Windows 8 blitzes XP on 7 year old hardwarememberharold aptroot17-Feb-13 22:40 
But you can get the old start menu "back" (well, something sufficiently like it) and boot directly into the desktop instead of metro. You can still accidentally get stuck in metro sometimes, but for the most part your OS will make sense again.
NewsOn Contributing to and Stealing from Open Source ProjectsstaffTerrence Dorsey17-Feb-13 12:06 
When you put open source software out there in the wild there is a mutual understanding that, you are going to see my source code, and probably take some influence from it into your own source code. Maybe sometimes you even take a little more than influence, and copy some lines of code. As an open source developer, we all know this is happening and we all know this is alright, encouraged, and to be expected. When it gets to the point of out right copying of whole files it becomes a different story all together.
You do the work. He gets the credit (and bug fixes)? That's not right.
GeneralRe: On Contributing to and Stealing from Open Source ProjectsmemberMarco Bertschi17-Feb-13 21:56 
Terrence Dorsey wrote:
When you put open source software out there in the wild there is a mutual understanding that, you are going to see my source code, and probably take some influence from it into your own source code.

Not that bad. I often see examples (even of Open Source code) on the web from which I can assume which classes I can use to solve a problem the best way.
 

Terrence Dorsey wrote:
Maybe sometimes you even take a little more than influence, and copy some lines of code

Lazy a** devs do this.
 

Terrence Dorsey wrote:
As an open source developer, we all know this is happening and we all know this is alright, encouraged, and to be expected.

Not alright for everyone... Encouraged? Is a woman wearing a bikini encouraging men to grope her? IMO -> No!
To be expected? Sadly yes...
 

Terrence Dorsey wrote:
When it gets to the point of out right copying of whole files it becomes a different story all together.

Which is called copyright infringement.
NewsLinden Lab releases Versu, an interactive fiction system for iPadstaffTerrence Dorsey17-Feb-13 12:05 
Linden Lab is best known for putting together the old social MMO Second Life, but more recently the company has been getting involved in tablet development.... Today, Linden has released another app, and like Creatorverse and Second Life, this app is more of an engine than a game -- it's an interactive fiction platform essentially, designed to upgrade the idea of traditional text adventure games into something more replayable and dynamic.
You are standing at the end of a road before a small brick building....
NewsWhy Mozilla MattersstaffTerrence Dorsey17-Feb-13 12:05 
At the Mozilla mission level, monoculture remains a problem that we must fight. The web needs multiple implementations of its evolving standards to keep them interoperable.... I expect more web engines in the next ten years, not fewer, given hardware trends and the power wall problem. In this light, Mozilla is investing not only in Gecko now, we are also researching Servo, which focuses on the high-degree parallel (both multicore CPU, and the massively parallel GPU) hardware architectures that are coming fast.
Competing engines. Competing ideas. Competing futures. One DOM.
NewsIntel HTML5 App Porter Tool - from iOS app to HTML5 and JavaScriptstaffTerrence Dorsey17-Feb-13 12:04 
The Intel HTML5 App Porter Tool - BETA is an application that helps mobile application developers to port native iOS* code into HTML5, by automatically translating portions of the original code into HTML5. This tool is not a complete solution to automatically port 100% of iOS* applications, but instead it speeds up the porting process by translating as much code and artifacts as possible.
A new and interesting development in cross-platform mobile development.
NewsCommand Line Accounting with Ledger and ReckonstaffTerrence Dorsey17-Feb-13 10:46 
I’ve been using ledger, combined with a custom Ruby gem called reckon, to balance my small business’s accounts for the last few years. The command line, Bayesian statistics, and Double Entry Accounting! What could be better? Here’s how I do it.
Let me tell you how it will be. There's one for you, nineteen for me...
NewsReconstructing the Chelyabinsk meteor’s path, with Google Earth, YouTube and high-school mathstaffTerrence Dorsey17-Feb-13 10:46 
Like many others, I was absolutely astounded by the meteor strike over Chelyabinsk when I woke on Friday morning. One silver lining to our self-surveilling society is that an event of this magnitude is certain to get caught on the myriad of always-on dash- and webcams. I for one could not get enough of the videos. Might it be possible to use this viral footage with Google Earth to have an initial go at mapping the meteorite’s trajectory?
SOHCAHTOA!
NewsDoes Apple really assign engineers to “fake” projects as a loyalty test?staffTerrence Dorsey17-Feb-13 10:45 
The claim took life with the publication of a book called Inside Apple, which claimed some employees were "hired into so-called dummy positions, roles that aren't explained in detail until after they join the company."... But is it true? I was prompted to look into the question after several friends—Apple employees, no less—expressed disbelief at the claim. Their skepticism matched my own experience; in my years of reporting on Apple and speaking to many of its employees, I had never heard of such a practice.
Canceled projects, sure. Fake projects? No.

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