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Developer's Corner / SourceTree for Windows in Beta

« Last post by wraith808 on March 19, 2013, 12:54 PM »

I was using SourceTree for Mac, and really liked it, so I was glad when SourceTree for Windows was announced.  It's free, though registration is required if you use it longer than 30 days.  It's a really great UI for git and Hg.

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Living Room / Re: Google Reader gone

« Last post by wraith808 on March 18, 2013, 05:22 AM »

This guy I mentioned before is even more on the spot, I'd say:

Google, destroyer of ecosystems

-paulobrabo (March 18, 2013, 05:04 AM)

Thanks for the link... nice article!  And what he describes in Google's MO is startlingly familiar.  Quite similar to what MS used to do.

Hmmm...

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Google Reader - Mini-Review

« Last post by wraith808 on March 18, 2013, 02:21 AM »

Another alternative if you're looking for something desktop oriented - Readefine.  It looks like it has potential- but I'm not looking for a desktop alternative.

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Living Room / Re: Google Reader gone

« Last post by wraith808 on March 18, 2013, 02:16 AM »

Huh? How did Google control the news flow? I'm the one who put the feeds I wanted to follow into Google Reader.

-Deozaan (March 18, 2013, 12:53 AM)

Winer's talking about what he believes Google wants to do (and why Google Reader and RSS may not fit into Google's plans), not that they were doing it with Reader.

-mwb1100 (March 18, 2013, 02:15 AM)

No, he's talking about what they could possibly do with Reader.

"Never used the damn thing. Didn't trust the idea of a big company like Google's interests being so aligned with mine that I could trust them to get all my news."

This is about Reader.

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Living Room / Re: Google Reader gone

« Last post by wraith808 on March 18, 2013, 02:15 AM »

I found a laughable article on ZDNet, about why are you using RSS in 2013.  The replacement?  Twitter.

Please.  Twitter is barely useful unless you're in the always connected always checking universe.  And with people checking in to everywhere they go and posting up so much noise that the signal is strangled, I don't see how anyone could confuse Twitter with news aggregation.

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Living Room / Google Reader? What about CalDAV?

« Last post by wraith808 on March 18, 2013, 02:09 AM »

In the wake of the reader announcement, I didn't even know that Google was killing the CalDAV interface for it's calendar application.  That is, until I saw this article on ZDNet.  I see that as more of an issue than Reader; as much as I used Reader to aggregate news, I use my calendar at work, at home, everywhere... but never in Google calendar.  And I doubt that the software that I'm using is supporting the proprietary Google interface if they had the choice to use something that worked with all of the other major calendars.

I'd quit Google... but even my job is using it, making it easier to interact with it if I keep it.

*sigh*

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Living Room / Re: Google Reader gone

« Last post by wraith808 on March 18, 2013, 02:04 AM »

Huh? How did Google control the news flow? I'm the one who put the feeds I wanted to follow into Google Reader.

-Deozaan (March 18, 2013, 12:53 AM)

You set up the the feeds, but they controlled what came into them.  They could put a filter on it, and other than by someone else telling you there was something else on the site, you wouldn't know.  Sort of like their search now.  Unless you go somewhere else and search, you don't know that there's something missing.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Distinguish Enter and Numpad Enter Key c#.net

« Last post by wraith808 on March 17, 2013, 02:32 PM »

Enter and Return don't have the same value if you check the tostring.  

for example:

Code: C# [Select]

1. switch (keyVariable.ToString())
2. {
3.   case "Enter":
4.     // they pressed the numpad enter key
5.     Console.WriteLine("Numpad Enter Key");
6.     break;
7.   case "Return":
8.     // they pressed the keyboard enter key
9.     Console.WriteLine("Keyboard Enter Key");
10.     break;
11. }

Don't take my word on which is which... I didn't check.  But the strings are different, so you can check for them is the point.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Distinguish Enter and Numpad Enter Key c#.net

« Last post by wraith808 on March 16, 2013, 04:37 PM »

Though the Keys enum has identical values for Enter and Return (it also has a number of other duplicates), ToString shows a different value.

If you run this linq expression in linqpad, you'll see what I mean.

Code: C# [Select]

1. Enum.GetNames(typeof(System.Windows.Forms.Keys))
2.     .GroupBy(k => Enum.Parse(typeof(System.Windows.Forms.Keys), k))
3.     .Where(g => g.Count() > 1)
4.     .Select(g => String.Join(", ", g.Select(k => k.ToString()).ToArray())).Dump();

Check for the tostring if you really need to know the difference.

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Living Room / The Evil Empire being sued by... a former-Lucas property?

« Last post by wraith808 on March 16, 2013, 11:49 AM »

THX sues Apple over speaker patent (via Engadget)

So, a former property of the creator of a fictional Evil Empire is suing an Evil Empire... love it!

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Living Room / Re: Google Reader gone

« Last post by wraith808 on March 16, 2013, 09:45 AM »

Blogger's been sort of iffy on its feeds (serving things in batches sometimes, making it less than timely), so I wonder if that was the first step...

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Google Reader - Mini-Review

« Last post by wraith808 on March 16, 2013, 09:42 AM »

The interface looks cluttered, even worse than NewsBlur.

-Tuxman (March 16, 2013, 12:02 AM)

I think it's sort of like Onenote, where it has a variety of ways to break things (and the interface) apart, but you don't have to use all of them, i.e. the tabs at the top and sides and tags.  The extra toolbars are also of the tear away type.  So I think it's simpler than you're thinking.

Which interface?

-IainB (March 16, 2013, 01:25 AM)

I think he meant Omea Pro.  That's what my reply is based on

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Living Room / Re: NULL

« Last post by wraith808 on March 15, 2013, 06:24 PM »

Code: C# [Select]

1. // Yes, I like The Neverending Story.
2. public object SummonTheNothing()
3. {
4.    object theNothing = new StringBuilder();
5.    (theNothing as StringBuilder).Append("I am here!");
6.    return (theNothing as int?); // no you're not!
7. }

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Google Reader - Mini-Review

« Last post by wraith808 on March 15, 2013, 03:41 PM »

I know all of this. Still, can't I miss it? Or must I take your attitude?

-J-Mac (March 15, 2013, 03:30 PM)

I wasn't trying to give attitude, just have a conversation. 

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Google Reader - Mini-Review

« Last post by wraith808 on March 15, 2013, 02:55 PM »

I guess it comes down to what's been said several times - if you're not paying, then you're the product, not the consumer.

Was Writely making money?  Not enough to support you and what you like over taking a payout.  In essence, you were their tester and their product.

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Living Room / Re: NULL

« Last post by wraith808 on March 15, 2013, 07:55 AM »

nowt

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Google Reader - Mini-Review

« Last post by wraith808 on March 15, 2013, 07:53 AM »

What's really a shame is that some of those "projects" were really excellent web apps that Google purchased and then killed off. So now we don’t have a Google version nor the original version.

-J-Mac (March 15, 2013, 12:34 AM)

Actually, in many cases we do.  For example, Writely is now basis for google docs editor.  Some cases they just killed them off, but in many cases they used that technology as the basis for another service (in many cases, just rebranded).

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Living Room / Re: Google Reader gone

« Last post by wraith808 on March 14, 2013, 08:18 PM »

Yet another choice: Omea

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Living Room / Re: Google Reader gone

« Last post by wraith808 on March 14, 2013, 04:26 PM »

I really don't want a dedicated app, truthfully- the smartphone view is good enough.  And I like the interface

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Living Room / The New Benefits of Kickstarter

« Last post by wraith808 on March 14, 2013, 04:25 PM »

An interesting take on the New Benefits of Kickstarter for creatives.  And this is the best part about crowdfunding to me, no matter how flawed- it takes the decisions out of the hands of big money, and puts it into the hands of the consumers, so that people that are more creative and have ideas can concentrate on that rather than convincing some people who lack that same drive and imagination to help.  There are flaws... but I definitely like it better than the alternative.

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Living Room / Re: Google Reader gone

« Last post by wraith808 on March 14, 2013, 04:17 PM »

Another self hosted one for consideration from ghacks is Selfoss, an open source solution with the source on github.

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Living Room / Re: SimCity - EA shows us all how to ruin a landmark game with DRM.

« Last post by wraith808 on March 14, 2013, 01:01 PM »

They’re peddlers and they’re meddlers
They buy and they sell
They destroyed your SimCity
They’ll destroy you as well

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Living Room / Re: Google Reader gone

« Last post by wraith808 on March 14, 2013, 12:52 PM »

I think I'm going with http://tt-rss.org/re...projects/tt-rss/wiki or http://www.feedafever.com/

Both are self hosted.

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Living Room / Re: /r/DonationCoder (Reddit)

« Last post by wraith808 on March 14, 2013, 12:44 PM »

Eh, I like it.  For different reasons than forums.  They serve different purposes. At least IMO.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Google Reader - Mini-Review

« Last post by wraith808 on March 14, 2013, 07:09 AM »

I read about the Google Reader shutdown on ... Google Reader. Now what do I do!?