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J_McQuade

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2009-04-26

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  • "here is how to to translate this query from T-SQL to PL-SQL... ..."

    "... but if you used our VC's latest beau, BozoDB, it could be written like THIS! ... ..."

    9 months, max. I give it 9 months.

  • Not gonna lie, I've been using (and programming) GUIs since the Amiga and even I get thrown askew by "click here to enter your name" (expecting a subsequent GUI element to focus, or worse - a popup) vs. "click here to enter your name" (haha! the prompt text disappears now and this is just where you write it I guess!).

    You'd think this is just a little thing, but it can really mess with you if you need to change focus and - of course - every application will 'haha!' you in a different way.

    It has nothing to do with skeuomorphism really, but at least skeuomorphism seemed to give everyone an idea of what they were shooting for at least.

  • Off topic, but this is the first I've heard of Antilisp and I love the idea - seems aimed at the sort of problems that I've definitely solved with a tangle of unmaintainable elisp before. Now I just need to forget about the whole thing before I talk myself into writing a Helm module for it... or an HCL one... or... NO.

  • Easily VSCode, if we're talking about developer reach. I'm not big into Microsoft stuff, but almost every 'serious' .Net developer I personally know is using Rider, so I can only assume that Visual Studio is retreating to the same space occupied by Eclipse and Netbeans, i.e. still used, but mostly only in places where change is hard.

    I'm an emacs user and even I keep a copy of VSCode installed just because I occasionally have to interact with SQL Server and it's really the best way to do that on non-windows systems now that they're winding down ADS.

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