Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-06-06 Thread Steven Schveighoffer
On Wed, 06 Jun 2012 02:14:07 -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote: Shit, it's a good thing I don't have heart disease: Writing this message probably would have done me in. I feel like Lewis Black, but without the funny. No, it was pretty funny :D -Steve

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-06-05 Thread Nick Sabalausky
"Steven Schveighoffer" wrote in message news:op.wfd7p6fxeav7ka@steves-laptop... > On Sat, 02 Jun 2012 16:30:07 -0400, Nick Sabalausky > wrote: > >> Ouch. I haven't had virus problems on my XP system (knock on wood...), >> but >> my sister's had a lot of virus trouble on her Win7 machine (and g

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-06-04 Thread Steven Schveighoffer
On Sat, 02 Jun 2012 16:30:07 -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote: Ouch. I haven't had virus problems on my XP system (knock on wood...), but my sister's had a lot of virus trouble on her Win7 machine (and guess who had to fix the fucking thing every time...) Of course, my dad had a lot of virus

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-06-02 Thread Paulo Pinto
Am 03.06.2012 00:37, schrieb Zardoz: On Tuesday, 22 May 2012 at 11:56:36 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote: Make up your fucking mind, MS. It's called Marketing and Sales department. Every company that sells commercial products needs to keep adding the "next big thing" to their product as a means to sel

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-06-02 Thread Zardoz
On Tuesday, 22 May 2012 at 11:56:36 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote: Make up your fucking mind, MS. It's called Marketing and Sales department. Every company that sells commercial products needs to keep adding the "next big thing" to their product as a means to sell the product to existing users. L

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-06-02 Thread Nick Sabalausky
"Roman Ivanov" wrote in message news:jqbnii$pgs$1...@digitalmars.com... > On 5/24/2012 4:45 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: >> "Mirko Pilger" wrote in message >> news:jpl36q$sta$1...@digitalmars.com... And Vista doesn't pop-up tons of shit everytime the pointer gets near the bottom of

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-06-02 Thread Kagamin
On Friday, 25 May 2012 at 22:30:30 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: Well, realistically 128MB for XP, and even that was back around 2000 or so. I'm not really sure what the heck exactly happened (Just web sites? Or something more?), but these days, even on XP, 1GB is really bare minimum. That's se

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-06-01 Thread Roman Ivanov
On 5/24/2012 4:45 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: > "Mirko Pilger" wrote in message > news:jpl36q$sta$1...@digitalmars.com... >>> And Vista doesn't pop-up tons of shit everytime the pointer gets near the >>> bottom of the screen. I'd never be able to get any work done if I had >>> (barely-distinguisha

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-05-25 Thread Nick Sabalausky
"Steven Schveighoffer" wrote in message news:op.wevud50reav7ka@steves-laptop... > >>> These are misleading statistics: >>> >>> 1. Most PCs that were built for XP *cannot* be upgraded to Win7. People >>> are *very* unlikely to throw away perfectly working equipment just so >>> they >>> can upgra

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-05-25 Thread Robert Clipsham
On 25/05/2012 20:06, Walter Bright wrote: I use putty every day, it is indispensible. But it doesn't work in the other direction - I cannot ssh from Linux into Windows. I've set up an ssh server with bash/unix utilities on Windows before now. It was a massive hassle to do, but the end result w

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-05-25 Thread Steven Schveighoffer
On Fri, 25 May 2012 16:45:43 -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote: To be fair, I don't have a problem with the "search all programs" feature. I *do* have a problem with it being used as an excuse for not allowing me to have my All Programs menu operate in the way that works well for me. And I k

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-05-25 Thread Nick Sabalausky
"Gour" wrote in message news:jpoc5j$1lvh$1...@digitalmars.com... On Fri, 25 May 2012 10:42:09 -0400 > > Here is something to make you a day. ;) > > http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/05/no-cost-desktop-software-development-is-dead-on-windows-8/ > > & > > http://www.reddit.com/r/pr

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-05-25 Thread Nick Sabalausky
"Steven Schveighoffer" wrote in message news:op.wevd5ooieav7ka@steves-laptop... > On Fri, 25 May 2012 10:42:09 -0400, Nick Sabalausky > wrote: > >> >> *shrug* I find the thumbnail popups vastly inferior. Actually, I find it >> useful literally 0% of the time, and both annoying and distracting 1

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-05-25 Thread Nick Sabalausky
"David Nadlinger" wrote in message news:kafgmioabokjwkfwm...@forum.dlang.org... > On Friday, 25 May 2012 at 14:42:52 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: >> Just because some people like it doesn't mean it was a sensible move to >> force it on *everyone*. > > Just because a few people don't »like it« doe

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-05-25 Thread Sean Kelly
On May 25, 2012, at 12:06 PM, Walter Bright wrote: > On 5/24/2012 11:01 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: >> PuTTY's pretty good once you get over the initial intimidation and (small) >> learning curve. But I agree, all that shit should be "in the box" already, >> plus grep, curl, tee and maybe some oth

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-05-25 Thread Walter Bright
On 5/24/2012 11:01 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: PuTTY's pretty good once you get over the initial intimidation and (small) learning curve. But I agree, all that shit should be "in the box" already, plus grep, curl, tee and maybe some others (Fuck, toss in bash, too). And a windows sshfs, packed-in,

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-05-25 Thread Brad Anderson
On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 3:12 AM, Regan Heath wrote: > On Thu, 24 May 2012 19:06:14 +0100, Brad Anderson wrote: > >> I actually love AeroSnap. Not for that maximization feature but for what >> it does when you drag to the left and right sides of the screen. It makes >> working between two locat

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-05-25 Thread Gour
On Fri, 25 May 2012 10:42:09 -0400 "Nick Sabalausky" wrote: > ??? Of *course* most Win7 users like Win7 better, the ones who don't > are XP users. Likewise, I can confidently say that a high majority of > users for XP like the old interface better than Win7. So I don't see > what that really mean

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-05-25 Thread Steven Schveighoffer
On Fri, 25 May 2012 10:42:09 -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote: "Steven Schveighoffer" wrote in message news:op.wevablddeav7ka@steves-laptop... I find this feature is *vastly* superior to the old "group all buttons together into one taskbar button, then pop a list of the titles" mechanism.

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-05-25 Thread David Nadlinger
On Friday, 25 May 2012 at 14:42:52 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: Just because some people like it doesn't mean it was a sensible move to force it on *everyone*. Just because a few people don't »like it« doesn't mean it wasn't a good move as everyone else now benefits from it. All they have to

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-05-25 Thread Nick Sabalausky
"Steven Schveighoffer" wrote in message news:op.wevablddeav7ka@steves-laptop... > >I find this feature is *vastly* superior to the old "group all buttons >together into one taskbar button, then pop a list of the titles" mechanism. > *shrug* I find the thumbnail popups vastly inferior. Actually,

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-05-25 Thread Steven Schveighoffer
On Fri, 25 May 2012 01:30:03 -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote: "David Nadlinger" wrote in message news:fvvzmqelefzdwdsoo...@forum.dlang.org... On Thursday, 24 May 2012 at 21:10:44 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: "Steven Schveighoffer" wrote in message at least the taskbar is a user preference (a

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-05-25 Thread Dmitry Olshansky
On 25.05.2012 13:12, Regan Heath wrote: On Thu, 24 May 2012 19:06:14 +0100, Brad Anderson wrote: I find the new Win7 to be much too clever. For example, if you move a window up against the top edge of the screen, it switches to full screen. Aggh. I know why that was done, but it's just tailfins

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-05-25 Thread Regan Heath
On Thu, 24 May 2012 19:06:14 +0100, Brad Anderson wrote: I find the new Win7 to be much too clever. For example, if you move a window up against the top edge of the screen, it switches to full screen. Aggh. I know why that was done, but it's just tailfins and taillights in the shape of jet en

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-05-25 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2012-05-25 07:30, Nick Sabalausky wrote: It's all just, "You're *going* to like our objectively superior design, or you can just fuck off." Ie, they've adopted Apple's (and Mozilla's) #1 core value. No, fuck *you*, Win7/Vista. So much anger inside one person :) -- /Jacob Carlborg

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-05-24 Thread Nick Sabalausky
"Walter Bright" wrote in message news:jpmhit$180q$1...@digitalmars.com... > On 5/24/2012 1:16 AM, Dmitry Olshansky wrote: >> It's because the concept of "share this" is too damn simple. (and bogus). >> Any >> real network sharing requires users, ACL and so and so forth. >> >> To be frank I alway

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-05-24 Thread Nick Sabalausky
"Sean Kelly" wrote in message news:mailman.1061.1337904113.24740.digitalmar...@puremagic.com... >On May 24, 2012, at 4:46 PM, Walter Bright wrote: > >> On 5/24/2012 2:15 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: >>> You sir, have inspired me :) I started writing a reply, but it ended up >>> being this: >>> >>>

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-05-24 Thread Nick Sabalausky
"David Nadlinger" wrote in message news:fvvzmqelefzdwdsoo...@forum.dlang.org... > On Thursday, 24 May 2012 at 21:10:44 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: >> "Steven Schveighoffer" wrote in message >>> at least the taskbar is a user preference (and I'm pretty sure you can >>> revert that), >> >> It isn

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-05-24 Thread Mirko Pilger
No it doesn't. The "skin" is like XP, but all the behavior is still the same Win7 stuff. It's still Windows Dock, just with more grey and straight edges. i seem to miss something crucial here. i have a win xp and win 7 machine in front of me this very moment. the quicklaunch buttons on the win

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-05-24 Thread Sean Kelly
On May 24, 2012, at 4:54 PM, Walter Bright wrote: > I've tried various downloads that are bad ports of Unix tools to do things > like tar, rsync, etc. One common disaster with them is they fail on large > files - apparently some internal wrap-around. Miserable. The GnuWin32 project is pretty so

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-05-24 Thread Sean Kelly
On May 24, 2012, at 4:46 PM, Walter Bright wrote: > On 5/24/2012 2:15 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: >> You sir, have inspired me :) I started writing a reply, but it ended up >> being this: >> >> https://www.semitwist.com/articles/article/view/steve-jobs-was-not-a-good-designer > > :-) > > My main

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-05-24 Thread Walter Bright
I've tried various downloads that are bad ports of Unix tools to do things like tar, rsync, etc. One common disaster with them is they fail on large files - apparently some internal wrap-around. Miserable.

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-05-24 Thread Walter Bright
On 5/24/2012 3:46 AM, Dmitry Olshansky wrote: Yes, even FTP can't beat straightforward "crack open this box and pull hdd out". I've been using it for years and haven't had any problem with it ;) One thing that does work great on Windows is being able to hot plug any old random drive into a USB

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-05-24 Thread Walter Bright
On 5/24/2012 5:54 AM, simendsjo wrote: Yes, XP mode is a virtualized xp, but running 16-bit virtualized applications in a virtualized xp mode on win7 just doesn't work like it should :) Good to see we're not the only one with this problem. I would have been happy if MS had simply provided a sof

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-05-24 Thread Walter Bright
On 5/24/2012 1:16 AM, Dmitry Olshansky wrote: It's because the concept of "share this" is too damn simple. (and bogus). Any real network sharing requires users, ACL and so and so forth. To be frank I always preferred running FTP or SSH server on Windows. Or even Apache ;) (though remote desktop

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-05-24 Thread Walter Bright
On 5/24/2012 2:15 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: You sir, have inspired me :) I started writing a reply, but it ended up being this: https://www.semitwist.com/articles/article/view/steve-jobs-was-not-a-good-designer :-) My main complaint with the touch interface is my touches often frustratingl

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-05-24 Thread Walter Bright
On 5/24/2012 12:23 AM, simendsjo wrote: What 16-bit applications are you using? Are you still supporting 16-bit on your C compiler? Yup. I see no reason to break that.

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-05-24 Thread David Nadlinger
On Thursday, 24 May 2012 at 21:10:44 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: "Steven Schveighoffer" wrote in message at least the taskbar is a user preference (and I'm pretty sure you can revert that), It isn't, and you can't. I've checked all over, internet search, etc. If you're on Win7, you have the

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-05-24 Thread Nick Sabalausky
"Steven Schveighoffer" wrote in message news:op.wetb8lg2eav7ka@steves-laptop... > On Thu, 24 May 2012 06:29:25 -0400, Nick Sabalausky > wrote: > >> "Steven Schveighoffer" wrote in message >> news:op.wer3hmsreav7ka@steves-laptop... > >>> Although I would replace Vista in your narrative with Win

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-05-24 Thread Nick Sabalausky
"Mirko Pilger" wrote in message news:jpl36q$sta$1...@digitalmars.com... >> And Vista doesn't pop-up tons of shit everytime the pointer gets near the >> bottom of the screen. I'd never be able to get any work done if I had >> (barely-distinguishable) mini-screenshots constantly popping up to "help

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-05-24 Thread Brad Anderson
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 3:59 PM, Walter Bright wrote: > On 5/23/2012 1:23 PM, Sean Kelly wrote: > >> On May 23, 2012, at 1:04 PM, Walter >> Bright >> > >> wrote: >> >>> >>> 3. erratic issues with sharing directories. Sharing was simple with XP - >>> one click to share, another to unshare. Win7 ha

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-05-24 Thread simendsjo
On Thu, 24 May 2012 14:45:50 +0200, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: On Thu, 24 May 2012 03:23:24 -0400, simendsjo wrote: On Thu, 24 May 2012 00:03:59 +0200, Walter Bright wrote: I checked that, but there was some other issue with that that made it useless. Yeah, running 16-bit in win7

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-05-24 Thread Steven Schveighoffer
On Thu, 24 May 2012 03:23:24 -0400, simendsjo wrote: On Thu, 24 May 2012 00:03:59 +0200, Walter Bright wrote: On 5/23/2012 2:57 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: On Wed, 23 May 2012 16:29:36 -0400, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: On Wed, 23 May 2012 16:04:30 -0400, Walter Bright wrote:

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-05-24 Thread Steven Schveighoffer
On Thu, 24 May 2012 06:29:25 -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote: "Steven Schveighoffer" wrote in message news:op.wer3hmsreav7ka@steves-laptop... Although I would replace Vista in your narrative with Win7. Vista was a horrible abortion that should never have seen the light of day. Maybe so,

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-05-24 Thread Mirko Pilger
We don't want Like buttons and similar. That's why we use newsgroups, mailing lists and so on. That similes are displayed as images (in Thunderbird at least) is almost too much. :) i've never seen smilies in mails or ng posts using thunderbird. dunno. i guess i turned it off ages ago.

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-05-24 Thread Dmitry Olshansky
On 24.05.2012 13:58, Nick Sabalausky wrote: - There's a Vista laptop I sometimes borrow usage of. When transferring files with my XP machine, I used to use Win file sharing (always seemed to be good enough on XP<-->XP setups). It worked fine for awhile, and then one day without warning it just..

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-05-24 Thread Mirko Pilger
And Vista doesn't pop-up tons of shit everytime the pointer gets near the bottom of the screen. I'd never be able to get any work done if I had (barely-distinguishable) mini-screenshots constantly popping up to "help" me all time like Win7 loves to do. just turn aero off. the win 7 desktop then

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-05-24 Thread Nick Sabalausky
"Steven Schveighoffer" wrote in message news:op.wer3hmsreav7ka@steves-laptop... > On Tue, 22 May 2012 06:54:23 -0400, Nick Sabalausky > wrote: >> >> Oh, so it's that time of the week again already? Time for MS to change >> their >> minds once again on which is cool and uncool: straight vs curv

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-05-24 Thread Nick Sabalausky
"Jacob Carlborg" wrote in message news:jpkvqi$153n$1...@digitalmars.com... > > We don't want Like buttons and similar. That's why we use newsgroups, > mailing lists and so on. That similes are displayed as images (in > Thunderbird at least) is almost too much. :) > It may sound petty, and mayb

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-05-24 Thread Nick Sabalausky
"Dmitry Olshansky" wrote in message news:jpkqol$rmt$1...@digitalmars.com... >> 3. erratic issues with sharing directories. Sharing was simple with XP - >> one click to share, another to unshare. Win7 has a maze of dialog boxes >> and alternate ways of doing it, some work, some don't, and no feedb

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-05-24 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2012-05-24 09:56, Paulo Pinto wrote: On Thursday, 24 May 2012 at 07:13:06 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2012-05-24 08:48, Nick Sabalausky wrote: If the app is designed correctly, it won't involve a browser in the first place. So true, so true. Where is the Like button? :) We don't wa

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-05-24 Thread Paulo Pinto
On Thursday, 24 May 2012 at 09:30:06 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: "Paulo Pinto" wrote in message news:tvtwsxghjzkkuczrb...@forum.dlang.org... On Thursday, 24 May 2012 at 07:13:06 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2012-05-24 08:48, Nick Sabalausky wrote: If the app is designed correctly, it won't i

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-05-24 Thread Nick Sabalausky
"Paulo Pinto" wrote in message news:tvtwsxghjzkkuczrb...@forum.dlang.org... > On Thursday, 24 May 2012 at 07:13:06 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: >> On 2012-05-24 08:48, Nick Sabalausky wrote: >> >>> If the app is designed correctly, it won't involve a browser in the >>> first >>> place. >> >> So tr

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-05-24 Thread Nick Sabalausky
"Walter Bright" wrote in message news:jpjmkb$1mm6$1...@digitalmars.com... > > I find the new Win7 to be much too clever. I think that's a very good way of putting it. > For example, if you move a window up > against the top edge of the screen, it switches to full screen. Aggh. I > know why tha

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-05-24 Thread Dmitry Olshansky
On 24.05.2012 0:04, Walter Bright wrote: On 5/22/2012 9:13 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Macs computers are the first laptops reliable enough to be handled as an appliance - e.g. the sleep mode works well enough that I can casually lift the laptop off the couch while watching TV, open it, googl

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-05-24 Thread Paulo Pinto
On Thursday, 24 May 2012 at 07:13:06 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2012-05-24 08:48, Nick Sabalausky wrote: If the app is designed correctly, it won't involve a browser in the first place. So true, so true. Where is the Like button? :)

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-05-24 Thread simendsjo
On Thu, 24 May 2012 00:03:59 +0200, Walter Bright wrote: On 5/23/2012 2:57 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: On Wed, 23 May 2012 16:29:36 -0400, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: On Wed, 23 May 2012 16:04:30 -0400, Walter Bright wrote: Win7 has enough problems that I'm forced to keep my old

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-05-24 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2012-05-24 08:48, Nick Sabalausky wrote: If the app is designed correctly, it won't involve a browser in the first place. So true, so true. -- /Jacob Carlborg

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-05-23 Thread Nick Sabalausky
"Sean Kelly" wrote in message news:mailman.1031.1337823511.24740.digitalmar...@puremagic.com... >On May 23, 2012, at 3:06 PM, Walter Bright >wrote: >> On 5/22/2012 2:55 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: >>> I'm sure Google Docs is fast(-ish) on that 64-bit multi-core 8GB RAM, >>> SSD >>> storage mach

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-05-23 Thread Sean Kelly
On May 23, 2012, at 3:06 PM, Walter Bright wrote: > On 5/22/2012 2:55 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: >> I'm sure Google Docs is fast(-ish) on that 64-bit multi-core 8GB RAM, SSD >> storage machine, but when it takes that kind of hardware just to run a >> what's really just a basic word processor, you

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-05-23 Thread Walter Bright
On 5/22/2012 2:55 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: I'm sure Google Docs is fast(-ish) on that 64-bit multi-core 8GB RAM, SSD storage machine, but when it takes that kind of hardware just to run a what's really just a basic word processor, you know something has gone horribly, horibly wrong. Heh, no w

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-05-23 Thread Walter Bright
On 5/23/2012 2:57 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: On Wed, 23 May 2012 16:29:36 -0400, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: On Wed, 23 May 2012 16:04:30 -0400, Walter Bright wrote: Win7 has enough problems that I'm forced to keep my old WinXP machine operating: 1. can't run 16 bit programs Really,

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-05-23 Thread Walter Bright
On 5/23/2012 1:23 PM, Sean Kelly wrote: On May 23, 2012, at 1:04 PM, Walter Bright wrote: 3. erratic issues with sharing directories. Sharing was simple with XP - one click to share, another to unshare. Win7 has a maze of dialog boxes and alternate ways of doing it, some work, some don't, and n

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-05-23 Thread Walter Bright
On 5/23/2012 1:04 PM, Walter Bright wrote: On 5/22/2012 9:13 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Macs computers are the first laptops reliable enough to be handled as an appliance - e.g. the sleep mode works well enough that I can casually lift the laptop off the couch while watching TV, open it, goo

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-05-23 Thread Steven Schveighoffer
On Wed, 23 May 2012 16:29:36 -0400, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: On Wed, 23 May 2012 16:04:30 -0400, Walter Bright wrote: Win7 has enough problems that I'm forced to keep my old WinXP machine operating: 1. can't run 16 bit programs Really, have no sympathy there :) BTW, you should

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-05-23 Thread Brad Anderson
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Sean Kelly wrote: > On May 23, 2012, at 1:04 PM, Walter Bright > wrote: > > > > 3. erratic issues with sharing directories. Sharing was simple with XP - > one click to share, another to unshare. Win7 has a maze of dialog boxes and > alternate ways of doing it, so

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-05-23 Thread Steven Schveighoffer
On Tue, 22 May 2012 06:54:23 -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote: Oh, so it's that time of the week again already? Time for MS to change their minds once again on which is cool and uncool: straight vs curved? Egads, it's like they're spinning their wheels just for the sake of spinning them. I'v

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-05-23 Thread Steven Schveighoffer
On Wed, 23 May 2012 16:04:30 -0400, Walter Bright wrote: Win7 has enough problems that I'm forced to keep my old WinXP machine operating: 1. can't run 16 bit programs Really, have no sympathy there :) -Steve

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-05-23 Thread Sean Kelly
On May 23, 2012, at 1:04 PM, Walter Bright wrote: > > 3. erratic issues with sharing directories. Sharing was simple with XP - one > click to share, another to unshare. Win7 has a maze of dialog boxes and > alternate ways of doing it, some work, some don't, and no feedback on whether > it work

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-05-23 Thread Walter Bright
On 5/22/2012 9:13 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Macs computers are the first laptops reliable enough to be handled as an appliance - e.g. the sleep mode works well enough that I can casually lift the laptop off the couch while watching TV, open it, google for something, and close it, all within

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-05-22 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2012-05-22 21:52, Nick Sabalausky wrote: "Jacob Carlborg" wrote in message news:jpg2tq$140c$1...@digitalmars.com... The Apple mouses has always been a joke. I started with Mac OS X on a laptop, if you then mostly use the track pad it's not as bad. When I made the full move to Mac OS X I con

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-05-22 Thread H. S. Teoh
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 05:55:45PM -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote: > "Andrei Alexandrescu" wrote in message [...] > > Well I guess there's such a thing as different strokes for different > > folks, de gustibus non disputandum, etc. etc. > > > > No kidding! I was reading through that interview you

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-05-22 Thread Nick Sabalausky
"Andrei Alexandrescu" wrote in message news:jpgrfp$2il8$1...@digitalmars.com... > On 5/22/12 2:52 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: >> "Jacob Carlborg" wrote in message >> news:jpg2tq$140c$1...@digitalmars.com... >>> >>> The Apple mouses has always been a joke. I started with Mac OS X on a >>> laptop,

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-05-22 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 5/22/12 2:52 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: "Jacob Carlborg" wrote in message news:jpg2tq$140c$1...@digitalmars.com... The Apple mouses has always been a joke. I started with Mac OS X on a laptop, if you then mostly use the track pad it's not as bad. When I made the full move to Mac OS X I cont

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-05-22 Thread Nick Sabalausky
"Jacob Carlborg" wrote in message news:jpg2tq$140c$1...@digitalmars.com... > > The Apple mouses has always been a joke. I started with Mac OS X on a > laptop, if you then mostly use the track pad it's not as bad. When I made > the full move to Mac OS X I continued to use my logitech mouse. > A

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-05-22 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 5/22/12 4:18 AM, Ary Manzana wrote: I feel like OSX (and Mac's hardware) got almost everything right. It makes you more productive, even if you are a developer. Same here. Macs computers are the first laptops reliable enough to be handled as an appliance - e.g. the sleep mode works well eno

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-05-22 Thread H. S. Teoh
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 01:56:35PM +0200, Paulo Pinto wrote: [...] > It's called Marketing and Sales department. > > Every company that sells commercial products needs to keep adding the > "next big thing" to their product as a means to sell the product to > existing users. > > Let's take Office

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-05-22 Thread H. S. Teoh
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 08:02:49AM -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote: > "Paulo Pinto" wrote in message > news:joeuhviunrputogms...@forum.dlang.org... > > > > It's called Marketing and Sales department. > > > > Every company that sells commercial products needs to keep adding the > > "next big thing"

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-05-22 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2012-05-22 14:00, Nick Sabalausky wrote: Mostly 10.2. And then people told me "You have to upgrade to 10.3! It's sooo much better!" Me: "Yea, you said the same about 10.2, asshole. When I made the mistake of believing you that time, I blew $100 just to add (remove?) stripes from the dock's ba

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-05-22 Thread Nick Sabalausky
"Ary Manzana" wrote in message news:jpfll9$a1h$1...@digitalmars.com... > On 5/22/12 3:41 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: >> On 2012-05-22 09:50, Nick Sabalausky wrote: >> >>> See, that must be the problem, I only like crazy insane stuff ;) >>> >>> I actually did spend about a year using an OSX machine

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-05-22 Thread Nick Sabalausky
"Paulo Pinto" wrote in message news:joeuhviunrputogms...@forum.dlang.org... > > It's called Marketing and Sales department. > > Every company that sells commercial products needs to keep adding the > "next big thing" to their product as a means to sell the product to > existing users. > Meh. Y

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-05-22 Thread Paulo Pinto
teresting to some of you who prefer to rather not be bothered with the inner workings of Git. The release announcement is at: https://github.com/blog/1127-github-for-windows. Finally! I still don't understand what posessd them to do a Mac version first. Nobody uses Mac. Jesus, it&#

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-05-22 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2012-05-22 12:54, Nick Sabalausky wrote: I wasn't running it on Win8. It was on XP. Yeah but it seems they're sneaking in UI elements from the mobile versions of the OS'es. They did the same for the Mac version: https://github.com/blog/878-announcing-github-for-mac https://github.com/Bi

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-05-22 Thread Nick Sabalausky
>>>> being »the >>>> easiest way to use Git on Windows«, it might be interesting to some of >>>> you who prefer to rather not be bothered with the inner workings of >>>> Git. >>>> >>>> The release announcement is at: >>&g

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-05-22 Thread Ary Manzana
On 5/22/12 3:41 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2012-05-22 09:50, Nick Sabalausky wrote: See, that must be the problem, I only like crazy insane stuff ;) I actually did spend about a year using an OSX machine as my primary system, and was even impressed *at first*. Then I grew to hate it (It's no

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-05-22 Thread Alex Rønne Petersen
elease announcement is at: https://github.com/blog/1127-github-for-windows. Finally! I still don't understand what posessd them to do a Mac version first. Nobody uses Mac. I don't know if that was sarcasm or what, but... GitHub is used by a lot of RoR people (and is written in RoR), a

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-05-22 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2012-05-22 09:52, Nick Sabalausky wrote: Ever since PalmOS was killed off, there's been no such thing as a sane platform ;) There are some sane platforms but not any good ones. -- /Jacob Carlborg

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-05-22 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2012-05-22 09:50, Nick Sabalausky wrote: See, that must be the problem, I only like crazy insane stuff ;) I actually did spend about a year using an OSX machine as my primary system, and was even impressed *at first*. Then I grew to hate it (It's now sitting, totally dead, six feet behind me

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-05-22 Thread Nick Sabalausky
"Jacob Carlborg" wrote in message news:jpffa9$99a$1...@digitalmars.com... > On 2012-05-21 21:25, Nick Sabalausky wrote: > >> Finally! >> >> I still don't understand what posessd them to do a Mac version first. >> Nobody >> uses Mac. > > It's the only sane platform :) > Ever since PalmOS was kil

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-05-22 Thread Nick Sabalausky
"Jacob Carlborg" wrote in message news:jpffa9$99a$1...@digitalmars.com... > On 2012-05-21 21:25, Nick Sabalausky wrote: > >> Finally! >> >> I still don't understand what posessd them to do a Mac version first. >> Nobody >> uses Mac. > > It's the only sane platform :) > See, that must be the pro

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-05-22 Thread Jacob Carlborg
//windows.github.com/ Although I'm not sure if it really stands up to the promise of being »the easiest way to use Git on Windows«, it might be interesting to some of you who prefer to rather not be bothered with the inner workings of Git. The release announcement is at: https://github.com/blo

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-05-22 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2012-05-21 21:25, Nick Sabalausky wrote: Finally! I still don't understand what posessd them to do a Mac version first. Nobody uses Mac. It's the only sane platform :) -- /Jacob Carlborg

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-05-21 Thread Denis Shelomovskij
//windows.github.com/ Although I'm not sure if it really stands up to the promise of being »the easiest way to use Git on Windows«, it might be interesting to some of you who prefer to rather not be bothered with the inner workings of Git. The release announcement is at: https://github.com/blo

Re: [OT] Windows users: Are you happy with git? Github for Windows!

2012-05-21 Thread Alvaro
support was buggy at best. -Lars Announced today: Github for Windows! https://github.com/blog/1127-github-for-windows

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-05-21 Thread Nick Sabalausky
"Adam Wilson" wrote in message news:op.weodtepe707...@invictus.skynet.com... > >Having been the MS Build conference it is pretty obvious to me that they >are trying to build a 'Metro' or WinRT compatible UI. Given their love of >all things Apple, this would make sense as WinRT is MS's response

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-05-21 Thread Adam Wilson
ther not be bothered with the inner workings of Git. The release announcement is at: https://github.com/blog/1127-github-for-windows. Finally! I still don't understand what posessd them to do a Mac version first. Nobody uses Mac. Jesus, it's almost as bad as their web interface. I d

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-05-21 Thread Nick Sabalausky
be interesting >>> to some of you who prefer to rather not be bothered with the inner >>> workings of Git. >>> >>> The release announcement is at: >>> https://github.com/blog/1127-github-for-windows. >>> >> >> Finally! >> >> I st

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-05-21 Thread Nick Sabalausky
>>> who prefer to rather not be bothered with the inner workings of Git. >>> >>> The release announcement is at: >>> https://github.com/blog/1127-github-for-windows. >>> >> >> Finally! >> >> I still don't understand what posess

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-05-21 Thread Nick Sabalausky
ithub.com/ >> >> Although I'm not sure if it really stands up to the promise of being »the >> easiest way to use Git on Windows«, it might be interesting to some of >> you who prefer to rather not be bothered with the inner workings of Git. >> >> The release an

Re: GitHub for Windows

2012-05-21 Thread Alex Rønne Petersen
ng »the easiest way to use Git on Windows«, it might be interesting to some of you who prefer to rather not be bothered with the inner workings of Git. The release announcement is at: https://github.com/blog/1127-github-for-windows. Finally! I still don't understand what posessd them to do

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