3 hours ago, wastingtime​withforums wrote

One of the most popular videos on Youtube right now, no joke:

 

235.000 views and 25.000 comments within a day.

That was scary and funny as heck.

here's an excerpt:

48 seconds ago, wastingtime​withforums wrote

LAMP was the de-facto standard before ASP.NET even appeared. ASP.NET was taking marketshare away from it, until 2009.

No no no. Are you talking about the spike which begun around 2005? That's because some idiot at microsoft didn't understand the reasons for the trendline and decided to get EVERY PARKED DOMAIN on a Microsoft server, boosting the market share artificially which lasted for a few years.

EDIT: It seems what hurts Microsoft the most is their mangers. I predict that when the ratio of engineers/MBAs at Google will sway the Microsoft way, it will be done with also.

http://vimeo.com/53237950

CAVEAT: That guy isn't  EDIT: wasn't the sharpest pencil in Microsoft, let alone in development/computers, but he seems to have inside knowledge

I even heard mossyblog, which worked for MSFT (silverlight...), say that Azure was a reaction to the widespread rise of LAMP. Cannot find the reference right now, but it goes like this: MS execs, facing total domination of the LAMP stack in the hosting environment, said we have no choice but to pull our sleeves and do it ourselves. 

(I'm having a blackout, cannot recall where I found this, so apologies if this was posted)

43 minutes ago, kettch wrote

My problem with Web Forms was always that it helps you get some things done quickly and easily, but sometimes it makes minor tweaks excruciatingly hard.

*snip*

When I was using Microsoft tools, they use to say that about VB.

SL fans were busy FUDing the entire world including Microsoft instead of just pleading with Microsoft to truly open dotnet/Silverlight.

Its the same here. Instead of pleading with Microsoft to stop suing linux/android, which i have a feeling will solve this issue, WP users are busy tarnishing Google. Good luck with that.

http://www.zdnet.com/google-to-microsoft-blocking-ads-with-windows-phone-youtube-app-is-a-no-no-7000015457/

Love the angry comments from WP fans, talk about fanboys...

3 days ago, evildictait​or wrote

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In answer to your question, if all of the clever things that Microsoft made aren't very clever and you cannot do useful things with them, why doesn't Google stop giving Microsoft lots of money and make clever things themselves?

Either Microsoft is doing all of the clever inventing for Google, and so Google should pay Microsoft for all of the scientists making clever ideas, or Google should spend all of that money making their own clever ideas instead of paying Microsoft for the clever ideas that Microsoft made.

Simple.

Sorry I didn't see it before, but you 100% right!

Now the world has seen Google's plan:

1. Copy Microsoft patents
2. make products
3. Profit (usually it's the last step, but wait)
4. Google employees have so much spare time due to this plan, make them create things like http://mashable.com/2013/05/14/type-atari-breakout-google/

EDIT: Sorry there no 'cheevos' in the title.

6 hours ago, evildictait​or wrote

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In answer to your question, if all of the clever things that Microsoft made aren't very clever and you cannot do useful things with them, why doesn't Google stop giving Microsoft lots of money and make clever things themselves?

Either Microsoft is doing all of the clever inventing for Google, and so Google should pay Microsoft for all of the scientists making clever ideas, or Google should spend all of that money making their own clever ideas instead of paying Microsoft for the clever ideas that Microsoft made.

Simple.

I don't mean to sound disrespectful, but:

How old are you?

2 hours ago, Bass wrote

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Just as I was about to post a thoughtful reply addressing your post I suddenly caught on to this. I read it a few times, forming bigrams and trigrams with the sentences around it, trying to find any sense of self-referential irony. But I couldn't find any.

I begin trying to establish a decision tree of some sort that from your perspective would end up with running Linux on Hyper-V given a feature vector of known inputs. But I couldn't find any.

Why is this relevant? The situation is that these perplexity surrounding this statement especially, but not exclusively when taken in combination to the rest of your post has me lose the will to reply to your points. I am very sorry cbae and wish you well with your future efforts.

 

Bass, time to go to sleep, or to go to work, or something 

This is not you

http://jonathanischwartz.wordpress.com/2010/03/09/good-artists-copy-great-artists-steal/

TLDR: Gates and Ballmer come to Sun's HQ, threat lawsuit over OpenOffice, Sun says great, we'll sue you over .net, Gates and Ballmer go back with their tail between their legs.

Gosh, how I hate Bill Gates.

BTW, A query like "jonathan schwartz patents microsoft", works much better in Google then Bing. The long tail...

12 minutes ago, Bass wrote

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I would say ASP.NET MVC was a response to the exploding popularity of MVC design in stuff like Struts, RoR, and Django.

The list of RoR-inspired tools is quite long... I wouldn't hold that against MS

34 minutes ago, Sven Groot wrote

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Why would Microsoft have created .Net versions of tools before .Net was even invented?

And I can't really think of any tool using that naming scheme (most of them are ports of Java stuff) that was actually made by MS themselves. NAnt, NUnit, NHibernate, NDoc, etc., they were all third party projects.

Since (1) i don't touch dotnet with a pole (2) getting old, i wasn't referring to these

23 hours ago, evildictait​or wrote

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Anyway, it's not as if there isn't a metric crap-ton of tools you can use to write web-applications on Windows. Hell, you can even write one in Notepad, as so many people here tell us so frequently. That's the whole point of the web, right? 

These tools (yeoman and grunt and sass and haml etc.) are build tools. They are important. If it was 90's, Microsoft would have created nyeoman, ngrunt, nsass and nhaml

3 minutes ago, ScanIAm wrote

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You don't supply enough context for us to know if the puppy did, indeed, have it coming, so it's possible.

Forgot to mention, the puppy had an android chip in it