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Re: The Galaxy Note 7 is miles ahead of the iPhone

maxpert — Sat, 13 Aug 2016 15:37:08 -0000

While Samsung is really good at making devices
with new stuff, they tempt you with wow factor they never give enough
attention to software. Now I don't know about rest of people here, the
reason I prefer Nexus over Samsung is because I get software
updates. I still have an iPhone 5C (that I used for app testing) and
just received an update few days back. I think if you are spending
$500-$1000 on a device you are expecting to use it for few years (3-5 years for me) atleast
and Samsung always under-performs on that front. So ya Samsung innovated again in selling you a feature you might never use, and fooled you into buying a device that won't last long to give me some money value, and let your crawl with sinfully dated OS.

Re: Outlook Groups for Windows Phone updated with new features

maxpert — Sat, 18 Jun 2016 04:07:08 -0000

Try this URL: https://www.microsoft.com/e...

Re: Outlook Groups for Windows Phone updated with new features

maxpert — Sat, 18 Jun 2016 03:29:49 -0000

It's for Windows 10 Mobile

Re: Outlook Groups updated with new user profile, more

maxpert — Fri, 16 Oct 2015 21:15:21 -0000

It does go to http://groups.outlook.com/ to get iOS and Android apps

Re: Elixir Cowboy with IIS 8

maxpert — Sun, 22 Feb 2015 16:08:20 -0000

So I went back and looked into details, seems like IIS is not the problem. IIS can easily beat nginx and apache problem seems to be with your Beam stack.

Re: Elixir Cowboy with IIS 8

maxpert — Sat, 21 Feb 2015 19:51:59 -0000

I wonder if this has something to do with the implementation on BeamVM itself. Because I've seen better numbers with Node.js on windows too. http://www.slideshare.net/w... points to performance comparison and I believe if node is doing good at 1000 reqs/sec so can Erlang/Elixir. My infamous Node on Nails post had benchmarks that were done on Windows machine http://www.creapptives.com/....

Re: Msgpack vs JSON in the jaws of compression

maxpert — Wed, 01 Oct 2014 11:13:57 -0000

Hey Akon,

Sorry for late reply I just noticed the issue something seems wrong with github GIST, here is link to Gist: https://gist.github.com/max..., I wonder why Gist embedding is failing on this post but it works on rest of the blog.

Re: A Document store with SQLite3 and Python

maxpert — Wed, 01 Oct 2014 11:08:33 -0000

I am planning to never got enough time on hand.

Re: BlackBerry Passport to Come with Largest Smartphone Battery on Market | Inside BlackBerry

maxpert — Sun, 20 Jul 2014 19:38:51 -0000

Sorry dude my wife has Huawei Ascend Mate 2 and it's battery is 3900mAh I can't believe a Chinese manufacturer can beat your corporate phone ass.

Re: Writing a 70 line JS Router - Ecstortive

maxpert — Wed, 25 Dec 2013 01:32:49 -0000

If you have seen demo and looked at its code you would observe jQuery listening to Native browser events; basically you can use it with any framework, plus you can use framework if you are in vanilla JS mode. I agree almost all frameworks do it in a custom made way for cross-browser compatibility but after IE 9 I don't see a reason of not using native events.

I agree on one thing though I should have triggered events in window object rather than document but It didn't matter either ways both are single instances and both are globally singular with no duplicate instances.

The basic idea is to prove that route parsing and triggering can be done under lesser lines of code.

Re: Zohaib

maxpert — Sun, 08 Sep 2013 05:30:00 -0000

Hey thanks for feedback. I think I didn't explained myself properly if I am "redesigning" or just taking a step back. I am basically throwing out how would I've take best of the worlds we know Search, Unity, and Tiles. Now you can call it reskin but it's basically desktopification (look I just made a term up) of what has been envisioned (not questions on good bad part).

If you are a close observer you would notice when you hover your cursor over the icon in windows taskbar (from Win 7 onwards) it fills it by selected major average color from application icon. Use that method to get tile color, making it transparent is totally simple draw rounded rectangle with inner a gradient from lighter tone to darker tone (just a change in saturation) 45 degrees, and set its opacity to 70% (literally the method I used to do it).

Live tiles with images, take your image mask it in rounded rectangle of required size set opacity to 70%, slap text inside with Calibri font. Cherry on the top would be blurring out background just like we had in Windows using aero effect.

There are only 2 thoughts in this UI let me state them again:
- Task bar is a vital part when you are in desktop, I hate hitting my cursors in corners for different things, put everything where it should have been in first place.
- Don't take away Modern tiles, yet integrate them into a familiar language.

Thanks for having such a close look :)

Re: Zohaib

maxpert — Thu, 05 Sep 2013 12:31:07 -0000

Thanks for critique and viewing, for Netflix tile its just prove the concept showing Tiles may have only icon and no text. I agree Profile picture should have been rounded.

Re: A Document store with SQLite3 and Python

maxpert — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 16:51:43 -0000

LOL I mean to say the other way around SQLite3 ships built-in into the newer Python versions. And there are 2 primary motivations I think, 1 embedded means no extra configuration just import and start using code; 2 even during development structure free documents help you until your schema is not consistent and constantly adding fields to itself. I won't go into the discussion of why structure free is useful and when it is useful. Bottom-line is its always good to create option and let people be creative over it.

Re: The browser script tags

maxpert — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 16:18:56 -0000

I think that's what OS theory was once, everything in single binary but if you look at even Linux today it builds itself on modules today. I can see browsers taking the form of new generation of OSes (believe it or not its inevitable) and you do same shitty stuff even today; I don't think if we do it the right way we would have any issues with introducing languages as plugins.

Re: A Document store with SQLite3 and Python

maxpert — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 16:14:03 -0000

SQLite3 ships built-in with Python, having a pure Python library with no other dependencies makes more sense for small scale stuff rather than complicated compile dependencies of couchstore (snappy), fdb (which is not embedded BTW), or BSDDB (depreciated in 2.6 and removed in 3.0, and you have to do stuff manually again vs simply dropping in a file.
For unstructrued data question I would pose the same question on you in reverse manner. Why not unstructured data?

Re: Ecstortive: Redis needs a binary protocol now! - Blake Matheny

maxpert — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 11:27:06 -0000

This is pretty surprising. What backend client libraries (platform) are you using for Tumblr?

Re: Smoking Lucene on Redis

maxpert — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 15:16:25 -0000

Would be happy to open it up, but do post a link back so that people from here can actually go there too.

Re: Windows 8’s Greatest Sin

maxpert — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 13:25:16 -0000

I don't know why the hell people keep missing this point and I always have to state it at multiple places. Surface with vertical touch display = Gorilla arm! You can use it for brief periods like ATMs but prolongue usage will kill you! Given that it kills the "touch revolution" on Windows; and thanks to weird hybrid of Desktop + Tiles you will have uncomfortable zones on you "Browse to open" dialogues.
Now given the Gorilla arm effect + tiny close buttons to mess with in desktop mode my question is pretty simple, why not make a separate OS that tightly integrates with Windows 7? Yes keep it touch, keep it Metro, and strong integration but don't Efffing mess my Desktop!
I love the Apple approach on this, iOS separate OS no mess! Gives you tight integration. Plus also notice since the Lion how beautifully they inspired some really effective parts applicable on Desktop OS. Totally awesome! They didn't shipped Macbooks with touch screen, they know there darn moves! Microsoft right now sounds like set of excited technology enthusiast, not UX people!

Re: Speeding up your datastore with compression

maxpert — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 06:44:51 -0000

Lesser data to write always means an advantage, so bottom line to understand is how can you save some decent amount of bytes without wrecking too much of CPU.

Re: 3 year old shows exactly how hard it is to learn Windows 8

maxpert — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 13:09:09 -0000

He writes: "I read these tech pundits and journalists discussing how hard it’s gonna be for the general public to learn the new UI of Windows 8. Nonsense. ..."

My question who in the world at age of 3 would be interested in reading pundits and journalists :/

Re: Windows 8: Do the Pros Outweigh the Cons?

maxpert — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 12:27:37 -0000

@lockergnome you forgot to mention the Gorilla Arm http://en.wikipedia.org/wik... I see Microsoft and all other laptop manufacturers like MSI, Samsung, (and list continues) doing same mistake! You can't do prolonged touch interactions on screen like ATM!

Re: Python vs. Node.js for Cloud APIs

maxpert — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 01:50:00 -0000

Can you provide the Gist/Github of Rawr?

Re: Smoking Lucene on Redis

maxpert — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 14:18:00 -0000

Yep the latest version has properly supported locking, which means on Redis instances you can let multiple instances do indexing. Each of those Redis instances can in turn have a its replication slave of its own :)

Re: As Surface Goes on Sale, Microsoft Seeks to Reinvent the Tablet

maxpert — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 14:18:43 -0000

Yep my bad for missing it but I missed it maybe lots of good Android tabs have a better hardware already, and they are cheeper. My complaint for price still remains there.

Re: As Surface Goes on Sale, Microsoft Seeks to Reinvent the Tablet

maxpert — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 14:01:13 -0000

You: We support Windows 8.
Me: But its not working on my Surface.
You: Ooo yeah we don't support RT yet.

You: We support iOS
Me: Great I will download it :)

The great monopoly of Apple's App Store has its plus here. A naive user is usually more happy when complication is gone!