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Hydra: Rendezvous-Enabled Text Editing
Tokerat writes "It's incredible what some people dream up. A recent post on MacSlash brought this little gem to my attention, and I have a feeling some of you fellow /.ers will be screaming to get your hands on this: Hydra is a Rendezvous-enabled text editor, which allows several people to edit a text document at the same time. Imagine doing some extreme programming with this, with one person writing code and another following the first and correcting their mistakes & making optimizations simultaneously? It already works with Apple's Project Builder, supports syntax coloring, and the ability to manage access on a per-document basis. Future improvements will include support for RTF and much tighter integration with Project Builder. It looks to me like these guys are really on to something here."
apple sucks? yes it really does.
America is for fat faggots and dumb cunts.
I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Mac (a 8600/300 w/64 Megs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Mac, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this file transfer, Netscape will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even BBEdit Lite is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Macs, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Mac that has run faster than its Wintel counterpart, despite the Macs' faster chip architecture. My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this 300 mhz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the Macintosh is a superior machine.
I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Mac over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.
Why does this deserve mention on /.? Does every new program that works with Rendezvous get /. story mention? My friend wrote a Rendezvous mp3 client. Lets post it to the front page!
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fuck VersionTracker, those goddamned greedy bastards... instead, get Hydra right here:
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/11321
I want to kill this attempted buzz word. Every time I hear it I think of some ass clown sitting at a desk, typing away as he slides through a halfpipe. If one of you buggers break a finger from typing so much, or get injured in a fire cause by programming just that damn fast, then you might be allowed to re-instate it... until then, there's nothing extreme about it.
Besides, it was only invented by some asshat who thought he would pick up chicks if he slapped extreme in front of his job title, when in fact, all he really did was sit at a desk and write code, probably poorly.