I thought Windows 2000 was a typo.
What could it possibly be a typo of?
SQLook – A free online SQLite database manager with a Windows 2000 interface
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Re: SQLook – A free online SQLite database manager with a Windows 2000 interface
#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
Windows doesn't randomly lose characters or focus for me.
My problem with Windows today is it taking so long waiting for it to switch focus sometimes. If I don't artificially wait, a few keystrokes go to the previous target or off into the aether.
that's one of my issues with it, but forgot to specify - I really really hate clicking or typing and having to do it again.
Re: SQLook – A free online SQLite database manager with a Windows 2000 interface
#63The user experience is so (paradoxically) refreshing. Back then you could fit so much useful information and controls into a single screenful; interfaces responded instantly; it was easy to figure where things are and what I'm looking at. With "modern" UIs, you can't get a big picture of what you're working on because there is so much white space and scrolling; the application is slower than your fingers; with each a…
A lot of modern websites even add an intentional delay for buttons to respond or even load because it "looks nice."
Unsure what exactly counts as "looks nice" but I'll often add an intentional delay to buttons whose actions are near instantaneous but not great to do multiple times so that you don't accidentally click it twice.
Re: SQLook – A free online SQLite database manager with a Windows 2000 interface
#64That UI is... something else. Reminds me of some old database tools I used at Scout Forge, we even wrote some blog posts about similar ones. Think it's actually usable for anything beyond a quick peek?
Re: SQLook – A free online SQLite database manager with a Windows 2000 interface
#65The user experience is so (paradoxically) refreshing. Back then you could fit so much useful information and controls into a single screenful; interfaces responded instantly; it was easy to figure where things are and what I'm looking at. With "modern" UIs, you can't get a big picture of what you're working on because there is so much white space and scrolling; the application is slower than your fingers; with each a…
A lot of modern websites even add an intentional delay for buttons to respond or even load because it "looks nice."
This is an old practice suggested by HCI research going back decades
Re: SQLook – A free online SQLite database manager with a Windows 2000 interface
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> interfaces responded instantly I wish this nostalgic myth would die. Back in the Win 9x days we all had laughably slow spinning disks and hardly any RAM. Interfaces for simple programs like Minesweeper and Notepad were instant, sure. But anything heavy like Word, IE, Encarta, Visual Studio, etc. were definitely not. Most of those kinds of apps are way faster now than they were in the 90s, mostly thanks to SSDs. (Vi…
It is no myth. Go try a Windows 2000 system and compare it to today. Windows 2000 will respond a lot faster (often instant), even on complex applications.
I ran this test myself when another obsolete bit of Y2K kit recently fell into my hands: even with a 256Gb spinning-rust drive and 1Gb of RAM, just using Windows Explorer to copy, move, and delete files took a fraction of the time my main rig did.
And my main rig is a Dell T7920 running Win11 Pro for Workstations 24h2, with a Gen4 TLC NVMe directly attached to the Gen3 PCIe bus (at 7,000/6,900Mbps it can totally saturate its channel), 256Gb of 3200Mhz DDR4 LRDIMMs (4×32Gb), and dual 8C/16T Intel Silver 4110 CPUs.
By any measure, my current rig should have blown the Win2k machine out of the water. The Win2k machine did the file operations in HALF THE F**KING TIME
Re: SQLook – A free online SQLite database manager with a Windows 2000 interface
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And that's the "magic" that makes it so snappy and fast to load. I built a web-based game just like that and I am confident that my choice not to use any of the "modern web dev stack" is the reason I managed to hit my 60 FPS performance target on an iPhone 6s in 2024.
Show HN!
I'd have loved to, but because of its nature as a live game show with cash prizes, it required that the user signs up with their phone number, as a way to make botting and multi-account a bit harder. I know that wouldn't go over well with the audience here.
The game is no more, but maybe I could put together a little post talking about the more interesting problems I had to tackle, and showing the animations I am the most proud of. Maybe some day!
Re: SQLook – A free online SQLite database manager with a Windows 2000 interface
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
What could it possibly be a typo of?
Something relatively modern. Wasn't Win2k a failed product?
My point is, I don't know of anything modern that is spelled sufficiently similar to "Windows 2000" for the latter to be a plausible typo of it.
Windows 2000 was quite successful, and was the most reliable Windows version so far.