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Show HN: A simple library for saving JS objects in Windows 8

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Almost entirely OT, but I had a chance to play around with a Lenovo Yoga yesterday. It was the first time I really "got" Windows 8, and how the marriage of desktop+tablet+mobile OSes could be fantastic. I'm in the market for a new laptop and am sorely tempted to make it the Yoga... except that I know I would sorely miss a POSIX terminal. Some Windows legacy is clearly more difficult to get rid of than others.

Console2 + Unix Utils + Cygwin

Cygwin comes with its own mintty terminal these days. No need for console2.

I tried to figure it out from MSDN and couldn't, so maybe someone here knows something I don't:

Is there any functional difference between LocalSettings and LocalStorage in terms of capabilities? I see the use case for file storage, of course, for special purposes; I see the use case for IndexedDB, for more powerful object storage; I see the use case for RoamingSettings, which syncs between Windows 8 devices; but I don't see the use case for LocalSettings when LocalStorage already exists (or vice versa).

It seems to me that the only reason that they're both usable in WinJS apps is because one comes from the .NET APIs and one comes, of course, from the HTML5 APIs, and no one ever stopped to think they might be redundant.

Of course, I could be totally wrong. MSDN isn't exactly illuminating on this matter, nor on, well, anything related to WinJS.

Oh, and an aside - if anyone's looking for a nice wrapper for IndexedDB that plays nice with WinJS, give db.js (http://aaronpowell.github.com/db.js/) a shot.

Caution: "Do whatever you want with it" is not a license.

I'd suggest the Unlicense (http://unlicense.org/). It at least has a warranty disclaimer.

Makes sense to me. I updated the source with the unlicense.

'Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License' has a paragraph excluding warranty. Just copy and paste it: http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/

Please explain me, as a completely impartial outsider, in plain words, how " do whatever you want with it" is not a license.

The simple explanation is that, legally speaking, "do whatever you want with it" does not necessarily entitle you to do whatever you want with it.

In addition to what Cushman said, find out the results of Dr. Richard Hipp (sqlite creater) about putting his software in the public domain. Some countries don't have a similar concept, some companies need explicit permission, etc. It would be easier if they simply chose a very permissive license to use.

It would be easier if they simply chose a very permissive license to use.

Only in a world where people's mindset has been ruined by copyright would it be simpler to license something than giving it away.

I understand the idealistic view. That doesn't negate what I said, however.

incidentally - fopen still works if you want to clean out the MS enforced sloppy parallelism and do your own - or even not be asynchronous...

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