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Re: Thank you, GitHub

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Post by sleepycatgirl »

dirkg wrote: post #368
yepthatsreality wrote: post #340

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It’s not FUD if Microsoft has a history of EEE. I’m rolling my eyes hard at your claim of VS Code as best in class. If the category is JS-powered code editors then I’ll surely give them that title. However BS Code has many flaws compared to other IDEs. One being that it’s restricted in performance by the language it’s written in. I don’t use those products so I must not be apart of everyone?

Have you used Atom, Sublime etc? VS Code is far better than them, and its an actual IDE. I don't know how much you work in JS but VSC is the defacto choice for everyone and has a million extensions while still being fast. If you don't work in that area then its understandable but you really shouldn't comment on it in that case. Its not competing with VS for instance.

Better than other? No. Best in some cases? Maybe.

There is never "Just Best". Its always very much subjective. And speed is not always everything, as long as it is fast enough. And for example.. For me, my use case, emacs is best. It can do anything. It is best as Swiss Army knife, because it can do anything. JS IDE? Sure here. Clojure? Here you go boss. Haskell? Hell yeah. Especially, since introduction of LSP stuff (Emacs LSP and Eglot). Simultaneously it can do IRC, note taking, literate programming, statistics, and much more, like remote editing with TRAMP. So in that case, it is best.

But is it best as just Java IDE? Absolutely not.

Re: Thank you, GitHub

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Post by arvindamirtaa »

reasonabl_human wrote: post #404
ghuntley wrote: post #282

In case people missed it. There was two promotions today. A new CEO at GitHub and the person GitHub reports to a MSFT also got promoted. Here’s the internal msft email https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29098640 This person at MSFT who got promoted is the one that caused the problems in the dotnet community where features that had a go-live RTM license (as in merged and ready for long term support) were removed fro…

Implying GitHub in its current form will die and functionality will gradually switch over to Az DevOps? Or what am I missing here..

Very unlikely! That'll be enough motivation for most OSS projects to move far far away!

Re: Thank you, GitHub

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Post by FpUser »

alvarlagerlof wrote: post #427
FpUser wrote: post #351

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I use Visual Studio to develop software ( C++ ) for Windows and Linux targets. I do not find it slow and rather than being "pain" it is actually way above other development IDEs in my opinion.

What's your cold boot time?

Ok, just rebooted PC. Less than 2 seconds from clicking VS icon till the first prompt asking what do I want to do. After that again less than 2 sec to open previous project.

Mind you this is first restart of Visual Studio in however many days had passed since the last update. Hence "cold boot time" is largely irrelevant to me.

I value VS for reasons other than "cold boot time". IntelliSense and debugging features weigh way more in my decision to keep VS as my main development tool for C++.

All my C++ servers are multiplatform: Linux/Windows. Usually I develop and debug on Windows and deploy on Linux. Deployment on Linux is handled by simple script that pulls from repo, builds and runs tests. However if needed VS can deploy, compile and debug straight on remote Linux server. I use this feature sometimes.

Re: Thank you, GitHub

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Post by fishtacos »

notriddle wrote: post #301
fishtacos wrote: post #138

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"The speaker's agency is,limited to choosing which formulae to choose, and filling in the predefined slots in them." Sometimes it's better to say nothing at all than be thought a fool.

"Nate, after stepping down as the CEO of GitHub, has declined to comment." Yeah... what message do you think that would send.

Toward whom?

Re: Thank you, GitHub

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Post by yepthatsreality »

arp242 wrote: post #430
yepthatsreality wrote: post #424

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You purchase the rights.

EEE is about making standards and protocols incompatible with competitors. This literally cannot apply to Skype as it was never compatible with anything. I don't know what part of that is so hard to grasp. You seem intent on using your own definition of "every bad decision Microsoft ever made" or some such.

I never indicated that the definition couldn't include open implementations, just that the definition wasn't limited to ONLY openness. There are plenty of examples of this behavior not even exclusive to Microsoft. Proprietary products can build on an open protocol and attempt to change it, sometimes for the worse.

I didn't bring Skype into this, so I'm not going to comment on it as an example.

Re: Thank you, GitHub

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Post by fragmede »

depressedpanda wrote: post #367
fragmede wrote: post #267

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Which, btw, was also thanks to the EFF. Their mission is occasionally murky these days, but their part in the subsequent restoration of youtube-dl in the face of a DMCA takedown is not to be ignored or forgotten. https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2020/11/2020-11-1...

In what way is their mission occasionally murky?

In the face of widely popular de-platforming of some individuals, it's not clear to me what the EFF's position should be. I don't want them to ignore current affairs (aka how to counter cultish indoctrination of people with totally bonkers lies like "the covid vaccine has a microchip in it") while at the same time preserving the freedom of speech we believe in (in the US).

Re: Thank you, GitHub

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Post by mehrdada »

toyg wrote: post #420
mehrdada wrote: post #402

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This characterization is ridiculous. Following the form does not make you “somewhat democratic,” nor does calling oneself Democratic People’s Republic. In addition, “the secular executive branch” comment is flat out wrong. The executive branch and candidates for presidency are explicitly obligated to believe and follow Islamic and Sharia laws.

> Following the form does not make you “somewhat democratic,” In practice, there have been elected presidents that the religious element did not really like. They did not last, and were sabotaged at every turn, but they existed. Iran is a big country and it contains a number of different power-centres, unlike, for example, North Korea. > In addition, “the secular executive branch” comment is flat out wrong. Uh, no it…

> Uh, no it isn't

You are absolutely incorrect[1]. There are no ifs and buts. They absolutely positively require the candidate to assert they'd abide by Islamic law--there is not even a pretense of secularism. Which Islamic Republic lobby group did you get your propaganda from? I lived there for 20 years.

If you think you know better, please cite a reference to your egregious claims. Even Khamenei himself does not make some of the claims you are making.

[1]: https://rc.majlis.ir/fa/content/iran_constitution

Re: Thank you, GitHub

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Post by mehrdada »

SuoDuanDao wrote: post #426
mehrdada wrote: post #402

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This characterization is ridiculous. Following the form does not make you “somewhat democratic,” nor does calling oneself Democratic People’s Republic. In addition, “the secular executive branch” comment is flat out wrong. The executive branch and candidates for presidency are explicitly obligated to believe and follow Islamic and Sharia laws.

>The executive branch and candidates for presidency are explicitly obligated to believe and follow Islamic and Sharia laws. Oh come one. Is the US not a democracy because the executive branch and candidates for presidency are explicity obligated to believe and follow the constitution? As a Canadian I've personally benefited from the US hegemony and if I had to pick a least-rapacious global hegemon historically you'd…

> Is the US not a democracy because the executive branch and candidates for presidency are explicity obligated to believe and follow the constitution?

Did you just equate "following the US constitution" to "following Sharia law"?

Re: Thank you, GitHub

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Post by SuoDuanDao »

mehrdada wrote: post #438
SuoDuanDao wrote: post #426

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>The executive branch and candidates for presidency are explicitly obligated to believe and follow Islamic and Sharia laws. Oh come one. Is the US not a democracy because the executive branch and candidates for presidency are explicity obligated to believe and follow the constitution? As a Canadian I've personally benefited from the US hegemony and if I had to pick a least-rapacious global hegemon historically you'd…

> Is the US not a democracy because the executive branch and candidates for presidency are explicity obligated to believe and follow the constitution? Did you just equate "following the US constitution" to "following Sharia law"?

Yes.

edit: Wanted to leave it at that, but I should really clarify. I'm equating a group choosing the US constitution as their founding document with a group choosing Sharia law for the same purpose. If a person says they believe in democracy but doesn't believe in other people's right to make what looks like obviously bad decisions, they don't really believe in democracy.

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