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Or $299 a year for the Apple Developer Program just for the great honor to be able to develop for that platform...
$299 a year? It is $99.
$99 plus 15-30% of everything you create.
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#542It's kind of mind-blowing to see how well Microsoft has navigated the Next Big Thing (AI) waters compared to Google, whose bread and butter is (was?) AI/ML. Microsoft seems to have positioned themselves extremely well not only to be a leader in the space moving forward, but also to completely change the space. That's the mark of a great leader and it's exciting to see someone taking the reins whose not afraid to shif…
Bard is very underwhelming if you've used GPT-4.
Between search being trash and now even Maps being awful, I think it's time to stick a fork into Google. They need new leadership and they need it asap.
Re: GitHub Copilot X – Sign up for technical preview
#543There are 5 different sign-up waiting lists. Each one needs to be signed-up for separately. [1] Copilot X: https://github.com/github-copilot/chat_waitlist_signup/ [2] Copilot Voice: https://githubnext.com/projects/copilot-voice/ [3] Copilot Docs: https://githubnext.com/projects/copilot-for-docs/ [4] Copilot for PRs: https://githubnext.com/projects/copilot-for-pull-requests/ [5] Copilot CLI: https://githubnext.com/pro…
> [4] Copilot for PRs: https://githubnext.com/projects/copilot-for-pull-requests/ One minor nit for the Githubbers inevitably lurking in the comments: The confirmation message for [4] says that they'll contact you at [first email address listed on your account], not [primary email address listed on your account]. I hope that's just a display bug since I don't have access to the email I first created my account with (…
I had that problem too.
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Is there anyone doing more for open source today? I hear you, but it's clear they've changed that tune dramatically.
By monetising OSS and sidestepping copyleft licenses to suggest you the same code repackaged as part of proprietary autocomplete for which you pay MS and not original authors?
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or actively remove many reasons why people ended up trying out linux distributions in the past like e.g. universtity students needing to run programs which don't run on windows natively all the time, so many try out native Linux distros, some stay. Now all of them can just use WSL. Or like devs which need to develop for Linux servers etc. Basically they have accepted that windows server have failed and their server l…
I use macOS in large part because its a *nix OS under the hood. WSL gives a lot of that power to Windows.
Except it isn't, so e.g. running containers still need a VM.
I wish macOS had something like WSL built-in.
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Microsoft is a so well positioned on this I think Silicon Valley has forgotten what it looks like when they don’t have a horrible CEO. When Microsoft executes well, they’re a scary force. They were exceptional under Gates and it looks like they are again. There’s a massive paradigm shift we’re just at the beginning of and Microsoft has been putting pieces in place for the last couple of years. Nadella has really turn…
I wouldn't go so far as to say they're exceptional. They're gaining good graces for developers by offering a bunch of free (for now) tools that people like. But most of their big breadwinner software is still abysmal to use. I just tried cold starting Word and getting into a blank document on my i9 MacBook Pro and it took about 15 seconds. Windows is increasingly a dystopian user tracking and ad serving platform that…
You're complaining about 15 seconds? I can remember the Windows 3.x days when it took minutes to warm Word up.
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We forgot very quickly that there was an entire generation of developers who paid $1000-2000 or more for an MSDN subscription just as the base cost for doing business. This is what Microsoft does.
Did individual developers actually pay that? I’ve done quite a bit of development in the MS ecosystem and can’t recall anyone personally paying for MSDN. It was always through their employer that they got access.
Individual developers paying was always an insignificant volume. It was still within reach so devs could get it and be productive. As an example, the cost was fairly insignificant to the many .NET devs who jumped to SharePoint in the 2000s to keep their top rates. People give SP a hard time quite rightly, but as a revenue generator for devs in many markets with limited options, it was a very good choice.
It was priced and designed for companies to be buying as a bundle with other licensing. individual devs would frequently use some of the loopholes through licensing partners to commit to what was basically a three year subscription that spread the cost. For companies, it could mitigate some of the costs associated with the proliferation of environments that needed to be licensed from top-to-bottom. Later, these may stop being eligible for MSDN use and generate more revenue. License auditing was real and gave visibility into this usage.
VMware still have a program like this going for their admin user base. It gets recommended by the r/homelab folks who haven't adopted Proxmox.
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#548Earlier quoted context omitted.
Microsoft is a so well positioned on this I think Silicon Valley has forgotten what it looks like when they don’t have a horrible CEO. When Microsoft executes well, they’re a scary force. They were exceptional under Gates and it looks like they are again. There’s a massive paradigm shift we’re just at the beginning of and Microsoft has been putting pieces in place for the last couple of years. Nadella has really turn…
As a young developer, I always wondered why Google didn't buy Java from Sun. Wouldn't it be a strategic buy?
Google wasn't a big player when Oracle bought sun. Don't ever underestimate them. There is a reason Oracle of all companies is the government's pick to annex Tiktoc.
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Copilot user here. Copilot (the existing gpt-3 one) definitely helps at writing unit tests. Yeah, sometimes it doesn't nail it, but one thing it can do reliably is to repeat a pattern, and I don't know about you, but my unit tests tend to repeat the same pattern (with some tweaks to test this-or-that-case). Quite often it infers the correct change from the name I gave the test method, but even if it doesn't it'll wri…
> one thing it can do reliably is repeat a pattern Isn't this something we've built into every modern language(and arguably the entire point of languages)? If you have multiple pieces of code that share code with tweaks(to test this or that case for example), shouldn't you parameterize the bulk of the code instead of getting autocomplete to parameterize it for you and dump it into your source file multiple times?
Copilot helps me write parametrized unit tests. You might find this example useful: https://til.simonwillison.net/gpt3/writing-test-with-copilot
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#550I'm not impressed with this announcement. What I miss with Copilot is not reflected there: 1. Separate hotkeys to accept either single token from the suggestion or single line. Often Copilot tries to autocomplete 50 lines method which I'm not happy with. 2. Ability to edit existing text. It only inserts new text. I'd like something like multiple cursors or macroses working automagically by recognising similar text pa…
To your first point, `cmd + ` will accept the suggestion word by word.
Thanks!