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Post by OOPMan »

insane_dreamer wrote: post #566
jackosdev wrote: post #277

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vscode is an incredible piece of software, better than all the paid options in my opinion, the amount of features they pump out month to month is outstanding, just a bit slow due to electron. I never understood why they put so much effort into a free product that I run from Linux and Mac, but I'm happily paying the copilot subscription so it all makes sense now.

better than PyCharm for python?

Nope, but VsCode addicts are usually too cheap to try a paid-for tool like PyCharm

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naillo wrote: post #316
goldfeld wrote: post #303

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Almost a decade ago I jumped ship as a programmer for several reasons, and since '18 I am definitely not coding at all. Friends and family have wondered much at my path and letting go of what has become the one promised career for ever larger parts of the population, and making my inroads into the arts and literature, finally settling a bit with the profession of writing on many capacities. Now I look back more gadly…

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Post by LASR »

spookthesunset wrote: post #447
xxpor wrote: post #434

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the MSDN subscription was amazing for me to piggyback off of my dad as a kid though. access to essentially everything in MS's current and back catalog that was even remotely related to dev work, including OSes :)

The best was when you knew somebody who worked at microsoft and could get the company discount!

If you knew someone working at MSFT, you would just ask them for some free keys.

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Post by dotancohen »

csantini wrote: post #470
pastor_bob wrote: post #393

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$50+ in monthly subscription fees? BRB buying some MSFT

If you want it cheaper: https://how2terminal.com This is when I build a product and then Microsoft releases it three weeks later -_-

Your pricing is terrific. The free plan provides just enough daily queries to try it, and the monthly plan might be a good fit for a business.

I'm going to sign up for the free plan, not because I need such a tool, but rather so that my boss might see me using it and decide that it's worth $10 a month to her.

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Post by cscurmudgeon »

paxys wrote: post #407
pastor_bob wrote: post #393

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$50+ in monthly subscription fees? BRB buying some MSFT

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.

While building off of free open source. Perfect.

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Post by mynameisash »

zelphirkalt wrote: post #524
gonehome wrote: post #261

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They’re strategically exceptional, but beyond that a lot of their products (or subsidiaries) are also dominant for good reason (vscode, GitHub). O365 and the product integration there (teams) is why they crushed slack despite slack’s headstart. Slack sold out to languish at salesforce while Microsoft will now just own that space. Cherry picking a Microsoft app for macOS is like looking at iTunes on windows, it’s not…

Slack sucks, but if you compare it with Teams, it is still gold. If anyone asks me, whether I wulould rather join a voice chat on Slack or Teams, the answer is 100% of the time Slack. You never know what bugs Teams will cook up this time to ruin your call. O365 is a child's toy for non-professional document creation. Quickly hacking a document together maybe. Any normal non-web office suite blows O365 out of the wate…

A quick search turns up Office 2021[0], and I see no indication that offline Office is being discontinued.

And claiming that O365 is a toy? Literally the only other online office suite I've used or heard of is GDocs, which has a fraction of the functionality that I use from O365.

Your post doesn't sound serious at all to me.

[0] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/p/office-profe...

Re: GitHub Copilot X – Sign up for technical preview

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Post by skripp »

belorn wrote: post #429
SparkyMcUnicorn wrote: post #116

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When you sign up for CoPilot, there's a settings section on Github for it. One option you can toggle is "Allow GitHub to use my code snippets for product improvements *". Context still needs to be processed, so surrounding line, block, and a couple open tabs gets piped into the prompt. And here's a quote from the privacy page. > Depending on your preferred telemetry settings, GitHub Copilot may also collect and retai…

What is the default?

To share. But it's a very obvious check-box.

Re: GitHub Copilot X – Sign up for technical preview

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Post by jeremyjh »

sh4rks wrote: post #437
bhj wrote: post #424

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I would much rather use it as a code review tool than become the code review tool. I suspect the latter will happen at a lot of companies, though.

Why? When the latter is just as effective but also much quicker?

It isn't just as effective for me. No matter how much I'd like to, I can't review code with the same thoughtfulness and thoroughness that I apply when I write it. I know the same is true for the people who have reviewed my PRs as well, but maybe its different for others. I do use Copilot but mostly it only generates one liners for me that save a little time.

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Post by dotancohen »

csantini wrote: post #470
pastor_bob wrote: post #393

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$50+ in monthly subscription fees? BRB buying some MSFT

If you want it cheaper: https://how2terminal.com This is when I build a product and then Microsoft releases it three weeks later -_-

What is `!-*f(6s6U8Q9b` here:

  const questionCriteria = {
    filter: '!-*f(6s6U8Q9b' // body_markdown and link
  }
I thought maybe it is a hard-coded CSS element name in StackOverflow answers, judging by the context, but it's not that. Could you shed some light on this?

Found in the How2 source file `how2/lib/how2.js`. Thanks.*

Re: GitHub Copilot X – Sign up for technical preview

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Post by jeremyjh »

bavila wrote: post #473
agentultra wrote: post #265

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It feels absurd. A Chat-GPT4 model will generate unit tests? Hallelujah! I hate writing tests! Yay! Except how do you know it's generating the right tests? Can it explain its reasoning? Unit tests are a weak form of automated specification. Why are we inferring our specifications from examples to begin with? Who is going to walk through the reasoning and verify these are the right tests and make sense and specify the…

> Can it explain its reasoning? Yes, actually, it can.

That's interesting, considering the fact that it doesn't do any reasoning. Sure, it can generate plausible sounding explanations, but it generates those just like it generates everything: one token at a time, based on the expected probability of that token appearing next if this text were found in the wild.
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