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Re: GitHub Discussions is out of beta

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Post by alberth »

cfeliped wrote: post #11
alberth wrote: post #4

Given that GitHub is a large Ruby on Rails app, I’m surprised we haven’t seen Microsoft doing more to improve the performance of Ruby language given they are one of a small handful of companies that have deep language/compiler talent. (Don’t take this as me knocking Microsoft. The speed of development on GitHub, VS Code and even Microsoft 365 has been phenomenal.)

VS Code is really great for the amount of features it has. GitHub is okay-ish. But Office 365? Teams is prob one of the worst apps I use nowadays. It consumes so much memory and cpu you would think it's actually mining crypto. Outlook is also a joke. Excel got better IMO. No strong opinions for other apps.

Re: Microsoft/Office 365 - I was referring to their development to shift to cloud first strategy. They still haven’t made online collaboration as seamless as Google yet - but given them not wanting to break backward (onprem/file) capability, they are doing a good job.

I do agree Teams is trying to be a jack of all trades master of none at the moment.

Re: GitHub Discussions is out of beta

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Post by seph-reed »

theptip wrote: post #15

Interesting. I wonder how this will interact with StackOverflow. On one hand, it will tend to give large projects with established communities a centralized location to handle questions which otherwise would be in a StackOverflow tag. Perhaps core developers would be interested in the community management features that Discussions offer, which would be harder to do in a world where questions get delegated to SO. And…

My gut reaction is that it looks a lot like centralization. And centralization almost always wins, and almost always for the worst reasons.

I can easily see peoples questions being buried/deleted/marked as "nofix" or other passive aggressive stuff like that.

I can easily see people who aren't on the project being less likely to have input than they would on SO.

I can also easily see a lot less discovery happening.

But all of these things that make a Q&A into yet another virtual fiefdom are exactly what will make it win out: it will be the developers own little fiefdom; they'll be there more.

Re: GitHub Discussions is out of beta

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Post by d0100 »

cfeliped wrote: post #11
alberth wrote: post #4

Given that GitHub is a large Ruby on Rails app, I’m surprised we haven’t seen Microsoft doing more to improve the performance of Ruby language given they are one of a small handful of companies that have deep language/compiler talent. (Don’t take this as me knocking Microsoft. The speed of development on GitHub, VS Code and even Microsoft 365 has been phenomenal.)

VS Code is really great for the amount of features it has. GitHub is okay-ish. But Office 365? Teams is prob one of the worst apps I use nowadays. It consumes so much memory and cpu you would think it's actually mining crypto. Outlook is also a joke. Excel got better IMO. No strong opinions for other apps.

> Outlook is also a joke

My Outlook sometimes flickers and instead of showing the email list, it shows the calendar. It only corrects itself after I mouse over

Re: GitHub Discussions is out of beta

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Post by joelbluminator »

alberth wrote: post #4

Given that GitHub is a large Ruby on Rails app, I’m surprised we haven’t seen Microsoft doing more to improve the performance of Ruby language given they are one of a small handful of companies that have deep language/compiler talent. (Don’t take this as me knocking Microsoft. The speed of development on GitHub, VS Code and even Microsoft 365 has been phenomenal.)

They contribute a lot to Rails though.

Re: GitHub Discussions is out of beta

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Post by jtl999 »

systemvoltage wrote: post #3

All these features infested with emojis and negative space makes SourceHut such a refreshing take at UX/UI that is utilitarian, straightforward, ultra-functional and zero-tolerance for trendy-designer-bullshit. Exactly what engineering tools should be like. Unfortunately, I am in the minority here and most people find the UX/UI of Sourcehut ancient, unadorned and bland - IMO that’s a feature, not a bug. Check it out:…

Does SourceHut support other change workflows than just email patches or has anyone else integrated such? (i.e a "PR" style module, Gerrit, etc.)

Re: GitHub Discussions is out of beta

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Post by kaycebasques »

Back when this first came out I pondered whether I could use it as a replacement for the comment section on technical docs. E.g. rather than putting a Disqus on the bottom of your doc, create a Discussion, and put a link to the Discussion at the bottom of your doc instructing readers to leave comments there.

Re: GitHub Discussions is out of beta

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Post by lights0123 »

kaycebasques wrote: post #27

Back when this first came out I pondered whether I could use it as a replacement for the comment section on technical docs. E.g. rather than putting a Disqus on the bottom of your doc, create a Discussion, and put a link to the Discussion at the bottom of your doc instructing readers to leave comments there.

With Issues (because Discussions weren't out yet when this was made) instead: https://utteranc.es/

Re: GitHub Discussions is out of beta

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Post by iamricks »

joelbluminator wrote: post #24
alberth wrote: post #4

Given that GitHub is a large Ruby on Rails app, I’m surprised we haven’t seen Microsoft doing more to improve the performance of Ruby language given they are one of a small handful of companies that have deep language/compiler talent. (Don’t take this as me knocking Microsoft. The speed of development on GitHub, VS Code and even Microsoft 365 has been phenomenal.)

They contribute a lot to Rails though.

yup Github and Shopify are a big part of RoR

Re: GitHub Discussions is out of beta

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Post by ksec »

alberth wrote: post #4

Given that GitHub is a large Ruby on Rails app, I’m surprised we haven’t seen Microsoft doing more to improve the performance of Ruby language given they are one of a small handful of companies that have deep language/compiler talent. (Don’t take this as me knocking Microsoft. The speed of development on GitHub, VS Code and even Microsoft 365 has been phenomenal.)

I think they are still operate pretty much like a separate entity. But yes, I really wish there are at least 2 full time compiler developer at Github working on RubyVM.
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