kibiz0r @ kibiz0r @lemmy.world

Posts

2

Comments

148

Joined

2 yr. ago

They learned their lesson with the old Visual Studio. Spending all of that money to maintain an IDE where the core 90% of it was no better than any open source or shareware alternative.

The only reasons people needed VS specifically were all features that could easily be turned into self-contained plugins.

And with everything turning into cloud services, there’s pretty much no point in trying to sell installable local apps that are impossible to fully DRM and have no justifiable subscription fees.

And when an enterprise goes to pick a cloud repo service, cloud code workspace, cloud hosting, devops system, AI development assistant, etc… Who are they gonna pick? Maybe the one from the same company that makes “that one app all our devs rave about”?

Their privacy policy says they don’t sell your data.

Not that you should automatically trust any communication platform (present Lemmies excluded), but exchange of data for services is at least not the business model on paper.

In a sense, you still “are the product”, because people won’t buy Nitro if there’s noone to talk to.

But that’s different from like… tracking micro-motions of your mouse to categorize your personality traits and increase ad conversions.

Origami is pretty fun and cheap, and can be taken to craft fairs I suppose. You can find guides pretty much anywhere, and you can start making cool-looking stuff right away without fancy materials.

You can use normal paper for the simpler stuff -- just cut it to square by folding it into a right triangle first and folding the little leftover on the one side and cutting it off (or ripping it carefully).

Thin paper helps for the more complicated pieces, and you can get cool-looking patterns... but it's totally not necessary to get started.

They’re camping the ghosts. Implying that the kids are about to die.

Genuinely free? VSCode

Freemium: Discord

You pay with your data: Google Maps

Like an X-Wing in the swamps of Dagobah.

1 search result

Github issue from 4 years ago

Self-closed after 3 days

No comments

🫠

To be fair: If you are chaining ternary expressions, you deserve to suffer whatever pain the language happens to inflict upon you tenfold.

The era of speculative investment in centralizing communication was not “the open web”, but rather an interruption of the open web.

VSCode with vim extension.

Move cursor with HJKL — right hand never has to leave home row.

Trackpad on the left side of the keyboard for smooth and RSI-free scrolling.

This is the way.

This is about the 40th most-upvoted comment on this post, and the FIRST comment I found that actually said something about the technical challenges.

Most of the above comments are like “iPhones show different colors based on OS? Weird. Seems dumb to care about that.”