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Scott seems to be very excited about this and very happy that he can formally declare himself to be a developer and have it done with, but I can't disagree more
by freehunter 10y ago
Scott seems to be very excited about this and very happy that he can formally declare himself to be a developer and have it done with, but I can't disagree more. You shouldn't have to formally declare yourself as a developer, because there are a lot of developers and programmers and power users who are not formally developers. If I click "developer mode" and I formally declare myself as a developer, that's a lie because I am not.
I've won awards at work before for creating scripts to automate a certain part of our team's workflow, saving hours each time we have to perform a certain action. But if I was a formal developer, that would just be my job. I'd get no special recognition for it. But I did get special recognition, because I am not a developer by trade.
I don't want to make a formal declaration that I am a developer because formally, I am not. But I'd like to side load apps, see the full path, use Remote Desktop (is that a developer thing? Always seemed like more of a sysadmin thing, I use it every day) and keep my PC awake all the time.
None of those things are developer-specific features. None of them include "install gcc++" or "download Visual Studio" or "change Notepad to vim". What I'd rather make is a formal declaration that I own this computer, not that I am a software developer.
- edit - apparently everyone replying to me failed to read the article. My response is not to Microsoft's decision to call it "developer mode" but Scott's decision to call it a "formal declaration that I'm a developer".
- Someone1234 10y ago"Formal declaration?" You're literally ticking a per user settings box tied to your Windows Account. Nobody is asking to declare anything formally or otherwise. They could call it "Power User Mode" but then every gamer would tick it because they think they're more computer literate than most of them are. Better to keep the name as Developer Mode simply to discourage a certain subset of users from thinking it is for them (this has proved effective on Android, where hiding the developer settings kept the self proclaimed "power users" out). > None of those things are developer-specific features. It allows sideloading apps, debugging apps, USB & network remote debugging, and USB & network remote debug discovery.
- freehunter 10y agoPlease read the article, specifically the part where the author says: "it's got amazing potential, again as a formal declaration that I am a developer."
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- ade2 10y agoIt's just a checkbox that's called "developer mode", it's not really the same as formally declaring yourself a developer. The important and interesting thing here is that there is a general power-user mode with shortcuts for people who know about advanced computer usage. That you own the computer is not a good measure of your capabilities with it, that would probably be a pretty confusing checkbox for the vast majority of users. I guess you have a point about the naming, but it needs to be (from msft point of view) some kind of name that doesn't tempt non-technical people to enable it.
- freehunter 10y agoDid you read the article? Where Scott, the author, said verbatim: "it's got amazing potential, again as a formal declaration that I am a developer." That's what I'm responding to.
- fsloth 10y agoDude, there's nothing formal in ticking a box. Sure, they could have called it the 'gizmo mode' as well.