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The interesting thing is this change was almost without a doubt done by some random developer at Microsoft rather than an institutional luminary for certain, an

The interesting thing is this change was almost without a doubt done by some random developer at Microsoft rather than an institutional luminary for certain, and yet here we judge the change based on the institution rather than who may have produced it.

maltalex 9y ago
The backwards-compatibility is probably an institutional thing. I've dealt with a Microsoft storage library for Java once that had an absolutely idiotic bug - you'd store a certain value, but would get something slightly different when retrieving it in 100% of cases [0]. I reported the bug and it was quickly fixed. But what amazed me was that the next version came out with a page long description [1] and analysis of the bug, its meaning for compatibility with other storage clients in different cases, the fix, and astonishingly a new flag you could enable if you want to keep retrieving screwed up values. [0]: https://github.com/Azure/azure-storage-java/issues/30 https://github.com/Azure/azure-storage-java/issues/30 [1]: https://github.com/Azure/azure-storage-java/wiki/Java,-Android-Storage-Client-Library-Date-Bug-Resolution https://github.com/Azure/azure-storage-java/wiki/Java,-Andro...
- tossaway1 9y ago
  > The backwards-compatibility is probably an institutional thing. And the apparent routing of all bug reports and feature requests to /dev/null -- er, the recycling bin -- certainly seems to be an institutional thing. I have no doubt that thousands of their paying customers have complained about this to Microsoft over the years and it had to have been ridiculously simple to address.
notatoad 9y ago
I have a really hard time believing that this is the first time some random developer at ms has gotten fed up with notepad's lack of line ending support and tried to do something about it. This is the first time Microsoft has actually released it though. And that's an institutional thing.

maltalex 9y ago

The backwards-compatibility is probably an institutional thing. I've dealt with a Microsoft storage library for Java once that had an absolutely idiotic bug - you'd store a certain value, but would get something slightly different when retrieving it in 100% of cases [0]. I reported the bug and it was quickly fixed. But what amazed me was that the next version came out with a page long description [1] and analysis of the bug, its meaning for compatibility with other storage clients in different cases, the fix, and astonishingly a new flag you could enable if you want to keep retrieving screwed up values. [0]: https://github.com/Azure/azure-storage-java/issues/30 https://github.com/Azure/azure-storage-java/issues/30 [1]: https://github.com/Azure/azure-storage-java/wiki/Java,-Android-Storage-Client-Library-Date-Bug-Resolution https://github.com/Azure/azure-storage-java/wiki/Java,-Andro...

tossaway1 9y ago
> The backwards-compatibility is probably an institutional thing. And the apparent routing of all bug reports and feature requests to /dev/null -- er, the recycling bin -- certainly seems to be an institutional thing. I have no doubt that thousands of their paying customers have complained about this to Microsoft over the years and it had to have been ridiculously simple to address.

notatoad 9y ago

I have a really hard time believing that this is the first time some random developer at ms has gotten fed up with notepad's lack of line ending support and tried to do something about it. This is the first time Microsoft has actually released it though. And that's an institutional thing.