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You seem to be excessively agitated by this thread. As per another sibling comment, I also tried to find the actual extension file that was the cause of this p

by Jedd 5y ago

You seem to be excessively agitated by this thread. As per another sibling comment, I also tried to find the actual extension file that was the cause of this problem -- and could not. It may well be a third party author, rather than direct from the infallible 'multi-trillion dollar company' (as if acquired wealth is any indication of quality). Having said that, I don't know why a) you're misinterpreting this as an attack on Microsoft Corp, and b) you're then being so personally affronted by it. To your initial snarky question: Everyone should have backups of all their important files, and this is never (solely) to protect them from the dangers of 'opening in a text editor', but to protect them from accidental corruption or loss from any cause. For a c++ developer, with at least one source file > 3k loc, who'd gone out of their way to install a c++ extension, and then enabled a pre-release flag for that extension, I'm supremely surprised they weren't ahead of the curve on this.

Shadonototra 5y ago
I am not agitated, i am baffled by the stupid recommendation of microsoft employees I don't use vscode myself, i pity the ones who have to use it -- > Everyone should have backups of all their important files, and this is never (solely) to protect them from the dangers of 'opening in a text editor', but to protect them from accidental corruption or loss from any cause. Nobody said they opened an important file, stop trying to make it sound like the user is stoopid What if you want to open a temp file you copy pasted from a blog post, you don't back up this, you can go back and copy/paste again, but the fact remains, the software is trash > For a c++ developer, with at least one source file > 3k loc, who'd gone out of their way to install a c++ extension, and then enabled a pre-release flag for that extension, I'm supremely surprised they weren't ahead of the curve on this. Yeah, again the user is the one to blame, not the stoopid software that is broken and needs pre-release flags to function correctly They can nuke my computer too because it is a "pre-release flag" after all, what, you don't backup your whole computer? you stoopid user Loosing time, being disrespected by software company who spit bloated trash at you and then blame you for trying to make said software a little bit better
- Jedd 5y ago
  > Nobody said they opened an important file, stop trying to make it sound like the user is stoopid Are you trying to say 'stupid'? I'm not asserting the user is stupid, but I am expressing bewilderment that someone with the requisite technical skills to be in the position they're in (refer my post above) would _not_ have their code in source control, and/or (better yet) backed up on a different machine. I'll also assert that anyone that states they wish to recover a file has, by definition, just assigned some importance to that file. If you read that guy's (TavakoliAli) later comments you'll see they don't have enough time to rewrite that file. At 3k lines, that's no wonder, but further confirms my point.

by Jedd 5y ago

Shadonototra 5y ago

I am not agitated, i am baffled by the stupid recommendation of microsoft employees I don't use vscode myself, i pity the ones who have to use it -- > Everyone should have backups of all their important files, and this is never (solely) to protect them from the dangers of 'opening in a text editor', but to protect them from accidental corruption or loss from any cause. Nobody said they opened an important file, stop trying to make it sound like the user is stoopid What if you want to open a temp file you copy pasted from a blog post, you don't back up this, you can go back and copy/paste again, but the fact remains, the software is trash > For a c++ developer, with at least one source file > 3k loc, who'd gone out of their way to install a c++ extension, and then enabled a pre-release flag for that extension, I'm supremely surprised they weren't ahead of the curve on this. Yeah, again the user is the one to blame, not the stoopid software that is broken and needs pre-release flags to function correctly They can nuke my computer too because it is a "pre-release flag" after all, what, you don't backup your whole computer? you stoopid user Loosing time, being disrespected by software company who spit bloated trash at you and then blame you for trying to make said software a little bit better

Jedd 5y ago
> Nobody said they opened an important file, stop trying to make it sound like the user is stoopid Are you trying to say 'stupid'? I'm not asserting the user is stupid, but I am expressing bewilderment that someone with the requisite technical skills to be in the position they're in (refer my post above) would _not_ have their code in source control, and/or (better yet) backed up on a different machine. I'll also assert that anyone that states they wish to recover a file has, by definition, just assigned some importance to that file. If you read that guy's (TavakoliAli) later comments you'll see they don't have enough time to rewrite that file. At 3k lines, that's no wonder, but further confirms my point.