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Hackernews used to experience a collective paroxysm of joy every time a new Visual Studio Code dropped. There definitely was a pervasive belief that the Nadella
by bitwize 6mo ago
Hackernews used to experience a collective paroxysm of joy every time a new Visual Studio Code dropped. There definitely was a pervasive belief that the Nadella era ushered in a cuddly new Microsoft.
- danlugo92 6mo agoI remember a time, way back, around 2010 maybe?, where Microsoft was referred to as "M$" in this place and generally perceived as an evil corporation o.O
- hparadiz 6mo agoBoth things can be true. VSCode did help us get to the point where I can use it on Linux, MacOS, or Windows and have a lot interoperability. It's the typical cycle. All it takes is a couple people to get their hands on managing the code to turn anything into garbage.
- krupan 6mo agoLol, yep! That actually goes way back before 2010. It probably started in the early 90's, at least
- lstodd 6mo agoYup, and windows was generally called 'mustdie' back then.
- isityettime 6mo agoMost likely more a difference of venue. I saw lots of that on Slashdot. Less of it on Digg or Reddit. Virtually none of it here, but it seems to be making a resurgence in the form of "Macroslop" and related epithets
- bitwize 6mo agoThis was later—into their We U+2764 Open Source era. M$ and stuff dates from like the mid-late 90s. In the late 2010s was when they started publicly acknowledging that open source exists, acquiring GitHub, and releasing things like .NET Core and Visual Studio Code, and a lot of people in the open source camp did a "pointing soyjaks" and forgot that the Halloween Documents existed and that EEEing open source was already in their playbook.
- wetpaws 6mo ago[dead]
- jazzypants 6mo agoI still remember when he got hit with a pie on the face in the 90s [0] and the internet celebrated and made games. [1] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No%C3%ABl_Godin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No%C3%ABl_Godin [1] https://www.mobygames.com/game/2921/pie-bill-gates/ https://www.mobygames.com/game/2921/pie-bill-gates/
- bitwize 6mo agoCompletely unrelated to that incident, there was xbill: http://www.xbill.org/ http://www.xbill.org/