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"Another common culprit on my machine is sqlservr.exe. I think this was installed by Visual Studio but I’m not sure. I’m not sure if it is being used or not."
by dfc 13y ago
"Another common culprit on my machine is sqlservr.exe. I think this was installed by Visual Studio but I’m not sure. I’m not sure if it is being used or not."
Is this attitude still prevalent in the windows community? I thought things had improved on that front.
Its worth pointing out that "the highest frequency wins" is not an example of "tragedy of the commons."
- overgard 13y ago"the windows community". Huh. Do you really think such a thing exists? (I'm just kidding; of course it does. We meet monthly and talk about ways to snuff out free software, as is our way).
- dfc 13y agoI realize the phrase was a little awkward. As I was writing the comment I struggled with finding the appropriate phrase that would not sound diminutive. I thought awkward was preferable to diminutive.
- rictic 13y agoUm, what? Of course there's a windows community, in every sense of the word. There are magazines, conferences, and forums for windows programming and windows programmers. There are trends, fads, and innovations. .. and there are practices that are commonly found on windows programming that are beyond the pale in other environments (loading your app into memory every time the machine starts, installing malware during setup, etc).
- astrodust 13y ago"Windows ecosystem" is perhaps a better term.
- eksith 13y agoIt's fairly common among a lot of developers, sadly. Linux/OSS folks are less prone to it, but I've seen kitchen sink setups there as well. An old colleague used to joke: "Developers should never have fast machines". Point being, they'll appreciate every spare CPU cycle and byte of memory available.