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Re:When I tell the Windows Terminal team something is simple... by mav88 on Friday May 06, 2022 @10:57AM (#31285934)
You're a liar. The entire thread on github [1] shows that it is a technical discussion about the unacceptably slow performance of virtual terminal sequences in Windows. Solutions are kicked around and debated until a Microsoft person steps in and calls what is essentially a weekend fix a 'doctoral research project' and accuses Casey of being 'combative'. Casey is rightly annoyed by this, closes the bug report and goes on to implement a proof of concept showing his blazingly fast approach that did indeed take a weekend. He's a good programmer, a good communicator and doesn't suffer fools gladly. This blog post merely proves he was right all along.

All your talk of 'narcissistic injury' and his personal motivations for anything is pure projection and tells me a lot more about you than about him. And yes, the New York Times is no better than reading Twitter.

[1] https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10362

Re:When I tell the Windows Terminal team something is simple... by ripley12 on Friday May 06, 2022 @11:44AM (#31286511)
Not a liar. Casey was being combative, and still is. He keeps mobilizing his entire community against a small team because 1 GitHub issue didn't go the way he wanted. I can't believe this is still going on.
Re:When I tell the Windows Terminal team something is simple... by mav88 on Friday May 06, 2022 @08:55PM (#31291185)
Yeah man, Casey just needs to leave poor Microsoft alone. Can't he see it's completely helpless against his good code and the people who follow him online?

I sometimes wonder if there are any adults on this site.

Re:When I tell the Windows Terminal team something is simple... by mrtranscendence on Friday May 06, 2022 @02:26PM (#31288316)
I don't believe Casey was being combative in the original thread, but ...

> And yes, the New York Times is no better than reading Twitter.

You're high as a kite if you believe that. Toking the dankest shit anyone's ever toked, long deep inhalations. You're dropping LSD you got from your friend's friend who you think is homeless and you're not sure what it's laced with. You're consuming craft psilocybin perfected in the lab to give the most detailed, most immersive hallucinations over hours and hours. You're babbling that you've seen God, that you know the secrets of the universe, that you're being bugged by the KGB, that your brother isn't really your brother but is an imposter who just looks and sounds exactly like your brother.

You're crazy.

Re:When I tell the Windows Terminal team something is simple... by mav88 on Friday May 06, 2022 @03:58PM (#31289087)
I'm a perfectly sane and sober individual, mrtranscendence. I think it's you who might need to ease up on the mind-altering stuff. Besides, I know the New York Times is a crock of shit because it's lied about me several times on its front page. So I have personal experience.
Re:When I tell the Windows Terminal team something is simple... by bfgoodrich on Friday May 06, 2022 @10:52AM (#31285858)
https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10362

The original discussion. There is absolutely nothing wrong with the way the Casey individual approaches it. At all. And yes it is simple. If your basic text terminal gets 30 FPS on modern hardware (or worse), you have started with a bad foundation. That is just gross.

The NYT commentary is a bit hilarious as you see that claim on here daily, repeatedly.

Re:When I tell the Windows Terminal team something is simple... by jodrellblank on Sunday May 08, 2022 @01:16PM (#31305986)
Your reply says it’s not rude it’s factual, and you defend it as factual by saying easy/hard is subjective with the skill of the developer (i.e. not factual), and you defend that it’s not rude by insulting the dev skills and calling them mediocre and laughable? And you don’t address the bit where he storms off in a huff when much less is said back to him?

Even if I agree it’s factually easy, walking up to someone and saying “walking is easy if you’re not a cripple, am I missing something?” is rude if the person is disabled and even more rude if they aren’t. “But they’re crippled! Fact!” doesn’t make it not-rude behaviour. He isn’t Linus Torvalds and even LT insulted devs on behalf of userland and good code and not just to make himself feel superior. And doesn’t have an eggshell thin skin.

Re:When I tell the Windows Terminal team something is simple... by jodrellblank on Saturday May 07, 2022 @12:51PM (#31296287)
nothing wrong?

> "Can you be more specific here about what you are talking about? While text output can be "hard", for some not particularly hard definition of "hard""

Insulting, dismissive, rude.

> "to me that a great deal of improvement could be made to the performance of the product if one were so inclined."

After someone said they'd been working on improving performance for 2 years and engaging in good faith with many detailed replies, someone who said they were dependent on changes in the OS which they couldn't make; to then insinuate that they just "weren't inclined" to make improvements is rude.

> "When we're at the stage when something that can be implemented in a weekend is described as "a doctoral research project", and then I am accused of "impugning the reader" for describing something as simple that is extremely simple, we're done. Consider the bug report closed."

Closing a bug report about performance which affects all users, an issue with many detailed comments from many people, because he's taken offense? And at something which was far less rude than the things he said to them in the same discussion? Prima-donna bullshit.

Re:When I tell the Windows Terminal team something is simple... by trapnii on Friday May 06, 2022 @03:58PM (#31289088)
> And yes it is simple.

I like. Please submit a PR and make Windows Terminal as fast as refterm, trivially speaking, 2GB/s, no slower than the unoptimized refterm. Just to quote you: simple.

:-D