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Re:How I Built a 'Journalist' AI Agent in VS Code to Replace Me on Friday February 27, 2026 @08:55PM (#47189033)
Having long ago seen the handwriting on the wall for the journalism profession with the debut of GenAI, I decided to just cut to the chase and build my replacement now.
Re:Beware Project-Wrecking GitHub Copilot Premium SKU Quotas on Friday February 20, 2026 @11:56AM (#47090522)
n the middle of an AI project, I unknowingly blew through my Copilot Pro quota and got auto‑downgraded. Output tanked, panic ensued, and my chat buddy and I had words. Moral: always read the fine print.
Re:Why Copilot's Auto Mode for AI Models Ignores Your Actual Task on Friday February 06, 2026 @03:29PM (#46917731)
Copilot's 'Auto' model picker in VS Code and Visual Studio currently routes to whatever model is most available and policy-compliant--not the one best matched to your prompt--while Microsoft/GitHub said in late 2025 that task-aware routing is planned but not yet shipped.
Re:What a Diff a VS Code Fork Makes: Antigravity, Cursor and Windsurf ... on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @05:09PM (#46878031)
Actually, they are now separate competitors: Google hired the original founders of Windsurf and licensed the tech to build Antigravity, while Cognition acquired the Windsurf brand and codebase. While they share a common origin, Antigravity is Google's Gemini-native evolution, whereas Windsurf continues as a standalone product under Cognition's leadership.
Re:What a Diff a VS Code Fork Makes: Antigravity, Cursor and Windsurf ... on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @12:26PM (#46873991)
VS Code forks like Cursor, Windsurf, and Google Antigravity may share a common foundation, but hands-on testing shows they reflect sharply different philosophies around AI autonomy, workflow structure, and developer control.
Re:Asp.net Core Dev Team Launches 'Blazor United' Push for .NET 8 on Friday February 03, 2023 @01:23PM (#34645559)
Shortly after Blazor creator Steve Sanderson wowed web-devs with a new prototype project called Blazor United and solicited feedback on its viability, Microsoft flipped the switch and put it on the roadmap for .NET 8.
Re:Did .NET MAUI Ship Too Soon? Devs Sound Off on 'Massive Mistake' on Thursday September 29, 2022 @01:36PM (#33024327)
Microsoft recently advanced .NET MAUI to General Availability status, but many developers have complained about half-baked functionality that was shipped too soon
Re:Why No Full SQL Server Reporting/Integration Services in Visual Stu... on Monday July 18, 2022 @03:38PM (#32142575)
The Microsoft dev team finally migrated the SSRS tool to VS 2022 some 8 months after the IDE debuted, but apparently forgot about the SSIS component, so last week the November 2021 feature request was set back to "On Roadmap."
Re:Mercury Is Latest 3rd-Party Visual Basic Effort: 'Multiplatform VB++' on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @06:16PM (#24276870) 

  Notwithstanding Microsoft's death knell for Visual Basic, a new project scheduled to debut this fall aims to keep at least some semblance of the iconic programming language going and evolving.
Re:Android KTX: Kotlin Development for Android on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @10:02AM (#16316603)
Director of project management, Android, said of Kotlin last July: "we're already using it ourselves to write code in Android Studio which gives us more ideas for making our support even better." https://adtmag.com/articles/2017/07/20/android-ama.aspx
Re:Ask HN: How do sites like Reddit, HackerNews, etc get initial user ... on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @05:14PM (#15657641)
Wow, every news outlet should become a "publicly funded non-profit membership media organization."
Re:Ask HN: Which editor do you use to code React Native apps? on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @05:25PM (#14556250)
VS Code
Re:Documents reveal how Peter Thiel was granted New Zealand citizenship on Thursday February 02, 2017 @12:32PM (#13552414)
Anybody want to sue The Guardian? I know where you can get financial backing.
Re:Google Dataflow “stomps” on Apache Spark in performance tests on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @05:20PM (#11624330)
Surprisingly "similar" to an article published the day before:

https://adtmag.com/articles/2016/05/02/dataflow-spark-benchm...

Re:Ask HN: What are some good React tutorials? on Monday April 11, 2016 @08:43PM (#11476371)
Here's my comparison of React.js Fundamentals by Tyler McGinnis, and Learn React.js: The Basics, on Lynda.com.

https://adtmag.com/blogs/dev-watch/2016/04/react-tutorials.a...

Retro Database Making a Comeback?

Posted by daram on Thursday March 21, 2013 @06:32PM
from the visualstudiomagazine.com dept.

http://visualstudiomagazine.com/blogs/data-driver/2013/03/dbase-updated.aspx

Remember when your basic software suite consisted of WordPerfect, Lotus 1-2-3 and dBASE-III, and you coded listening to Wham! and Foreigner? Well a new company has acquired the rights to that pioneering database, which it claims is still used by "millons of software developers," and released dBASE PLUS 8. Does it have a chance? And why did it fade into obscurity?

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