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Re:GitHub Public Roadmap on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @05:31PM (#23980916)
(From GitHub product team)

Thanks, @ianwalter. We plan on having a public feedback repo soon - but in the meantime, if you want to submit ideas, please check out https://support.github.com/contact/feedback.

Re:GitHub Public Roadmap on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @05:27PM (#23980885)
(From GitHub product team)

Thank you! We couldn't have said it better ourselves. Let us know if you have any other feedback on what we can provide you to plan better. And thanks for your use of GitHub!

Re:GitHub isn't fun anymore on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @10:14AM (#23551629)
Thanks for the feedback on this. We are rebuilding Explore and improving the feeds on it soon, and would love to chat with you if you’re interested. Drop me a line (shankuniyogi at github.com).
Re:Deprecating the GitHub Developer Program on Thursday December 05, 2019 @07:20PM (#21718176)
I will do a follow-up post on this, once I've learned more. Please stay tuned.
Re:Deprecating the GitHub Developer Program on Thursday December 05, 2019 @07:19PM (#21718171)
Yes. We will. Please stay tuned.
Re:Deprecating the GitHub Developer Program on Thursday December 05, 2019 @07:19PM (#21718167)
That is a very reasonable ask. I'll be doing a post-mortem, and talking to all the individuals involved - and will do a followup post on it on the same blog. Please stay tuned. And, again, our sincere apologies.
Re:Deprecating the GitHub Developer Program on Thursday December 05, 2019 @07:07PM (#21718083)
Hi all, this is Shanku Niyogi. I run the Product team at GitHub. I sincerely apologize for this post. We screwed up. This post was made in error, and we are retracting it. We are always looking to improve our programs for developers, and are working on improvements. But this is not the way to make changes. And it is NOT a goal to end our program. Sorry for the confusion.
Re:Google Cloud Platform’s new interactive CLI on Friday March 16, 2018 @07:55PM (#16604836)
Thanks. Yes, this is completely additive to the existing SDK.
Re:Google Cloud Platform’s new interactive CLI on Friday March 16, 2018 @06:30PM (#16604450)
Thanks for the feedback. We are actively working on Python 3 support. Stay tuned!
Re:Google Cloud Platform’s new interactive CLI on Friday March 16, 2018 @06:30PM (#16604447)
With the interactive CLI, we set out with a similar mission as other cloud CLIs - our first priority was helping users use the GCP CLIs including gcloud and gsutil. With our Interactive CLI, we’ve tried to build something that doesn’t just help new users discover what they can do, but also helps make more advanced users productive, for scenarios such as piping between commands, and shell redirection for read-edit-write workflows. The Interactive CLI provides a full shell environment, and isn’t restricted exclusively to the use of GCP tools.

Interactive CLIs like are a little different than a "cloud shell", which provides a fully cloud-hosted CLI environment. If you want a fully curated cloud-hosted option, check out https://cloud.google.com/shell/. Note that the Cloud Shell includes the Cloud SDK.

Re:Google Cloud Platform’s new interactive CLI on Friday March 16, 2018 @06:27PM (#16604436)
Hi all, the Google Cloud SDK team here. The Interactive CLI feature is currently in Alpha, but part of our overall Cloud SDK. The SDK is very much in GA, but we continue to look for your feedback on what we can do to make the SDK experience better and easier to use. If you’ve got feedback, we have a built-in mechanism in the SDK. Just enter ‘gcloud feedback’, and let us know.
Re:An Introduction to Counterfactual Regret Minimization on Friday February 03, 2017 @02:43PM (#13562608)
When I read "counterfactual regret minimization", I thought this would be about Kellyanne Conway.
This is the new CNN. On the positive side, at least they didn't use "has a cow".
Re:Visual Studio Code 1.7.2 on Tuesday November 22, 2016 @05:59PM (#13018436)
With or without management overhead?
Re:Intercooler.js – Making AJAX as easy as anchor tags on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @05:13PM (#12904434)
Funny, when I saw this I immediately thought of UpdatePanel (I used to be on the ASP.NET team back then).

The motivation of UpdatePanel was not to provide the best design pattern for AJAX, but provide the fastest path to incremental page updates for ASP.NET Web Forms developers (with minimal code changes) - with all its limitations.

It makes a lot less sense to have a pattern like this in a modern SPA.

Re:Visual Studio Code 1.0 on Friday April 15, 2016 @12:58AM (#11502274)
No. The old way to change it was in product.json - the product configuration, which got rewritten on every update. The new way to do it is in user settings, which don't get modified.
Re:Visual Studio Code 1.0 on Thursday April 14, 2016 @11:35PM (#11501914)
We're working on it. :)
Re:Visual Studio Code 1.0 on Thursday April 14, 2016 @11:33PM (#11501908)
It is turned on, but you can turn off either crash reporting, or usage telemetry reporting, or both. Please see https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/supporting/faq#_how-to-di.... Scroll down to see more on usage telemetry reporting.
Re:Visual Studio Code 1.0 on Thursday April 14, 2016 @11:22PM (#11501866)
@bbcbasic: there is indeed a difference between our OSS project and Visual Studio Code, which is essentially our distro. For a detailed explanation, please see https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/60#issuecomment-1....
Re:React Native on the Universal Windows Platform on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @03:03PM (#11491183)
In addition to the free extension for VS Code (which is free and open source, and available on Mac, Linux, and Windows), we have a free and open source service called CodePush (https://microsoft.github.io/code-push/) for instantly pushing React Native apps to devices.
Re:Visual Studio Code is now open source on Thursday November 19, 2015 @12:32AM (#10592928)
Electron was indeed originally called Atom Shell, and part of Atom. But it's a general purpose shell for cross-platform apps - it basically provides a native application shell hosting Chromium. And lots of apps - including many that aren't developer tools - are built on it. While VS Code uses Electron, and we contribute to it, we've made a lot of design choices differently from Atom in building the editor and rest of the product.
Re:Visual Studio Code is now open source on Wednesday November 18, 2015 @05:48PM (#10591330)
It might be strange, but many of the engineers on the VS Code team do their development work on a Mac or Linux PC.
Re:Visual Studio Code is now open source on Wednesday November 18, 2015 @05:27PM (#10591229)
Visual Studio Code has a very modular architecture. The tool itself is written in Node.JS and web technologies, on top of Electron, and most extensions have a Javascript component. But most of the language and debugging functionality is built as out-of-process components, which means that they can be built in any technology. For example, our Typescript and Node tools are built with Node; our .NET tools are built in .NET and native code; and most of the functionality of our Go extension is built (by the Go community) in Go.

PTVS is written in a combination of .NET and Python - but with CoreCLR available across all platforms, a lot of that code can be reused. The way they integrate into the tools may be different, but they can share a lot of common code.

Re:Visual Studio Code is now open source on Wednesday November 18, 2015 @12:33PM (#10589242)
Thanks. VIM mode is high on our roadmap.

We do actually have Java syntax highlighting today, though we don't have statement completion and other richer features for it yet.

Re:Visual Studio Code is now open source on Wednesday November 18, 2015 @11:56AM (#10588933)
Thanks. It's definitely high-up on our roadmap.
Re:Visual Studio Code is now open source on Wednesday November 18, 2015 @11:43AM (#10588821)
Thanks Micah, we just added it to the roadmap at https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/wiki/Roadmap.
Re:Visual Studio Code is now open source on Wednesday November 18, 2015 @11:40AM (#10588796)
VS Code's debugger has an open extension model that allows adding debuggers for other languages. We have Node, Go, and Chrome debugging today, and are planning on adding others.
Re:Visual Studio Code is now open source on Wednesday November 18, 2015 @11:33AM (#10588727)
The Go extension is also available as an open source project, at https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-go. We've integrated a number of tools built by the Go community, including the Delve debugger, and we are contributing to these projects. We plan on adding other languages as well, including Python - but if you're interested in building extensions for other languages, we'd like to hear from you.
Re:Redis re-implemented in Rust on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @05:33AM (#9770541)
I am not, but I work with them closely. If you'd like to talk to the team involved, send me (shankun_at_microsoft_com) your email and I'll connect you up!
Re:Redis re-implemented in Rust on Thursday June 18, 2015 @07:57PM (#9742312)
By the way, if you are looking for a production-quality Windows port of Redis, there is a fork available at https://github.com/MSOpenTech/redis. We (Microsoft) provide it in production as Azure's cache service today, and are committed to continuing to work on it.

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