Readit NewsIf I recall they touched on how US oil drilling companies with lots of experience in horizontal drilling were being used by these companies & the financing that goes into them.
Google Knowledge Graph (that sidebar they show) was hated by publishers, especially Wiki for stealing their content.
Google adding direct answers to questions.
Lots of fights over social media & recipe results.
I'm not arguing who is right or wrong,* just saying this has been a thing for a long time.
* Exception most recipe websites & those infinite looping Pinterest blog links. Those websites are all awful & wrong.
Overall this is a nice short summary on the topic. The one thing I would add that I found very helpful on larger projects is communicating the risks & unknowns. I suggest listing them out at the start of the project & update their status as you work on it.
I've worked on teams where it's done with a simple color (red, yellow or green) on how confident we are on the task estimate based on risks/unknowns. This is the simplest way in my opinion.
I also like Basecamp's Hill Charts - https://3.basecamp-help.com/article/412-hill-charts
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It will be interesting to see how Bluesky is able to continue operating when it needs to generate a profit though. I'm curious what their plans are. The need for profit on social media platforms often results in loss of quality & user experience.
I've got some bad news for you: 2001 was 23 years ago. It's possible to not just be a legal adult (18) but also old enough to drink (21) and still not have been born yet when that was going down.
Slight aside on the original post:
* Microsoft did just fight off a huge government battle on Activision. I believe they lost a battle on Teams bundling. Last week the FTC announced they were looking into Azure.
* Apple, their store & mobile browser has been a topic of monopoly discussions for years.
* Amazon wasn't allowed to buy Roomba just this past year. They've had tons of inquires over the past decade.
VS Code starts out as a lightweight code editor & via extensions you can turn it into more of an IDE but it'll take a lot of customization & messing around.
Rider is an IDE with all the bells & whistles already included. It also has extensions but they've built it with the most popular things already.
Refactoring, debugging, code navigation, formatting & hinting/suggestions are far superior in Rider. They have a lot more advanced features. Check out some YouTube videos by JetBrains to see examples.
Don't get me wrong - VS Code is still a great tool & I use it daily. I do wish they would have named it something other than "Code" or "Visual Studio Code" but hey, it's Microsoft. They're famous for terrible bad name choices. Maybe they'll make a copilot to fix that.
I've found myself totally satisfied with just VS Code on macOS (it's come a really long way).
I'm glad that this move will possibly make .NET more accessible, but I think VSC is in a really good place with C# at the moment and shouldn't be overlooked.
It's a very good choice though for a lot of projects. It's also a great way to try out C#. It has some amazing extensions for certain tasks too.
I'm a fan of a lot of the user experience improvements being made in Windows over the last decade, such as Terminal, running Linux, Power Toys features, screenshots & recording, Paint finally getting layers, window management & more.
At the same time, I'm still not sure why we needed Windows 11 as the only good updates seem like they could have been done without it. All the visual changes have seemed to cause bugs & performance issues on relatively high powered PCs (64GB+ memory, m2 ssd drives, latest gen mid level GPU & CPU)
It seems the Windows ME, Vista, etc experiment continues to live on.