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Please! You'll give them ideas. I use that thing and don't want to have to disconnect from the net to avoid ads.
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I think they know very well that Visual Studio is essential to their market power. It is sort of "The first shot is free" idea.
VS, including the free edition (regardless of how it has been labeled over the years), has lead to millions of Windows applications, making customers choose Windows as their base OS. Without those, MS would be in a much weaker position today.
VS Community Edition is the ad, in itself! You would never expect a Coke ad to be interrupted by some other ad, would you? VS CE aims to present MS development as a great experience - something that makes you frown at vi, or even at emacs. It shows you how immediate IntelliSense is, compared to lint. Shows you the WPF abstraction level compared to X.11 
Which 19 year old who has been fiddling around with VS CE since he was 12 would want to work with 1970-style command line tools? Fight with old libraries handling 7 bit US ASCII text only? Providing a zillion options, but you have to open a command window and provide them as '--some-strange-option' to the command line tool?
If MS decides to ruin the VS experience by forcing ads onto the users, they have lost their minds. It would be like killing the goose that lays the golden eggs. I am sure that they know better.
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An interesting analysis. Let's hope you're right. Curiously, I use VS CE but avoid Windows-specific stuff as much as possible. No "managed code", no GUI, no Windows-specific classes...just the bare minimum that you need from an O/S. And though command-line stuff is from the age of the dinosaurs, like me, I no longer have any tolerance for it.
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Very good analysis. I admit VS CE (and the earlier Express) has spoiled me on IDEs. Whenever I have to do Java development the IDEs sometimes make me want to throw my computer out a window. Especially NetBeans.
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Member 7989122 wrote: VS, including the free edition (regardless of how it has been labeled over the years), has lead to millions of Windows applications, making customers choose Windows as their base OS.
Do you honestly think that marketing morons are smart enough to recognise this?
There's probably one high-ranking dev holding out against them, with a "keep your filthy paws the f*** off my product!" attitude.
When he's away, the rats will play.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Do you honestly think that marketing morons are smart enough to recognise this?
What does history show us?
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Member 7989122 wrote: What does history show us?
That one of the first ever computer programmers was a woman?
That apples don't fall upward?
That Romans and elephants don't get along?
That, compared to video, tapestries are cr@p at conveying information?
How the alt-right took over Germany and started WWII?
That a lone playwright can improve the world?
... But an entire city dedicated to "entertainment" can't?
You will tell me when I'm getting close, won't you?
That female monarchs usually do a better job of it than male ones?
That 23,000 people fired the shot that killed Mussolini?
That a different 23,000 people invented the Internet?
That the weather in England is unpredictable except that you know it's going to rain?
That tofu has never been, is not, and never will be a good substitute for cow?
That imprecise questions sometimes get sarcastic answers?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Ah! All of that surely enlightened me! Thanks a lot! Now I understand!
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My job here is done.
[Tips hat, mounts horse, and rides off into the sunset]
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Yeah, I remember hearing about that (I think here), um, last year. Note the article date: Quote: August 26, 2019
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Came here to say that, along with the fact that in response to internet outrage the developer ended his ad campaign and NPM banned the process going forward.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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A new website allows you to experiment with Earth-like planets. Is this the same ones they use for all the "Earth-like" planets they keep finding?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Is this the same ones they use for all the "Earth-like" planets they keep finding?
A little, but it's much more grounded in reality.
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Will Slartibartfast and the earthman go to Reception immediately?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Windows 10's Storage settings is getting a new feature called "User cleanup recommendations" that recommends a list of unused files and applications that can be removed to free up disk space. Oh, good. There are a bunch of "DLL" files that I never use
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If you never use it, how long will it take until it asks to be deleted itself?
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Then again, what does it matter if those files remain on the disk?
Several of my (non-computer-educated) friends seriously believe that the processing speed of their computer is reduced if they have "unnecessary" files lying passively on their disk. Well... Theoretically, there might be a microscopic difference for file system operations on magnetic disks if it hasn't been defragmented for ten years and is 99% full, but people with such worries rather tend to defrag even their 30% full NTFS flash disks every week...
The primary reason for clearing out files is to give yourself an easier task of overviewing your disk(s). After I moved out all my user files to separate disks - one for my music archive, one for my digital video, one for ... - I stopped worrying about the system disk (and it certainly helped me in managing my own files!) I do flush temp directories down the drain now and then. I do delete log files regularly. Maybe once a year I defragment the system drive (even if is a flash disk - it has no effect on the access time to the physical disk, but it can improve the effect of disk caching). I see no reason to overdo it.
Some of these "optimizations" is at the same level as uninstalling the windshield wipers of your car because It never rains in Southern California[^].
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One of my early experiences with Linux was to clean the disk of applications I would never use.
Obviously, the system failed within a few days. Non-*nix people would be shocked to learn how many otherwise completely irrelevant tools, libraries and whathaveyou that are expected by, say, installation jobs, and other scripts. Try to remove gcc, because you make no use of c code! Try to argue that you have switched to bash, that's why you removed sh. Try removing unused libraries, the Perl interpreter, or Python. Or ...
If you are lucky, that which you removed will mysteriously be back a few weeks later, especially if it didn't come with the base OS installation. If it was delivered with Linux itself, you can assume that programs using it (without your knowing) will simply take for granted that it is there, and crash if it isn't.
So I have learnt with Linux systems: Don't touch anything that you don't know what is there for! Never assume that you can remove anything, in particular if you did not install it yourself. (Even then, some program installed later could have taken into use the file you had installed, skipping its own installation of the same file, and crash when you remove yours.)
If there is an OS function that provides a written guarantee that a given file can be removed without causing anything else to crash, I might trust it. But a hard life has taught me that e.g. files in the temp directory should not be deleted, but moved to another directory for two weeks first, just in case some application comes back a few days later and expects to find the file it left in the temp dir untouched. (One graphics card driver I had put its .ini files in TEMP!)
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Wow!
Yet another killer feature that everyone has been demanding!
It's so inspiring, the way they respond to customer requests and bug tickets.
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Like car companies:
Customers: Hey your car keeps breaking down
Car company: We added more cup holders!
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Joe Woodbury wrote: Customers: Hey your car keeps breaking down
Car company: We added more cup holders!
That's pretty much exactly it.
They should move to the domain honest-microsofts-os-showroom.com
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Mark_Wallace wrote: et another killer feature that everyone has been demanding!
Everyone in marketing. 
This is the kind of feature that adds to marketing ticklists.
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Better than that lovely (and where does everyone get the elephant emoji I see in a lot of posts?) feature that would clean "unused" shortcuts off your desktop.
Look, Windows, I may not use it often, but, I bloody well put it there!
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