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Total Annihilation… couldn’t get enough of it. Even playing strategy games today I desperately miss the elaborate control and mechanics of TA.

I’m a JetBrains person. I like vim, but I also heavily use IDE features and VSCode just never scratched the right itches. I’ve worked with many people who use VC but when I pair with them and watch their workflows, they simply aren’t as efficient, as if they’re unaware of what a proper IDE can actually do. They also complain when VC extensions get mature and become paid extensions, which hasn’t been a problem with JB.

I use Copilot with JetBrains, but it’s only “cool”, not “awesome”. When I really need help with some code Copilot rarely does the right thing, and JB’s code completion already works really well. I know Copilot for VC is better than for JB and they claim they’re going to bring parity to JB at some point, but this article makes me suspect they’re lying. If they don’t I’m going to start shopping for competitors.

Hah, that’ll be fun on my desktop… I don’t even have a microphone.

undefined> it always pops up if you want to quote a selection. see?

Ah okay. I’m in the habit of copy-pasting after the > manually so I hadn’t noticed that.

It’s Beej! Long (!) time student of your guides, hope to see more of you here.

We’ll make some plugin that downloads the ad and tells Google it was “totally watched and stuff”.

🤣 I didn’t think you were trying to tell me something, I figured the Lemmy code goofed somewhere.

I’m undefined? 😟

Otherwise known as managing success. Once you have a successful cash flow you need to diversify it and build your business to have multiple cash flows.

Semantics I guess. Di-worse-ification isn’t always the answer. They had a large product lineup, which was probably more expensive for them than it needed to be. They went under because they failed to fortify their balance sheet… rates went up and their debt crushed them.

Capitalism works fine just turning a profit while plenty of companies die chasing growth. It’s just part of it.

Twitter isn’t like reddit in that hashtags don’t have moderators. They outsourced moderating to the users, and now Musk has decided to remove it entirely.

I don’t get it.

It’s not how they managed success, it’s that they ran out of it. Making a successful niche kitchen appliance is not a business, it’s one of many things that a successful niche kitchen appliance business does.

Successful businesses also allocate capital optimally, build formidable brand and product moats, hire amazing managers and build fortified balance sheets. They forgot to do all that stuff. (See also: reddit)

This is a good thermometer reading. I’m pretty sure many communities are prepared to extend this indefinitely if current plans aren’t reverted. I do believe him when he says

We absolutely must ship what we said we would.

I don’t know who the angry VCs are who get to pull his strings but if this gets their attention - it may or it may not - reddit might budge on things a bit.

At the end of the day the company is hopeless to make a profit with him at the helm. This memo sounds slightly nervous and lacks confidence. He has no clue what he’s doing.