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730 mentions on Hacker News by 573 people: 130 stories, 600 comments · first 2015-11-18 · latest 2026-10-30

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  1. …give you an example of what kinds of issues using web tech for desktop-like experience can cause: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/22900 (Yes, I'm well aware that they fixed it. The point is that the offending code needed to be…
  2. …like with it. [1] own or own enough rights. Before any PRs are accepted, you need to sign the CLA https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/wiki/Contributor-License...
  3. …pretty sure someone had forked VSCode like ungoogled-chromium but I can't find the repository. [1] https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/17996 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17346492
  4. …to this as my daily driver, but there's some small things, like Django Template formatting ( https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/46468 ) that have yet to be fixed/working.
    comment by zdware · 2018-09-06 · in Python in Visual Studio Code
  5. That... hasn't been my experience: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/18549 https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/16858 Maybe I just care a little too much about code folding, but after origami.el in emacs and atom and vim's…
    comment by kiaulen · 2018-09-06 · in Python in Visual Studio Code
  6. https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/57851#issuecommen...
    comment by castlegloom · 2018-09-04 · in Marketplace.visualstudio.com is down
  7. There used to be at least one issue about this, and of course it has been fixed by now: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/16131
  8. …couldn’t write my own web browser with the default homepage set to Google without permission... [0] https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/commit/f1d0c1d88417f85ec...
  9. …is not up for debate. You of course don't need to share the same ethical framework as me. [1] https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/commit/f1d0c1d88417f85ec...
  10. https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/commit/f1d0c1d88417f85ec... This is the revert of the mistakenly committed code. In this repository's readme there is a link to a thread where (presumably the author, I didn't check) says that the public…
  11. What's this file then? https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/blob/master/LICENSE.txt
  12. …source code is MIT licensed and I think you are mistaken about whether that is in dispute or not. https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/60#issuecomment-2...
  13. According to https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/60#issuecomment-1... > The cool thing about all of this is that you have the choice to use the Visual Studio Code branded product under our license or you can build a version of the…
  14. Related issue: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/34739
  15. …that would be huge, winpty (while I'm really thankful it exists) is a PITA in practice, see e.g. https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/45693 .
  16. https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/16208 Try that (I haven’t yet) - let me know if it works out for you! I was just wanting something similar the other day and this is on my to-try list
  17. …either. The GitHub repo for VScode doesn't have any C in it; infact it doesn't have much but JS/TS: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode
    comment by dabber · 2018-07-19 · in Qt Creator 4.7.0 released
  18. …are using: https://stackshare.io/stacks Find some open source projects by them, and have a look: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode
  19. > See for yourselves: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/1884 - some juicy posts have been deleted/edited since though obviously can't tell about the edited ones, but there's not a single "juicy" comment by someone from Microsoft…
    comment by detaro · 2018-06-27 · in PostmarketOS is moving to Gitlab
  20. …customise the blue status bar that I think I saw true "spirit" of that company. See for yourselves: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/1884 - some juicy posts have been deleted/edited since though PS. I moved all my 80 Open Source…
    comment by rstn · 2018-06-27 · in PostmarketOS is moving to Gitlab
  21. The telemetry usage is directly in the MIT source: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/blob/f05063d13da8c6112ed... The telemetry extension is open source too: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-extension-telemetry And you can unpack the…
    comment by bpicolo · 2018-06-19 · in Want free VS Code? Build it from source
  22. …to fulfill that requirement was once added to the open source version, and then quickly removed. 0: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-wiki/pull/30#issuecommen... 1: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/commits/master/product.j...
    comment by pritambaral · 2018-06-19 · in Want free VS Code? Build it from source
  23. …proprietary software than it does as an open-source license. If you, instead, clone the git repo at https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode , you'll find that the repo is under an MIT license ( https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/blob/master/LI…
  24. It already is MIT: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/blob/6b8ea727a918c6d646e...
    comment by notjosh · 2018-06-19 · in Want free VS Code? Build it from source
  25. …and whatever you get from source. Apparently at the very least, the contents of product.json ( https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/blob/master/product.json... ) defining names are different.
    comment by icegreentea2 · 2018-06-19 · in Want free VS Code? Build it from source
  26. …& Chromium, Oracle JDK & OpenJDK, Xamarin Studio & MonoDevelop, etc. [1] Seems fair play to me. [1] https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/60#issuecomment-1...
    comment by kozhevnikov · 2018-06-19 · in Want free VS Code? Build it from source
  27. I'm not getting it, what part is not free? All the code is at https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode under the MIT license and you can download a prebuild version, which is also free to use.
    comment by mschuetz · 2018-06-19 · in Want free VS Code? Build it from source
  28. …or VS Code [1]. Users discover this stuff by watching network traffic, not through code audits. 1: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/16131
    comment by millstone · 2018-06-11 · in Alternatives to Google Products
  29. …trust," https://hub.docker.com/r/microsoft/mssql-server-linux/ https://github.com/Microsoft/dotnet https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode https://github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore https://www.zdnet.com/article/top-five-linux-contributor-mic...…
  30. …it has a mind. It doesn't. [0] https://www.zdnet.com/article/top-five-linux-contributor-mic... [1] https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING...
    comment by daniel-levin · 2018-06-04 · in Microsoft acquires Github
  31. VsCode is open source too: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode
    comment by Totoradio · 2018-06-04 · in Microsoft acquires Github
  32. …projects recently. They're the highest contributing organization on Github I believe. I mean... https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode
  33. …run a really tight ship and all it takes is to point it in the right direction. Just look at this: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/50477 It's basically their May 2017 release plan for VS Code 1.24. Fully public. My guess is that…
  34. …metadata every time you save a file. If you want to see this fixed, please post about the issue in https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/49021 .
  35. …tps://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2018/04/25/bing-settings... ), and there's a setting to disable it: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/49161
  36. Related https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/49159 https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/49161
  37. …figure out if any extension is consuming extensive CPU. This was added quite recently [2]. [1] https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/blob/1638acdd62d94bc4d99... [2] https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_19#_running-extensi...
    comment by alexdima · 2018-04-27 · in Keep VS Code from Becoming an IDE
  38. …that last cursor at the beginning of the line - and the other ones at the indentation level (see https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/14919#issuecommen... ) (Disclaimer: Author of the mentioned plugin, so I am heavily biased against…
    comment by kwood · 2018-04-23 · in VS Code can do that?
  39. Maybe not for long: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/34442
    comment by lloeki · 2018-04-23 · in Hyper 2, Electron based terminal
  40. Check out this: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/23931#issuecommen... Add this to your settings: ``` "search.location": "panel", ``` Not perfect, but it's a start.
    comment by omn1 · 2018-04-21 · in VS Code can do that?
  41. …One of them even shows up in a version Milestone list (which Changelogs and Release Notes link to): https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/milestone/54?closed=1
  42. From that page there's a trail of links to this explanation for the licensing: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/60#issuecomment-1... TLDR: Visual Studio Code is a Microsoft-branded product that is made available to users under a…
  43. …head that's telling me something isn't right :D As for VSCode I just wish they get on with this - https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/14909 It's the only thing for me that's making VSCode just one feature away from being the best…
  44. …as AV software: 1. shall not be CPU consuming. That famous 13% CPU consumption on blinking caret ( https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/22900 ) is not acceptable. 2. shall be as compact as possible. 3. shall follow modern UI trends…
  45. …time, especially when you feel typing is slow? It would be awesome if you can provide more info in https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues and we'd love to fix the problem. Laggy typing/navigating is always a high-priority bug to fix.
    comment by rebornix · 2018-02-07 · in Visual Studio Live Share Preview
  46. Several solutions/workarounds, explanations, and links to lower-level bugs are here https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/35675 I would explain more if I knew - but I haven't read it. I just found the solution and applied it.
  47. …was used before. GIF animations were proposed, but AFAIK never actually used. Here's the GH issue: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/22900
    comment by mynameisvlad · 2018-01-10 · in The State of Atom's Performance
  48. …it? I've not heard this myself, and the GitHub page says there's no native code in the main repo: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode
    comment by stupidcar · 2018-01-10 · in The State of Atom's Performance
  49. …to VSCode, pretty much the only way to get my changes upstream is to submit pull requests directly to github.com/Microsoft/vscode. Compare to the tiered approach, where I notice someone is an active and "trusted" contributor, so I submit…
  50. …<political-request> Anyone else who shares that frustration, please vote here if you get a chance: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/10121 </political-request>