That vastly more critical Facetime/facepalm issue certainly went straight to /dev/null , so ... thanks for the laugh, I guess.
The game that Apple's dev evangelism needs to play is the same one that MSFT/Google/etc play. Apple gets a free pass because they've had a largely devoted (almost cult-ish) fanbase of software developers (of which I count myself). They're starting to piss them off, though, and that has cascading effects.
Lobbing things over the wall doesn't work anymore.
The ending of that article is a very resigned "this is all you can do. This is why it's this way, though.". The article is absolutely a criticism of how the bug process works.
The entire point of all of this is that Apple needs to play the game better. You have a weird habit of popping up in every single thread to defend them, and I've noted your past associations with them in other threads, so I'll probably not bother responding to this further.
I meant this more as "if you go back and read the article, looking for the part I mentioned, since you may have missed this", which I included because you said my answer wasn't really great "because of so and so" even though it basically just restated what I had said. I know about the problems you're mentioning are: you know how I would.
> The ending of that article is a very resigned "this is all you can do. This is why it's this way, though.". The article is absolutely a criticism of how the bug process works.
> The entire point of all of this is that Apple needs to play the game better. You have a weird habit of popping up in every single thread to defend them, and I've noted your past associations with them in other thread
Again, I'll freely admit I generally lean towards Apple because of the amount of time I've spent associated with the platform/tools/company, but I'm not disagreeing here: I'm with you 100%. As Corbin notes, however, filing bugs is more likely to get your issues noticed (and possibly responded to) than posting it four comments deep on a thread that admittedly has a higher-than-normal chance of getting clicked on by an Apple engineer. I guess if you know an engineer you might be able to see if they can institute change, but even then I'm not sure that would help much. Getting articles like these on the front page of Hacker News regularly might, though…
Making devs feel like they're being listened to is an important part of attracting devs nowadays, which ofcourse apple says they're above. Apple famously doesn't chase anyone after all(with predictable results).Instead apple evangelists like you have to take up the standard - which doesn't assure anyone.
If, for some reason, the article you are looking at has issues but no feedback affordance, use our site feedback channel or DM me on Twitter (@DennisCode) - would be happy to route the feedback and make sure we address it.
We triage those items fairly regularly.
I don't want to attack you personally but MS support always has been a black hole and when I look at the feedback forums there are always these generic messages ("We are sorry,. Pleas help us to understand") that either are written by robots or certainly feel like that. But nothing ever gets resolved, there never is a direct answer to clear problems.
Do people at Microsoft not use their own products, so they don't know something's broken unless a user reports it ?
Using users for QA has made Windows 10 the worst Windows I've ever used and it's something to see that same attitude permeate every Microsoft product.
I remember I did a double take when I saw Corbin answering questions about NSTableView on StackOverflow, felt like hell had frozen over.
Almost every other mention of Win32 documentation here and on Reddit has someone mention that they use some archived version of WIN32.HLP (or less often, CHM) instead of the sites because it is simpler and faster. But this documentation only covers the circa late 90s APIs and doesn't have any newer stuff and to view .HLP files on Windows 10 requires some hacking around (honestly it is absurd to break the help for several thousands applications and make several ebooks unreadable, but i guess it isn't something you can do anything about even if you wanted).
Considering everything is static (and really, some of the documentation entries read the same as they do in WIN32.HLP from the mid-90s) it should be possible to make a CHM (or several of them) with the content available for download (but please not yet another custom help viewer, CHM is fine).
TBH i do not have many hopes for this (i think this is something people ask for more than a decade), but it costs nothing to ask, so there you go :-P
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=2095...
(Best to get a copy while you still can...)
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.threading...
The code sample has broken links, the correct pfxteam blog is: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/pfxteam/whats-new-in-beta-2-f...
It would be great if 404 page could show the posts for that day for the 4-Nov-2009 time period
Writing technical documentation as if it would be published in thousand page tomes (because it would also be published that way) may have encouraged better writing and organization.