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Oh, great! Something else my daughter can blame me for.

I work remotely, and I use Slack to keep an open dialog with my team. I used HipChat before that. They both have their upsides for this use case, but I think that it's basically a great tool for what I'm doing. I can easily see how wide use of Slack at a large company could get overwhelming quickly, but that's not so much Slack's fault (HipChat would do the same thing) as much as a general probelm of communication.

A coworker of mine used to ask job candidates (usually folks with PhDs) with HMMs on their CV "what's hidden in a hidden markov model". Lots of people couldn't answer that question.

I for one freely obey our new robot overlords?

Perhaps. The TSA is obviously a big problem for American airports. I'm just saying that I can't think of a major airport that I've used and felt like it was a good experience, and the major airports I've been in outside of the US have not been substantially better, with the large and notable exception of the [lack of] TSA presence.

Fair, but Heathrow and Tegel and De Gaulle aren't exactly paradise.

I was there at the beginning of Ion back in my Amazon days. We may well use it in my current job, too!

I would strongly suggest that at some point in your career, you take the time to learn either vi or Emacs, even if you still use VS Code everything.

What I'm taking issue with is the description of VSC as "changing the way we code on Unix/Linux". Given your interpretation, Atom and SublimeText and other tools predate VSC and fill much the same role. So I don't see VSC as being transformative in that way. That's not to say it might not be a nice tool, but it's not a revolution either.

Agreed. I don't see anything in VSCode that's not present in any of the vast array of alternatives. But then again, I live in IntelliJ and Emacs land. I don't mind Atom but don't really use it for anything.

Light Table might deserve the term "transformative", but I didn't find it usable enough to rely on.

Really? VSCode has already transformed the way code was written on Unix/Linux? I beg to differ. 10 years ago (when I discovered Eclipse, not sure when it was originally released), Eclipse was a staggering leap forward for Java programming. I'm no Eclipse fan, but I don't think that VSCode has already changed the world in the way that Eclipse did, and certainly not in its short lifespan.

Can I compile it myself? I don't know why this isn't clear, but the pages don't really say any of this.

The download page there has me downloading Xamarin Studio. How do I get just MonoDevelop?

I wonder if maybe instead of asking people to code on the fly, it would make more sense to ask people to review, analyze, and explain some existing code.