Rate your experience - visual-studio-code

I got this popup about rating my experience when programming Java in VSCode (v1.70.0) on Linux. The link takes you to research.net and the questions are pretty simple (rate from 1-10, would you recommend to friends? positive/negative feedback). I have never installed any extension, ever.
My question is if this is normal and if it happens to a lot o people, because in years that's the first time I see something like this and I wonder why VSCode would hand out a link to a site like research.net and not to a Microsoft site.
Also, is there a switch to turn off feedback questions like these or opt-out of such improvement campaigns?
Is there an official article or a blog post about this, somewhere?
These are the pages I refer to (Google)

There is an old issue in the VSCode repo where the authors mention that the Don't Show Again button was hidden under the gear icon.

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Auto complete preselects obscure method before basic language constants (like false)

This may have been asked many times. When entering code, my intent in the pic is to return false;, here are the autocomplete suggestions I get:
Can I force PhpStorm to preselect false before all other obscure (aka much more infrequent targets)? That would improve (much) my user experience.
Sorry for dumb question, I could not find it here.
PhpStorm 2016.1.1, OSX 10.11.4
Ok , after some time, I have opened a bug report in Jetbrains's Youtrack (WI-32340).
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VSCode plugins and thoughts on alpha release

So I'm starting to guess Javascript wasn't the best choice for VSCode to be based on. It is pretty much the same as SublimeText and even slower, though the debugger and code intel is awesome and far beyond Sublime's capabilities.
The thing is I suddenly got a chrome-like inspector frame on the right side of the window, which caught my attention and got me googling about it (too bad almost nobody is talking about vscode yet so it's a pain to even find some info), and found out another person got the same weird issue. Somebody told him that F12 opens the inspector like a normal web app so you can look under the hood (which os most likely bullcrap since it makes no sense, probably just a bug).
The thing is I decided to test out keypresses, and discovered Fn+Shift+Cmd+F12 opens a new window with a weird button and a web inspector, which has no utility at all, but it's there so I got curious and messed up with it for a while. Bad idea since it crashed the entire app.
All this story has the point of warning about how Javascript is not as stable and independent as Objective C, since it's obviously working on top of V8 and Webkit and whatnot, any of which multiply its chances to crash.
Sublime has also crashed for me a couple times, but it does Atom Saving (operating system's native autosave that stores every change in the filesystem so app crashes don't affect the files).
VSCode is not native and is in a very alpa state (version 0.1.0 as today), so this is kind of a feedback for them and a warning for other users, posted here because there is a link for this stackoverflow community on their website, and is the only community-driven way of feedback they have.
I wish they open the development so others can contribute or, at least, do like SublimeText which isn't open but supports extensibility thru plugins and python console.
Now, the question:
Is there a way to make Sublime plugins work here?
The keybindings you have found are used by us internally to debug VSCode quickly in case we notice a problem. We simply forgot to remove them, kind of like how Ctrl+Alt+Delete happened :).
We will remove these keybindings with our next update, to avoid confusion, in a couple of weeks.
We have plans on supporting plugins, we have made progress on this story, but we were not happy enough with the API, and we decided to further validate and improve it before making it public, to avoid as much as possible future API breakage.
As for the actual question, it is not possible to run Sublime plugins in VSCode, for similar reasons why it is not possible to run Sublime plugins in Eclipse or in Visual Studio. There is, however the possibility of code sharing between plugins developed for different platforms, see for example Omnisharp, which is shipped with VSCode and for which there is a Sublime plugin.
You're complaining about VSCode being created using HTML, CSS and JavaScript and not something like C# or Objective C. You do realize that since day one the following Apple apps were made with a similar hybrid approach of Objective C and HTML, CSS and JavaScript. These are apps that millions of people use: iOS: iTunes app, iTunes Store app, App Store, and on desktop: iTunes, App Store.
Visual Studio Code is a preview, meaning something that just left alpha stage development and is in early, early, early beta, like just a week ago. So there are lots of things that are still missing or not totally working yet. The Visual Studio team is working at three-week sprints and intend to update the product at that pace, so if you've downloaded it, don't expect it to have every possible feature yet. This is a preview. Explore it. If it doesn't fit your current workflow, don't use it. Stick with what you have. But keep an eye on it because it will evolve steadily over the coming months.
I tried F12 in VSCode on windows and it opened the Dev Tools window, which makes sense since it's built on GIT's open source editor Atom & Chrome.
Sublime plugins? No, you can't use ST3 plugins in Atom, but hopefully we'll be able to use Atom plugins in VSCode once plugins are included in VSCode.
At the moment VSCode don't have any functionality for plugins, but it's coming soon see forum
There is also menu item under help in VSCode for reporting issues and suggesting features.
Me too would like Plugins for VS Code. As I would like a WakaTime plugin as I'm spending so much time working in it :). Both on Mac as in Windows.
I also discovered F12 one day but just thought: 'wow pretty cool!' and nothing more. But hey, I'm a webdev.. :)
It's now october and it's still there. And I hope it will stay. Just like crrl+alt+delete. #Sebastian I agree with #JimmyBoh, the whole preamble of this question is probably better suited to be put on a forum. Otherwise this question will probably be closed as 'not constructive'. To prevent other non-answers like this one :).

google webmaster tools content keywords come from robots.txt

Strange thing happened today. When I visited google webmaster tools I found out that the content keywords are only three instead of (a lot that are actually on my website) and they are:
1. agent
2. disallow
3. user
And when I click on which one of the words, I get "found on the most popular page /robots.txt". I haven't done anything to my website or webmaster tools for a couple of days now, so I have no idea what could cause that.
Anyone with the same problem and solution? What can i do in situation like that?
This sounds like a temp bug in Analytics. Wait some days (or a week) and check again this.
Usually it is good to ignore what google webmasters tools says about keywords.
Share your robots.txt file (I assume there is nothing wrong there)

Joomla 3.0 SEF URLs sending to random wrong articles

My site eighttwentydesign is running Joomla 3.0. I have SEF URLs on, and have done for sometime without issue. But today when you go to the site, and click on anything, say portfolio you get the home page under the portfolio's URL, but if you add a leading slash at the end, the right article (portfolio) shows. Additionally, if you click on say "Web Design" it sends you to the Portfolio page. I might add this menu is a menu within Joomla - not be adding internal links manually
Doesn't work: http://www.eighttwentydesign.com/portfolio
Does work: http://www.eighttwentydesign.com/portfolio/
I have checked the .htaccess, and actually reverted it to the original with no luck, I have check Global Config but I can't see anything which may cause this. It was working nicely yesterday. I haven't adapted with any PHP source or anything in the past few weeks, the only notifiable thing I have done is yesterday enabling the Cache - have others experienced problems after doing this? I have disabled it under global config, with no avail.
Exact Joomla Version is 3.0.2 with very few plugins
I do have daily backups, but would rather a solution and be able to figure out a prevention from that, rather than just putting on a band aid.
I've search for a good couple of hours, and aside from just not being able to fix it, it appears no one else is experiencing this, so I am starting to think it may be a bug.
Just as I was about to post this I discovered my solution.
If you are having your SEF URLs display the wrong content then solve it by disabling the Cache plugin. You can do this by doing the following steps
Login to Joomla backend
Navigate to Extensions > Plugins
Go to "System Cache"
Disable system cache
I hope this helps someone in the future as I really struggled to find any answers on this.

How can I give feedback on Eclipse?

How can I give feedback on Eclipse?
Here's what I've tried:
Eclipse -> Help -> Report Bug or Enhancement... takes me to a Bug window that gives me a Anonymous can not submit Tasks! error when I try to submit it. I have to spend extra time explaining that I'm not submitting a bug, but an enhancement, or rather a piece of feedback. I feel there must be something more effortless and painless than this method.
If you click the "Anonymous can not submit..." link, it will bring up a dialog to configure your connection to Eclipse bugzilla system. Since you obviously don't have an account there, use the "Create new account" link in that dialog to create an account (it dumps you to the web site to do that).
Eclipse Bugzilla is for entering bug reports or feature/enhancement requests. If what you want to say is neither of those, try posting on the Eclipse Community Forums. Also, if you would prefer to file a bug or enhancement via the standard web interface, you can access it here. It's generally a good idea to search for similar reports before posting a new one. It's also not a bad idea to discuss the topic on the forums before creating a bugzilla report.