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Please, HN, don't promote this fraudulent* developer. *) https://9to5mac.com/2016/10/13/evidence-against-dash-developers-fraudulent-account-claim/ https://9to5

Please, HN, don't promote this fraudulent* developer. *) https://9to5mac.com/2016/10/13/evidence-against-dash-developers-fraudulent-account-claim/ https://9to5mac.com/2016/10/13/evidence-against-dash-develop... (Considering that he has a history of buying user ratings I guess it's also quite possible that the upvoting of this story and (selective) upvoting of its comments is also bought.)

AsyncAwait 9y ago
> don't promote this fraudulent* developer He WAS fraudulent, however he still makes a useful tool and seems to have since corrected his ways, so I'd give him a second chance.
- sooheon 9y ago
  I'm disinclined to support even an ex- plagiarist and app fraudster. Besides, Dash requires me to go to a separate app to look up docs, it's much better to have them integrated into one's editor.
  - kstrauser 9y ago
    I'll leave the dev's reputation aside as it's already being discussed elsewhere. That said, I think Dash is great. I can pop it up with a global keystroke, not just inside my editor, and I use that a feature lot. It also integrates with just about every editor so that you can open docs from inside those editors with a keystroke. I very much love having Dash open on my small laptop screen, with Emacs open and filled with code on the much larger external monitor.
    - johansch 9y ago
      So, if you don't want to discuss the dev's reputation, why did you go so deep down this particular sub-thread? Is this you, Kapeli?
      - kstrauser 9y ago
        Dude, you paranoid? I'm not Kapeli. I like Dash. As I've said elsewhere, the stories that came out made him sound shifty. We have reason to be skeptical of the things he says, but he still writes good software. Edit: you keep throwing "fraud" around. If he bought reviews, that's shifty and shouldn't be condoned. But fraud implies he stole something or tricked people out of money. It's perfectly OK for you not to like Dash, but I do and so do a lot of other people. I bought his software and he sent me a working license key, and then he supported it and cranked out a stream of updates. It might be false advertising, but I haven't be defrauded out of anything. I traded money for a tool I enjoy using. And for the record, I have zero business relationship with him outside of those transactions (one each for each of the versions I've purchased). We've never communicated via any medium about anything other than those.
- johansch 9y ago
  This is in the very recent past. October of last year, ffs.

AsyncAwait 9y ago

> don't promote this fraudulent* developer He WAS fraudulent, however he still makes a useful tool and seems to have since corrected his ways, so I'd give him a second chance.

sooheon 9y ago
I'm disinclined to support even an ex- plagiarist and app fraudster. Besides, Dash requires me to go to a separate app to look up docs, it's much better to have them integrated into one's editor.
- kstrauser 9y ago
  I'll leave the dev's reputation aside as it's already being discussed elsewhere. That said, I think Dash is great. I can pop it up with a global keystroke, not just inside my editor, and I use that a feature lot. It also integrates with just about every editor so that you can open docs from inside those editors with a keystroke. I very much love having Dash open on my small laptop screen, with Emacs open and filled with code on the much larger external monitor.
  - johansch 9y ago
    So, if you don't want to discuss the dev's reputation, why did you go so deep down this particular sub-thread? Is this you, Kapeli?
    - kstrauser 9y ago
      Dude, you paranoid? I'm not Kapeli. I like Dash. As I've said elsewhere, the stories that came out made him sound shifty. We have reason to be skeptical of the things he says, but he still writes good software. Edit: you keep throwing "fraud" around. If he bought reviews, that's shifty and shouldn't be condoned. But fraud implies he stole something or tricked people out of money. It's perfectly OK for you not to like Dash, but I do and so do a lot of other people. I bought his software and he sent me a working license key, and then he supported it and cranked out a stream of updates. It might be false advertising, but I haven't be defrauded out of anything. I traded money for a tool I enjoy using. And for the record, I have zero business relationship with him outside of those transactions (one each for each of the versions I've purchased). We've never communicated via any medium about anything other than those.
johansch 9y ago
This is in the very recent past. October of last year, ffs.