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by gm 15y ago
FWIW, the MS world has a lot of hard-core scary-smart coders. And GAC deployment does not have much to do with clicky stuff. GAC has to with with DLL hell, and you need to jump through some extra hoops to deploy there (ie, http://support.m
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by gm 15y ago
Hmm, you sure NuGet is not cross platform? It's open source, btw, so people have a chance to fix if they do not like. But the NuGet FAQ ( http://docs.nuget.org/docs/start-here/nuget-faq ) says this: >Does NuGet support Mono? >The c
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by gm 15y ago
I disagree with the point of the article. I think This is more of a platform gripe ("I hate it that this stuff is unfamiliar to me!") than an actually valid argument. The same could be said for someone learning Linux for the first time, wri
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by gm 15y ago
tl;dr OP, you expect us to read that whole thing to hunt for the answer to your question? Anyone have spoilers? Is it a flock of these birds?
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by gm 15y ago
Hrrmmm... I take the path of least resistance on everything. Why take the path of increased resistance? As long as you do not betray the long-term goal, the path of least resistance is absolutely the one to take. Always. Keeping on-topic: T
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by gm 15y ago
Admittedly when things got stupid (as they can with SQL Server CALs) we just bought CPU licenses and moved on. Anyway, I still don't see licensing as that difficult. Maybe just a difference of opinions, which is ok. In the grand scheme of t
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by gm 15y ago
Exact same thing can be said about "just start to use right away" by experienced .NET people. Which is the point of the article: It's much more culture than actual tangible differences/superiority.
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by gm 15y ago
Paywall as well.
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by gm 15y ago
Really people? You guys are engineers by trade (and good engineers, at that, no?) and you find licensing daunting? Let's assume you are out of BizSpark, which gives you what you need for free. Now you have a list of licenses to acquire. Wha
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by gm 15y ago
This does not pass the smell test. I think this is Facebook for the 0.1% who give a crap. The rest is pretty happy with FB as it is right now. Normal folk care about social network privacy as much as they care about, say, Walmart's busines
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by gm 15y ago
I appreciate you playing devil's advocate on this, but the argument just does not hold water, the masses have it right. Throwing away 5 years experience of your founding team, and throwing in a new language for everyone to learn is simply i
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by gm 15y ago
This is typical drivel from someone who refuses to learn the lesson: "The problem is unscrupulous developers, hired guns. It could not possibly be me." I wager the real problem is lack of oversight, lack of understanding of the problem bein
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by gm 15y ago
Ditto. If this trash keeps showing up on HN, I ain't gonna stick around. People should go be children somewhere else.
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by gm 15y ago
Agreed. Did not even read the linked page. Saw the headline and immediately thought "... and this matters to me how?". Lot's of people quit their jobs for their startups.
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by gm 15y ago
I think this survey is dumb. How do we know the first question is not really a "do you think the light-skinned engineer is better than the dark skinned one?" Also: Any potential client that would rank an engineer's quality based on his prog
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by gm 15y ago
I think it is. It tells us what HN readers agree with.
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by gm 15y ago
Yeah, it's pretty hard to prove you were fired for an illegal reason, especially if your employer has a paper trail. My point in all this is that there is no legal claim here. What's at dispute is shares that have not vested. It's kinda li
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by gm 15y ago
Funny... How's the conversation with the lawyer going to go? "Ok, so you're employed at-will. You are only talking about losing your unvested shares. Your employer has the option to fire you and prevent you from vesting anymore shares, yet
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by gm 15y ago
Old news, see here for comments: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3218774
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by gm 15y ago
Spoken like a true non-founder... Reputation is everything. If a founder ever wants to start a company again, screwing over employees will haunt him in the long term much worse than any legal repercussion that can be fixed with money. So I
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by gm 15y ago
"Unvested" means just that: The shares have not vested. The shares are not yours yet. You cannot lose something that is not yours. People who get fired before their shares vest, are not "losing" their unvested shares, nor are they "giving
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by gm 15y ago
FWIW, you cannot get any Zynga employee's opinion in this because the pre-IPO "quiet period" is in effect. So this is a pretty one-sided conversation.
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by gm 15y ago
What's this, HN is now personal army for pissing matches? Nothing to see here, move along.
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by gm 15y ago
"You can be fired for any reason at any time." I see what you are trying to say, but it's not entirely true. You can be fired for any reason, as long as it's not illegal (discriminatory, because of a disability, a pregnancy, whistleblower,
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by gm 15y ago
lol, f*ckups don't get any bigger than this
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by gm 15y ago
As you have found out, IO _is_ the hard part about clouds. It is very expensive to address it. You probably should not be in clouds if IO is such a big deal. Either that, or redesign to take the IO intensive part away from cloud and onto p
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by gm 15y ago
Windows is C, not C++
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by gm 16y ago
Maybe the problem is that I _have_ been in these guys shoes (anyone that has been awakened at 3am with your system completely off line and bleeding money raise your hands). The fact that it is a volunteer effort is pretty much irrelevant.
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by gm 16y ago
Well, the worst time to change technologies or perform version updates is when there is a fire under your ass to get the system working, but that is a minor screw up compared to all else going on. This whole thing stinks of lack of experien
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by gm 16y ago
If anything this is a cautionary tale about how to screw up your startup. I have no idea what TinyGrab's architecture looks like, but I can say with full confidence that backups were an afterthought, and they find themselves in deep shit be

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