troygoode

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   by troygoode 16y ago

   The thing I found most interesting was that Microsoft chose to release the source via GitHub rather than CodePlex. Perhaps I'm reading too much into it, but the hopeful part of me looks at that as going _with_ the community, rather than try
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   by troygoode 16y ago

   "Why not just read their code?" I agree. Unfortunately I think interview processes are designed to accommodate the majority of applicants - and in the corporate/enterprise world, the majority of applicants have zero open source work. I thin
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   by troygoode 16y ago

   "The idea that we should (in some normative sense, in an ideal world) know the people behind the products we know "better than we know the products" at the risk of being "second class citizens" was what I found bizarre." We're in agreement
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   by troygoode 16y ago

   "This is very bizarre. Isn't this true for all tools/man made artifacts we use? I have no idea who exactly designed my car, my guitar , my cellphone, or even the apartment I live in." I think you're making part of Zed's point - better than
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   by troygoode 16y ago

   Thanks for pointing this out. If you're using StackOverflow and are annoyed by the ads, consider giving back to the community and voila, no ads! I would estimate that it takes ~5 answers to hit the 200 points you need.
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   by troygoode 16y ago

   Actually, with 2008 R2 the SQL Express limited has been raised to 10GB.
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   by troygoode 16y ago

   I'd like to hear more about why you switched from Sinatra to Rails. I'm primarily an Asp.net MVC dev who plays with Python/Ruby on the side, but Sinatra really interests me.
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   by troygoode 16y ago

   Rob is primarily well known by those interested in Asp.net MVC - which, given its roots as a RoR knock-off (I say that with love), tends to mean MS web devs with an interest in OSS will have heard of him. He is also well known from his SubS
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   by troygoode 16y ago

   BizSpark has an expiration date, as covered by a comment on Rob's blog: http://blog.wekeroad.com/2010/05/19/no-sql-in-the-wild#comme...