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I'm at Fog Creek, and we're introducing Gomix
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Re: I'm at Fog Creek, and we're introducing Gomix
#22I really like the spirit of this, and I hate to be the gnu in the room, but the only thing holding this back is that it's centralised. Again, I totally get how that might sound stupid. "How can we have nice things if we always need to solve the decentralisation problem first?", is one of a billion reasonable responses to my comment, but I'm just a guy who has gotten his heart broken before by the likes of Geocities,…
Just FYI while it is definitely centralized, and you are correctly tensing up at the sight of that, here are the "Advanced" options you get when managing a project: http://i.imgur.com/ohDUnKI.png
You can import any code from a Github repository you have, or export the project you're working on to a Github repository, or download a .tgz of the entire thing. Anil's opinions on "the web we lost"[0] fit into the ethos of Fog Creek and co well, I think.
Re: I'm at Fog Creek, and we're introducing Gomix
#23A few years ago I got into the habit of using alternate languages to HTML, CSS, and Javascript---namely Pug, Stylus, and Coffeescript---and I'm physically unable to use the originals any more. Are these supported by Gomix?
That doesn't get in your way for finding jobs?
Some folks are fortunate enough to only have to deal with frontend technology in their spare time.
Re: I'm at Fog Creek, and we're introducing Gomix
#24Looks horrible, still don't know what it's for.
It's like http://codepad.org or http://jsfiddle.net but with persistence and GitHub integration, project support, and live collaborative editing.
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#25I love Fog Creek and use Trello daily. I'm your target audience. If you could make this self-hosted i.e. on my own company's intranet secure servers, I would pay a lot for it.
Ditto. It'll would be awesome if there was an ability to download the files you 'remixed' so you can self host. It could serve as a great educational tool too. Something that would allow people who are overwhelmed to get their feet wet and 'build something functional'. Getting 'hello world' to print on a console is cool, but it won't excite someone as much as getting a live website to print 'hello world'.
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#26This is actually helping me learn nodejs. I'm so happy right now! I'm gonna be messing around with the very basic todo app as I learn more about node/express.
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#27Just use Zeit's 'now'
Re: I'm at Fog Creek, and we're introducing Gomix
#28How many times can this blowhard say "I'm the CEO" in one blog post? He & his CEOness are not the story here.
Anil Dash is one of the most notorious social justice warriors in the tech world. It's unfortunate Fog Creek made him its CEO - I don't predict the company will flourish under him, since he seems more concerned with promoting an airy political agenda than with making good products. He's non-technical (I don't think he's ever written a line of code in his life, and knows next to nothing about the actual craft of building software), yet he's somehow been able to parlay his way into positions of influence by guilt tripping white liberals into giving him power.
A few examples (among many) from his sterling career:
1. He was part of the SJW lynch mob, started by Gawker, that got Pax Dickinson (CTO of Business Insider) fired for out of context joking tweets Pax had written years prior.
2. He only retweets women on Twitter and has been quite explicit about it, dressing it up as 'fighting sexism.' I guess you fight sexism by adopting sexist policies? Kind of bizarre.
3. He coerced a journalist into changing a story to make himself look better: http://www.lorenfeldman.com/how-nick-bilton-compromised-hims...
As far as I can tell, Dash's only real skills are self-promotion and virtue signaling. From my moderate amount of research, I can't find any actual products he's released that have been successful or widely adopted. Good luck Fog Creek, you're gonna need it!
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#29Why is a post about a product launch that was made a month ago #1 on HN right now? Did something happen?
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#30Is there a datastore of some kind?
They do provide persistent file system.
"We have a persistent file system, so anything you store within your project is kept. This means you can use files as a flat file database, or save your database files locally (see our SQLite3 and NeDB examples). You can also use third-party storage services, like a hosted MongoDB database or Redis (see our MongoDB example).
We recommend creating a folder called ‘.data’ as a safe place to store your database files. This folder isn’t copied across when a project is remixed."