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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

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Post by jdross »

aassddffasdf wrote: post #37
eldavido wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So, two things. I used to really respect Joel Spolsky. I've read all of his stuff and really liked it. But I can't help thinking that Fog Creek just isn't that important of a company. As a decidedly "technical" person, I don't know a single person that uses any of their products. And I really do mean, zero . I know plenty of people that use git, IntelliJ, github, Stack Overflow, Twilio, AWS, Firebase, Google Cloud Pl…

You do realize that Stack Overflow and Twilio are Fog Creek products yea?

Twilio (SMS and voice infra and APIs) is not related to Fog Creek.

Trello (project management) and Stack Overflow were spun off from Fog Creek parent company, but are not run by Fog Creek.

Re: I'm at Fog Creek, and we're introducing Gomix

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Post by [deleted] »

aassddffasdf wrote: post #37
eldavido wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So, two things. I used to really respect Joel Spolsky. I've read all of his stuff and really liked it. But I can't help thinking that Fog Creek just isn't that important of a company. As a decidedly "technical" person, I don't know a single person that uses any of their products. And I really do mean, zero . I know plenty of people that use git, IntelliJ, github, Stack Overflow, Twilio, AWS, Firebase, Google Cloud Pl…

You do realize that Stack Overflow and Twilio are Fog Creek products yea?

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Re: I'm at Fog Creek, and we're introducing Gomix

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Post by vortico »

aerovistae wrote: post #10
vortico wrote: post #9

A 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?

No, I work in a laboratory. Web dev is a hobby for me, and it seems Gomix is designed for hobbyists. There are many hobbyists I know who share the same opinion, so it would nice for Gomix to support languages which emit HTML/CSS/JS.

Re: I'm at Fog Creek, and we're introducing Gomix

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Post by user5994461 »

1/4 of the article about what is Fog Creek and how well everyone knows it.

1/4 of the article about culture and other guys and... I don't know what the hell it's talking about. I'm not even bothering reading half the sentence anymore.

1/4 Then it's talking about other unrelated products now? Outlook something.

> "Gomix brings back the fun of the “view source” web"

Oh finally. I had to re-read the article 3 times to find something about the new product, only at the end of the article!

Finished reading. Don't know what the product is about or what it's intended for.

Is it a AB testing software? Is it a a PageHacker[1] clone? Don't know.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/page-hacker/

Re: I'm at Fog Creek, and we're introducing Gomix

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Post by [deleted] »

aassddffasdf wrote: post #37
eldavido wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So, two things. I used to really respect Joel Spolsky. I've read all of his stuff and really liked it. But I can't help thinking that Fog Creek just isn't that important of a company. As a decidedly "technical" person, I don't know a single person that uses any of their products. And I really do mean, zero . I know plenty of people that use git, IntelliJ, github, Stack Overflow, Twilio, AWS, Firebase, Google Cloud Pl…

You do realize that Stack Overflow and Twilio are Fog Creek products yea?

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Re: I'm at Fog Creek, and we're introducing Gomix

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Post by notfreeyet »

osium598 wrote: post #28
throwaway-17733 wrote: post #19

How 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 build…

According to this other post this Anil guy has attempted to bully and blackball a founder from our industry.

http://www.lorenfeldman.com/anil-dash-is-a-coward-liar-and-b...

If this is true, and it seems true, no founder in Silicon Valley should do business or in any way support Anil Dash in anything.

I would chastise Joel Spolsky and that other guy too, but it seems unnecessary given the destruction they're inflicting on their own business by letting him run it. Hah.

Re: I'm at Fog Creek, and we're introducing Gomix

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Post by asdfasdfa11112 »

gkoberger wrote: post #7
techbubble wrote: post #3

This looks like a slightly upgraded Mozilla Thimble https://thimble.mozilla.org

They're both online editors that use the word "remix", but that's really it. Mozilla Thimble is a HTML/CSS/JS learning tool. It's frontend only and doesn't have realtime collaboration. Gomix is backend and frontend. It's collaborative, so a team can work on it at the same time. They're looking to change how teams work together by replacing version control. It also deploys instantly, so there's no saving/uploading/pus…

So its a process I need to adapt several of my dev teams to adopt?

We just got in a new agile rhythmn.

Re: I'm at Fog Creek, and we're introducing Gomix

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Post by EugeneOZ »

eldavido wrote: post #33
osium598 wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 build…

So, two things. I used to really respect Joel Spolsky. I've read all of his stuff and really liked it. But I can't help thinking that Fog Creek just isn't that important of a company. As a decidedly "technical" person, I don't know a single person that uses any of their products. And I really do mean, zero . I know plenty of people that use git, IntelliJ, github, Stack Overflow, Twilio, AWS, Firebase, Google Cloud Pl…

Even if somebody will agree with this opinion, 2 questions are not solved: 1) non-tech person shouldn't present product for programmers; 2) his "I'm CEO" is still too annoyingly repetitive.
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