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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 statictype »

redsummer wrote: post #68

Anil Dash seems like a deeply creepy guy. He inserts race into everything: https://twitter.com/marcoarment/status/336853407698657280 He gets people fired for making jokes: http://archive.is/ddDFz I'm sure Gomix will have some level of success, though I have no idea what it is from his post - which just seems to be about how his is now CEO and all the glory is his. I wonder how his team feel about that? Perhaps some o…

I like Marco but it's comically absurd to claim Anil used racism to win an argument there.

He wasn't even trying to win an argument or refute anything.

Also that's one link. He inserts race into "everything"?

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

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Post by disiplus »

user5994461 wrote: post #45

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 f…

i get the feeling its final goal is recuting. u will have a list of developers that somebody can search thru.

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

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Post by benjaminjosephw »

Gomix looks like the most ideal tool for hackathons where multiple people can really quickly collaborate on a live updating prototype. It also seems like a fantastic tool for teaching since learners have a really tight feedback loop without any set-up. Obviously, most of us here aren't the real audience for this but I can see it really lowering the barrier of entry for a lot of people.

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

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Post by te_chris »

redsummer wrote: post #68

Anil Dash seems like a deeply creepy guy. He inserts race into everything: https://twitter.com/marcoarment/status/336853407698657280 He gets people fired for making jokes: http://archive.is/ddDFz I'm sure Gomix will have some level of success, though I have no idea what it is from his post - which just seems to be about how his is now CEO and all the glory is his. I wonder how his team feel about that? Perhaps some o…

Read the thread, Marco was 'being indignant' on the day he struck it rich, Anil pointed it out and highlighted Marco's incredible privilege. Deeply creepy? I think you need to look at yourself before throwing accusations like that around.

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

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Post by redsummer »

mmjaa wrote: post #75
redsummer wrote: post #68

Anil Dash seems like a deeply creepy guy. He inserts race into everything: https://twitter.com/marcoarment/status/336853407698657280 He gets people fired for making jokes: http://archive.is/ddDFz I'm sure Gomix will have some level of success, though I have no idea what it is from his post - which just seems to be about how his is now CEO and all the glory is his. I wonder how his team feel about that? Perhaps some o…

I think Anil Dash is a creep. His involvement in Gomix and Fog Creek means I'm less interested in those projects, frankly. I think he's one of the bigger blowhards in this scene, and I don't see the value in his participation, given that he seems more interested in social engineering his way to the top than .. you know .. actual engineering.

Judging from the lack of clarity in his post, he doesn't seem to know what his own product is. But he sure knows that he is the new CEO (he mentions it a few times). And he certainly thinks the successes of Fog Creek somehow reflect on him - in fact he talks about that more than the product.

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

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Post by throwaway_374 »

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…

Equally I hate it when tech C-execs have never written a line of code, but you come across as politically charged with personal attacks rather than recognising his suitability for the role based on direct and relevant experience. And if we're going to be frank about pd's "out of context joking tweets" here they are:

"In The Passion Of The Christ 2, Jesus gets raped by a pack of niggers. It's his own fault for dressing like a whore though."

"aw, you can't feed your family on minimum wage? well who told you to start a fucking family when your skills are only worth minimum wage?"

"feminism in tech remains the champion topic for my block list. my finger is getting tired."

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

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Post by pdkl95 »

kowdermeister wrote: post #56
jszymborski wrote: post #2

I 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,…

What's wrong with being centralized? It's just a prototyping platform. I doubt anyone would build a production app on this. I recently used it to play with websockets and being centralized was the main reason it worked so well.

In software, unfortunately, the prototype often is the production app.

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

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Post by GarethX »

user5994461 wrote: post #45

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 f…

Here's a brief text overview: https://gomix.com/about/

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

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Post by codecamper »

jedmeyers wrote: post #14

As a native Russian speaker, I can't help but notice that the name sounds really close to the Russian offensive word for homosexual people - 'gomik's. Can't say if it's going to negatively affect the product but it's certainly not a good thing. Mitsubishi Pajero is not being sold in the Americas under that name for a reason.

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