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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 tezza »

ransom1538 wrote: post #8

First Joel is brilliant. I love the idea. However, "Set up your Alexa skill in your Amazon developer account." "TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID and TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN - available from https://www.twilio.com/user/account/settings" ... Things have changed since 99. The walled gardens are up. Credit cards are required everywhere. I hope the 'casual' programmer can fill out all these forms and not be scared by AUTH_TOKENS. I wish gomi…

quick setup'n'go in 1999 was mostly a php/perl web provider. is AUTH_TOKEN really too much different for having to set up a mysql db in '99 and putting in DB_HOST, DB_PORT, DB_USER and DB_PASS ?

thats what a lot if the LAMP stacks had back then at a minimum. then make a page woth php_info in it and carefully scan the verbose output to see what your cgi renderer was compiled with

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

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Post by minikomi »

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.

Sounds kind of like ゴミ (Gomi) too -- trash in Japanese.

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

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Post by fareesh »

statictype wrote: post #105
fareesh wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah he has had that impression on me as well. I remember soon after some of our collective activism succeeded against Facebook's "Free Basics" in India, most of us celebrated a win against what would have been a dangerous precedent against net neutrality. Meanwhile, people like this guy tried to pass it off as if we were afraid of the big bad colonialist telling us to trust him. It was fairly disgusting to read, bec…

Meanwhile, people like this guy tried to pass it off as if we were afraid of the big bad colonialist telling us to trust him Do you have a link? All I remember was a comment he made on Zuckerberg's post politely asking him to reconsider his approach and why it didn't work

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/02/09/india-rejec...

FTA:

“At a broad level, it might be useful to really, really reckon with the history of western corporate powers enforcing their desires on a broad swath of the Indian population, especially India’s poorest,” he suggested. “There are things that India, Indians (and those of us in the diaspora) place a very high value on, for historical reasons, that should be obvious with some thought. A colonialist ‘Trust us, it’s for your own benefit’ pitch is a hard sell with good reason.

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

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Post by chvid »

This mostly seems to be about a new CEO at Fog Creek.

I have never heard of him but appearantly he has a big following. And it appears that a very large number of people don't like him - enough to create a bunch of new accounts here at HN just to comment on his persona.

Fog Creek has to me always been about Joel on Software. And to me they always got a lot of credit and extra attention to their products because of his excellent writing. It must be hard for a new CEO to follow up on that.

As for the product; it has already been announced and discussed here earlier.

Personally I fail to see what it adds to an already crowded space of online, web-based, collaborative development environments. Honestly I think has too few features and is kinda ugly. But given that Trello and Stack Overflow has very large user bases maybe it is able to push thru and gain critical mass.

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

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Post by olegp »

This is very similar to Akshell (http://toughbyte.com/akshell/) which we worked on more than six years ago with @korenyushkin and that made the front page of HN on a number of occasions.

Despite being promoted by Fog Creek, I suspect that Gomix will run into the same problem that we did: professional developers won't use it as they already have the tools they prefer, whereas hobbyists won't be willing to pay. Without a viable business model, a service like this won't grow.

I hope I'm wrong though! AppJet, a similar service from a YC team (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppJet) was the reason I got into JavaScript.

PS. If you're looking for something similar, but simpler and geared towards backend apps and micro services (think AWS Lambda), you should check out https://unitcluster.com/

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

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Post by briandear »

statictype wrote: post #81
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"?

Look at Anil's history of tweets, his politics, his obsession with race and just general snark. That one tweet actually did mean something "30 year old white dude." That IS the very definition of inserting race into a discussion unnecessarily. In 2012 he called me racist because I opposed Obama during the election; since I am white, automatically that made me racist, according to him. He's a jerk, at least in my opinion. I sure many people love the guy and of course they're entitled to such an opinion just as I am entitled to mine.

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

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Post by BipolarElsa »

janwillemb wrote: post #72
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…

One tweet != everything

classic brown-bashing
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