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I'm not sure about this Gomix thing. I might send my kids to have a play on it and see what they think. I can't imagine it is going to have the uptake of Trello though
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…
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…
Anil, I don't know you, and you certainly don't know me. But I have a word of advice. When you join a company a few weeks before it releases a new software product, have the humility to admit that you had precious little to do with it. Don't write about yourself, at all! Write about the product, what it can do for me, and the amazing team who built it. I'm going to go way out of line and do a bit of a hatchet job on…
For another perspective, I wouldn't spend ten seconds reading yet another announcement of yet another software product, but I'll read a post by and about Anil Dash repeatedly. I don't know you, and you certainly don't know me, but I suspect Dash knows his target audience for this particular post pretty well. The product-focused posts are somewhere else, not his personal blog, and chances are they're gathering dust, s…
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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 inflictin…
This is a time when I'm glad HN highlights new accounts. A train of green accounts making personal attacks is pretty self-explanatory.
But if it's true what people say: No one wants to get into a public fight with a professional talker, SJW, "technologist" and self-promoter.
Those fights are only for people who have the time and the money.
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No, please, not a video — this is the most inefficient way of conveying information about a product aimed at developers. Just write a well-structured text tutorial.
I have noticed that a lot of young people have never learned to read fast or skim large documents. My guess is that is the reason we're tortured with hours long videos with very little content.
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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 opin…
I was only trying to refute the accusation that he was racist. That seemed pretty absurd.
Don't have anything to say about your position. I haven't spoken to him personally.
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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 shou…
I can see how you reached your conclusion but I didn't end up there after reading the bit you quoted. I think there's a more charitable take on what he said.
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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…
> I used to really respect Joel Spolsky. I've read all of his stuff and really liked it. After reading the rest of your post, I'm not sure why. Joel Spolsky always seemed to me like he was all hat and no cattle -- he had rather strong opinions (and a high opinion of himself) for someone who ran a small company that never did anything of significance. He has always seemed rather fixated on some kind of superiority com…
(A good read, like most any one of his pieces - nothing wrong with his writing talent, obviously ...)
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.
Anil's statement was both sexist and racist as in, discriminating based on race and sex.
Its totally pointless and counter-productive, but hey, at least his followers will cheer.