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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 brianwawok »

tigershark wrote: post #100
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…

Reading his post it was perfectly clear what kind of egomaniac he is, he spoke only about himself and I had no idea what the product was about. After reading in the other comments what kind of person he is I decided to actively discourage as many people as possible to use the product as long as he is the CEO. Maybe savouring his own medicine will help him to understand the consequences of his actions and a bit of hum…

For real. Wasn't the product 90% done before he even came over? Sounds like he is taking credit.

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

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Post by cryptarch »

etchalon wrote: post #93
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…

1. Calling the tweets that got Pax Dickinson fired "out of context" is fairly hilarious. Pax was a contrarian, who enjoyed making provocative statements. Eventually, those bit him in the ass. Reason did a fairly fair-minded article on the whole thing: http://reason.com/archives/2015/07/09/the-social-media-shami... 2. Not even sort of bizarre. 3. Anil reached out to a journalist and apparently made a valid point. The…

2. Why?

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

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Post by Nullabillity »

tezza wrote: post #111
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

Yes. DB_HOST and co. are stuff you run locally on your own computer. AUTH_TOKEN means you're stuck with some external service, that will probably charge you at some point.

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

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Post by WhitneyLand »

chvid wrote: post #115

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 hi…

>I fail to see what it adds to an already crowded space

Can you give an example? I'm not aware of many products that are attacking the problem of making coding easier and more fun in the same way they are.

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

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Post by GarethX »

chvid wrote: post #115

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 hi…

We think it's a hugely underserved market. I've written a little about where we think Gomix fits relative to other similar products: https://medium.com/gomix/gomix-and-the-evolution-of-paas-362...

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

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Post by muglug »

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…

Your first comment on this account promoted eugenics.

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

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Post by arctangent »

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…

> Jeff Bezos apparently wasn't a developer

Before launching Amazon, Bezos worked at "a financial-trading company on the cutting edge of computer technology" [1].

Wikipedia says he has a degree in "electrical engineering and computer science" [2].

It's reasonable to assume that Bezos has at least some development experience.

[1] http://www.referenceforbusiness.com/biography/A-E/Bezos-Jeff...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Bezos

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

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Post by stevenleeg »

kpil wrote: post #74
smikhanov wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Young person here! (at least I hope I still count!)

My anecdotal data point: the homepage only seemed to have a video explanation, I dropped off right then because I didn't want to watch a 2 minute video about how this works.

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

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Post by muglug »

fareesh wrote: post #104
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…

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…

It seemed innocent enough – you can talk about an issue with immediate technical and legal implications, while also entertaining a more epic framing of the discussion.
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