Reminds me of this scene from Silicon Valley (HBO): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlwwVuSUUfc
The Day AppGet Died
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#22I have a sneaking suspicion that part of the reason for the sudden radio-silence after his on-campus interview is that someone up the chain realized he is also the creator of Sonarr and just nobody wanted to take ownership of that potential liability.
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#23Microsoft pretends to want to acquire a product or software and then release their own implementation.
The developer was obviously brain-picked for any implementation ideas, as stated at scale. They should have been paying a retainer, or had an offer inside of two weeks.
Let this be a warning for other developers.
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#24I don't want to support this company. What are good alternatives to GitHub, TypeScript, npm, and Visual Studio Code (besides Atom)?
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#25I have a sneaking suspicion that part of the reason for the sudden radio-silence after his on-campus interview is that someone up the chain realized he is also the creator of Sonarr and just nobody wanted to take ownership of that potential liability.
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#26When you release free (as in freedom) software, you are not entitled to revenue sharing when people use or modify that software, or if people use the ideas in that software to make new, from-scratch software. I think Microsoft is a terrible organization and will rejoice the day they finally cease to exist as a concern, but they didn’t do anything wrong here. PHP didn’t “rip off” Perl, nor did CoffeeScript “rip off” r…
Taking someone all the way through the interview process, then ghosting them, is doing something wrong.
Add in the fact that they had planned on buying his app outright told him they would hire him instead to speed up the process, and it's an especially crummy thing to do.
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#27I don't want to support this company. What are good alternatives to GitHub, TypeScript, npm, and Visual Studio Code (besides Atom)?
GitHub -> Sourcehut
VSCode -> GNU Emacs
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#28The story reminds me of Andy Hertzfeld’s Switcher: https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&stor... The difference is that, in 1984, Bill Gates immediately offered $40k and Steve Jobs offered $100k for plugging a hole in their operating system. In 2020, Microsoft just strings you along on vague promises while they simultaneously rip you off.
Reminds me of Stacker and Doublespace, back in the MS-DOS 6.0 days.
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#29I'm sorry to hear that. When I compared various package managers few months ago I liked AppGet most. What's saddening is winget doesn't even do half of what's appget is capable of right now.
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#30I don't want to support this company. What are good alternatives to GitHub, TypeScript, npm, and Visual Studio Code (besides Atom)?
>GitHub
Github I guess?
> TypeScript, npm,
I don't know if you'll be able to avoid NPM, but _maybe_ you could try ReasonML if you're doing frontend stuff with TS? Don't really know tbh
> Visual Studio Code (besides Atom)?
Sublime Text 3 with plugins for general stuff, one of the JetBrains IDE's for more language specific work if so desired.