> Okay, let us assume that he does, so what? A lot of people work for Microsoft, Google and Apple and post on HN.
Because you seem to have him pegged as a MS hater when if you look at his previous comments of the past 3-4 months they're contrary to your hypothesis of him hating MS.
> Nice job at trying to derail the discussion.
It was already derailed by your witch hunt against this guy. I generally look at a user's history before thinking of calling them out for bias.
> Now care tell us what do you think of the topic of this story...
Considering I have never said anything negative towards Microsoft (or for that matter, Google, Apple, or any major tech company) on HN and I am currently posting this on Windows 7, while using Intellij IDEA, Visual Studio 2012 and with also a couple of remote ssh instances of Linux simultaneously open, I definitely have an overt bias :)
> ...instead of trying to go ad hominem on a tangent about some HN commenter's posting history which has nothing to do with anything really?
I don't think you're in the best position to be accusing anyone of name calling and character attacks based on your very angry and accusing comments so far. It's just a forum and the Internet is a silly place to get angry over :). I've had articles I've submitted get flagged or ignored. Doesn't bother me. I consider it the people that flagged its loss and not mine and just put it out of my mind almost after I submit it.
> Edit: What in cooldeal's HN profile makes you think he works for Microsoft?
Perhaps he doesn't and I read too much into his comments and he's not. However, he's certainly not a Google fanboy and MS hater. If you would like to attack people, there are much better communities on the internet to do so than HN.
Edit: although yes there are people here that have a strong dislike of MS for whatever reason (and also those that dislike Google, Apple, Ruby, PHP, and anything else that can be polarizing), assuming everyone here is in one camp or the other and accusing them of such is not winning you any sympathizers as I use quite few tools at times that are not considered super popular on hn myself (such as Opera, Java, C#, Windows, etc). I also use things that are popular as well (Python, Linux, JavaScript, Android). In then end, I really don't care what anyone uses other than myself as my decisions are related to what works best for me and only that. I stopped worrying about staying trendy sometime ago and I think I'm happier for it.
However, I can't support someone that resorts to mud slinging themselves. I think it's a shame you are trying to fight everyone as well as it just reaffirms the people that flag such articles that they're correct and dissuades those more amiable from supporting such articles in the future. I prefer an HN that is less polarized or focused only on one or two tech platforms.