| As someone who'd like to think of himself as a decent hacker, I usually think criticism is a good thing. I don't however, enjoy criticism when it's combined with insults to attract more attention. I know and like the WriteWith developers, so I'm not really interested in spending time defending a team I have confidence in and a product that will figure itself out with time. I haven't had any long discussions about where they're aiming - but they're smart guys who work damn hard, so I'm sure we'll see new things out of them. I would however, enjoy helping to filter some of the lower quality posts here on news.ycombinator.com - so let's take a look at the quality of the people behind uncov.com (based on 5 minutes worth of googling). A couple of their articles have made it to news.ycombinator.com in the past few days - and I haven't particularly enjoyed any of them when compared to the rest of the articles posted. 'whois uncov.com - returns "Kyle Shank" with DNS pointing to www.shanksoft.com/ shanksoft.com reports a 404 You can do your own googles for "Kyle Shank", but what's more important to me is the quality of the critic - ie, what software he's written in the past. A google for "shanksoft.com" returns some old shareware "ASPXEdit" that I would assume does what it should, and is a basic ASP editor. There wasn't an updated version on any of the sites I checked, and I'm assuming this was a failed attempt at "making something people want".
It also returned what appears to have been an attempt my the same "group/person" at Shanksoft to make an original p2p client, "Shankster". Also couldn't find a version, but it seemed like yet-another-gnutella client, and never really got much traction. Point of the story - uncov's team (at least just this one) doesn't seem to be anything substantial, but more some college aged wannabes (aren't we all?) who aren't actually out there doing it themselves. In hindsight - this comment wasn't really worth my time. The research just proved what I thought before - and Harj's comment. |
http://canadaonrails.com/speakers/show/7
Apparently he's the lead of RadRails and other projects.