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by ahoyhere 4847 days ago
I can't say I would ever trust my code to a tool written by somebody who thinks that this is a good idea:

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2006/09/has-joel-spolsky-ju...

Also, calling Github a "VW Microbus" and implying they're hippie kumbaya love-ins instead of a huge, well-supported tool with the features he implies they lack… well. It stretches credibility.
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tptacek 4846 days ago
Wow, what a terrible comment. I'm surprised to have heard it from you. Witch hunts against companies that use language development as a tool; what a weird thing to see voted to the top of an HN thread.
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ahoyhere 4846 days ago
Saying "I wouldn't trust my xyz to a person who does abc" is not a witchhunt, it's a statement of opinion based on another person's very public and controversial choices.

Am I not allowed to find cross-compiling to PHP, ASP and vbscript technically questionable?

Or be wary that their founder claims that one of their apps has "literally millions" of calculations on a single page?

That just seems like exercising discretion. Just like everyone does when some free service turns draconian and some HNers complain and other HNers say "Well look what they did to their last startup / look what these other free services always end up as, you should have seen the pattern matching on the wall." I believe you've left a few comments to that effect, yourself. Where do you see a difference?

Note that I didn't call their app some kind of ridiculous and insulting car metaphor or deliberately leave off features in order to smear them… if we're going to talk about witchhunts.

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tptacek 4846 days ago
You're allowed to call a cross-compiling language questionable, and I'm allowed to call you out for suggesting that the application of basic computer science is a sign of incompetence.
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statictype 4846 days ago
and implying they're hippie kumbaya love-ins instead of a huge, well-supported tool with the features he implies they lack

I don't see this in the article anywhere. Sounds like you're trying to create controversy where there isn't one.

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ky3 4846 days ago
Amy dramatizes for effect, I'm sure.

But you can't deny Spolsky's spin can you? That GitHub isn't quite corporate-oriented because "contributions can come from volunteers all over the Internet, many of whom are happy to fork the code for their own needs."

Corporate. Volunteer. Happy. Their. Own. Needs.

Pick the odd one out.

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