No .NET programmers, please.

[Hans Dietrich]

Am I right about their business model? Basically you give them your bank account and credit card details, which they store on their servers; and they then access your bank and credit card accounts whenever you submit a transaction? If this is what they do, include me out.

Best wishes, Hans

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[Mike Hankey]

A legend in his own mind eh?

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[Dave Calkins]

Just made me think of the "good old days" when there was Microsoft Systems Journal and it was loaded with native Win32/MFC coding tips/articles/etc. and not 99% .NET or web apps or one of the new MS server products. Not that there's anything wrong with those things... Just saying.

[Lost User]

I was gentleish. :evil-smile:

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[Rutvik Dave]

I stopped reading after 2nd para.... because I don't feed trolls... ;P

[Dave Kreskowiak]

If this is true, he's an appalingly ignorant a$$. Startup or no, I wouldn't want to work for such a close minded schmuck. If he's so cosed minded about .NET, I shudder to think about what he would say/do when you tell him that there's a problem with something he wants to do (like turning lead into gold!) He sounds like the kind of guy that would ignore all of your carefully thought out/researched solutions to a problem so he could tell you what the real solution to the problem is. You know, like telling you the true solution for fixing a flat tire is to build a football stadium where your car now sits.

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[Mycroft Holmes]

He may actually be right for a startup that has very specialised requirements. His requirements may be so narrow that .net is not applicable to his company. He still strikes me as a dipstick, and his opinions do sound trollish.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH

[Andy Brummer]

Unfortunately, I know exactly what he's talking about, yet I have almost 10 years of .net C# experience now. :|

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[PIEBALDconsult]

Which kind of football?

[Dave Kreskowiak]

Does it really matter?

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[Dave Kreskowiak]

Maybe and maybe not. .NET gives you a ton of base classes to remove the repetitive coding necessary to build most libraries for any dev house. For a startup, time-to-market is critical. If you have to waste even a quarter of your development time building your base library, that's time that would have been better spent on getting your product to market that much faster.

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[Mycroft Holmes]

I was thinking more along the lines of where .net on a windows platform is not part of his requirements, I don't know what it would be but then I'm 100% steeped in the corporate .net world so I guess I'm too narrow focused for thei guy.

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[R Giskard Reventlov]

Very narrow and incorrect view of the world: still, no need to worry, with an attitude and narrow outlook like that he'll be gone in a few months.

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[Rajesh R Subramanian]

I think that he may be a typical simp, who thinks he's great - in another blog post, he tells about how he expects the people to spend "long hours" in his little office, because apparently they're all supposed to love what they do. :rolleyes: I posted a comment down there asking if boost users are incompetent too, because I can at some level compare what boost, stl, etc., does with what .NET does.

"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.

[Lost User]

Good Post! 5!

[Lost User]

That's something I always wondered about. Why do bosses always expect everybody to be euphoric about whatever they want them to do? It usually ia hard work and they have to wave with some money to get somebody to do it day by day. If it were so much fun, they would have a ticket booth in front of their offices and make you pay for admission. In this article, this guy keeps talking about startups. Startups begin from scratch and have a lot of work to do if they are to succeed. Wasting time on writing the boilerplate code lessens their chances. If the boss does not understand this, I would not really be enthusiastic to work in his treadmill.

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[Lost User]

Yes, when answering a C++ question recently, I actually had forgotten something. I must find something to do in C++, just so that I don't get too stale. :)

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[Rajesh R Subramanian]

CDP1802 wrote:

It usually ia hard work and they have to wave with some money to get somebody to do it day by day.

I agree with you. More even than the money, it is a combination of many different things - money, good work (job satisfaction), AND dignity (if I want to surf lolcats, I WILL). I can occasionally work for longer hours to save the company's arse and/or because the problem that I'm working on is so interesting and challenging. But if you expect me to work a 50 hour week all the time, I've a pearly white, hairy, sweaty, stinky ass that I'll flash at you and the move on to a better place.

CDP1802 wrote:

In this article, this guy keeps talking about startups. Startups begin from scratch and have a lot of work to do if they are to succeed. Wasting time on writing the boilerplate code lessens their chances.

Well said. There may also be another side to it - may be they're working on something that needs to be truly cross-platform, or something that .NET can't help you with (say, I'm writing code that should run on some device that runs a stripped down version of UNIX). However, like you said, if there's a chance for them to leave out the boiler-plate stuff to a well written library/framework, and they still don't do it because they don't like .NET (or whatever framework does it for them), then I'd want to stay really far away from them. The thought of having to work with someone who does not understand such basic stuff sends a chill down my spine ( had to do this shit in the past :omg: ).

"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.

[Rajesh R Subramanian]

Cruel, but true.

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[Gary R Wheeler]

I've interviewed with people like that before. Fortunately I realized I didn't want to work for a moron like that before they embarassed themselves by making an offer I'd laugh at.

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