I got loads of time for that, but I've also suffered at the hands of MSBuild as have thousands of others so the PR seemed like a funny troll at the time.
Seriously - I remember at one client there was a specific machine set up to edit the build on because it was the only one that could open the workflow editor without crashing. Why there was a workflow editor to edit MSBuild stuff I don't know but that's that world in a nutshell.
I don't disagree that people have problems with Microsoft products but I would just suggest asking yourself whether the people who went to the trouble of open-sourcing something are likely to want those problems to exist rather than, say, engineers trying to do what they can at a big, complicated company. Is it more likely that the person who reads a troll PR is going to say “I had no idea everyone wasn't happy with this!” or that their boss will say “See, I told you that releasing this was a waste of time”.
You absolutely were being an annoying prick. The best thing you can do is own up to it and apologize. Definitely not what you're doing right now, what with the whole "jees, what is your issue" thing.
The reason he's so touchy about it is he's a narcissistic annoying prick. He only did it for attention since people pay attention to bullies, and it requires no work or intelligence unlike being paid attention to for contributing constructively. Call him out as an obnoxious bully and his ego can't stand it.
Maybe - I can't help but feel you're all putting C on a pedestal though - thinking you're immune from memory management issues because you're not using C seems a bit weird.
I feel confident that if I was asked to do C at one of these gigs I'd have been able to deliver something useful. Perhaps less if it was C++ because it's a bit swiss-army knife and there are a lot more "don'ts" to pick up.
I'm only saying: Some skills are so radically different that you cannot transfer easily from one to the other. To give a counter example in the other direction: When i taught a former Lisp developer Perl, it took him 3 months to get to a good level, and 3 more to be on a very high level. And he's an extremely bright guy.
Then again, he had never done web apps before. Maybe the language matters a lot less if you're staying within the same problem domain.
"then they'll get on that stuff and make it happen providing they have some similar experience and you have an in-house knowledge pool for them to draw on." <-- some similar experience is probably another way of saying that.
If you asked me tomorrow to go and start doing system programming in a language I knew well, I'd probably be screwed. Ask me to work on a database engine, compiler or web app and I'd be okay.
I'm mainly focusing that ire on the typical enterprise stuff LOB stuff, where it truely is all the same and just because you'd been writing Foo v1 for three years doesn't mean you won't be able to write Bar v300
Perhaps I miswrote, I lost a lot of money doing this - expenses were travel and finding me somewhere to live, everything else in life costs a lot of money which came from my own account.
Yeah, it didn't see that important - the internet is quite a good place for doing things like this - thanks to Twitter and other places where people share things the calendar was booked up for 6 months within a couple of weeks
Considering how much it usually costs to hire a contractor, this really is free. If you win tickets to a concert you still have to pay to get there, but the tickets are still free.
Paying a couple hundred quid to hire me for two weeks is free. When I said expenses, it was the cost of getting there and putting me somewhere to sleep (not hotels mostly, thankfully).
By charging that small amount, it means they're serious about bringing me in because it demonstrates commitment.
I paid for my own upkeep over this time and burned through the best part of 25k EUR - all worth it.
I understand that. I'm just a bit irked because i occasionally do actual free work for people who can benefit from my skills and do good or interesting things.
Yeah, that's pretty much it - I don't really want to keep dozens of domain names and DNS entries for pet projects lying around when they're only going to get 10 hits a day and the code is all available :-)
Hey, I noticed the traffic spike and came to say hello.
The thing about a chatroom and load, is that your server is effectively just message passing, and if there is any CPU spike, that is all it is - a spike, which VPSs for the most part are fine with.
When you are executing physics and logic 30 times a second constantly regardless of load (so I made a mistake in phrasing there in my blog post), then you will be throttled on a cheap VPS because you're no longer being a good citizen - which was my point in that post if I recall correctly.
To my recollection, this hasn't got much to do with memory at all. I hope this clarifies what I meant to say a bit more.
