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gum_ina_package··on Vista Equity writes off PluralSight value, after $3.5B buyout
Another article with seemingly more details https://finance.yahoo.com/news/vista-backed-tech-firm-moves-...
gum_ina_package··on HashiCorp Appoints Michael Weingartner as Chief Product Officer
Official PR also found here: https://ir.hashicorp.com/node/9191/pdf
gum_ina_package··on What Makes a Great Product Manager
DM me on Twitter @grantgumina
gum_ina_package··on $200M seed valuation for Roam shows investor frenzy for note-taking apps
Funny to hear Notion described as an incumbent! Having used both though, Roam did much more to fundamentally change how I took notes and use them to form new insights and ideas.
gum_ina_package··on Maybe You Don't Need Kubernetes (2019)
Hey this sounds super interesting. I'm a PM at Upbound.io and would love to learn more about your experiences working with K8s. What's a good way of contacting you?
gum_ina_package··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2018)
Qumulo | Engineering, Product, Sales, Customer Success | Seattle, WA | Full-time

We build the world's most advanced filesystem, Qumulo File Fabric (QF2). QF2 is a modern, highly scalable file storage system that runs in the data center and the public cloud.

Founded in 2012 by the inventors of scale-out NAS, our vision has attracted a team of pioneers from Amazon Web Services, Google, and Microsoft. Our mission is simple – to be the company the world trusts to store, manage and curate its data. Forever.

We hire smart, adaptive individuals with diverse backgrounds and a knack for taking challenges head on. We not only solve the industry's most difficult problems, but do so in an adaptive, agile environment, shipping code every two weeks and getting feedback on our work in real-time.

If you're interested, feel free to PM me or apply here: https://qumulo.com/company/jobs/

gum_ina_package··on New male contraceptive may be submitted for Indian approval this year
Sure society hasn't collapsed, but we've lost a lot all in the name of "progress".
gum_ina_package··on American Students Know Almost Nothing About Their College Loans
You simply can't. I'm a 20 something with hella debt. Would love to go out and do my own thing or even work at a smaller company for less money, but more responsibility. Unfortunately that's not really an option for me. My #1 priority is to get out of debt as fast as possible.
gum_ina_package··on Dropbox is in your Office
Whoa, hell just froze over. I wonder how the OneDrive team feels about this? This kind of a decision was made at the highest levels of the company.
gum_ina_package··on Windows 10 will come with a command-line package manager
This could be awesome, especially if it can integrate with the Windows Store. Maybe even your XBox/WP too?
gum_ina_package··on Windows 10 will come with a command-line package manager
It seems like you haven't paid much attention to the leaks and rumors out there... Cortana is 100% going to be in Windows 10 from the looks of it. Also, this package manager is designed to get the people MS needs excited the most - hardcore power users like us.
gum_ina_package··on Announcing Xamarin 3
I agree if that $300 was almost as much as my monthly rent lol :)
gum_ina_package··on Announcing Xamarin 3
Now all they have to do is make it free. Seriously though, as a student I can't shell out $299 for a license and even at the $99/year student rate (with proof of relevant course work), I can't see myself paying $99/year to write/maintain apps I've built. Especially considering the $99/year Apple app store fee.

Please, Xamarin, show us young C# devs some love!

update: not really sure why the down votes. I'm big fan of Xamarin and C# in general. All I was doing was pointing out that there's no way I can afford/am willing to buy their software and that I think I speak for the majority of student developers.

gum_ina_package··on Skype group video calling becomes free
Finally! I don't know anyone who likes G+ over Skype, but we all use it for the group video features.
gum_ina_package··on Cross Platform Development with Mono
Interesting to see all the recent activity on HN about cross platform development. Seems like, as far as native code solutions go, C#/.NET is our best bet. As a C# junkie I'm excited about this, but also kinda sad that HTML5 cross platform development never really took off.

Edit: When I said "native code", I meant that Mono allows you to wrap native libraries with greater ease than anything else I've ever encountered.

gum_ina_package··on Intertwingled: The Work and Influence of Ted Nelson – Starts at 9:30AM PDT
If it's not already going to be recorded, can someone here do that? I'll be in class when it's going on and won't be able to watch it. :(
gum_ina_package··on Painless Windows Workstation Setup with Boxstarter
I have a feeling we're going to see some really interesting things very similar to this coming out of Redmond in the near future. With Microsoft's announcement of One-Get (an official Windows package manager that essentially wraps Choclatey), I think Powershell might finally be getting some much needed attention.
gum_ina_package··on Internal Apple document: FY'14 Planning Offsite
Apple needs to show customers what they want, that's the real issue. Since Jobs died, Apple hasn't really created a new product category that none of us knew we wanted. Instead, they've made defensive moves by making their existing products cheaper and more attractive.
gum_ina_package··on Brendan Eich Steps Down as Mozilla CEO
More important than his morality and/or religious views?
gum_ina_package··on Brendan Eich Steps Down as Mozilla CEO
No one should feel victorious or good about the outcome of this thing. An individual, who apparently incredibly qualified and talent enough to lead an org like Mozilla, was forced to step down because of his socio-political views. No allegations of discrimination or misconduct on his part were made, but because he donated $1K to a cause that goes against public opinion he is forced out. What if his alleged opposition towards gay marriage (I say alleged because we don't really know why he donated $1K) was due to religious or moral convictions? As long as he didn't discriminate in the workplace, who's the victim here?
gum_ina_package··on Brendan Eich Steps Down as Mozilla CEO
I honestly feel like Brendan is the victim here. He might have religious or moral views on gay marriage that some of us don't agree with, but being forced to step down as CEO because of those views... well that's something I don't think any of his critics should be proud of.
gum_ina_package··on WinJS: the Windows Library for JavaScript
At first I thought it was a cross platform app building something-or-another (kinda like Xamarin), but now that I actually am building it and playing around with it I see that it's something else entirely.

I'm actually glad this happened though. Seems like MS is finally rallying around C# as the defacto language for building apps (as opposed to Visual Basic or even Visual C++). This project might succeed (or at least find a nitch) among developers who are building touch centric web applications.

gum_ina_package··on Microsoft introduces Universal Windows apps
Mono! Lots of ASP.Net projects (like Nancyfx or SignalR) are actually built on Mono. I think there's some hope that web dev on Windows isn't dead.
gum_ina_package··on Microsoft introduces Universal Windows apps
The amazing thing is that you can potentially write all your code in C# and have backend/frontend logic for the web (ASP.NET), Windows, Windows Phone, and even iOS/Android (via Xamarin). Wow.
gum_ina_package··on StackOverflow closed my question, that's why we exist
I think his point is that there should only be one "how do I open a file in Python" type of question/answer. Not 30 like there are today.
gum_ina_package··on Reviews for Mike Judge's "Silicon Valley" on HBO
I wonder who's reviewing this show? Techies like ourselves, or HBO's mainstream audience?
gum_ina_package··on Microsoft buys AR headset patents for $100-150M – report
Very interesting development. Personally I don't see AR being anywhere close to VR in terms of usefulness, polish, and mass market appeal. VR obviously is going to be a major player in the gaming/entertainment industries, while an AR headset is more of a general use device for everyone. It'll be interesting to see what MS comes out with.
gum_ina_package··on Microsoft buys AR headset patents for $100-150M – report
As mentioned earlier on HN, deals like these don't just happen overnight. They literally are the result of months (sometimes years) of planning, analysis, and strategy. To think that MS is just going to drop $100 mil on AR technology because Facebook did (are they really even competitors, I mean come on...) is very naïve.
gum_ina_package··on Microsoft changes privacy policy to defer to law enforcement
Very good, very responsible move on their part. Hopefully, the other tech giants will follow their lead and update their own policies.
gum_ina_package··on Microsoft launches Office for iPad
This would be an incredibly interesting development. I personally love c# and would be thrilled if it became a mainstream language outside the enterprise software crowd.
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