josiah

move.in | Director of Engineering | Mumbai, India | Full Time | On Site Only

move.in is creating India’s central real estate platform. We’re pre-launch, but have already designed our market-entry product, raised investment from prestigious investors, and assembled a team of veteran entrepreneurs who have previously built successful tech companies in the space.

Our engineering team is growing, and we’re looking for a passionate Director of Engineering with strong technical capabilities to lead all our software engineering operations.

If you’ve already led an impactful engineering organisation before and are interested to know more, email us at talent@move.in. We’d love to meet you.

Executive level compensation packages available.

The new touch interface looks interesting, but backwards compatability is baggage that threatens to make the Windows 8 user experience an ugly inconsistent mess.

Touch is great for mobile apps, but it doesn't beat the old mouse + keyboard when it comes to desktop productivity.

This discussion reminds me of arguments from the "Raymond Chen Camp" [1]. Backwards compatibility is of huge value and importance to Microsoft, but it's a big burden to carry as well. Throwing away all the code that has been developed to date for Windows would be a fatally stupid mistake.

Microsoft would be better served by keeping their touch based phone / mobile platform seperate from the desktop. I don't think it's possible to build a platform that nicely mixes UI metaphores.

[1] http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html

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