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On a sidenote, Codemoji broke my back button (:() and seems way over-animated for a simple three box form.
In short yea, you're right.
So really he saved them from harassing phone calls, not really the money itself.
From one of the end comments:
> If you want to work out how it should be made and be in the design team that talks about it... please do. [Link to MS Career Page]
It seems that the product is beginning to turn into .NET 5 (Core) instead of the original intentions of leaving behind the legacy chains.
Between the switch back to MSBuild, RC# breaking changes and the promise of even more breaking changes post-release, I've become a little disheartened.
Change in itself isn't bad, but .NET Core was supposed to be about open communication, and the later changes were never discussed within the actual community, instead it was decided by MS alone.
Hell, in this article, it took multiple attempts to get it configured when its in the release-candidate stage. No idea where this was going it was more of a rant than anything apologies for anyone who actually read it.
I think its evident by the NYTimes comments, this probably won't be the easiest article to understand for someone with little background on the topic. The great thing about the books on the subject are they essentially start from nothing.
From my perspective, I don't quite get a lot of the points. No unit-tests? Most code bases don't have them. Cucumber tests? You're already ten giant leaps ahead of most products out there.
Code in disarray? Used to it for every single project I have to come into. Factories/viewers at least there is some semblance of structure!
False corporate goals? It's a company, I expect nothing else from them.
Weird North Korea chants? That's just weird as hell.
Again, I don't work in SF or NY so it's hard to know what exists within startup culture, but to me all of this just sounds like the norm. There is much less importance placed on decent code then there is on just getting something out.
That feels like it would be more on the individual team members not knowing when to reach out, more so than the in-person meetings causing a remote/local gap.