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:) Who needs all those silly things, who can even keep track of them all? npm scripts + browserify does the trick nicely.

Ah, that is nice. .NET seems to have a wonderful property where even if they start out with something dumb, they eventually come to their senses and do the right thing. Sure can take a while to get there, though.

Shit, I would probably build out an entirely separate build system and then just call it with MSBuild if I had to.

Eh, I write JavaScript now.

I really hated the language you use to describe build tasks. It is a very frustrating mix of declarative and imperative syntax. And of course, who wouldn't want to write code in XML?! (XML, the markup language, the one we use for marking up information like documents and records.)

I was doing fairly complicated tasks with it years ago, and it's just one of those technologies that feels like it is fighting you at every turn. This was for continuous integration stuff and developer-productivity tools, not "open up Visual Studio and click the button". Thankfully much of that has been obviated over the years by things like NuGet and Octopus coming around.

Hoo boy, MSBuild was always by far my least-favorite part of being a .NET developer. I would like to flippantly say they should just throw it away and replace it, but probably much too late for that.

No, no.

If ease of setup and attractiveness of the device are the issues, Apple has been making AirPorts a long time (at a similar price point, I'll add).

Not giving equity strikes me as a tactical error, because the hurt feelings seem to be worth a lot more to him than the money he now has and apparently isn't interested in. I understand the justification for not doing it, but it seems like he's paying a different price for it now.

Right, and so what you get is people saying something is "simple" when what they really mean is that they like it. Which is of course not Hickey's fault, it just irks me for some reason.

I love Rich Hickey and I will watch any talk he ever gives. I believe I have seen them all at current.

Here's what drives me nuts about this one, though - it gets passed around a lot where I work, and people say how strongly they agree with him. There are real, concrete things he claims are not simple here! Things like for loops. And these people I'm talking about, they say they love this talk and then they say they love for loops. Really! I don't get it.

Do you guys think this is just somehow not possible, or something? It's Facebook.

I don't know but I'm not really inclined to be skeptical of this.

Work reasonable hours, get paid what you're worth, and damn the rest.

Repeating my call for each HN post to have a new, separate comments section specifically for shitty comments about the page itself as opposed to the ideas contained therein