CloudNine

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by CloudNine 13y ago
No, it is not really that relevant. If Microsoft is paying recoiledsnake a billion dollars to make that post, does it change any of the facts in it? No? Then why whinge about possible or probably astroturfing instead of just addressing the
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by CloudNine 13y ago
Can we comment on the stories and not the commenters themselves? What is this? A witch hunt?
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by CloudNine 13y ago
Okay let me explain it. Microsoft wanted to point out that Gmail scans the contents of email while Outlook.com doesn't in the Scroogled campaign. And now Google is trying legal tactics with a C&D to takedown to prevent Windows Phone us
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by CloudNine 13y ago
Well, I submitted this story to see what the reaction of HN posters is. Well, almost no one here is commenting on topic because they seem to be squirming and are instead going on complete tangents by commenting about commenters and everyone
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by CloudNine 13y ago
Too bad you got caught trying to delete your troll post here. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5717922
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by CloudNine 13y ago
Geez, I was referring to mtgx as a Google fanboy and MS hater, certainly not cooldeal.
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by CloudNine 13y ago
Good job, Google fans for flagging this story off the front page, you really have a veto on the HN front page.
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by CloudNine 13y ago
What kind of subs exactly? The ones critical of Google? How about just skipping the story/comments and moving to the next instead of trying to bury real news for everyone by flagging? From the HN guidelines: If you think something is spam o
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by CloudNine 13y ago
Okay, I was confused because people don't seem to be condemning Google for their evil lockout tactics here and are instead commenting on commenters. Criticizing Google for being evil does not mean they're supporting Microsoft here or that t
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by CloudNine 13y ago
No, they got tired of begging Google for a Youtube app for close to three years for Windows Phone, so they went ahead and made one so that Windows Phone users will finally have a good app instead of getting frustrated by Google's deliberate
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by CloudNine 13y ago
And Google employees/shareholders never post anything bad about Microsoft online, like on HN, right? I have a bridge to sell to you.
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by CloudNine 13y ago
I like how the Google fans and Microsoft haters on this story so far are commenting about the commenters instead of commenting on the story about Google using its influence to block a popular smartphone app from Windows Phone. Great job guy
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by CloudNine 13y ago
I see, do you have an opinion on the story or are you here just to comment about how other people's personal tastes are out of the mainstream?
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by CloudNine 13y ago
Read the stories in this post for more details. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5717749
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by CloudNine 13y ago
Okay, let us assume that he does, so what? A lot of people work for Microsoft, Google and Apple and post on HN. I didn't see a sign up message on HN stating that only Google and Apple employees/fans are allowed to post here. Nice job at try
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by CloudNine 13y ago
Just last quarter, Windows Phone shipped on 6 million phones and Windows 8 sold total 100 million licensees. Someone who likes them is the "only one" and is "far, far out of the mainstream?". Also what's up with people launching ad hominem
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by CloudNine 13y ago
>Also, what if I was him/her? Whats your problem, really Well, looking at his previous postings he seems quite the dedicated Google fan and Microsoft hater. Nothing wrong with that, really but my best guess is that he has nothing to say
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by CloudNine 13y ago
Earlier discussions: C&D takedown to Microsoft by Google: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5715168 Microsoft's response(Lying at #40 on second page because of heavy flagging by Google fans in spite of it having more votes than ma
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Microsoft's anti-Google campaign gets a boost, from Google(allthingsd.com)
21 points by CloudNine 13y ago|45 comments
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by CloudNine 13y ago
> They can still be quietly unhappy, locked into the platform with hundreds of thousands of man-hours invested into proprietary applications that depend heavily on major, hard-to-replace platform components (see: WPF, not implemented by
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by CloudNine 13y ago
>I countered jussij's perspective, equally posted without "links or references" No, he posted a publicly verifiable figure which is audited by the SEC and punishable with heavy penalties for faking, 11% increase of revenue in the quarte
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by CloudNine 13y ago
Just the number of unfilled requirements for ASP.NET MVC shows around 2000 openings. http://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=%22asp.net+mvc%22&l=
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by CloudNine 13y ago
The more likely explanation is that Google fans and Microsoft haters are doign the flagging. Even the other story about Microsoft's response is getting flagged and is far down the front page for its points. https://news.ycombinator.com/ite
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by CloudNine 13y ago
>has nothing to do with interoperating, but rather Microsoft not showing ads (among other infractions). Says who? Microsoft offered to show ads but Google refuses to give them access to the API since almost 3 years. Perhaps you haven't
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by CloudNine 13y ago
Then why does Vimeo have a Windows Phone 8 and WinRT app while YouTube with a much higher revenue can't make one? Why does the zombie company Yahoo Mail bother to a Windows Metro app while Gmail doesn't? Or perhaps Google doesn't want to su
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by CloudNine 13y ago
>Also, whether or not you get your flagging privileges revoked is, among other factors, a function of how popular the things that you are flagging are. That is why you can flag spam on 'new' all day long to your heart's content but one
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by CloudNine 13y ago
Copy pasta from someone else's HN comment on Google sending cease and desist to MS for Youtube story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5715889 From Google's About page: "Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make
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by CloudNine 13y ago
There's a LOT of startups here http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/Partners/Startups.aspx >This is the same selling scheme used by drug dealers. Would you hold Google to the same standard and say that's true of their free Google Apps fo
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by CloudNine 13y ago
So, .NET is dying because quite a few people are locked into it? Sounds like you got it backwards. And the red herrings about the name .NET don't make any sense except if you look from the context of the prevalent buzzwords and jargon at th
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by CloudNine 13y ago
>Looks like the Google fans, employees and shareholders on HN with good karma can't let this story break on the day of Google I/O? And people accuse Microsoft of astroturfing! What is this then? Well, obviously this is a false flag atta

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