Imagine thinking that Scott fucking Hanselman isn't qualified to work on Windows. Jesus dude.

throwaway27448 11 hours ago | parent | next [-]

What is he known for? Glancing at his github he seems very oriented around windows (which supports your point), but I wouldn't even know what to look for beyond that.

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oaiey 10 hours ago | parent [-]

He is a evangelist for cloud and .NET. he was one of the 5 public faces who moved .NET to open source in 2011 and beyond.

	▲	coldtea 8 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Anything concrete? Because "corporate evangelist" is very low in the ranking of roles I'd trust, and .NET evangelist even less.
	▲	dvfjsdhgfv 6 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		So?

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oaiey 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Scott Hanselman is awesome, has a good connections in the dev and cloud folks (Scott Guthrie corner). He has some influence but he cannot shape Windows like that. I think what he says is that he advocates for it but I have zero hope.

	▲	theshrike79 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I have zero hope, but he MIGHT have the ear of the people making the decisions and he might make a good point how if all of the "family tech support" people get pissed off about account requirements and move to Linux ... they'll start suggesting that to their families too which is kinda bad in the long run. Even though it's been said many times that MS doesn't give a fuck about personal users, their money comes almost 100% from companies using Windows. Gaming computers etc. are a rounding error.

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steve1977 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

As far as I know, he would be more into application programming, not systems programming (if anything). But I might be wrong.

Mark Russinovich would be a different story, but he seems to be mostly concerned with Azure nowadays.

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mememememememo 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Qualified and can bend the org are 2 different things. Although he can probably bend the org too!

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fud101 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

He is a full time nauseating AI shill. If you happen to listen to his recent appearance on Software Engineering Radio podcast, you may just die of cringe. I had my final straw moment on AI hype during that podcast and my first I wish someone would bully that nerd moment.

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bigstrat2003 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I've literally never heard of this man whom you think is so notable his very name would imply his qualification. He's not that noteworthy, dude.

	▲	cheevly 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I dunno ive been reading his material for 20 years, so I guess my perspective is different? His posts even more than a decade ago have more than demonstrated his competency.