Re:$99 Mineserver: The Devil Is in the Details
by LoSboccacc on Friday March 18, 2016 @06:37PM
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One would expect differently from Cringley of all person. He made a living about mocking people outsourcing and company being mismanaged.
Re:$99 Mineserver: The Devil Is in the Details
by velik_m on Saturday March 19, 2016 @06:54AM
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Maybe he wanted his kids to learn the lesson first hand?
Re:$99 Mineserver: The Devil Is in the Details
by LoSboccacc on Saturday March 19, 2016 @03:17PM
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at the expense of real people paying real money?
Re:$99 Mineserver: The Devil Is in the Details
by DanBC on Friday March 18, 2016 @05:58PM
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> The craziest thing is that a Minecraft server manager is not a difficult thing to write. I tossed together a couple hundred line Perl script with a bunch of useful features in an afternoon and ran servers with it for years.
Just checking, but how easy would that have been for the intended audience? (Mums and dads who don't know much about computing or minecraft servers).
The worst part is that there are plenty of Minecraft server administration suites out on the web for download already. Hiring a rando "developer" (with of course a good resume, everybody in those code farms has 1,000 years of development experience in every language!) you've never met to do the one thing that might differentiate your product is just insane.
The craziest thing is that a Minecraft server manager is not a difficult thing to write. I tossed together a couple hundred line Perl script with a bunch of useful features in an afternoon and ran servers with it for years.