Zynga Buys NaturalMotion For $527M

Re:Zynga Buys NaturalMotion For $527M by davegardner on Friday January 31, 2014 @12:28AM (#7155438)

Your choice of people to respond to doesn't do a lot to support your criticism. According to his profile cletus is originally from Australia, but now lives in NY and works for Google. I don't know him personally, but given his employer I'd hardly jump to the conclusion that he doesn't have any friends who work there.

>Honestly, I have a difficult time taking any developer who doesn't live here seriously

He's also got over 250k rep on SO, and 15k on HN, so there's more than a few other people who take what he says seriously enough.

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Re:Zynga Buys NaturalMotion For $527M by jessedhillon on Friday January 31, 2014 @12:35AM (#7155465)

I'm not sure how to communicate this better than I've tried -- I'm talking about populations not individuals. Most likely cletus is a better programmer than me but that does nothing to my argument. Which primarily was that I'd like to be able to filter based on comments from people who have skin in the game rather than random hate from passers-by. And secondarily that the wealth of talent and resources are located here, and therefore you can identify a significant (but inexact) correlation between talent and location.

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Re:Zynga Buys NaturalMotion For $527M by mark_integerdsv on Friday January 31, 2014 @04:01AM (#7155943)

I'm a little surprised that you'd spend so much time arguing with these peons (some of them almost certainly do not live in the same city as what you do.)

Surely with the amount of lines you have typed in this thread, your Bay Area level skills could have been used to whip up something that does exactly what you are asking HN to do on your behalf?

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