woan

There is no surplus of good opportunities for technical folks to co-found something they can believe in. There are plenty of other opportunities of course.

I think the article is solid in that you have to sell the potential technical co-founder that you have a great idea and will add value to the relationship. "decent salary" will get you a contractor for hire, not a co-founder.

You don't have a lot of choice than to network and try your pitch.

I was going to say something about this being flame bait, but I went back to MS's marketing material and it does seem like their vision marketing is at great odds from their execution: http://www.microsoft.com/softwareplusservices/software-plus-...

Unless by services they means software updates, CDDB updates, and downloading Office templates...

definitely should have been "skeptical on collaborating with Facebook"

Number one on any of these lists should be empathy for users. If you don't care about and understand those using your code, you will never be great, only good.

Old media WSJ and nytimes...

Oh crap, in .Net there is a OSS Linq to JSON provider I see.

They return the objects meeting the criteria and you set the property blindly. The query API I saw has a clone and replace API too which is good if concurrency is a concern.

I am not up on this but in XML world I would have used XPath. I see there are both JsonPath and JsonQuery gems that seem to be geared for this kind of stuff.

I think the original Team System pricing which was probably there to compete against IBM Rational in the enterprise ignoring they had a much broader customer base.

They eventually folded it into most of the MSDN freebie programs for partners and startups...