Is there any reason as to why you didn't share the company name?

gringofyx · on Aug 9, 2013

If you read the comment by @grabeh you'll see that it's probably quite easy to research. In my reply to @grabeh are the reasons why I didn't give more details (such as the founders name).

I would have no problems if anyone else posted the real details here, but I wouldn't comfirm or deny it - unless there's a legal expert on here who could reassure me it's OK to post those details.

junto · on Aug 9, 2013

After reading it again, it suggests he stole data to start a company:

   The founder (let's call him John) had already worked in the
   translation industry, he'd stolen a few clients, some data, 
   rented an office and hadn't really thought about the rest.

I personally couldn't find the company, but if @grabeh could then maybe you should protect yourself from one of those nasty UK libel cases:

http://www.theguardian.com/science/the-lay-scientist/2010/no...

The story was great by the way. Well written. Nice to see another .NET dev on HN btw.

Also, beware that Google cache has a previous prevsion of this article stored: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:RMaGY0-...

gringofyx · on Aug 9, 2013

Thanks for reading (and the tips)

I think .Net gets a lot of (undeserved) bad press. Beleive it or not I started out as a SmallTalk, Javascript & C++ developer but there wasn't a lot of love for that skillset back in 2002.