You aren't at a subsidiary, obviously. As the tide shifts to pushing Azure, the sales people are going ballistic and circle customers like sharks, with insane targets.
I joined a short while ago and deeply regret it, since all we do is sales. Even OSS is treated as a pure sales play.
Marco does iOS development, and there are a number of features that simply won't run on a Hackintosh. Anything involving crypto is dicey, and stuff that relies on (for instance) having an official serial number (like iMessage) will also fail.
Believe me, it's not. Even when the userland gets updated to 16.04, it's still heavily dependent on the Windows kernel, and the networking stack (for example) will not be the same.
The WSL will never replace a native Linux OS. Period. But it will be pretty useful for some lighter use cases. As a dev, I'm still not convinced it's good enough, given the recent issues with Ruby and Node.
Went ahead and downloaded Xamarin Studio for the Mac. Still has an "Enterprise Trial" button, and apparently I still have to login to activate it.
It annoys me to no end that I have to log in to Visual Studio as well (even Community) for it to even open a project, and I wish both Microsoft and Xamarin were more respectful of our privacy.
no mention of gevent, celery, etc. As someone who runs thousands of concurrent tasks in a mix of process/gevent (one UNIX process for each 100 greenlets across 48 cores on two boxes), I find the OP's toliling rather misguided.
i don't see any mention of uwsgi or gevent in these benchmarks. Deploying Python apps without properly configuring the container/webserver will skew the results considerably (probably applicable to a couple of other entries as well).
Note that the guy got Ubuntu 12.04 running on an ODROID board using a similar technique from a prebuilt image. So it's apparently a very easy thing to get going...
I think that's precisely the point the author was making. Google could set up shop there and build a massive development centre that would make it easier for them to do stuff for Latin America and Africa - and yet they don't, other than a dinky office selling AdWords.
What is the question again? You end your post with two Boolean questions, either of which might be construed as being your point.
(and yeah, I don't think this is a good use of polls either - this is Hacker _News_, and if people post stuff about Apple and it gets up voted, then that's because it's of general interest regardless of your, erm... Techno-religion.)