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ashtom

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    Comment #46971568

    Yes to all that. And GitLab the company was only founded in 2014 (OSS project started in 2011) and ran through YC in 2015, seven years after GitHub launched.

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    Comment #46971477

    Didn't say you were wrong. It was just missing the Xamarin step in the sequence of companies, and arguably Xamarin was the bigger milestone than Ximian.

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    Comment #46971406

    I'd bet that less people had their source code on git in 2008 than the number of developers using the various coding agents today. And the open-source project that we published tod…

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    Comment #46971356

    Makes sense, and we definitely will have more technical posts coming soon and on a regular basis. And I am German, I am used to snark. :P Joking aside, thanks for the response and …

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    Comment #46968358

    Chris was also CEO from 2008 to 2012. Tom had 2012 to 2014. Nat's company Xamarin was acquired by Microsoft in 2016. HockeyApp wasn't A/B testing, but a platform for iPhone, Mac, A…

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    Comment #46968311

    Time will tell how small that corner is. ;)

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    Comment #46968264

    Yes, definitely something we are thinking of.

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    Comment #46964663

    I left August 11: https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/goodbye-githu...

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    Comment #46963118

    Fixed. It's Cursor 2.0 and Composer 1.5, mixed that up when editing the post last night.

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    Comment #46962954

    Founder here. I built commercial insurance software for Windows 95 in the 1990s, driver assistant systems at Mercedes and at Bosch in the early 2000s, dozens of iPhone apps as cont…

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    Comment #46962701

    Only four: Chris, Tom, Nat, and Thomas. Last one is me. ;)

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    Comment #46962644

    Thanks. New startup, new approach.

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    Comment #46962393

    I am here. What did I not bother with? I wrote the blog post and it has all the details.

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    Comment #46962253

    Entire CEO here. We are going to be building in the open and full stack open source, but great to see alternatives.