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By the time we extracted Scientist, the code we were refactoring had pretty good test coverage. But even the best test suite is an imperfect model of production. The first section …

Thanks, Evi. You were kind to me when I was very young and very stupid.

EY, Rackspace, and then our own metal.

Pretty much only the early employees remember where that humans.txt is stashed.

I wouldn't be surprised if a few GitHubbers dropped by Huntsville sometime this summer. Watch the blog.

We'll see what we can do. ;)

There is no such thing as a shit task. Added: That's a little too glib, sorry. Let me try again: From my perspective, if there's something that needs to be done at GitHub there are…

We use PRP in any situation where someone explicitly takes responsibility for an outcome, no matter whether the outcome is some software or a clean office or an accurate tax return…

If you're running a recent version of GitHub Enterprise, the avatar base URL can be configured today. It's possible to run an internal, secure server that responds to Gravatar's UR…

We released task lists earlier this year: https://github.com/blog/1375-task-lists-in-gfm-issues-pulls-...

Yup, we're focusing on the pages most likely to be clicked through on mobile first.

Have you asked us? support@github are real humans, I promise.

I'm really sorry to hear that. I work at GitHub, so if you want to talk more about your experience please drop me a line. It's this username at that domain. Or hit up any other Git…

NilClass.

It's in the early 7000's.

We grabbed a 3D printer for the office a while ago.

Drift after installation and incremental updates were more of a problem for us than initial installs.

We've opened up #boxen on freenode for questions and discussion. We'll idle there whenever we can.

My favorite thing about this library is that it parses the NASM manual: https://github.com/seattlerb/wilson/blob/master/lib/wilson.r...

Yep, we don't count contributions until they hit a repository's default or gh-pages branch.

We don't have roadmaps or a prioritized backlog, so we weren't exactly "waiting" to implement this. Someone got fed up with the image workflow, figured out a solution, grabbed some…

Yup, images only.

There are a fair amount of us > 35 folks at GitHub.

GitHub has been organized this way since it was in a pre-revenue state.

We started doing this in Seattle last year with some success ( http://startupsanonymous.com ). I've kept it dormant during a busy move to New Orleans, but if anybody's interested i…