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If those projects are looking for a new home, we'd be happy to welcome them at GitHub.

If folks want to improve our language detection on GitHub, please take a look at https://github.com/github/linguist

GitHub's looking for Enterprise Support Engineers (EU/Asia) and Technical Account Managers (SF) https://github.com/about/jobs

We've gone into excruciating detail about how GitHub's architected: https://github.com/blog/530-how-we-made-github-fast

I'm not entirely sure what you mean by "only vaguely." The fact that passionate developers are building developer tools has a lot to do with why we've been successful. Chris, the C…

Not for nothing, but full fare economy can often be more expensive than discounted biz tickets. Having an actual conversation telling the VC to cool it might have ended up saving y…

That is certainly not the case at GitHub. We don't care where or when you work as long as the work gets done. If you're being guilted into staying later, then the hours aren't actu…

This is poor advice. We've met dozens of VC's since GitHub launched to 1) meet interesting people 2) learn as much as possible 3) figure out who we like if we ever decide to go tha…

We're trying to fundamentally change how people write, collaborate, and discover code and the sooner people stop thinking of us as just a repo depository, the better, because we've…

Just like there are diminishing returns coding for many hours without resting, trying to build a business without having a social life will ultimately have damaging effects. Knowin…

I interned at a 1.0 bubble company the summer prior to my freshman year of high school. I built a website for the church I attended for no particular reason, the CEO happened to be…

We're well aware that Windows support needs improvement. Rest assured we will be addressing that issue.

We built the Mac app because 1) we wanted it 2) to learn how a desktop client should work prior to tackling other platforms. Beyond that, one-third of our traffic uses Macs. It's n…

All of GitHub's space limits are soft limits to prevent abuse.

We've responded multiple times that we have nothing to do with that account. In this thread just a couple of pages up, in fact: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2606408 We haven…

> For example, I didn't contact github because I knew one of the peole working there was in on the joke. For the record, this isn't true no matter how many times you repeat it. You…

GitHub is investing heavily in libgit2 because we think it's the future for git for all the reasons listed at http://libgit2.github.com/

I have this discussion fairly often as a founder of GitHub with folks that don't trust 3rd parties, but I think it's unwise to assume you're more prepared to defend against attacks…

It's worth noting that none of the Ruby guys Tom worked with at Powerset are still working for Microsoft 3 years later. The guys I've spoken with had a miserable time working there…

I know it's in vogue to throw the word bubble around, but I'd be interested to see the CS enrollment stats worldwide. The first generation of kids that spend more time in front of …

Colloquy is the client I use when I'm on IRC, so I appreciate the work you've done on it. Point 2 is actually the most important point for us. Since Tom was the only one that liked…