Now that the dust has settled from the acquisition, has the culture held up? How's morale, work life balance, growth opportunity, etc.?
Ask HN: Is GitHub still a desirable place to work?
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Re: Ask HN: Is GitHub still a desirable place to work?
#2Is Github still the type of place that changes your branch names from master to main, (for your own good of course) and bans usage of the word "meritocracy" so as not to hurt people's feelings?
Re: Ask HN: Is GitHub still a desirable place to work?
#3Is Github still the type of place that changes your branch names from master to main, (for your own good of course) and bans usage of the word "meritocracy" so as not to hurt people's feelings?
> changes your branch names from master to main
It’s a trivial name change, stay mad.
Re: Ask HN: Is GitHub still a desirable place to work?
#4Is Github still the type of place that changes your branch names from master to main, (for your own good of course) and bans usage of the word "meritocracy" so as not to hurt people's feelings?
They didn't change anything retroactively, calm down or host your own git server.
Re: Ask HN: Is GitHub still a desirable place to work?
#5Is Github still the type of place that changes your branch names from master to main, (for your own good of course) and bans usage of the word "meritocracy" so as not to hurt people's feelings?
Is America the kind of place that bans slavery and bans usage of the n-word so as not to hurt people's feelings?
Re: Ask HN: Is GitHub still a desirable place to work?
#6Is this blind?
Re: Ask HN: Is GitHub still a desirable place to work?
#7Is Github still the type of place that changes your branch names from master to main, (for your own good of course) and bans usage of the word "meritocracy" so as not to hurt people's feelings?
Is America the kind of place that bans slavery and bans usage of the n-word so as not to hurt people's feelings?
That idea is far removed from the debate of a meritocracy vs employment quotas based on ethnicity. Thats the real discussion here.
Re: Ask HN: Is GitHub still a desirable place to work?
#8Is Github still the type of place that changes your branch names from master to main, (for your own good of course) and bans usage of the word "meritocracy" so as not to hurt people's feelings?
> changes your branch names from master to main It’s a trivial name change, stay mad.
>It’s a trivial name change
Tell that to a decade of tooling, training and documentation.
I don't necessarily have a problem with the change, but I wish people would quit telling me it's nothing.
It's not the end of the world or anything, but next time someone who's trying to coast by with the least git knowledge possible (90% of the office) needs help because of this, or is just frustrated that there's another complication they have to remember should I tell them it's "a trivial name change"? I might as well say "it's just a directed acyclic graph of revisions." That's also technically true, but I might as well tell them to go fuck themselves. [1]
Re: Ask HN: Is GitHub still a desirable place to work?
#9Is Github still the type of place that changes your branch names from master to main, (for your own good of course) and bans usage of the word "meritocracy" so as not to hurt people's feelings?
Is America the kind of place that bans slavery and bans usage of the n-word so as not to hurt people's feelings?
Yes America and most places have banned slavery.
No it's part of popular music and is protected speech.
Re: Ask HN: Is GitHub still a desirable place to work?
#10Is this blind?
Is the Blind the only acceptable place to have this discussion?