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Re: GitHub is undergoing a full-blown overhaul as execs and employees depart

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Post by dblessing »

mschuster91 wrote: post #13
the_ancient wrote: post #7

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I love both BitBucket and GitLab, have no issues with either.

I'm administrating a small-ish Gitlab server and we have to reboot it every week or else it will fail in random and weird ways due to OOM - the machine has 8GB of RAM and 20 active users, so WTF? Isn't the entire point of git to have one pretty dumb server acting as a file server and letting the client do the work?!

This is definitely not normal. For 20 users, 8GB is more than enough and it should not require constant restarts. Please check out https://about.gitlab.com/getting-help. Message me on Freenode #GitLab @ dblessing or Twitter @drewblessing or @GitLabSupport. I'm happy to help.

Re: GitHub is undergoing a full-blown overhaul as execs and employees depart

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Post by hitekker »

Hey, mods, did the top level comments get resequenced in this thread? Up until an hour ago, iza's comment was the first comment; now it's the fifth.

I understand that the post itself may be inflammatory but the resulting discussion actually avoided a lot of the diversity v.s. meritocracy ("it's my side or the highway!") that some of the other comment threads are focusing on.

Re: GitHub is undergoing a full-blown overhaul as execs and employees depart

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Post by reitanqild »

TACIXAT wrote: post #385
jsksma2 wrote: post #220

Bring on the suits! While GH is busy distracting their world-class engineers with B.S. reverse-racism meetings, they will successfully free up their equity pool for more suit hires. That should suck the life out real quick... Goodbye revolutionary, forward-thinking work culture & hierarchy (meritocracy). You will be gravely missed. Good luck hiring sub-par engineers for the next 2 years and watching your data centers…

I activated my student account (was formerly paying) and voiced my disapproval in the comment section of that form. I'm really happy with GitLab at work though, so I will be switching to that.

Generally, - use the contact form, esp if you have a paid account.

Re: GitHub is undergoing a full-blown overhaul as execs and employees depart

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Post by spc476 »

How about George Zimmerman, a Hispanic, who shot Trayvon Martin, a Black. CNN called him "white": " rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/12/cnn-white-hispanic_.... So did the New York Times: " rel="nofollow">http://www.unz.com/isteve/nyt-demotes-george-zimmerman-from-....

Re: GitHub is undergoing a full-blown overhaul as execs and employees depart

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Post by captain_jamira »

DanBC wrote: post #475
audessuscest wrote: post #446

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Looks like they trade "structure based purely on meritocracy" by "promote diversity". I don't see how this can go well. Meritocracy is important among dev and open source. And they don't care about political diversity. I can only imagine this new "culture of fear" where you can't hire white people (even woman). Skills and experiences should be the only way to choose who you hire, not race or gender. Anyway, looks lik…

> Meritocracy Meritocracy is a lie. Look how broken interview processes are - definitely not meritocratic. Meritocracy is a rationalisation for "I hire people I like so long as they don't say anything idiotic during the interview". You'd get better results from having some kind of bar that candidates have to meet and then just selecting one at random and giving that person the job.

Did you adapt this from the similar suggestion for college admissions that made the rounds a while back? I liked the idea.

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Post by malandrew »

beatpanda wrote: post #437
malandrew wrote: post #426

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Elaborate.

"Racism" is a system where a racial group with a monopoly on power in society arranges the rules of that society to continue priveleging their own racial group. "Bigotry" is when you dislike someone because of their race. And the comments that everyone on HN are getting all in their feelings about are neither bigoted nor racist; they are basic, uncontroversial observations from people who have been doing anti-racist…

So I should place "critical race theory" squarely in the camp of theories that do not have the elements of a scientific theories. Redefining words with a commonly accepted usage to further an agenda is academically dishonest, IMHO.

In other words, "Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man."

Re: GitHub is undergoing a full-blown overhaul as execs and employees depart

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Post by tatterdemalion »

alphapapa wrote: post #463
exolymph wrote: post #440

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"We need to start learning how to simply NOT THINK about race, and NOT MENTION IT." We live in a world where this is not remotely possible. Suggesting it is the worst sort of idealism.

Why? Let me apply the principle you claim to be the case in a different, ahistorical way: "'We need to start learning how to simply NOT THINK about denigrating and enslaving blacks, and NOT MENTION IT.' We live in a world where this is not remotely possible. Suggesting it is the worst sort of idealism." --some Southern slave owner, 1859 The same could be applied to historical anti-semitic movements, anti-suffrage gro…

The actual analogy would be:

"We need to start learning how to simply NOT THINK about slavery, and NOT MENTION IT."

Do you see why this would not be an effective way to eliminate slavery?

Re: GitHub is undergoing a full-blown overhaul as execs and employees depart

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Post by farkas »

djur wrote: post #479
james-skemp wrote: post #438

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We've recently started using it at work and the lack of profiles and graphs (without paying for oddly priced plugins) is quite unfortunate as well. It was quite disappointing, especially since Gitlabs was on the table as an option but we opted for Bitbucket since we added JIRA a couple years ago. If the smart people here have any suggestions on how to make Bitbucket look more line GitHub, I'd love to hear.

Stash (Bitbucket Server now) lacks a ton of features that Bitbucket (and Github) have. Like most Atlassian products, the base product has subpar functionality that you can theoretically expand with overpriced and/or low-quality plugins. Also, the degree to which Atlassian products integrate varies a lot. FishEye and Crucible integrate closely. Both of them integrate OK with Jira. Neither of them really integrate at a…

> Stash (Bitbucket Server now) lacks a ton of features that Bitbucket (and Github) have

CEO of Atlassian here. Can you list the features you deem missing? I want to check them against our roadmap, as I don't believe we have many gaps, and a host of things better.

Re: GitHub is undergoing a full-blown overhaul as execs and employees depart

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Post by alphapapa »

douche wrote: post #447
alphapapa wrote: post #434

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MLK, Jr. didn't mirror it, nor did he need to.

He also got assassinated before he had the opportunity. He could have been Ghandi, or he could have been Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson.

Wow.

Re: GitHub is undergoing a full-blown overhaul as execs and employees depart

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Post by douche »

wildmusings wrote: post #496
rotw wrote: post #484

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That's delusional conspiracy nonsense. Seriously, take a step back and look at what you're saying.

It's not some grand conspiracy. There's no secret committee toasting to their success. It's just what has happened when the press and a lot of people believe all of the vitriol that comes out of people like Jackson and Sharpton, or lesser known race-baiters in other communities. South Park did a whole episode about this phenomenon (episode titled "With apologies to Jesse Jackson"). I've been a member of multiple inst…

It's sad as hell what the alma mater is doing these days... Guess there was nothing offensive about the speech in the library a few months back.

Outragism certainly pays a lot of salaries for mid-level administrators there, though.

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