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When did you last look at GitHub? They've had free private repos for well over a year (maybe longer). I have ~50 private on my account... Embarrassingly bad half-completed side projects mostly.
Huh? Not that I see. Private repos require a paid plan.
Seems like the view here is pretty negative. I feel like most people here haven't worked with Microsoft dev products recently. They're getting better. I guess the crowd here isn't typically in the .NET world.
Most routine jobs/contracts at the coalface are still Java/.NET (possibly with a bit of Kotlin thrown in) - I even see companies looking for PHP developers on a weekly basis.
They are definitely alive and kicking, though if you judged based on this website alone, they all ceased to exist 10 years, replaced by Golang, Elixir and Clojure.
Mild exaggeration (and it's not a criticism of the people here), but you get my drift. People here like to talk about new/shiny/cutting-edge - and that's fine, but it's also not necessarily what customers/clients want or need.
C#/.NET in particular, though not perfect, is one of the most pleasurable languages/frameworks to work in.
haha Skype fuggin RIP GitHub
Hopefully it's just a negotiation tactic to get Google to buy them for more than their first offer.
Google buying GitHub over Microsoft would actually be arguably worse for GitHub. If Google actually bought GitHub, I would be thinking twice about using it.
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>but that's a rapidly shrinking set of things Doubt that. "Desktop" is defined by mouse, keyboard and display. A chromebook satisfies this. I have yet to meet a user who uses a smartphone instead of a PC to do stuff that are notably easier to do on a PC. (while having both) I would also bet that every user would chose a keyboard over a touch interface to type text.
Maybe you have a point, but I don't feel like connecting a bluetooth keyboard and mouse to a smartphone makes it a desktop. Regardless, I don't think those OSs are good desktop OSs either. I still maintain that this is a poor excuse for having shitty tools.
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Last I looked, Minecraft seemed to be quite in order as well.
Shall we talk Nokia...
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I was at a container orchestration conference the other day, and got the distinct impression that microsoft are not the great satan, and azure is probably a really good choice for cloud service. I can't believe I'm saying that. I'm having dinner with a prolific debian maintainer tonight, maybe he'll beat some sense into me.
I agree in theory, but have you ever actually tried to use Azure? The management interface is ridiculously overcomplicated. It feels very “Microsofty”
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Ignoring Azure, all the major MS products I can think of are at least partially ad supported (even when they release something that doesn’t serve ads, it’s a safe bet that it gathers data for better targeting...)
Office is ad-supported? vscode and typescript are ad-supported? MSSQL is ad-supported?
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Telemetry is bad, forced updates is not.
I recently had to do the forced April Windows 10 update, and not only did it take 10 hours, the UX was horrific... e.g. Random CMD prompt windows popping up etc. If that is allowed to pass QA in Microsoft, then it kind of scares me what can happen if they were to acquire GitHub.
Really hope these talks fall through and nothing comes of it. Too many bad experiences with Microsoft buying something out, mismanaging it, and it goes down the drain. As much as I love GitHub, I won't be using a Microsoft-owned GitHub for any of my company's work.
I don’t know, isn’t Microsoft the only software company left? I love Google, but they sell ads, their mission isn’t to make software. Microsoft is more and more cloud and services, but they still have a developer mentality and they have done some good stuff with open source lately. If someone is going to buy Github, Microsoft is probably the most friendly to developers. Unless Google or Facebook wants to go full altr…