welp, bye github, it's been fun.
Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub
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Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub
#362From at least two angles this is great news for Gitlab. But it feels a bit like the Atlassian / Trello arrangement, which has had little impact on users. From recent behaviour I'd expect Microsoft to have a very light touch here.
I'm not familiar with recent behaviour anything in particular? (My memory goes to Skype...)
Minecraft, LinkedIn as examples. While LinkedIn has not gone super well, it has been left to make the decisions that it made on it's own.
Minecraft has also gone untouched - it's still hosted on AWS in fact.
Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub
#363It's interesting that the HN community continues to make reference to the prospect of a decentralized internet when Git was built to be decentralized in the first place. In spite of this, we all have congregated around GitHub for the community and are shocked when the centralized source we've been using gets acquired by a company we don't trust. That's sort of the whole point of centralization, you can't trust it. Ma…
Where is the Github on Blockchain project?
Why would a blockchain be necessary, (as opposed to a simpler distributed storage mechanism for git repos)?
Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub
#364Will it go the way of Nokia, LinkedIn, Skype or the way of ... err... did they have any really successful acquisitions ever?
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#365Earlier quoted context omitted.
I would agree with Skype, but what actually happened with LinkedIn? I remember in pre-Microsoft times they asked me for my google email and password.. right not to log-ing with google but the email and password! I understand it's more LinkedIn's fault than Microsoft merit, but I just wanted to say, IMO there were never "good times" for LinkedIn
> what actually happened with LinkedIn? It used to be that it would only nag you to sign up or log in when trying to view extended profile attributes. Now it just requires you to log in to even view someone's name and function. It shows up in the search results alright, some day I should find a UA changer to spoof Google and see if they do IP checking or just UA header checking, but generally, they made it completely…
It does bug me that they pollute search results with login-required resources. Search engines should treat that as abuse, or at the very least default to freely available resources, otherwise they just become a menu without prices.
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#366Earlier quoted context omitted.
MS has had an 180 degree turn in policy since Balmer left. Lately they released amazing open-source projects with VSCode being the most prominent one.
Looking at Windows 10, with stuff like telemetry that's impossible to disable completely and hidden behind every dark pattern imaginable, or ads in Start menu? Microsoft of today is more Microsoft than ever.
Eh. Windows today might be more Microsoft than ever, but the rest of the org is spending lots of effort creating cross platform developer tools that's preparing Microsoft to remain relevant in a world that doesn't involve Windows PCs.
Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub
#367It's interesting that the HN community continues to make reference to the prospect of a decentralized internet when Git was built to be decentralized in the first place. In spite of this, we all have congregated around GitHub for the community and are shocked when the centralized source we've been using gets acquired by a company we don't trust. That's sort of the whole point of centralization, you can't trust it. Ma…
I think that's quite a stretch, the reasons for decentralized version control (practical use) are far different than a decentralized internet (humanitarianism).
Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub
#368From at least two angles this is great news for Gitlab. But it feels a bit like the Atlassian / Trello arrangement, which has had little impact on users. From recent behaviour I'd expect Microsoft to have a very light touch here.
I'm not familiar with recent behaviour anything in particular? (My memory goes to Skype...)
They bought xamarin and then made it open source and free. They also have continued to support mono despite having .net core
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#369Time to move everything off GitHub...
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#370Tangentially related, but maybe microsoft could actually do that : why is github's search so terribly bad ? If they had developed a good powerful code search (custom semantic engine for most used languages, complex queries, exact/fuzzy matches for syntax, use of history, etc) they could have become the primary way you interact with code you don't know yet. As it stands now it's simply more efficient to clone and use…
Their search is really frustrating, I agree. I feel like they only index a small percentage of files, so results are always bad.
They don’t index forks. Cloning a fork just to search through it locally is always fun. Very annoying when a fork becomes the de facto project because it’s the one being maintained.