Curious why they are changing CEOs if they want to continue the culture and community.
GitHub CEO stepped down in August 2017. They haven't had anyone in the role since then.
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#212If Nat is at the helm this may end up turning all right.
Anyway, I'm moving my personal repos to Gitlab and strongly considering moving my team's repos too. Specially considering that our bill will drop to $0.
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#213Earlier quoted context omitted.
> The era of the intelligent cloud and intelligent edge is upon us. I still have no idea what "intelligent edge" is supposed to mean.
I think the edge just means CDN edge locations. There’s been a trend towards making edge locations smarter (via Lambda etc), so you can sometimes send dynamic responses straight back from the edge, ie quicker than always deferring to the big data centre for dynamic stuff. Previously computing on the edge was restricted to fairly simple caching of static responses.
In some fields, 'edge' has long been used to refer to devices running in the real world - such as IP cameras and IoT devices that gather sensor data.
I used to work for a company that worked with security cameras, and they always used terms like 'edge analytics' to refer to software that's running on each individual camera as opposed to running somewhere central, like on the DVR the cameras are connected to or a server.
From what I've seen in Nadella's presentations at various events and conferences recently, he's using 'edge' in the same way. Lots of MS presentations about the intelligent edge have included things like training a neural network on Azure, and then pushing it out to IoT devices and phones so the NN is running on 'edge' devices and just transmitting results back to a central server.
Another way to think of it: if we were looking at a tree, servers/the cloud would be the trunk, the internet would be the branches, and edge devices like cameras, various IoT devices, and phones would be the leaves. They're out at the edge of the tree, interacting with the world.
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#214People keep mentioning how "Microsoft changed" due to VS Code, the Linux subsystem, .NET Core. I say that they are the same company, only with different cash cows. Haven't they spied on Windows 10 users? Do they not engage in patents racketeering? Haven't they killed Nokia and ruined Skype? " But Mom, some of the other companies are doing it too ", well yeah, but some of us don't have double standards, in spite of wh…
Nokia is pretty much alive. As for what Elop did, in case you missed the news, he only did what the Nokia board themselves asked him to do, and even gave him a bonus for achieving it.
What's is Nokia up to? I'd love to know they are doing interesting things.
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#215Friendly reminder: this is the same Microsoft that "empowered" skype and once called open source a cancer. Its the same Microsoft that ruined open document standards and started the browser wars. I wouldnt be surprised to see next years release of "Github Pro Platinum with Minecraft 3D and Windows Store integration" For those looking to move, https://gitlab.com is an excellent open source alternative that can easily…
> Gitlab Pro Platinum
GitHub?
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#216Re: Microsoft acquires Github
#217People keep mentioning how "Microsoft changed" due to VS Code, the Linux subsystem, .NET Core. I say that they are the same company, only with different cash cows. Haven't they spied on Windows 10 users? Do they not engage in patents racketeering? Haven't they killed Nokia and ruined Skype? " But Mom, some of the other companies are doing it too ", well yeah, but some of us don't have double standards, in spite of wh…
> acquisition GitHub will be led by Nat Friedman, the former CEO of Xamarin, which has some credibility
Credibility of what? He's a Microsoft employee, being paid by Microsoft, and has made a ton of money by selling his company to Microsoft. Follow the money and you'll find nothing but allegiance to Microsoft and it's corporate goals.
For the record - I don't think MS is as nefarious as people here are insinuating, I'm just pointing out facts that people seem to overlook.
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#218People keep mentioning how "Microsoft changed" due to VS Code, the Linux subsystem, .NET Core. I say that they are the same company, only with different cash cows. Haven't they spied on Windows 10 users? Do they not engage in patents racketeering? Haven't they killed Nokia and ruined Skype? " But Mom, some of the other companies are doing it too ", well yeah, but some of us don't have double standards, in spite of wh…
Nokia was struggling long before Microsoft came along though. They saved it for a little bit, but there isn't much you can do with a company that got so far behind it's competitors. Samsung, HTC, Apple, Motorola, etc were all light years ahead of Nokia even before Microsoft got involved. Funny that the things you mention all happened under Steve Ballmer too...
Ahead in what sense? Apart from Apple and Google, everyone was behind. The fact that HTC and Motorola adopted Android didn't do much good for them in the end, and in hardware and market share Nokia still had the lead at that time.
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#219Related Notes:
Speakerdeak, originally part of Github is now under fewerandfaster.com
Gaug.es - Turns out Github sold it long ago.
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#220More tech consolidation under Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Apple flat out sucks. It doesn't empower developers in the slightest to have a small number of giant companies own everything.
Yet they have numerous defenders on this site, all the more peculiar considering those companies' collusion to avoid paying market rates to developers. The preference to be a sharecropper on their plantations is evidently strong, for no very clear reason.
And let us not forget the EU's efforts to support incumbents and deter new entrants, with their complex, vague and punitive regulations. These also receive much approval here; perhaps a fruitful field for study by some enterprising psychologists!