If I read another piece of American corporate crap --- plastic, formulaic, always-be-selling --- I'm gonna throw up on my keyboard. The write-up is rife with stock phrases, and vapid emotionalism. Somewhere when the rest of us are busy there's a room somewhere where people get the cheat-sheet, fill-in-the-blank training that produces this junk. Look the guy probably had some success and met some great people. So why in the hell can't you say that in your own words?
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#1230 times as many likes as comments, are people upvoting this without reading or do people actually use the delay function?
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#14Didn't see this one coming, considering how well Nat/GitHub was doing since MS acquired them where they now appear to be unstoppably dominant who are successfully branching out of repo hosting to take over more of the dev/project lifecycle.
Will be interesting to see what his next plans are.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
From the article: > That’s why I’m moving on to my next adventure: to support, advise, and invest in the founders and developers who are creating the future with technology and tackling some of the biggest opportunities of our day.
Ergo, I have enough money to retire and play around?
Living the dream!
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#16The moving on post was kind of vague. I'm curious if there are external factors involved. I do feel like Nat has done a great job at GitHub but curious as to extenuating factors. Would love to hear perspective/sentiment from current hubbers.
The github deal with MS closed almost exactly three years ago.
I'm guessing there was a massive financial incentive that he just fulfilled by staying three years. Not a hubber, but this is a pretty common thing to see with acquisitions.
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#17Is this a sign of the continued progression of GitHub to be further molded in Microsoft's image? Usually there's a churn in leadership when the alignment isn't there anymore, though it's typically accompanied by graceful public communication.
He had to stay on until he was free to leave under the microsoft acquisition contract. 2 years sound about right.
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#18If I read another piece of American corporate crap --- plastic, formulaic, always-be-selling --- I'm gonna throw up on my keyboard. The write-up is rife with stock phrases, and vapid emotionalism. Somewhere when the rest of us are busy there's a room somewhere where people get the cheat-sheet, fill-in-the-blank training that produces this junk. Look the guy probably had some success and met some great people. So why…
When you are a company leader, your words can have a material effect on your business. This is doubly so true at a disruptive point like leadership exits. Of course words are going to be delicately chosen?
That being said I didn't notice anything particularly offensive about this letter. He describes the accomplishments under his watch, expresses gratitude for employees, and expresses confidence in his successor.
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#19If I read another piece of American corporate crap --- plastic, formulaic, always-be-selling --- I'm gonna throw up on my keyboard. The write-up is rife with stock phrases, and vapid emotionalism. Somewhere when the rest of us are busy there's a room somewhere where people get the cheat-sheet, fill-in-the-blank training that produces this junk. Look the guy probably had some success and met some great people. So why…
Corporate PR speak is a reflection of the American public's willingness to have corporations put their foot on their neck, and then play for the pleasure of it.
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#20Cool story bro