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Re: Thank you, GitHub

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Didn'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.

Agreed, github has seemed to be absolutely crushing it lately. With novel features every couple months: Copilot, workspaces, wayyyy better CI.

Re: Thank you, GitHub

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post #11

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…

Then don't read it. I'm more tired of the whining.

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post #11

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…

Then don't read it. I'm more tired of the whining.

Then don’t read it.

Re: Thank you, GitHub

#25

30 times as many likes as comments, are people upvoting this without reading or do people actually use the delay function?

Most likely people posting it, but how do you correlate likes and comments? Not everyone that likes an article needs to comment on it?

Re: Thank you, GitHub

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post #11

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…

>I will become Chairman Emeritus, which fulfills my lifelong ambition of having a title in Latin.

"plastic, formulaic, always-be-selling"

Huh?

Re: Thank you, GitHub

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post #11

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…

Then don't read it. I'm more tired of the whining.

Could have a warning label in the title similar to spoilers though - [PRSPAM]

Re: Thank you, GitHub

#28
post #11

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…

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.

Incendiary statements don't add much to the conversation.

You probably like buying groceries, you're typing on a computer and you presumably at least own clothes so you don't have a problem with all corporations. One would also assume you don't want a return to feudal society in which the goods generally available to you were those produced in a 2-mile radius.

Re: Thank you, GitHub

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post #11

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…

Obnoxious comment and perfect example of how toxic this place has become.

Re: Thank you, GitHub

#30
If person's legacy is a list of all the good things (or bad things) they've done during their time, Nat's legacy as the CEO of GitHub can also be summed into a list. Let me get started...I only remember this one thing but other users of HN can help add more I supposed:

- That one time when Nat spoke against DMCA law and said taking down youtube-dl was wrong and he actively pushed for their reinstatement. [1]

[1] https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1328365679473426432?l...

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