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Re: Thank you, GitHub

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Post by outside1234 »

m0zg wrote: post #43

I'm kinda worried about GH now. I actually worked at MS over a decade ago. They had a pattern at the time which routinely drove their acquisitions into the ground. It went something like this: an acquisition happens, and in order for folks who matter to not jump ship immediately, the acquired company would be allowed to operate semi-autonomously for a while. A year, year and a half sharks from Microsoft proper would…

This one does seem to be different. Github is held at arms length from the rest of Microsoft (like LinkedIn) such that all of this sort of interference can't happen currently.

It will be interesting to see if they can keep that up. It is clearly an advantage to have an organization that can think "developers first" and not Azure, Windows, or whatever first.

Re: Thank you, GitHub

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Post by BoorishBears »

Kiro wrote: post #29
scrubs wrote: 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.

Are you kidding? Even the title is intentionally uninformative clickbait.

Re: Thank you, GitHub

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Post by junon »

jb1991 wrote: post #40
tacon wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>I will become Chairman Emeritus, which fulfills my lifelong ambition of having a title in Latin. "plastic, formulaic, always-be-selling" Huh?

"..which fulfills my lifelong ambition of..." OP is probably referring to this tired, cliched turn of phrase (among other examples in the blog).

A lighthearted phrase, at worst. Are we not allowed to express ourselves except for the dryest, most information-dense prose?

Re: Thank you, GitHub

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Post by tgv »

junon wrote: post #60
scrubs wrote: 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…

Nat is a mogul in SV. Everyone knows him, many even before GitHub. Simply walking away from GitHub without much of a speech would make it seem like he didn't care or left on bad terms, optics-wise. That would have a potentially serious effect on perception and thus shareholders would be affected. This clearly isn't his intent. I offer a contrary point of view: why does it bother you so much? Simply do not read it.

> shareholders

It belongs to Microsoft, doesn't it?

Re: Thank you, GitHub

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Post by b3morales »

tacon wrote: post #26
scrubs wrote: 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?

While I think the complaint above is a little over the top, the sentence you quote is a solitary fleck of personality in a sea of boilerplate.

Re: Thank you, GitHub

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Post by fishtacos »

stelonix wrote: post #55
Kiro wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I do agree we're living an eternal september for the past months and comment quality has gone down to reddit-level, but I also agree with the commenter about this specific post from GH's founder.

Curious as to why you think this is an "eternal september" vs.... anything else/your standard.

Re: Thank you, GitHub

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Post by supernovae »

88913527 wrote: post #10

Is 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.

Management changes all the time, People change all the time, hell, Microsoft has changed... If anything, Microsoft evolved around GitHub and it's for the better in doing so.

Re: Thank you, GitHub

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Post by azemetre »

Kiro wrote: post #29
scrubs wrote: 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.

Is it really obnoxious?

The world is starting to realize that tech companies are causing a lot of societal damage that will take years, if not generations to repair.

People are also starting to get upset at large corporations for being tone death and having zero social contracts for the societies they reside in.

Public opinion is turning and GitHub/Microsoft are just getting caught in the crosshairs with public sentiment.

Re: Thank you, GitHub

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Post by [deleted] »

jrockway wrote: post #38

Good data. We have learned that if your company ever gets bought by Microsoft, you have to wait about three years to be fully vested. (The acquisition was in June 2018, but I guess it must have been finalized on November 3rd ;)

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