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Re: Thank you, GitHub

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Post by m0zg »

outside1234 wrote: post #61
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.

We'll see soon enough. If this is what's going on, the process rarely takes more than a year, year and a half.

Re: Thank you, GitHub

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Post by throwaway84636 »

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…

He probably can but doesn't want to. He may be posturing for whatever thing he wants to do next which requires being "very professional" (aka high-quality executive bullshit). Or he might just be boring as hell. My dad was an executive, and he was one of the most bland and uncreative human beings I've ever met.

Re: Thank you, GitHub

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Post by fishtacos »

renewiltord wrote: post #120
fishtacos wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reading up higher will inform you of context, but to reiterate: OP: "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?" My comment: "Not even Clark Kent could be this braggadocios." There are better way of expressing one's (dis)satisfaction in the workplace. Starting with, perhaps, whittling down one's pride in accomplishing what tens of thousan…

When a leader lists each of these accomplishments, it’s less “See what I did” and more “To the team that did this: I see you, I recognize your contribution”. I think all these comments are incredibly childish. It’s a nice goodbye letter from their well known and visible leader.

Then we probably agree to disagree on this point.

A braggadocios "goodbye letter" is worse than no letter at all.

The corporate speak regurgitation is icing on the cake.

Re: Thank you, GitHub

#134

Post by Taywee »

teh_klev wrote: post #9
NobodyNada wrote: post #2

> And so today, I am excited to announce that effective November 15th, Thomas Dohmke (@ashtom), GitHub’s Chief Product Officer, will become CEO and I [Nat Friedman] will become Chairman Emeritus.

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More of a "saved you a click" than a TL;DR. Most people on HN probably don't care to read about GitHub changing CEOs.

Re: Thank you, GitHub

#135

Post by adventured »

est31 wrote: post #87
joshmanders wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Microsoft has shareholders, don't they?

In 2018, MS had 110 billion USD in revenue, while Github had 200-300 million USD. So the Github business is <0.5% of MS's revenue.

GitLab is currently trading for $16 billion.

It'd be reasonable to peg GitHub as being worth $40-$50 billion.

That's a serious asset for Microsoft shareholders - even if the parent is worth $2t - and they will want to see it flourish. Which goes in line with what the parent comment noted about presenting the correct impression, not only to shareholders but also to anyone interested in working at GitHub for Microsoft. Potential employees will want to know that the context is healthy.

Re: Thank you, GitHub

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Post by kreeben »

__s wrote: post #95
ghostly_s wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Who is that?

Musk

It's funny to me that you think Musk isn't an "always-be-selling" type of person and that you think he speaks his mind without spewing "corporate speak" because to me, "Musk speak" is just another form of corporate speak.

Musk isn't so much "speaking the truth", he's more "selling things, his way".

Re: Thank you, GitHub

#138

Post by fishtacos »

nine_k wrote: post #124
fishtacos wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reading up higher will inform you of context, but to reiterate: OP: "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?" My comment: "Not even Clark Kent could be this braggadocios." There are better way of expressing one's (dis)satisfaction in the workplace. Starting with, perhaps, whittling down one's pride in accomplishing what tens of thousan…

He cannot say it in his own words because it's a ritual. All formulae here are ritualistic, following a corporate protocol for such speeches. The speaker's agency is,limited to choosing which formulae to choose, and filling in the predefined slots in them. The point of the ritual is to signal the world that all goes as planned, while giving away as few salient details as possible.

"The speaker's agency is,limited to choosing which formulae to choose, and filling in the predefined slots in them."

Sometimes it's better to say nothing at all than be thought a fool.

Re: Thank you, GitHub

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Post by safaci2000 »

"GitHub Actions has become the #1 CI service, used by popular open source projects and enterprises alike."

I must be missing something. For whatever reason GH Actions just never appealed to me. Am I missing something? I've used Drone IO more, granted it's better than travis but the #1 CI services seems like a stretch.

Re: Thank you, GitHub

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Post by meragrin_ »

Taywee wrote: post #119
meragrin_ wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How so? My first thought when reading the title and seeing it was a GitHub blog was that someone was probably leaving the company. Do you expect someone leaving their company to title their goodbye blog post like "John Doe leaving GitHub"?

My first thought was "GitHub has some underappreciated feature or functionality that saved somebody's ass at their job, and this is their write-up".

But the blog post was on GitHub's blog. They would title something like that more like "How FEATURE Saves Your Ass".
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