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Re: Thank you, GitHub

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Post by notriddle »

Dangeranger wrote: post #189
orliesaurus wrote: post #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] http…

Github acquiring[0] and integrating with NPM. [0] https://github.blog/2020-03-16-npm-is-joining-github/

And dependabot

Re: Thank you, GitHub

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Post by ghuntley »

In case people missed it. There was two promotions today. A new CEO at GitHub and the person GitHub reports to a MSFT also got promoted.

Here’s the internal msft email

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29098640

This person at MSFT who got promoted is the one that caused the problems in the dotnet community where features that had a go-live RTM license (as in merged and ready for long term support) were removed from the programming language so that more Microsoft Visual Studio licenses could be sold.

Other items under this persons remit:

- Visual Studio

- .NET

- Python

- TypeScript

- OpenJDK

- GitHub (+NPM)

- (hint hint) Azure SDKs (hint hint)

- (hint hint) Azure PaaS / Azure Serverless (hint hint)

Re: Thank you, GitHub

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Post by sandyarmstrong »

da39a3ee wrote: post #275
sandyarmstrong wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nat was originally on the Microsoft side when GitHub was acquired, not the GitHub side.

So how come he made so much money that he can waltz off to what sounds like a life of casual angel investing?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nat_Friedman

Re: Thank you, GitHub

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Post by rightiousrob »

sillysaurusx wrote: post #221

Most people probably say this just to be like “I know Nat, look at me.” I don’t know how to phrase this to avoid that: Nat is an incredible person. I’ve been lucky to get to know him over the past couple months. Not only is he super chill, but he’s also not afraid to ask basic questions. Many of you might roll your eyes at that, but it’s a real problem: when you’re organizing something, you feel pressured to know eve…

Are you in love with your ex- boss?

Re: Thank you, GitHub

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Post by kodah »

junon wrote: post #201
lexapro wrote: post #152

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>thus shareholders would be affected Why not just tell it like it is then? Dear shareholders, I'm leaving because I'm rich / bored with Github and not because there was a falling-out. >why does it bother you so much? Simply do not read it. So you're suggesting people should just not read or listen to anything that they don't like? And just keep quiet?

> Why not just tell it like it is then? Because what you suggested is extremely impersonal, arrogant, harsh, cold, and dismissive of the work of all the employees working under you.

A little off-topic, but why does the CEO even need to say goodbye? I'm not really concerned with listening the words of most CEOs of companies I work at. It's just another job at the company, albeit, probably one with a bit too much power and influence.

Re: Thank you, GitHub

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Post by tailspin2019 »

ghuntley wrote: post #280
ya3r wrote: post #220

Nat was a great CEO. The best that could have happened to Github after the acquisition IMO. The one time that I won't forget about Github under Nat, was when they stood up for Iranian developers [1]. They went the extra distance to get a permission/license from the US government specially to offer full Github to developers from Iran. Many other companies didn't do something similar. [1]: https://github.blog/2021-01-0…

In case people missed it. There was two promotions today. A new CEO at GitHub and the person GitHub reports to a MSFT also got promoted. Here’s the internal msft email https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29098640 This person at MSFT who got promoted is the one that caused the problems in the dotnet community where features that had a go-live RTM license (as in merged and ready for long term support) were removed fro…

Wow.

Re: Thank you, GitHub

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Post by toxik »

tevon wrote: post #21
mythz wrote: post #14

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.

Tangential but what do you mean with better CI? GitHub doesn’t do any CI at all as far as I know, and Travis turned commercial only. Did I miss something?

Re: Thank you, GitHub

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Post by 5faulker »

ya3r wrote: post #220

Nat was a great CEO. The best that could have happened to Github after the acquisition IMO. The one time that I won't forget about Github under Nat, was when they stood up for Iranian developers [1]. They went the extra distance to get a permission/license from the US government specially to offer full Github to developers from Iran. Many other companies didn't do something similar. [1]: https://github.blog/2021-01-0…

Here's another new chapter to software development.

Re: Thank you, GitHub

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Post by DaiPlusPlus »

ghuntley wrote: post #280
ya3r wrote: post #220

Nat was a great CEO. The best that could have happened to Github after the acquisition IMO. The one time that I won't forget about Github under Nat, was when they stood up for Iranian developers [1]. They went the extra distance to get a permission/license from the US government specially to offer full Github to developers from Iran. Many other companies didn't do something similar. [1]: https://github.blog/2021-01-0…

In case people missed it. There was two promotions today. A new CEO at GitHub and the person GitHub reports to a MSFT also got promoted. Here’s the internal msft email https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29098640 This person at MSFT who got promoted is the one that caused the problems in the dotnet community where features that had a go-live RTM license (as in merged and ready for long term support) were removed fro…

> removed from the programming language so that more Microsoft Visual Studio licenses could be sold.

Honestly, I’m fine with this level of dickishness so long as it means the rest of the VS ecosystem is free-to-use.

Someone or something has to subsidise VSCode.

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