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Re: Thank you, GitHub

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Post by BoorishBears »

e0a74c wrote: post #214
BoorishBears wrote: post #193

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A tongue-in-cheek reference to the fact HN users act like basic social skills like the ability to infer tone are voodoo gets dissected like this? You can't make up this stuff up. To the reply: > would not be acceptable in any social setting otherwise You're close to getting it! In a normal social setting if someone says "If you don't like X don't interact with it!" that can reasonably understood as a negative stateme…

You sound upset ;) (sorry, couldn't help myself. I think you're all great simply for being here and applying your intellects!)

Of course you couldn't help yourself, I poopoo'd on your dog in the race and you couldn't think of something meaningful to reply with.

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And I am upset, I hate working in one of the few industries where people wear social ineptitude like a badge:

Like someone says something when they're clearly upset, you ask why they're upset, then suddenly they derail the conversation because

"how dare you imply I am some descendant of a caveman capable of being shudder upset"

Like holy shit, real people get upset! Wowie what a concept!

Dude was upset someone insulted his rockstar idol that everyone in SV knows and got called out.

I jokingly tell him even a computer can see he's upset and now there's literally another reply to me by this "peter" person picking a fight with the computer!

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Maybe you're all stuck in this weird passive aggressive bubble of timidity (maybe that's the "everyone") where you're not allowed to express emotion but I'm not going to coddle you, not here or in real life

This person was upset. They didn't need to present it as some passive aggressive "informative", like the guy they replied to didn't know they couldn't read it.

They're just not used to having to deal with emotions directly instead of being as biting as possible while seeming... "informative"

Re: Thank you, GitHub

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Post by staz »

Rokid wrote: post #290
thesausageking wrote: post #241

Why "cd ~ && mkdir -p nat/next" instead of just "mkdir -p ~/nat/next"?

Also, in which shell does `cd $` change into a newly created directory?

it's `cd $_` with the underscore, it repeat the last argument.

from bash man page

> _ At shell startup, set to the pathname used to invoke the shell or shell script being executed as passed in the environment or argument list. Subse‐

> quently, expands to the last argument to the previous simple command executed in the foreground, after expansion. Also set to the full pathname used

> to invoke each command executed and placed in the environment exported to that command. When checking mail, this parameter holds the name of the

> mail file currently being checked.

Re: Thank you, GitHub

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Post by tills13 »

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…

This comment is 100% FUD.

Re: Thank you, GitHub

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Post by krrrh »

sktrdie wrote: post #129

I should say that back in the day Nat was one that got me into coding. His nat.org blog (unfortunately cannot find it anymore on archive) was such an authentic piece of writing with his Xamarin and GNOME adventures along with posts and great photography on his general coding life working for OSS and other smallerish companies such as Novell. It was truly inspiration and made me want to live that life - building cool…

I also had a parasocial relationship with him through nat.org. There were some great posts about him and his friend buying a used British roadster that had a lot of problems. I still remember one of my favourite lines, "this car is a real dude magnet."

Re: Thank you, GitHub

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Post by desas »

da39a3ee wrote: post #274
siva7 wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, the SV way of saying that he is retiring because he is obscenely rich.

I'm also one of the people in this thread who was under the misconception that he was a Github founder / early employee. if he's merely an employee of the acquiring company, why is he so rich?

He was a founder of xamarin which sold to Microsoft for $400+ million five years ago.

Re: Thank you, GitHub

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Post by thrwn_frthr_awy »

rsync wrote: post #246
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…

"They went the extra distance to get a permission/license from the US government specially to offer full Github to developers from Iran." Wait, that's a thing ? We get a signup from Iran about once every month and I always, apologetically, send a personal note saying that I wish we could provide service to them but ... You're saying rsync.net can legally provide service to Iranians with ... some paperwork ?

They are a trillion dollar company which spends ten million dollars a year on lobbying for reasons like this.

Re: Thank you, GitHub

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Post by b3morales »

skeeter2020 wrote: post #279
b3morales wrote: post #82

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Copilot is still fresh in my mind as a reason to question using GitHub to host my source code. Though I understand that my opinion on this is not universal.

unlimited private repos for free if this is a concern?

I don't entirely trust that they will remain excluded from Copilot in future. This probably isn't the place to re-litigate this discussion, but GitHub's claim is that source licenses simply do not apply to what Copilot ingests.

That being the case, the only thing that distinguishes private repos in this context is a thin policy that can be changed at a whim (and perhaps without any announcement).

Also, one of the reasons I put my code on a host like GitHub is so that I can share it/show it off*. So using a private repo to avoid Copliot defeats some of the purpose of me using GitHub in the first place.

*To the extent anyone else cares, at least ;)

Re: Thank you, GitHub

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Post by geofft »

DaiPlusPlus wrote: post #289
ghuntley wrote: post #280

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Right, I have to admit I don't entirely understand the .NET kerfuffle. .NET is clearly Microsoft's language ecosystem, just as much as Swift is Apple's, and much more so than, say, Go is Google's. A lot of the value in .NET is how it works with the Microsoft ecosystem - or put another way, as someone who mostly doesn't develop on Windows (but uses Windows a lot as a desktop OS), I have never once felt that .NET was the best way to solve a problem that wasn't a Windows-specific problem.

It would be totally fine if .NET were a closed-source, Microsoft-run language. It is pretty cool that this isn't true. But the idea that Microsoft organizationally having control over the .NET open source project is somehow bad for open source is just incomprehensible to me, who grew up on .NET not being open source at all.

Re: Thank you, GitHub

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Post by fernandotakai »

jitl wrote: post #293
toxik wrote: post #287

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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?

Github is one of the biggest CI players around, I think. https://github.com/features/actions At Notion we use Actions to build our iOS and Android nightly apps and deploy our client and server releases to production.

while i agree that github is a huge CI player, i really really miss gitlab's ci -- i feel like they were more flexible compared to github's.
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