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Re: GitHub to lay off 10% and close all offices

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Just wait till Microsoft starts charging a license for vs code and developers heads implode.

i'll just go back to notepad++. although i must say it's been in decline for the past year or so. they removed a theme i liked to use and i don't care for the UI changes at all. But it is still functional, at least until the next downgrade from the developer.

Eclipse is also still a great IDE with tons of plugins.

Re: GitHub to lay off 10% and close all offices

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Gitlab and Github look like they are forked from the same branch. https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/09/gitlab-layoffs-company-to-cu...

This metaphor doesn't work for me. Source code is not analogous to organizational behavior. Not to mention it gives readers confused context about the link, which is about GitLab layoffs.

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Re: GitHub to lay off 10% and close all offices

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Worse than losing your job?

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Teams is horrible, but not nearly as horrible as an argument equating use of Teams to the Holocaust. There's a very big difference between using an app to communicate if you want your job and murder.

Re: GitHub to lay off 10% and close all offices

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How is this the worst part lmao?

If I were forced to use teams I would quit. At least if you're laid off you get serverance

>>If I were forced to use teams I would quit.

It's funny to hear this because if I were looking for a job one of the selling points for me would be if they used teams.

I'm on it all day, I present and run video meetings on it. I use it on different devices. It's not perfect by any means, but I'm confident that it will do what I need it to do.

My only guess is you're on a linux desktop and you don't use an enterprise deployment of teams and perhaps you're using the web version of the client. In that case, yes I feel for you.

Re: GitHub to lay off 10% and close all offices

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This metaphor doesn't work for me. Source code is not analogous to organizational behavior. Not to mention it gives readers confused context about the link, which is about GitLab layoffs.

xpe is taking everything 100% serious here.

Their post sounds like a ChatGPT response

Re: GitHub to lay off 10% and close all offices

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>i) Effective immediately, we will be moving laptop refreshes from three years to four years. ii) We will be moving to Microsoft Teams for the sole purpose of video conferencing, saving significant cost and simplifying cross-company and customer conversations Layoffs and having to use teams? Talk about a morale hit

But what's wrong with Teams? It works well enough for me in Firefox on Linux. But OK, I only joined customer-initiated meetings, and was never presenting, only watching and talking, so maybe never used some important but non-working feature.

Did video work in Firefox? They must have fixed that. I remember having to launch it in Chrome to join meetings.

Maybe it wasn't specifically Teams, but screen sharing used to be a massive performance hit (MBP around the year 2019). I remember giving a demo, and a response from a keycloak container I was running locally timed out.

It made it very awkward to copy and paste multiple messages in a chat.

Re: GitHub to lay off 10% and close all offices

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>i) Effective immediately, we will be moving laptop refreshes from three years to four years. ii) We will be moving to Microsoft Teams for the sole purpose of video conferencing, saving significant cost and simplifying cross-company and customer conversations Layoffs and having to use teams? Talk about a morale hit

Teams for video, not so bad. If they were replacing Slack with Teams, that would be horrible.

Teams isn't that bad overall compared to Slack these days.

Re: GitHub to lay off 10% and close all offices

#90

Just wait till Microsoft starts charging a license for vs code and developers heads implode.

vscode would be dropped like a stone

Not until there is a viable alternative.

But with the integration of Github Co-Pilot, they can now make subscription fees from all of those users of VSCode.

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