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GitHub Raises $250M at $2B Valuation

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Re: GitHub Raises $250M at $2B Valuation

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Post by InclinedPlane »

calcsam wrote: post #41

Both this piece, and most commenters, seem to miss the point about where Github's value comes from. It's not for being a social identity for programmers, or hosting open-source libraries. Those are worthy pursuits, but from a business perspective mostly serve as marketing. Github is basically Microsoft Word for programmers, and is an essential part of their workflow. Companies that need enterprise functionality aroun…

But, if that's true, shouldn't they already be rolling in money already? Why do they need an injection of cash?

Re: GitHub Raises $250M at $2B Valuation

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Post by scubadude »

geographomics wrote: post #144
hga wrote: post #101

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9966118 tl;dr: Observed fact, GitHub disappeared a repo (this I personally know for a fact) and all its forks, the only reason we can surmise is that it described itself as "X for retards". I believe it's this one https://github.com/WebMBro/WebMConverter now described as "WebM for bakas." (Japanglish for idiots or fools). Per this https://imgur.com/QC51FZz it was indeed for the us…

What a curious turn of events. Is "retard" particularly offensive in some cultures? I wasn't aware it had such inflammatory power behind it.

Think for a minute that you had an intellectual disability. Would you be comfortable with people casually using the word?

Re: GitHub Raises $250M at $2B Valuation

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Post by homakov »

bigiain wrote: post #196
silverbax88 wrote: post #164

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Did you really claim 2-factor authentication as your primary differentiation for choosing source control? Really? Not one of the actual uses of the application? BTW, GitHub does NOT play well with most CI tools. It's memory management is downright abysmal. As someone who understands the deep workings of source control apps, I hate having to constantly work through issues with devs botching their check ins. I never ha…

Lack of two factor auth is quickly becoming a dealbreaker for me for everything. It doesn't matter _how_ good your webapp/SaaS works - if it's relying on just a password to secure my PII (or worse, my proprietary sourcecode or intellectual property) it's fundamentally broken, bordering on useless.

How two factor auth will prevent loss of your source code? (assuming your password is unique)

Re: GitHub Raises $250M at $2B Valuation

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Post by zardeh »

bigiain wrote: post #193
findjashua wrote: post #139

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my apologies if my tone come across as combative. Slack: 1. I agree on the part about multiple teams, but since I only use it for work, it hasn't really been much of an issue. 2. I never really had any issues w message delivery, I'm on Android though, and it seems like you're on iOS. 3. I also don't remember having any issues w integrations, do you have a specific example of something that it wasn't able to do? 4. Wh…

"Github: 1. I don't really care for Github issues to be honest. We don't use them at work, and for a lot of the open source repos, it's just a bunch of +1s with the occasional constructive comment sprinkled in somewhere." I have a similar probably-not-well-enough-informed opinion of Github issues. Does anyone have a quick example of a (public) Github project using Github issues in an obviously useful way?

I think rails (https://github.com/rails/rails) would qualify.

Re: GitHub Raises $250M at $2B Valuation

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Post by homakov »

bsder wrote: post #194
jlebar wrote: post #186

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> Did you really claim 2-factor authentication as your primary differentiation for choosing source control? Really? As someone who used to have keys to a number of security-critical OSS projects, I would never use password-only authentication to protect write access to my repo. It's not just the chance of someone sneaking in a change and its getting shipped to users -- although that's also awful -- but it's also the…

> And if you're using a private repository and care about keeping your source code secret, then you really, really, really want 2FA. Um, if I need this, I'm not handing my data to github. Thanks.

So true, actually.

Re: GitHub Raises $250M at $2B Valuation

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Post by count »

bsder wrote: post #194
jlebar wrote: post #186

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> Did you really claim 2-factor authentication as your primary differentiation for choosing source control? Really? As someone who used to have keys to a number of security-critical OSS projects, I would never use password-only authentication to protect write access to my repo. It's not just the chance of someone sneaking in a change and its getting shipped to users -- although that's also awful -- but it's also the…

> And if you're using a private repository and care about keeping your source code secret, then you really, really, really want 2FA. Um, if I need this, I'm not handing my data to github. Thanks.

Github enterprise edition. Not the cloud service.

Re: GitHub Raises $250M at $2B Valuation

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Post by gfosco »

vidarh wrote: post #142
joeyspn wrote: post #125

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Bitbucket is not as good? Feature-wise they're almost identical.... I use github for my FOSS projects and bitbucket for stuff that shouldn't be public, like for-profit soft and side-projects. If you don't see added value in free unlimited private repos that's not the case for many of us.

I like Github best, but will readily admit it's mostly just because I'm most used to it. Like you I use both, with Bitbucket for my private stuff and Github for the public stuff. The latter mostly because that's where people are.

I gladly pay for the Medium plan just for my own personal private usage. It's a wonder these services last as long as they do, when you guys don't want to support them.

Re: GitHub Raises $250M at $2B Valuation

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Post by saryant »

homakov wrote: post #203
bigiain wrote: post #196

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Lack of two factor auth is quickly becoming a dealbreaker for me for everything. It doesn't matter _how_ good your webapp/SaaS works - if it's relying on just a password to secure my PII (or worse, my proprietary sourcecode or intellectual property) it's fundamentally broken, bordering on useless.

How two factor auth will prevent loss of your source code? (assuming your password is unique)

Keyloggers? Social engineering around the password reset function?

I use 2FA on all my personal accounts that support it (Twitter, Github, Gmail, Namecheap, banks).

Re: GitHub Raises $250M at $2B Valuation

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Post by saryant »

onion2k wrote: post #200
ams6110 wrote: post #192

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It's a perfectly good word that should not be banned: This patch retards the rate of retry attempts after three consecutive failures

It wouldn't be banned in that context.

That requires people to understand context and nuance.

We live in a world where a guy wants to ban Mel Brooks' The Producers because he doesn't realize it's a satire of Hitler, not an homage. Lots of people don't or won't appreciate context.

Re: GitHub Raises $250M at $2B Valuation

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Post by bigiain »

homakov wrote: post #203
bigiain wrote: post #196

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Lack of two factor auth is quickly becoming a dealbreaker for me for everything. It doesn't matter _how_ good your webapp/SaaS works - if it's relying on just a password to secure my PII (or worse, my proprietary sourcecode or intellectual property) it's fundamentally broken, bordering on useless.

How two factor auth will prevent loss of your source code? (assuming your password is unique)

It will help when my unique password get exposed through any of the many likely routes that don't give the attacker complete code execution on the servers - SQLi or using XSS to steal admin tokens for example.
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