I <3 github... anyone with more business sense than me care to speculate on what this means for us users?
It doesn't directly mean anything to end users.
GitHub Raises $250M at $2B Valuation
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Re: GitHub Raises $250M at $2B Valuation
#12Github has already stumbled, and will fall soon. Their gaffes in conduct[1] and content[2] policies are already dividing the community. For a company that has thrived on being a monoculture, this spells doom. [1] https://np.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3e5c6f/why_the_... [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9966118
You seriously think censoring the word "retard" will harm their business?
Re: GitHub Raises $250M at $2B Valuation
#13Github has already stumbled, and will fall soon. Their gaffes in conduct[1] and content[2] policies are already dividing the community. For a company that has thrived on being a monoculture, this spells doom. [1] https://np.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3e5c6f/why_the_... [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9966118
bahahahaha.
Oh you people are so cute. Look at that second one, just tons and tons of sh!t posts from sh!t people saying "SJW" with more vitriol than I can possibly imagine.
The real gems are from complete tools like this too:
"Git is run but a bunch of retards"
Can't even write a sentence without stumbling multiple times.
""The "Retards" are "retards" anyway and cannot get offended by it. ""
You really want to throw your lot in with these assholes?
Funny how these issues are always astroturfed by the same type of anime avatars that Gators use.
Re: GitHub Raises $250M at $2B Valuation
#14Github seems to be a pretty good or "safe" investment. Developers have already entrusted them with something as precious as their code itself. They also have pretty clear pathways for being profitable with private repos and so on, I'm not that surprised they are getting a lot of funding.
It's a bit like a social network. There are better technologies out there (e.g. bitbucket), but like you said, developers have chosen Github for now. However, it would be possible for a mass exodus as they turn up the enforcement on the offensiveness bans.
Re: GitHub Raises $250M at $2B Valuation
#15I've always thought Google should buy them and make that the basis of Google+.
Re: GitHub Raises $250M at $2B Valuation
#16"The company’s co-founders were inspired by a tech talk given at Google Inc. in 2007 by Linus Torvalds" funny how many successful companies are founded after getting inspiration from a single talk.
Re: GitHub Raises $250M at $2B Valuation
#17Just $2Bn? Sound a little low to for something like Github.
Re: GitHub Raises $250M at $2B Valuation
#18In GitHub's position I would not even think of trying stuff myself. The leap from git repo hosting to almost any other profitable and aligned business seems huge.
But the leap to HN-style incubator, when you have direct daily connections to more and better coders than YC gets in a year, that makes sense to me.
Of course I would want to launch my own businesses, but the sensible money is on building remote working tools, incubators, conferences and so on dedicated to growing the next generation of distributed, remote and profitable companies. Intermediated through git and GitHub, of course.
Re: GitHub Raises $250M at $2B Valuation
#19Github seems to be a pretty good or "safe" investment. Developers have already entrusted them with something as precious as their code itself. They also have pretty clear pathways for being profitable with private repos and so on, I'm not that surprised they are getting a lot of funding.
Sorry to say, but any time I need a private repo I just head to BitBucket. GitHub provides tremendous value, I hope they find a good way to capture some of it.
When you need a private repo why do you use BitBucket? I've used the private repos on GitHub and found them to work just fine, but I'm new to coding...
Re: GitHub Raises $250M at $2B Valuation
#20Github has already stumbled, and will fall soon. Their gaffes in conduct[1] and content[2] policies are already dividing the community. For a company that has thrived on being a monoculture, this spells doom. [1] https://np.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3e5c6f/why_the_... [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9966118
You seriously think censoring the word "retard" will harm their business?
I think you should think twice before investing or hosting data with companies that engage in tit-for-tat infantile behavior.