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GitHub is undergoing a full-blown overhaul as execs and employees depart

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Re: GitHub is undergoing a full-blown overhaul as execs and employees depart

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Post by giaour »

tosseraccount wrote: post #64
ihsw wrote: post #2

Whatever happens, I hope they improve their Android app. It is one of the most pathetic things I've ever had the mispleasure of using. Is it really that difficult to get push notifications for pull requests, issues, and my homepage news feed? I don't know what it's built with but it's not native in the least, it looks like some awful PhoneGap monstrosity.

I'm truly curious: who uses Android for development? I'd think getting a github Android app just right would be a low priority.

As a maintainer of a popular and actively developed open source project, I would totally use the app to respond to issues and pull requests if it were usable. Unfortunately, the app is a dumpster fire, so I just use github.com.

If you do use android for development, you wouldn't need a github app to push your code to github. You would need a git app, and several great ones exist.

Re: GitHub is undergoing a full-blown overhaul as execs and employees depart

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Post by DasIch »

sanjeetsuhag wrote: post #35

> Some of the biggest barriers to progress are white women. Can someone explain this ?

Feminism wasn't always as intersectional as it is now. For a long time it was dominated by white women who wanted more equality ignoring and sometimes even opposing equality for people and women of color. Suffragettes are a very good example of this problem.

There are a few people now that feel a similar thing is happening in the tech industry right now as well. In that diversity is promoted only in so far as it helps white women but not any other underrepresented groups.

Re: GitHub is undergoing a full-blown overhaul as execs and employees depart

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Post by ronnier »

yaakov34 wrote: post #75
iza wrote: post #15

> "We’re trying to build a new kind of enterprise company where the playbooks of old won’t always work" By replacing flat meritocracy and remote work with traditional top-down management? > "don't think we'll succeed teaching white, male middle managers empathy and compassion anytime soon, so let's limit their scope of damage" So the technical director and member of the social-impact team is a blatant racist.

Another quote is "it is very hard to even interview people who are 'white'". This is absurd and disgusting. I haven't lived in the US for a while, but lately, I keep hearing all these expressions of straight up racial hatred of white people, all the way up to taking pleasure in white people "dying off" and so on. This kind of thing can't end well and needs to be stopped.

To even express that it's absurd will likely brand you as a racist. What in the fuck is happening?

Re: GitHub is undergoing a full-blown overhaul as execs and employees depart

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Post by zo1 »

mbrock wrote: post #50
mschuster91 wrote: post #4

> With plenty of competitors, including Atlassian, GitLab, and even Google, one thing is certain: If GitHub does stumble, there are plenty of companies that want to pick up its slack. Atlassian? Oh god. Their software might be ideal for corporate beancounters and expensive consultants, but for everyone else it's a nightmare. GitLab? A pile of memory leaks and other weirdness. Google? Not so much, I highly doubt they'…

I dunno if it's impossible to recreate. You could just scrape GitHub's user data, mirror all public repositories, provide GitHub login, and do everything you can to ensure that your new competing thing lets people move away from GitHub with no friction.

I believe Github provides a free data-dump of their publically-available data. That makes things even easier, it's just no one's done it yet.

Re: GitHub is undergoing a full-blown overhaul as execs and employees depart

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Post by ericjang »

victor9000 wrote: post #72

> While their efforts are admirable it is very hard to even interview people who are 'white' which makes things challenging How is this even legal? Change 'white' for any other race, and you'd have yourself a workplace discrimination lawsuit.

It definitely doesn't sound right. I'm hoping/wishing that this quote was taken out of context. Can anybody with more insider context elaborate?

I'm very interested in the "internal cultural battle" over diversity issues at Github, because my school's CS dept. is having a lot of dialogue lately with similar rhetorical arguments. Teaching Assistants recently had a mandatory student-run training session that I perceived to be frighteningly one-sided.

Besides the photo, what else did the talk discuss?

Re: GitHub is undergoing a full-blown overhaul as execs and employees depart

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Post by fideloper »

fideloper wrote: post #96

Total conjecture, with a tad of sensationalist on a topic that is otherwise unremarkable: Company grows large, needs to adjust to survive. The ease in which y'all are swayed into this article's point of view is the true worry here.

Even the decision to show the image of the scotch collection is subtly (actually, not so subtle) using our ideas of appropriative work culture to lead us down the path of believing how terrible GitHub is.

Restructuring and growing pains are normal.

Re: GitHub is undergoing a full-blown overhaul as execs and employees depart

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Post by fredsted »

tomschlick wrote: post #19
seibelj wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Atlassian bitbucket is fine for me, and it gives free private repos. If you just want something for side projects without all of the bells and whistles, bitbucket is fine

The frequent bitbucket downtime is what got me to switch my company's stuff to github.

For us, Github has been down more than Bitbucket due to all the recent DDoS attacks.

Re: GitHub is undergoing a full-blown overhaul as execs and employees depart

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Post by yulaow »

victor9000 wrote: post #72

> While their efforts are admirable it is very hard to even interview people who are 'white' which makes things challenging How is this even legal? Change 'white' for any other race, and you'd have yourself a workplace discrimination lawsuit.

Well tumblerinas says you can't be racist against white because patriarchy. /s

No really, just read reddit.com/r/tumblrinaction and realize wtf people are saying these days shielding behind (false)feminist propaganda and some very confused idea of oppression.

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