Seems like another instance of "let the nerds build a company and then take over"...
Should this be considered an example of entryism, or just opportunism?
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#152First Sourceforge went over to the dark side. Next, Github? This is a huge setback for open source. We need federated open source hosting, where several companies all host the important projects, they all stay in sync, and any client can go to any service for any operation.
Maybe because Sourceforge and Github are not open source.
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#153Anybody use Microsoft's Team Services git hosting? Looks like they have unlimited free repos, although I don't know about public.
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#154This article could have been written better. It has two themes going on. Github is restructuring and the lack of diversity in tech. Why did they unnecessarily mention diversity in the context of the reorganization of github? Because that is the corporate BS that is popular to spout when you are redefining power within your company. Make no mistake github is doing restructuring to position themselves for large corpora…
It also seemed odd that it implied that whatever the new structure is does not include meritocracy. Does "meritocracy" really mean "no managers"?
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#155Earlier quoted context omitted.
Clearly you haven't been apprised of the current rules. Hatred of white males is categorically not racism, because they have all the power.
I am a young white male with no money, no job and bad health. Can I please have some of this mysterious magic power I am supposed to have?
Do you have an arrest record? If not: there's the magic power. Statistically speaking, a poor young black male is much more likely to have an arrest record than a poor young white male.
Edit: holy batman the downvotes. I never considered the possibility that maybe #hnwatch is right.
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#156This is just gross. I've spent the last 10 years of my life listening to various minority leaders discriminate against whites with no consequence. I hope someone stands up for themselves and sues GitHub for this type of behavior. First off, this is very irrational and not based in any facts. Second off, it's blatant racism and sexism. I will probably migrate my repos to GitLab or even BitBucket shiver . We need to vo…
If you can, avoid Bitbucket. We used them for a few years and it just wasn't good, through and through.
I've been really impressed with Gitlab and we use that as a backup right now but I really think I'll be moving all of our repos over to them. Plus, you can even host your own Gitlab server.
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#157> "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.
And don't forget that killer quote from their internal presentation: "Some of the biggest barriers to progress are white women" When diversity initiatives become an "us vs them" discourse, everyone loses. Except for the fat cats with full wallets at the top, who have no issue with the plebe infighting as long as it's between themselves (see the not so subtly placed "this is not about socio economic class").
I've been seeing this discussion a lot lately, particularly in the publishing world. 79% of editors are white and 78% are women [1], so the statement has validity at least when talking about the gatekeepers of what stories get to be told. Marlon James recently posted about his experiences with it [2] and many writers of color have since shared similar experiences.
My take is that it's not "us vs them", but a need to illuminate where the barriers lie.
[1] http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jan/27/us-study-finds-...
[2] https://www.facebook.com/marlon.james1/posts/101537967097308...
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#158Earlier quoted context omitted.
That categorization ("blatant racist") will sadly tend to produce an endless argument over who can and can't be racist. That's fruitless. More accurately, that statement is both anti-white and misandrist, almost by definition, by equating white plus male with damage.
> an endless argument over who can and can't be racist It blows my mind that some people really believe that only white people can be racist. It's like they completely redefined the meaning of the word "racist".
> It blows my mind that some people really believe that only white people can be racist. It's like they completely redefined the meaning of the word "racist".
That's the point. Redefine words so that it's impossible for someone who doesn't share their point of view to have any moral high ground.
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#160> "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.
> So the technical director and member of the social-impact team is a blatant racist. I had the same reaction. I'm surprised nobody else has noticed this and made a comment about it.
Scary that you're getting downvoted for this comment.