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Re: GitHub is apparently in crisis again

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Post by duderific »

linkregister wrote: post #14
zippergz wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Enterprise sales people can make a habit of selling things that the product can't currently do, and then forcing engineering to make it a reality on a compressed timeline because "this is a deal we can't afford to lose." Repeatedly. No idea if that's happeing at GitHub, but I've seen it happen a few other places, and it sucks for the engineering and product teams even if the sales people are in a different state. In…

> sales people can make a habit of selling things that the product can't currently do Maybe this is a trope from the 90s and 2000s or from a Scott Adams cartoon, but I disagree this is representative of most enterprise sales these days. Maybe I'm just spoiled, but every company I've worked at the past decade has had a knowledgeable sales force. I've been asked plenty of times, "can you add this feature for a huge cus…

You are indeed lucky. I would guess the companies you worked at were profitable?

Re: GitHub is apparently in crisis again

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Post by greenbay_ftw »

beaner wrote: post #9

Is anyone else bored by hoodie culture? I used to work at a startup like that when I was young, and I enjoyed it then, but there can be so much more to companies. Where I work now, engineering is roughly a quarter of the company. The rest is made up of legal, compliance, business development, people ops and some other miscellaneous. You know what? It's great. There are more extroverts in the office, people who go out…

I didn't see any hoodies in the pictures.

Re: GitHub is apparently in crisis again

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Post by devinus »

I've been on GitHub since the earliest days, and I've definitely noticed that there's something going on -- or the lack of anything going on more like it.

When was the last time a big feature that people are actually clamoring for was added to GitHub (and let's not pretend LFS fits that description)? Meanwhile you have the maintainers of the most popular projects publicly begging for changes they've been waiting years for, startups like ZenHub innovating on TOP of GitHub in the form of browser extensions, and then startups like GitLab poised to eat GitHub's lunch as soon as they figure out how to capture the social aspect.

I'm not sure what GitHub is spending the money on, but it sure as hell isn't on the core platform itself or keeping it's most active users happy.

Re: GitHub is apparently in crisis again

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Post by zenlikethat »

greenbay_ftw wrote: post #23
beaner wrote: post #9

Is anyone else bored by hoodie culture? I used to work at a startup like that when I was young, and I enjoyed it then, but there can be so much more to companies. Where I work now, engineering is roughly a quarter of the company. The rest is made up of legal, compliance, business development, people ops and some other miscellaneous. You know what? It's great. There are more extroverts in the office, people who go out…

I didn't see any hoodies in the pictures.

http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/56b3948f2e526558008...

Re: GitHub is apparently in crisis again

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Post by xenadu02 »

devinus wrote: post #24

I've been on GitHub since the earliest days, and I've definitely noticed that there's something going on -- or the lack of anything going on more like it. When was the last time a big feature that people are actually clamoring for was added to GitHub (and let's not pretend LFS fits that description)? Meanwhile you have the maintainers of the most popular projects publicly begging for changes they've been waiting year…

Agreed. There seems to be a lot of low-hanging fruit just... hanging there still waiting.

That seems to be a common theme when startups try to grow.

Re: GitHub is apparently in crisis again

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Post by sytse »

Aloha wrote: post #15
sytse wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

At GitLab we learned that indeed large enterprises don't outsource it, they run something (GitHub Enterprise, GitLab CE/EE, etc.) on-premises.

Huh. Okay, I guess that makes as much sense as anything really. I can see the advantage in something turnkey.

Large organizations do it for different reasons. To use their own directory service (LDAP/AD), to more easily integrate it with their other tooling, to be in control of where their data is, to have more control over availability, to be able to add layers of security (VPN, etc.).

Re: GitHub is apparently in crisis again

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Post by hueving »

beaner wrote: post #9

Is anyone else bored by hoodie culture? I used to work at a startup like that when I was young, and I enjoyed it then, but there can be so much more to companies. Where I work now, engineering is roughly a quarter of the company. The rest is made up of legal, compliance, business development, people ops and some other miscellaneous. You know what? It's great. There are more extroverts in the office, people who go out…

You must have worked in a shitty place if your weren't with any programmers that laughed or drank beer.
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