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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 smhg »

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'…

Google's Cloud Source Repositories [1] aren't related to Google Code if I get it right.

[1] https://cloud.google.com/source-repositories/

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

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Post by gaius »

at-fates-hands wrote: post #24
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.

> 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.

Search Twitter for #hnwatch.

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

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Post by akavlie »

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.

Clearly you haven't been apprised of the current rules. Hatred of white males is categorically not racism, because they have all the power.

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

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Post by krisdol »

I wonder which startup will chomp off this new sourcefor-- I mean, Github.

I know, totally different companies at this point, but this shift marks me seeing GH as a completely different entity from what it used to be, and I don't look forward to what kind of company they'll become in the future. Kind of disappointing to read about the changes. None of them sound good.

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

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Post by audessuscest »

sanjeetsuhag wrote: post #37
audessuscest wrote: post #30

"Some of the biggest barriers to progress are white women." edit : also : "it is very hard to even interview people who are 'white'"

Yeah, what does that even mean ?

As a european i'm really shocked that this kind of tumblr bullshit invade top tech company like Github...

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

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Post by GuiA »

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.

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").

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

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Post by onewaystreet »

gaius wrote: post #43
at-fates-hands wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

Search Twitter for #hnwatch.

The people who use that hashtag are not the kind of people who think you can be racist against white people.

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

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Post by mbrock »

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.
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