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GitHub Raises $250M at $2B Valuation

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Re: GitHub Raises $250M at $2B Valuation

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Post by girvo »

shocks wrote: post #294
girvo wrote: post #262

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I really enjoy Breeze[0] at work. It's similar in concept to Trello, but aimed far more at project management and development. They just released a Gantt chart app that integrates with it, which is making some managers here really happy, heh. [0] https://breeze.pm

SSL link doesn't work. http://www.breeze.pm/

Oops! Thanks. I've also written a command-line interface for Breeze, which coupled with the BitBucket integration means I rarely even open the interface itself!

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Post by bigiain »

homakov wrote: post #320
bigiain wrote: post #210

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It will help when my unique password get exposed through any of the many likely routes that don't give the attacker complete code execution on the servers - SQLi or using XSS to steal admin tokens for example.

Interesting, sqli that works only for reading encrypted_hash from DB? But since password is unique it cannot be bruteforced even locally.

True - it's the (many many documented[1]) cases where the SQLi grabs the password_cleartext column, not the encrypted_hash one that worry me here.

[1] http://plaintextoffenders.com/

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Post by jareds »

malendariel wrote: post #402
jareds wrote: post #379

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6.2.5.

How do you handle the dropdown menus, combobox components ( fields) and the autocomplete controls?

Comboboxes are accessible by default with all modern screen readers on the web. Dropdowns are a bit tricky, I hit enter on the link and if when I arrow down I don't see new options I skip to the bottom of the page since that's where a lot of the options appear. For auto complete I type as much of the value as I know ina nd hit tab. I then look to see if the correct value was filled in and if it wasn't look at the options that appear and hit enter on the proper one.

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Post by BinaryIdiot »

fokinsean wrote: post #219
BinaryIdiot wrote: post #199

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> you really need something like Atlassian. While this is typically how it's been done in my experience I really don't agree. My take on JIRA is that it can literally do anything project-management wise but everything it does is cumbersome and slow. I wish there were more alternatives that had SOME similar feature sets (certainly not all of the features; most of the JIRA ones can be interchanged with its other featur…

We just updated Jira at my job, it feels pretty snappy. It has always felt reasonably smooth to me, but I have also only been using it for about 2 months.

The most things in JIRA I need to click probably at least 5 or 6 things to do something. So I didn't necessarily mean it's slow as in clicking on something takes forever to load (though I've seen that happen on self and Atlassian hosted versions of JIRA) but that it just simply takes way too many clicks to do anything in JIRA (except maybe creating an issue since that's always at the very top). In my opinion at least.

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Post by scott_karana »

rurounijones wrote: post #230
scott_karana wrote: post #54

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Are they still fast-growing? I would have thought that their growth curve would be flattening out at this point. Most of the big tech companies already have a presence there, and they've been the go-to for VCS-using developers for a few years now.

That is a pretty Anglo-Centric viewpoint I would say. I know of companies in Japan that are moving onto GH:E with users ranging from 20 -> 300+ of which there are probably tens of thousands similarly sized around the world that are not yet on GH or GH:E. Github recently created a Japanese subsidiary which is telling.

It's an anglo-centric viewpoint, for what was (until recently it sounds) an anglo-centric company.

Glad they're growing internationally! :-)

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Post by Gurkenmaster »

shlant wrote: post #385
blazespin wrote: post #112

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Agreed, the valuation makes no sense to me. There's really no switching costs that I see. Bitbucket is actually superior in many ways because of its tight integration with Atlassian - the real Microsoft Word of the Developer community. Sourceforge had this kind of play at one point and look at it now. Maybe they're going to start displaying ads for jobs for developers. Not sure that's worth 2B though...

The only benefit I have ever seen with Bitbucket is it is priced per user instead of per repo which is only a benefit if you have smaller teams. The very first project I created for myself in my new role was to move everything out of Bitbucket to GitHub. Github is so ubiquitous that it too has very good integration with Jira. It's popularity alone means that essentially anything that has version control integration h…

Searching through source code in github is horrible. It only searches through the content and completly ignores filenames which makes it absolutely useless to me.

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Post by hueving »

rmc wrote: post #341
hueving wrote: post #282

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tell that to airbus engineers. Perhaps you can boycott flying on every airbus because it says "retard" to the pilots on landing.

Do you not know that words can have more than one meaning? From the context you can tell the meaning. When airbus use "retard" they're using it to mean "to slow down". It's not "these 6 letters in this combination is banned", it's "stop insulting people based on mental illnesses".

It's not insulting people based on mental illnesses though. The software wasn't for people with mental illnesses.

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Post by maccard »

spdionis wrote: post #399
maccard wrote: post #392

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I restarted slack about three hours ago, and as of right now it's using 552MB [0] across 5 processes. It goes back down if I restart it, and that was enough of a "wontfix" for the slack team when I reported it. [0] http://imgur.com/S35NWij

Just out of curiosity, how many channels are you subscribed to? Also how many messages per hour? more or less...

14 channel, I don't know how many there are on the server. Not sure on the number of messages / hour, but it is quite a lot. Leaving slack on overnight has my numbers up to about 800MB. Regardless of how many messages, 800MB for a chat client is nuts.

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Post by mryan »

Novex wrote: post #362
toomuchtodo wrote: post #134

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I'm on a team of ~40. Doing fine with Slack, Github, and Trello (and no Atlassian products).

Would you mind elaborating on your workflow? I tried pitching something similar to this to my team of 12 and got a lot of resistance.

I'm using Slack + Gitlab + Pivotal. Overcoming resistance depends on the source. Managers like that they don't need to chase engineers for updates. Engineers like that everything is integrated, so if they 'git push' while referencing the Pivotal story ID, the story will be updated/finished/delivered.

Email in profile, feel free to get in touch if you want more detail.

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