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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 chc4 »

krisdol wrote: post #46

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.

I already use GitLab for my personal projects, since I don't care about the networking effects and it's open-source. Since it's still just git, there's nothing stopping people from switching: it has inheritably less lock-in than Twitter or Facebook. GitLab even scrapes issues and other GitHub metainfo if you migrate.

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

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Post by SOLAR_FIELDS »

lubonay wrote: post #34
mschuster91 wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm administrating a small-ish Gitlab server and we have to reboot it every week or else it will fail in random and weird ways due to OOM - the machine has 8GB of RAM and 20 active users, so WTF? Isn't the entire point of git to have one pretty dumb server acting as a file server and letting the client do the work?!

We run a Gitlab server at our company, with about 25 people using it to host their repos. I don't know the technical specs of the server, but it's only been down two times for the last year, so OOM seems unlikely. If it was that horrid, I'm pretty sure the admin would have said something by now.

You probably have pretty good sysadmins. My experience with Gitlab is pretty similar but you kind of have to have a bit of knowledge of systems, network and the software itself to set it up properly with the right amount of memory, CPU, etc. to accommodate for the user base.

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

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Post by protomyth »

grk wrote: post #31
protomyth wrote: post #10

uhm... So a company that is an enabler of developers working from anywhere and collaborating on code doesn't have at its core value working remotely? I find that a bit hard to believe, but I guess I've heard stranger things. I guess I just expect as a matter of dogfooding that a company that strives to do great distributed source code control and all the activities surroundings that would live the remove lifestyle.

It's enabling developers to work from anywhere. That doesn't mean this approach works for management.

If the person making the decisions isn't familiar with the basis of the decision then I trust their judgement not at all.

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

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Post by tosseraccount »

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.

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

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Post by xiaoma »

>"(The social impact team) are trying to control culture, interviewing and firing. Scary times at the company without a seasoned leader. While their efforts are admirable it is very hard to even interview people who are 'white' which makes things challenging"

No wonder they got rid of the meritocracy rug.

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

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Post by laurent123456 »

sanjeetsuhag wrote: post #35

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

More info there:

http://uk.businessinsider.com/diversity-guru-discusses-white...

  > A person familiar with the matter told us this talk was not
  > done by Sanchez at GitHub, but was part of a seminar geared
  > specifically for people of color.
  > 
  > We were told that it was based on research published in the
  > Racism Review as part of its "Trouble with White Women"
  > series in 2014.
  > 
  > In particular, one article delves into data that suggests
  > that white women have "disproportionately" benefited from
  > affirmative-action policies. It then suggests that instead
  > of being advocates for affirmative action, white women
  > "have been at the forefront of lawsuits brought to
  > challenge affirmative action."

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

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Post by spitfire »

raverbashing wrote: post #14

Given the amount of news talking about SV companies losing stock market value it seems the bubble is popping

It looks like a case of the things no one could talk about can now be talked about.

It will now be fashionable to talk about the emperors new clothes. Even by those who previously strongly vocalized their love of the emperors clothes.

I'll bet you sam a will start talking about being Ramen Profitable soon.

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

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Post by dominotw »

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.

I have long been puzzled by this

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10905356

I've been watching github closely as they are one of our main competitors in the enterprise offerings.

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

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Post by fuck__dang »

Well, I migrated to Bitbucket just now.

I agree with a few of these points and maybe that's barbaric, but what is worse imo is the approach that GitHub has to this.

I mean, when you know you are at the forefront of social software development, you need to hold yourselves at a higher standard than this. Millions (!) of people depend on you for some kind of baseline, and this divisiveness and shallowness in protocol really can't be accepted.

Somehow, I have this feeling that even though we all know that this is wrong that they'll just get away with it like usual and nothing major will change except that GitHub's support will get even worse.

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