I agree about avoiding Github. But she seems to take it for granted that one must then find an alternative “forge”. Git makes it easy to host your repositories on your own website. It’s decentralized by design. One doesn’t need a central organization or website.
I'm moving my projects off GitHub
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#82> As a GitHub user, I was always seeking green squares to try to make sure I had activity every day. I have never paid any attention to that at all. It surprises me that some do. Do you think it's common?
Same. In fact, I discovered git-backdate [1] which can specifically be used to hide the fact that your working hours are a bit deranged. [1] https://github.com/rixx/git-backdate
Nice, I had been thinking for a long time about writing such a tool that adjusts all commits on personal projects to be outside business hours (although of course that's not going to be an acknowledged use).
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#83[flagged]
You think Microsoft did this "to put OSS into the hands of everyone"? I think it's despicable that so much OSS is on a Microsoft platform considering how hostile Microsoft was towards OSS.
Github existed long before they were bought out by Microsoft.
A company is run by people, with different opinions, when new people get in charge, the company changes as well. Microsoft is not hostile towards Linux and OSS and embraced it, deal with it.
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#84On the ChatGPT / Copilot angle of this story: I have unique code on github that solves a problem I have never seen solved anywhere else. I have searched extensively for other implementations and have not found any. As far as I can determine mine is the only one out there, at least on the searchable internet.
I asked ChatGPT to write code to solve the same problem.
Guess what happened. If you think you know the answer, welcome to the smug feeling of confirmation bias.
ChatGPT created entirely novel code that solved the problem. I have to say I was impressed.
It’s just an anecdote, but to me it made an impression. I think the worries are overblown.
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#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you think it's common? Yes. I see it more and more these days, especially among recruiters and HR departments. I believe there's an inverse correlation between the value one places on green squares and their understanding of what it actually takes to build software... https://eddiots.com/931 https://eddiots.com/447 https://eddiots.com/2461 https://eddiots.com/2390
Exactly. I hate this too. I'd rather keep my github activity private. It's nobody's business to know if I commit 30 times per hour or once per week. On the other hand I recently encountered a very interesting hiring process. I think this is the first time in 20 years when I'm encountering some "new idea in recruitment" and I actually think it's good for everyone. I'm talking about coding/other task based challenges y…
I've been a proponent of the code-to-hire process for at least a decade.
There are for sure some challenges (some legal, some technical) but those replace other challenges that I think are less effective.
Interviews are pretty low value for skill-set - mostly for personality.
GitHub and SocialMedia spying don't reveal much about the Person-at-Work.
So, currently we find a nice candidate, brief interview for personality/communication then code test them. And I pay for the time too - but that value is capped for tax/paperwork reasons.
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#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wonder what will happen when all those OSS forges ran by non-profit organizations will crumble under the load. In the end, only for-profit businesses remain in the race, Gitlab, Github, Bitbucket, ...
Crumble under the load of.... Storing text? That everyone has a local offline copy of everywhere?
Text, images, all kinds of documents people use (maybe wrongly) Git for.
But Github is storing billions of those documents in millions of repositories with millions of users, all using bandwidth, CPU, RAM, hard drives, and they trust them to not lose data, and be always available.
Yes, your computer in your garage is not fit to handle that kind of traffic/load.
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#87> As a GitHub user, I was always seeking green squares to try to make sure I had activity every day. I have never paid any attention to that at all. It surprises me that some do. Do you think it's common?
Do you think it's common? Yes. I see it more and more these days, especially among recruiters and HR departments. I believe there's an inverse correlation between the value one places on green squares and their understanding of what it actually takes to build software... https://eddiots.com/931 https://eddiots.com/447 https://eddiots.com/2461 https://eddiots.com/2390
HR departments many times hardly read the CV before the interview, let alone spending time on Github repos.
Additionally many people cannot make their work public anyway.
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#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
Using plaintext is one click away while composing an email in most email/web clients I have tried.
And then another click away when you want to go back to normal. Every time you do it. It's not a matter of clicking, it's a matter of having extra steps in an already diverging workflow.
This is probably unpopular, but I like these kinds of simple UI barriers to services I value. Also, this would certainly help with the Hacktoberfest problem.
There are plenty of other code hosting services. If you can't use Sourcehut, it's not for you.
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#89I know everyone is upset about copilot. But in all honesty, copilot is awesome. I use it everyday and it takes so much pain out of my work. Theres no other tool like it, i tried them all.
That's fine, but saying this doesn't engage with the problems that have been raised at all.
It's like saying "but it's the most delicious thing I've ever eaten" in response to someone telling you a double-bacon cheeseburger with extra sauce is bad for your heart.
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#90[flagged]
> that people think that they have words which must be heard by others More like they think they have words that others might like to hear -- and they're often correct.
Why all the blog hate? We saw this with Youtube as well, and then Khan Academy happened and shut that erroneous line of argumentation down.
It's weird how people fail to remember that humans learn by conversing with each other (yes, this includes screaming into the void that is the IoT). Humans are prosocial. Storytelling and information spread promotes critical thinking and encourages debates, reflection, and sparks creativity. Opinions are meant to be reformulated.
Take this away and what are we left with? Defunded education and "trust me bro" as prevailing logic (i.e., Idiocracy).