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> while the president leads the day-to-day operations. How would you characterize the COO then?
COOs manage the day-to-day operations.
What's the difference between "leading" day to day operations and "managing" them?
New Year, New CEO for GitHub
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Re: New Year, New CEO for GitHub
#82GitHub's growth in 2013 has been fascinating to watch. They've been relentless with new functionality, and the overwhelming trend with that new functionality is a marked increase in the scope of their operations: stuff like generic data support, baked-in visualizations, and quality-of-life improvements points to the conclusion that GitHub is going to stop being the "best place to share code with friends, co-workers,…
> relentless with new functionality They also raised $800m in mid-2012: http://pando.com/2012/05/21/bootstrapped-github-now-raising-...
Their valuation for a rumoured first round was between $500 and $800M. They ended up raising $100M (which is still mind-boggling).
But in the rest you are correct.
Re: New Year, New CEO for GitHub
#83For those of us who are business ignorant, what is the difference between President and CEO? What are the typical responsibilities of each and such?
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Re: New Year, New CEO for GitHub
#84I love how this is tagged as "New Features". Oh GitHub :)
What did you want it to be? A bug?
Re: New Year, New CEO for GitHub
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GitHub, please don't spend time pandering to employers who have indefensibly poor metrics for evaluating employees. Instead, please spend that time improving things for your users.
It's not just employees, it's students. My dissertation project is in a Github private repository, yet it looks like I abandoned Github - at least to the few people who seem interested in what I do. Combine this with the use of StackOverflow Careers and Github Jobs, I might as well have died as far as potential employers are concerned.
What's the motivation for making your dissertation a private repo?
Re: New Year, New CEO for GitHub
#86Github PLEASE work on some kind of 'Proof Of Activity' 98% of my work is private and all employers get to see is about 100 open-source commits when I have roughly 4,000 commits throughout several private organizations. I know I need more open source contributions but I should be able to prove to an employer that I am a heavy Github user and have more experience than 100 commits. Sometimes I've been asked to send a sc…
I work for a company that does not uses github at all. We store code on our own servers. Do you seriously think that anyone working in such company is going to be unemployable?
I would say the companies you look at work in have seriously flawed hiring practices. They would not hired our best engineers, cause they do not have open source github contributions. They code plenty for work through.
Re: New Year, New CEO for GitHub
#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
> relentless with new functionality They also raised $800m in mid-2012: http://pando.com/2012/05/21/bootstrapped-github-now-raising-...
Their valuation for a rumoured first round was between $500 and $800M. They ended up raising $100M (which is still mind-boggling). But in the rest you are correct.
Thank you for correcting the statement. It was a valuation.
Re: New Year, New CEO for GitHub
#88Github PLEASE work on some kind of 'Proof Of Activity' 98% of my work is private and all employers get to see is about 100 open-source commits when I have roughly 4,000 commits throughout several private organizations. I know I need more open source contributions but I should be able to prove to an employer that I am a heavy Github user and have more experience than 100 commits. Sometimes I've been asked to send a sc…
This could be abused and will render the whole thing pointless for everyone: make private repository, write bot to commit every day... now you have 4000 useless commits on your profile which an employer is supposed to think are legit.
Re: New Year, New CEO for GitHub
#89GitHub's growth in 2013 has been fascinating to watch. They've been relentless with new functionality, and the overwhelming trend with that new functionality is a marked increase in the scope of their operations: stuff like generic data support, baked-in visualizations, and quality-of-life improvements points to the conclusion that GitHub is going to stop being the "best place to share code with friends, co-workers,…
Relentless with new functionality? Yes, no, maybe, I don't know. I'd love to see things fixed up in their issue tracker, and you still can't apply a label to a pull request while looking at the pull request. I love GitHub for many reasons, but I question whether the push towards 'managerless-culture' means some less interesting things don't get done sometimes. I do note the ability to see web traffic prior to someone…
The code review pales in comparison to Crucible. Vertical diffs only, can't ignore whitespace without losing the ability to comment, and there's no fast navigation through files.
Re: New Year, New CEO for GitHub
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COOs manage the day-to-day operations.
What's the difference between "leading" day to day operations and "managing" them?
I know SC2 is probably a poor example but it fits very well here. It's the difference between managing a team strategy in an RTS versus looking at the individual unit deaths/spawns, types of units, etc.