Oh crap.
Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub
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#922Earlier quoted context omitted.
Centralization has an undeniable fundamental attraction. Everything, really, seems to naturally trend towards centralization, and then major scandals reverse the trend. We will probably swing back and forth between the two in perpetuity. The whole darn internet was built to be decentralized. And yet we all use GMail, the same handful of DNS servers, the same short list of major trunk hubs, the same shrinking list of…
> Centralization has an undeniable fundamental attraction. Everything, really, seems to naturally trend towards centralization How so? Centralization is merely enforced by the government and incentivized by the system it exists in.
If centralisation only occurs due to government enforcement, then how did government itself come into existence? It's the purest example of centralisation, after all. There must be something that incentivised centralisation even in the absence of government.
Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub
#923It's interesting that the HN community continues to make reference to the prospect of a decentralized internet when Git was built to be decentralized in the first place. In spite of this, we all have congregated around GitHub for the community and are shocked when the centralized source we've been using gets acquired by a company we don't trust. That's sort of the whole point of centralization, you can't trust it. Ma…
> Git was built to be decentralized in the first place
Git was built to track changes and resolve collisions, if I get it right.
Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub
#924If is true, this is one of the saddest news I've heard in the last 5 years. Please Github don't allow this. Look of what crap Skype became to be... look at what crap LinkedIn became to be...
Time to move to gitlab.
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#925Earlier quoted context omitted.
Skype wasn't ruined because they attempted to merge it into their other platforms. Skype was just flat out ruined with bloat, horribly inefficient code, turning it into a spying tool and not listening to their vocal users. Everyone was rioting after every update and it just got worse. To add insult to injury the last major update they have tried turning it into Snapchat. Their incompetence knows no bounds. If you thi…
I wonder if pre-acquisition Skype was one of the hardest software the Windows team had to deal with. For example, at one point they used SYSENTER directly to make system calls!
Do you have a source for this? I enjoy reading about horrible software.
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#926I'm really looking forward to IPFS ...
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#927Why microsoft and google ruin the things developer loves? First Kaggle and than Github.
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#928Why microsoft and google ruin the things developer loves? First Kaggle and than Github.
what happened to Kaggle?
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#929Earlier quoted context omitted.
GitHub has had more ethics fails in the past few years than MS.
Care to elaborate?
I remember reading that they employ some muppet to check that nobody uses "hate language" and their naive "check all words in text files against this list" spotted the word "retard" as in "fire retardant" and locked the project. Appealing for common sense, or even escalating the problem to someone with a functional grasp of English didn't succeed.
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#930Github harassment in 2014, Microsoft potentially (at time of writing) buying Github.
Mountains, molehills.