paulrademacher

Here is a much better proposal, with the added benefit of keeping our planet safe:

http://traipse.com/upgrade/

You're free to ask people who come in to interview at your company, "why did you leave your last job?" and apply your own judgement.

Or if you truly want to help improve Github, you should join them! :-)

> On Monday, a judge set bail at $100,000 for Robert Malsch, accused of drinking and of driving more than 100 mph before rear-ending a car and killing the driver inside.

Code review could have been another set of eyes to predict the problem of reusing a flag.

Redundant/distributed/crowd-sourced diagnoses? Instead of a single radiologist, fan it out to many.

> If you are offered little equity as compared to the founders, don't join.

There is no "if". Employee equity is always a small fraction of founders'. This won't change until people realize the discrepancy, or demand more equity at early stage startups.

> there was at least one TRON arcade game... that had a totally different concept and which is now mostly deservedly forgotten

I can barely express how amazing and influential Discs of Tron was to me as a kid. The concept, the animation, the black light... totally captured my imagination right when I was first learning BASIC on TRS-Model III and C64.

Civilian, you probably signed an agreement with Google to not disclose information about their internal operations, as you're doing here and below.

P(startup) = c * P(pivot), for some constant c

The 3 second audio loop while loading from disk is seared into my brain!

TLDR: Market share > Principles

> We have come to the point where Mozilla not implementing the W3C EME specification means that Firefox users have to switch to other browsers to watch content restricted by DRM.

"Woman with bangs." I cringe any time I see a writeup of a female engineer or executive where attention is drawn to her hairstyle, clothes, or shoes. It's unnecessary and undignified.

Any suggestions for smaller codebases? A lot of these are great and you'll pick up idioms here and there, but they're massive.

Is there a follow-up poll showing that it's "decidedly a positive change"? :-)

To read the atom.io threads. Plenty of positivity around here when a new product strikes a chord.

I think I will nominate myself to be the single person on Hacker News, who after an announcement of a huge mega-acquisition, will skip all the high-minded analysis and discussion of business models and ROI, and simply say:

Wow, I wish I had a $19B acquisition -- I'm jealous :-)

What's really hard is not mastering the language, but software development. That's the reason top, super-productive coders can jump between langs.

She's been with the company since the beginning.

True bugs wait in haunted attics.

I'm pretty sure that was fake.

You could have just solved the problem by taking a job at Apple, Adobe, Intuit, Lucasfilm, or Pixar!

I'm not sure how anyone could question Gates, Zuckerberg, or Sandberg on their sincere and informed interest in young people studying computer science. The criticism on that page is so infantile, I can't even think of a proper response.

Where do you see this "direct line"? I've seen no sign of that.

Why do you think they negotiated at all?

> the mythical "(top) 10% or (top) 1% programmer" is not so much a real thing

And yet every place I've worked has had 1-3 programmers who wrote >90% of the code...

It was accidentally erased during routine maintenance. We do not expect this to materially affect the ongoing investigation.

DO? YOU? SPEAK? ENGLISH?

You didn't fire him publicly. You only belittled him in public.

> If Ben can’t learn, we’ll fire him. [Edit: See comment below. This is not meant literally.]

Your correction doesn't make the statement much better. This whole debate is about how words matter, and yet your words put him on notice in a public place. All of Ben's friends now know his employer will fire him if he "can't learn." Is he so stubbornly misogynistic that that should be in question?

You could have conveyed the same message by saying "he was following the commit rules, no offense intended, won't happen again" and left it at that.

I applaud Joyent for their brave stand in theoretically firing someone who does not work for them. The legal issues they would theoretically face are daunting.

There's a good chance "internal politics" was a made up excuse when they decided that the acquisition simply wasn't worth the $$$. Then your corpdev or VP contacts don't look like assholes for backing out, because, you see, it was someone else's fault.