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What's up with the title? Assuming they're not sending a cake due to covid and remote working etc - makes it seem very clickbaitish.

msoad 5y ago
Maybe related to Firefox/Chrome cake history...
- ghuntley 5y ago
  Hey, Geoff from Gitpod here (and the person who was behind cake to GitHub Codespaces). Indeed it is exactly related to that. Always was a fan of the idea of cake being shipped between product teams and the launch of Codespaces was a perfect chance to start a new tradition! I would be v.happy to send cake (or macaroons) to the VSCode team as well but don’t have contacts. If you are in the team lemme know.
- pfranz 5y ago
  I believe that tradition was started in 2006 when Microsoft send Firefox dev team a cake https://news.softpedia.com/news/why-microsoft-google-and-mozilla-send-each-other-cakes-after-launching-browsers-528960.shtml https://news.softpedia.com/news/why-microsoft-google-and-moz... Like others mentioned, this story seems to be reference to Gitpod sending GitHub a launch cake for Codespaces. https://www.gitpod.io/blog/cake https://www.gitpod.io/blog/cake
tomvault 5y ago
There is another story behind this https://www.gitpod.io/blog/cake https://www.gitpod.io/blog/cake
- infogulch 5y ago
  Ok that's cute, but hn guidelines say the the post title should match the published title. The flexibility is for necessary shortening or scrubbing clickbait, not for editorializing. > Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
gnabgib 5y ago
It's in reference to this story (from 63 days ago): "Gitpod shipped GitHub a launch cake for Codespaces (gitpod.io)" [0], original article [1] [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28405026 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28405026 [1]: https://www.gitpod.io/blog/cake https://www.gitpod.io/blog/cake
guessmyname 5y ago
If anyone is curious, user “tomvault” submitted this post with the following title: > Microsoft open-sourcing VS Code Server and Gitpod won’t send them a cake … which was later changed to: > Thanks Microsoft for open-sourcing VS Code Server

msoad 5y ago

Maybe related to Firefox/Chrome cake history...

ghuntley 5y ago
Hey, Geoff from Gitpod here (and the person who was behind cake to GitHub Codespaces). Indeed it is exactly related to that. Always was a fan of the idea of cake being shipped between product teams and the launch of Codespaces was a perfect chance to start a new tradition! I would be v.happy to send cake (or macaroons) to the VSCode team as well but don’t have contacts. If you are in the team lemme know.
pfranz 5y ago
I believe that tradition was started in 2006 when Microsoft send Firefox dev team a cake https://news.softpedia.com/news/why-microsoft-google-and-mozilla-send-each-other-cakes-after-launching-browsers-528960.shtml https://news.softpedia.com/news/why-microsoft-google-and-moz... Like others mentioned, this story seems to be reference to Gitpod sending GitHub a launch cake for Codespaces. https://www.gitpod.io/blog/cake https://www.gitpod.io/blog/cake

tomvault 5y ago

There is another story behind this https://www.gitpod.io/blog/cake https://www.gitpod.io/blog/cake

infogulch 5y ago
Ok that's cute, but hn guidelines say the the post title should match the published title. The flexibility is for necessary shortening or scrubbing clickbait, not for editorializing. > Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

gnabgib 5y ago

It's in reference to this story (from 63 days ago): "Gitpod shipped GitHub a launch cake for Codespaces (gitpod.io)" [0], original article [1] [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28405026 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28405026 [1]: https://www.gitpod.io/blog/cake https://www.gitpod.io/blog/cake

guessmyname 5y ago

If anyone is curious, user “tomvault” submitted this post with the following title: > Microsoft open-sourcing VS Code Server and Gitpod won’t send them a cake … which was later changed to: > Thanks Microsoft for open-sourcing VS Code Server