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My screwdriver doesn’t seem to need more features. It’s nice stable and reliable.

jkrubin 3y ago
Please create a PAT to enable your screwdriver.
johnfn 3y ago
Before the MS acquisition, Github didn't even have emoji reactions on comments in issue threads, so people just spammed +1s if they had the same issue. It was terrible. (You can still see evidence of this on older repos.) They also didn't have like 5 billion other features that we now take for granted. EDIT: Sorry, this is incorrect. GH did ship them prior to the MS acquisition. I do however remember them taking an EXTREMELY long time to ship emoji reactions, which struck me as a fairly trivial feature. I stand by the point that GH ships features faster post-acquisition, though.
- mdekkers 3y ago
  > Before the MS acquisition, Github didn't even have emoji reactions. I have never, ever in my professional life thought “I need an emoji for this”
- Springtime 3y ago
  They had reactions two years prior as confirmed by their blog post[1] about it. [1] https://github.blog/2016-03-10-add-reactions-to-pull-requests-issues-and-comments/ https://github.blog/2016-03-10-add-reactions-to-pull-request...
  - johnfn 3y ago
    Dang, you're right. Sorry about that. I remembered that reactions irked me for some reason, but I had incorrectly tied it to the MS acquisition. The real issue was this: it took Github an extremely long amount of time to add a feature as simple as reactions. Github was founded in '08, and didn't add reactions for another eight years! But I distinctly remember once MS acquired them, they started shipping features left and right, and features much larger than simple emoji reactions.
- ad404b8a372f2b9 3y ago
  That's not true. Reactions on comments were implemented long before the acquisition. And people still did +1. On the other hand, what they didn't have was search locked behind a login screen.
- stabbles 3y ago
  Before this gets downvoted, are there any notable features that could only have been added thanks to the Microsoft acquisition? I think GitHub actions are pretty successful, which may not have been developed by Microsoft as it was launched right after acquisition, but I guess it's easier to keep free since it runs on their own hardware. I don't immediately see copilot as a GitHub feature, but maybe that'll change for better or worse.
  - johnfn 3y ago
    I think you're asking a slightly incorrect question. Very few features could "only" be added thanks to the MS acquisition. What you really want to know is how many more features were added, thanks to MS. Or, how much longer would those features have taken to be built if GitHub was not acquired by MS. My gut feeling, seeing GH pre- and post-acquisition, says that a lot of the stuff they shipped post-MS would simply never have been shipped before. Under MS, they shipped - just off the top of my head: * dev containers * vscode-github-in-the-browser * github actions * that extremely useful fuzzy-find that repos have (press t in any repo) * copilot I seriously doubt they could have shipped a single one of those things pre-MS.
    - thedaly 3y ago
      > * that extremely useful fuzzy-find that repos have (press t in any repo) I didn't know this. Thanks for the tip!
    - jorams 3y ago
      > * that extremely useful fuzzy-find that repos have (press t in any repo) They shipped that in 2011[1] [1]: https://github.blog/2011-02-10-introducing-the-file-finder/ https://github.blog/2011-02-10-introducing-the-file-finder/
      - johnfn 3y ago
        Fair, though I think it became a lot more useful and usable after the acquisition.
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travoc 3y ago
Modern impact drivers are pretty amazing if you have more than one screw to operate.
- sen 3y ago
  Yeah I don’t remember the last time I used a screw driver. Electric screw driver for tiny stuff (one of my fav tools of the last decade+) and a small impact driver for bigger screws.

Please create a PAT to enable your screwdriver.

Before the MS acquisition, Github didn't even have emoji reactions on comments in issue threads, so people just spammed +1s if they had the same issue. It was terrible. (You can still see evidence of this on older repos.) They also didn't have like 5 billion other features that we now take for granted. EDIT: Sorry, this is incorrect. GH did ship them prior to the MS acquisition. I do however remember them taking an EXTREMELY long time to ship emoji reactions, which struck me as a fairly trivial feature. I stand by the point that GH ships features faster post-acquisition, though.

mdekkers 3y ago
> Before the MS acquisition, Github didn't even have emoji reactions. I have never, ever in my professional life thought “I need an emoji for this”
Springtime 3y ago
They had reactions two years prior as confirmed by their blog post[1] about it. [1] https://github.blog/2016-03-10-add-reactions-to-pull-requests-issues-and-comments/ https://github.blog/2016-03-10-add-reactions-to-pull-request...
- johnfn 3y ago
  Dang, you're right. Sorry about that. I remembered that reactions irked me for some reason, but I had incorrectly tied it to the MS acquisition. The real issue was this: it took Github an extremely long amount of time to add a feature as simple as reactions. Github was founded in '08, and didn't add reactions for another eight years! But I distinctly remember once MS acquired them, they started shipping features left and right, and features much larger than simple emoji reactions.
ad404b8a372f2b9 3y ago
That's not true. Reactions on comments were implemented long before the acquisition. And people still did +1. On the other hand, what they didn't have was search locked behind a login screen.
stabbles 3y ago
Before this gets downvoted, are there any notable features that could only have been added thanks to the Microsoft acquisition? I think GitHub actions are pretty successful, which may not have been developed by Microsoft as it was launched right after acquisition, but I guess it's easier to keep free since it runs on their own hardware. I don't immediately see copilot as a GitHub feature, but maybe that'll change for better or worse.
- johnfn 3y ago
  I think you're asking a slightly incorrect question. Very few features could "only" be added thanks to the MS acquisition. What you really want to know is how many more features were added, thanks to MS. Or, how much longer would those features have taken to be built if GitHub was not acquired by MS. My gut feeling, seeing GH pre- and post-acquisition, says that a lot of the stuff they shipped post-MS would simply never have been shipped before. Under MS, they shipped - just off the top of my head: * dev containers * vscode-github-in-the-browser * github actions * that extremely useful fuzzy-find that repos have (press t in any repo) * copilot I seriously doubt they could have shipped a single one of those things pre-MS.
  - thedaly 3y ago
    > * that extremely useful fuzzy-find that repos have (press t in any repo) I didn't know this. Thanks for the tip!
  - jorams 3y ago
    > * that extremely useful fuzzy-find that repos have (press t in any repo) They shipped that in 2011[1] [1]: https://github.blog/2011-02-10-introducing-the-file-finder/ https://github.blog/2011-02-10-introducing-the-file-finder/
    - johnfn 3y ago
      Fair, though I think it became a lot more useful and usable after the acquisition.
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travoc 3y ago

Modern impact drivers are pretty amazing if you have more than one screw to operate.

sen 3y ago
Yeah I don’t remember the last time I used a screw driver. Electric screw driver for tiny stuff (one of my fav tools of the last decade+) and a small impact driver for bigger screws.