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GitHub and Emergent Culture By Design
- jmduke 14y agoNot to be rude (everything I've heard about GitHub makes it sound like an amazing place to work), but the entire point of a company culture is that it's 'bigger than any one person.' Culture that's the size of one person isn't culture, it's just that person's personality. This is a fluff piece that says literally nothing more than 'hey GitHub is cool' -- it doesn't explain GitHub's 'unique culture' beyond the fact that every employee is working towards a common goal, which is hardly unique. Honestly, I expect more from Svbtle-branded blogs.
- mrgreenfur 14y agoThis article is a summary of another article. I'm not sure what the point of it is other than to fawn over GH.
- flyinglizard 14y agoTo his defense, at least it was short, so just a bit of my time was wasted. A journalist would span the same non-information over 4 pages.
- mrgreenfur 14y agoYou my friend are an optimist.
- alexknowshtml 14y agoYou're being pedantic about the definition of culture. Many companies "cultures" are held together by a single personality, or a select few. When that person or people leaves (or stop beating the drum), the "culture" dies. GitHub - much like the tool chain it's built around - has done a remarkable job of decentralizing culture. Far better than most companies of any scale, even ones much smaller than it. You seem to have read past the connection between their goal as a company - which is easy to say but hard to practice consistently, otherwise more companies would succeed at building a culture that attracts an retains like GitHub does.
- tomblomfield 14y ago> You're being pedantic about the definition of culture. Not at all. We're trying to encourage HN posts that provide insight or information.
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- Evbn 14y agoWhat the heck is a svbtle brand? A silicon valley corruption of subtle?
- mrgreenfur 14y agoYep. It's for 'super' bloggers who are enjoying a throwback to simpler design where their words are taken as gospel and no one is allowed to comment. /snark
- tomblomfield 14y agoI'm a huge Github fan, but this blog post is complete fluff. "[Github] helps people build software together... it doesn’t do this by accident - it’s by design. It’s intentional. It takes work. And it pays dividends." Ok....
- flyinglizard 14y agoLast I heard, Captain Obvious was seen near the server rack hosting his blog
- captaintacos 14y agoYep, also Github fan and user here, but truth be told, it felt like reading a corporate advertisement on an in-flight magazine. As they said, at least it was short.