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GitHub Got Silly Rich. Next Step: 'Make More Awesome'
- derrida 13y ago"Someone would decide to create a new application and opt to put his code up on the GitHub website."
- derrida 13y agoI posted this quote here because I thought it didn't need explanation as a criticism of the blog post. But perhaps I need to point it out... "He". We should not, implicitly or explicitly, promote the idea that to be a coder you are a man. Even if it is the case that more men are in CS than not, it is not causal to success in CS. However, creating fake self-doubt and questioning on issues that are not material to success in CS is causal to people dropping CS.
- tg3 13y ago"He" is commonly used as a gender neutral way of referring to a person of unknown gender. It has also become common to use "she" as gender neutral so as to not be exclusive. I don't think that in this case the author is making any comment (explicitly or implicitly) about who is or should be coding. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He#Gender_neutral http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He#Gender_neutral
- otterley 13y agoIs "silly rich" now defined as "bloated with VC money"? That's a bit like contending that you're silly rich because you've got a $1M credit card limit (though the comparison is admittedly imperfect because debt and equity aren't the same). To me, "silly rich" would suggest they're immensely profitable, which is rather unlikely since they probably wouldn't seek more investment if they were.
- askimto 13y agoAgree. GitHub is ultimately doomed because not enough people will pay up.
- chii 13y agohow do you know that? I m sure they are profitable.
- U2EF1 13y agoNot quite, but on track!
- coreyja 13y agoI disagree. I think enough people are willing to pay for a service that makes their lives easier, and developers especially so. GitHub does exactly that, and their pricing is at a good point where it isn't prohibitive for people just starting out.
- noir_lord 13y agoGitHubs biggest problem is BitBucket. Unlimited repo's for teams of less than 5 compared to GitHubs pricing model for private repositories is a strong challenge. Throw in that BitBucket is Atlassian backed and they can afford to subsidise BitBucket to sell their other tools (though I would observe that BitBucket does not do heavy sales tactics at all). I actually prefer bitbucket to github day to day (I have about a dozen repo's with them) and they have excellent support for mercurial as well.
- Stupendous 13y agoLooks like turning down $300k was the right move.. a blog post from Tom Preston-Werner almost 5 years ago: http://tom.preston-werner.com/2008/10/18/how-i-turned-down-300k.html http://tom.preston-werner.com/2008/10/18/how-i-turned-down-3...
- tootie 13y agoI was pretty critical when I saw this on reddit 4 years ago. I'm not really a fan of git and didn't understand what the point of this site was that we couldn't get from sourceforge. The same has been said many times about Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest. I still don't really understand most of them, but I guess that's why I'm not a millionaire.
- Aqueous 13y ago"Make more awesome" - A somewhat annoying thing to say from an otherwise great company.
- beat 13y agoIs he secretly FAKE GRIMLOCK?