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by holman 10y ago
> I would counter that they're still in an awful spot because this announcement reeks of incompetence and isn't something you want to hear from the guys you're entrusting with keeping your code safe. This might be a good t
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by holman 10y ago
It's also worth noting that the lead maintainer, Mark Otto, is also simultaneously heading design at GitHub as well. Not entirely two small things to deal with in your life, ha. :)
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by holman 10y ago
He was an early exec at Apple, and he founded Be and BeOS. I think we can allow him to be a bit out of the ordinary when it comes to his computing. :)
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by holman 10y ago
They're not even out of beta, yet; give 'em a bit of time first. :) For what it's worth, I've been on the beta for a few months now, and have known Eamon for years. They're very good people, and I'm really stok
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by holman 10y ago
I think a lot of the problems with the YC/Thiel discussion stems from the difference between how people view it: is it a political disagreement, or is it an ethical disagreement? In a "normal" election, this would be pretty
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by holman 10y ago
It's becoming fairly normal at this point for more mature private companies, from what I can tell. If you've been at a company for 4-7 years with no IPO in sight, it can make some sense for the company to do a buyback. I know Uber
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by holman 10y ago
I think this might be one of those times where the title might lead to confusion in the comment section and leads people a bit astray. I saw this talk in person at Nordic Ruby, and it was one of the best talks I've seen (and I've
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by holman 10y ago
> The very public example of zach holman and other articles creates chilling effects on startup hiring. fwiw, this post has really bothered me a lot too. I keep track of companies with >90 day windows, and I just added a note about a1
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by holman 10y ago
GitLab advisor here!
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Emoji: how do you render U+1F355?(meowni.ca)
92 points by holman 10y ago|51 comments
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by holman 10y ago
Not really sure what you're getting at, but I'm assuming you mean searching for specific syntax or language aspects. GitHub's definitely not "protecting" shit; it's just that search is a hard problem, and searc
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by holman 10y ago
Fun to see this up here. Originally when I built this there was some discussion on whether it made any sense to show a global view; most people are just going to use the issues dashboard to look at their own issues, obviously. Honestly, I j
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by holman 10y ago
Nah. I grew up in Fargo and, like everyone in Fargo, spent most of my time aspiring to spend more time in Minnesota and Minneapolis. Both Fargo and Grand Forks — on the border of the state, on the Red — share a ton culturally with Minnesota
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Emoji: how do you render U+1F355?(meowni.ca)
6 points by holman 11y ago|0 comments
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by holman 11y ago
I was not permitted to.
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by holman 11y ago
All is forgiven. :) Thanks.
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by holman 11y ago
I'm really not even sure a16z has corporate apartments. It's just poking a little fun in the middle of a dreary subject. I don't even own a single robe, much less twelve, although I'd be into it.
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by holman 11y ago
It didn't have anything to do with my departure, nor is it my story to tell.
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by holman 11y ago
Thanks! Was thinking of open sourcing this soon as a one-off. I'll see what I can do. :)
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by holman 11y ago
I can't speak to them now, but it happened a number of times while I was at GitHub. We'd have a number of things staff-shipped for weeks or months (occasionally a year!) and it was just... there... and nothing happened much to it.
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by holman 11y ago
Yeah; I tried to stay away from really low-level aspects (just because they're hard to generalize across languages), and also just because the damn thing was so long already, ha. :) As far as database migrations are concerned, GitHub (
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by holman 11y ago
> If you have 5% of a company locked up by people who no longer work there, you have to find a way to reward current employees We need to get past this line of thinking. Why do companies not say the same thing for the salaries they'
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by holman 11y ago
For what it's worth, GitHub came up with the awkwardly-sounding "Pull Request" nomenclature because the initial cut of Pull Requests was based on `git-request-pull(1)` ( https://git-scm.com/docs/git-reques
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by holman 11y ago
> Some (very few) are converting ISOs to NSOs if you leave, allowing former employees to wait until the security is liquid before buying it I care pretty deeply about this, and I want to start pushing more startups in this direction. I t
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Introducing Dockbit: Turn your deployments into repeatable workflows(blog.dockbit.com)
12 points by holman 11y ago|3 comments
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by holman 11y ago
I wrote Issues, so I've likely thought through these problems more than anyone else. I really disagree with the general sentiment of this post, and very much agree with the original "Dear GitHub" letter. The product needs a l
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by holman 11y ago
It depends on the company, but I'm a big fan of pairing with a developer on something they're working on for an hour or so. The dynamics of the interview completely changes from "I need to figure out hidden knowledge that the
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by holman 11y ago
Was hoping this would be about hiring, because I've been thinking a lot recently about how shitty hiring is for these people. I've been interviewed for a lot of these ostensibly "product" positions this year. A lot of it
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by holman 11y ago
My dad, grandfather, and sister-in-law are all dentists. This was something we'd chat about every now and then, and the answer inevitably came down to "whatever is better for patients is good for me". Sounds a bit like a plat
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by holman 11y ago
I wish you could see how a potential employee acted in a Slack room and in pull requests for a week or two before hiring them. (It's doable, but fairly rare in the industry right now.) As we move more and more towards working in a dist

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