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by pjhyett 13y ago
If those projects are looking for a new home, we'd be happy to welcome them at GitHub.
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by pjhyett 14y ago
If folks want to improve our language detection on GitHub, please take a look at https://github.com/github/linguist
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by pjhyett 14y ago
GitHub's looking for Enterprise Support Engineers (EU/Asia) and Technical Account Managers (SF) https://github.com/about/jobs
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by pjhyett 15y ago
We've gone into excruciating detail about how GitHub's architected: https://github.com/blog/530-how-we-made-github-fast
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Time to fork the FSF(larrythefreesoftwareguy.wordpress.com)
345 points by pjhyett 15y ago|323 comments
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by pjhyett 15y ago
I'm not entirely sure what you mean by "only vaguely." The fact that passionate developers are building developer tools has a lot to do with why we've been successful. Chris, the CEO, has spoken at length about this topic. He and I built an
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by pjhyett 15y ago
Not for nothing, but full fare economy can often be more expensive than discounted biz tickets. Having an actual conversation telling the VC to cool it might have ended up saving you more money.
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by pjhyett 15y ago
That is certainly not the case at GitHub. We don't care where or when you work as long as the work gets done. If you're being guilted into staying later, then the hours aren't actually flexible.
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by pjhyett 15y ago
This is poor advice. We've met dozens of VC's since GitHub launched to 1) meet interesting people 2) learn as much as possible 3) figure out who we like if we ever decide to go that route. Folks like Satish Dharmaraj at Redpoint have loads
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by pjhyett 15y ago
We're trying to fundamentally change how people write, collaborate, and discover code and the sooner people stop thinking of us as just a repo depository, the better, because we've never been about that. Ask yourself what kind of markup we'
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by pjhyett 15y ago
Just like there are diminishing returns coding for many hours without resting, trying to build a business without having a social life will ultimately have damaging effects. Knowing how to communicate is half the battle and you're not going
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by pjhyett 15y ago
I interned at a 1.0 bubble company the summer prior to my freshman year of high school. I built a website for the church I attended for no particular reason, the CEO happened to be a member, and he thought it would be fun for me to come wor
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by pjhyett 15y ago
We're well aware that Windows support needs improvement. Rest assured we will be addressing that issue.
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by pjhyett 15y ago
We built the Mac app because 1) we wanted it 2) to learn how a desktop client should work prior to tackling other platforms. Beyond that, one-third of our traffic uses Macs. It's not a small market for us.
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by pjhyett 15y ago
All of GitHub's space limits are soft limits to prevent abuse.
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by pjhyett 15y ago
We've responded multiple times that we have nothing to do with that account. In this thread just a couple of pages up, in fact: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2606408 We haven't shouted this from the rooftops primarily because we're
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by pjhyett 15y ago
> For example, I didn't contact github because I knew one of the peole working there was in on the joke. For the record, this isn't true no matter how many times you repeat it. You should have emailed us and we would have taken care of
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by pjhyett 15y ago
GitHub is investing heavily in libgit2 because we think it's the future for git for all the reasons listed at http://libgit2.github.com/
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by pjhyett 15y ago
I have this discussion fairly often as a founder of GitHub with folks that don't trust 3rd parties, but I think it's unwise to assume you're more prepared to defend against attacks than cloud providers that employ people to worry about it c
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by pjhyett 15y ago
It's worth noting that none of the Ruby guys Tom worked with at Powerset are still working for Microsoft 3 years later. The guys I've spoken with had a miserable time working there and left to work for other startups like Greplin, Bank Simp
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by pjhyett 15y ago
I know it's in vogue to throw the word bubble around, but I'd be interested to see the CS enrollment stats worldwide. The first generation of kids that spend more time in front of their computer than the TV are starting to hit college. More
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by pjhyett 16y ago
Colloquy is the client I use when I'm on IRC, so I appreciate the work you've done on it. Point 2 is actually the most important point for us. Since Tom was the only one that liked irssi, the rest of us lost the backlog and that was a deal-
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by pjhyett 16y ago
Speaking frankly, even on our slowest days, the number of open source commits being pushed to GitHub dwarfs other sites [1]. That's not to say OS development isn't happening elsewhere, but there happens to be a lot of it going on in one par
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by pjhyett 16y ago
* Aesthetically speaking, I can't stand irssi. * It just works * Inline image viewing * You can customize anything via Propane[1]'s custom javascript support. 1. http://propaneapp.com/
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by pjhyett 16y ago
Tom was very much an IRC guy. He begrudgingly moved to Campfire after Chris and I told him for months it was a better solution.
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by pjhyett 16y ago
No disagreement there: http://github.com/~pjhyett (That's legacy from the earliest days of github and I can't promise it'll be around forever, but it still makes me smile being able to do it)
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by pjhyett 16y ago
People were already using the @ notation in their code comments, so it seemed like the logical way to offer additional functionality without anyone changing their behavior.
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by pjhyett 16y ago
Even at 16, you should be mature enough to know that this is classless. I hope for their sake they never start their own business and never fuck up, because that'd be awfully sad if the next kids to come along decided to show them the same
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by pjhyett 16y ago
No one in their right mind thinks Twitter's moving to Brisbane except for the jokers in city hall. Their employees would sooner quit than have to commute to an office park wasteland everyday.
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by pjhyett 16y ago
The vast majority of the traffic that hits Sourceforge is there to download software, not contribute to the projects. When we spoke to them a few years ago, they said their main competitor was Downloads.com not us (GitHub). Don't get too ca

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