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by pjhyett 17y ago
Thanks for posting this, really great to see GitHub up there.
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by pjhyett 17y ago
O'Reilly only pays the speakers that wouldn't speak otherwise. I can tell you I've never gotten paid to speak at an O'Reilly conference and Chris Wanstrath wasn't paid to keynote at RailsConf either. I assume they do this because they know
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by pjhyett 17y ago
Yea, these are the guys, good quality and price. I also like that they left the square backing on the circle stickers so they weren't impossible to peel off.
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by pjhyett 17y ago
We debated for a very long time whether we actually wanted to build this product, we like GitHub's SaaS model and the revenue is solid. In the end we decided the only way we were going to do it is by pricing it high enough that the enterpri
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by pjhyett 17y ago
You can't just swap SIM cards? I was thinking about doing the same thing.
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by pjhyett 17y ago
"AT&T customers who want to upgrade from another phone or replace an iPhone 3G, the price with a new two-year agreement is $499 (8GB), $599 (16GB), or $699 (32GB)." http://www.apple.com/iphone/buy
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by pjhyett 17y ago
How much are you willing to pay? :) Seriously, though, it's probably priced beyond what most small teams could afford, but it's on a per-company basis which is why we're not posting prices. GitHub:FI was really built with large customers in
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by pjhyett 17y ago
Here's our launch post explaining FI: http://github.com/blog/441-launch-github-firewall-install
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by pjhyett 17y ago
Where are you located? GitHub's average page response is 400ms according to our NewRelic data.
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by pjhyett 17y ago
Forks aren't gem-enabled by default. Meaning, the forker had to go out of their way to indicate there is something different about their gem. Is it possible there isn't unique code on some of these gems? Sure, but I wouldn't discount them o
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by pjhyett 17y ago
We use Prawn, read more about it here: http://github.com/blog/204-pdf-receipts . There's a code snippet in the comments that looks a lot like the code we use to generate the PDF.
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by pjhyett 17y ago
Having written two billing systems in the past year, I'll never build one again. There are certainly advantages to writing your own, we generate custom PDF receipts at GitHub that customers really seem to like, but the amount of time wasted
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by pjhyett 17y ago
Amazon keeps adding really great features to AWS, but the technology that makes companies like Heroku interesting is being able to use them without caring how any of it works.
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by pjhyett 17y ago
How would you like us to improve it so it isn't useless to you?
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by pjhyett 17y ago
We spent months building GitHub's issue system and had a lengthy beta period. No one experienced the bug you're referring to until the feature went public. Shit happens, you fix it and move on.
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by pjhyett 17y ago
Could you specify which parts of GitHub you're referring to? We're always looking for way to improve the site.
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by pjhyett 18y ago
Quick mention: we just added an API to the site for our newly launched Issues feature.
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by pjhyett 18y ago
Coming Soon™
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by pjhyett 18y ago
It'll be out this week.
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by pjhyett 18y ago
GitHub also hosts private repositories: http://github.com/plans
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by pjhyett 18y ago
On a much smaller scale, the amount of metadata generated from the Git operations we do at GitHub was killing GFS until we instituted a more aggressive strategy to clear it out. I'm not surprised this was an issue for Facebook.
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by pjhyett 18y ago
I'm not sure why you're being down-modded. The Python team purporting to do DVCS research and then saying their decision was made on a gut feeling seems disingenuous at best. Sure, I'm biased because I work for GitHub, but this decision wou
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by pjhyett 18y ago
Git not working well on Windows is something that continues to tarnish its reputation even though that hasn't been the case for quite some time. Curiously, this was part of the reason Python chose not to use Git even after extensive researc
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by pjhyett 18y ago
I'd rather be talking about bubbles than recessions. Seriously, though, the amount of ad dollars businesses spend yearly makes $250k to advertise on a new medium with a lot of momentum a solid investment. Imagine Kevin Rose saying he's goin
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by pjhyett 18y ago
Easily one of the best TED talks I've seen. It certainly makes me wonder what I'm contributing to society building GitHub. Not that what I'm doing isn't fulfilling and helpful to others, but rather what more I could be doing.
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by pjhyett 18y ago
That doesn't update every second of every minute of every day. Verifying immediately that you did in fact feel an earthquake is a perfect example of twitter's power. As a San Francisco resident I can tell you this definitively.
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Keeping GoogleBot Happy(github.com)
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by pjhyett 18y ago
That's a ridiculous notion, though. If not paying for the service still allows you to do everything twitter provides save for a small subset of features, it doesn't prevent folks from joining and seeing the value of it. Being afraid to gene
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by pjhyett 18y ago
I was stuck in traffic driving home from Lake Tahoe the other week. I scanned the AM channels for 30 minutes trying to find a traffic report to figure out what was going on. Then it hit me, search twitter for "tahoe traffic" and sure enough
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by pjhyett 18y ago
Next up for GitHub is seeing how big the pie will be for our upcoming Firewall Install product, allowing companies to install their own copy of the site for internal use.

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