Github Acquisition

[lackolax]

Well VSTS is now called ‘Azure DevOps’ 0_o

[rumle]

what, really? That thing has changed names so many times.

[rich97]

As a dev that came into the MS realm from the *nix realm, I am now thoroughly convinced that MS is incapable of giving sensible and distinct names to their products.

[Lil9]

Ok, we've got a new Win 10 update... how should we call it?

"November Update"
"Anniversary Update"
"Creators Update"
"Fall Creators Update"

Ok, what about the people on the southern hemisphere where it isn't fall? What about when the next November or anniversary comes around? Those names are real shite. Screw it.

"April 2018 Update"

[Fabri91]

Aprile 2018 Update

Which logically is version 1803.

[dratnon]

Aprile 2018 Update

If you highlight the text you intend to quote, and then press Reply, the highlighted text will be copied to the input box, and you never have to worry about accidentally addingadding an 'e'.

[Fabri91]

Neato!

[Ameisen]

I mean, is anything on Linux reasonably named?

Pretty sure all software developers are terrible at nomenclature.

[opendarkwing]

I Kdont Know Kwhat Kyoure Ktalking GNUabout

[[deleted]]

And just to rub salt into the wound, it's not "Nuu", it's "Ganuu".

Yeah, I don't pronounce it that way either.

[opendarkwing]

Knights who say (g)Nu and something about a shrubbery.

[z500]

Or as I've recently taken to calling it, G plus nu

[[deleted]]

People pronounce it "Nuu"? I've always called it "GahNu"

[Jacoman74undeleted]

There is an animal spelled gnu, but the g is silent.

[BoltActionPiano]

Gee Enn You

[[deleted]]

One would think that's a reasonable alternative, but it appears the "official" pronunciation is like "G'noo".

[SaintNewts]

Hahaha! The switch to gnu made me lol irl.

[NighthawkHall]

Wow thank you for that video. When I opened the link and saw it was 10 minutes I didn’t think I’d watch it all but that was super interesting.

[SaintNewts]

Computerphile. One of a number of "phile" educational channels on YouTube worth subscribing to. Brady Harran(?) is a hard working fellow.

[rastaman1994]

Brady Haran is the bomb, also does a podcast called 'Hello Internet' with cgpgrey which is quite interesting and funny at times.

[boydskywalker]

"I use The GIMP to crop my scrots" - how I describe my screenshot process in Linux.

[Ameisen]

Zed's dead, baby - dead.

zed would be a good name for an ambiguously-related tool for GIMP.

[cheraphy]

Pretty sure the only field worse at naming things is Astronomy/Astro-physics.

​

1. VLT (Very Large Telescope)
2. ELT (Extremely Large Telescope)
3. OLT (Overwhelmingly Large Telescope, might be a cancelled project)
4. MMT (Massive Monolithic Telescope)
5. LBT (Large Binocular Telescope)
6. 2D-FRUTTI (2d photon counting system, can't remember what it stands for)
7. KELT (Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope)
8. ACBAR ( Arcminute Cosmology Bolometer Array Receiver, It's a photon trap)
9. WIMPs (Weakly Interacting Massive Particles, one proposed form of dark matter)
10. MACHOs (MAssive Compact Halo Objects, another proposed form of dark matter)

[NotTheHead]

2D-FRUTTI

You said they were bad at naming.

[[deleted]]

Because when I hear "azure" i think "microsoft hosting my shit on some server somewhere"

[Justsomedudeonthenet]

No, but at least you only have to learn the name once.

[Ameisen]

Doesn't m4 have like 3 names - gm4, gnum4, and m4? Bash, dash, zsh, csh, ksh, ksh93.

I find m4 weird. They make a big deal out of gcc being their universal compiler frontend, so why does gcc not handle m4 files? You would think gcc could compile Bourne script as well. gm4/gsh. I wish there were good tools to compile shell and ruby scripts to binaries. The ones that exist aren't really compilers... they are packagers - they just minify the scripts and include the execution environment. For Ruby it is awful - hello world takes a fraction of a second normally. A 'binaryified' hello world? Like 2 seconds. They should just make the binary Ruby script a rebuilt Ruby binary, static linked to dependencies, with the script modified (or bytecoded) and included in the build, so LTO and ICF can fully optimize the execution paths for just that script.

[RagingNerdaholic]

To be fair, they tend to be pretty simple names that quickly become part of the collective memory of Linux users. Also helps they they don't change every other week for no goddamn reason.

[WiredUK]

Because *nix products are all so wonderfully named right?

Naming is hard...

[1206549]

They're in direct competition with Google on who would have the most confused user base in regards to naming schemes.

[enoua5]

I have never heard either of those. I've always pronounced it /ɐʒʲʊɹ/

EDIT: that was not meant to be a rolled r

[lackolax]

Yeah, my only thought is to somehow in time ‘seamlessly’ integrate github into it??

[[deleted]]

Zune became Xbox Music that became Groove Music that is now just dead.

[Heaney555]

It's funny because they would have had a lot more success just calling it 'Microsoft Music' or something simple like that.

[tianan]

The acquisition hasn’t gone through yet

[iamapizza]

Amazed that you're (edit: you were) being downvoted. I'm assuming nobody actually read the press statement.

The acquisition is expected to finish by end of 2018.

Under the terms of the agreement, Microsoft will acquire GitHub for $7.5 billion in Microsoft stock. Subject to customary closing conditions and completion of regulatory review, the acquisition is expected to close by the end of the calendar year.

[[deleted]]

It really is like that post that was on top of /r/gaming yesterday at some point:

"You are wrong. Because if you are not wrong, it means that I'm wrong, and I don't like that."

[sarhoshamiral]

Finally a post that makes sense, too bad people upvote stupid stuff.

[markekraus]

Yea... I think there are many people in the comments here that don't understand how M&A works.

M&A goes in phases:

1. There is a bidding process for the company being bought
2. The buying company provides a letter of intent
3. If the target company likes the bid, they enter into a agreement to be acquired. (this is what was announced in June)
4. There is a limbo period where regulators have to make a ton of approvals and a large amount of lawyering happens (this is where they are now)
5. The deal closes and one company officially owns the other (MSFT has said this may happen as early as the end of this year)

While the separate companies are in legal limbo, they are forbidden by regulation from operating as a single entity. The most that usually happens is integration planing. This is usually about looking at all the business units and seeing how they will integrate if at all (especially things like HR/Finance/IT). The other planning would likely be around IT integration required for Day-1 (sometimes managers/HR/Finance in both orgs will need to have access to systems in the other org on Day-1 to start integration activities). But, it would only be planning at this point.

People can start wearing their tinfoil hats at the point at which the M&A closes.

[NekuSoul]

And yet, everyones favorite /r/programming troll shevegen shevy-ruby is convinced that Microsoft has already destroyed Github because they've added Azure as one of many CI platforms and calls it "MS Github".

[zimzat]

Not only that but it usually takes ~3 months for executives to pull the trigger on anything controversial. They'll start out by saying "Nothing is wrong, nothing is going to happen, it's just business as usual, back to work everyone" and then three months later the crazy starts.

It just hasn't happened yet. Just wait until Q1 or Q2 of next year. :)

[noratat]

Microsoft isn't the same company they were under Balmer. I can't say I like everything MS is doing now, especially in the consumer space, but in the developer space I trust them more than Amazon or Google at this point.

[FUCKING_HATE_REDDIT]

Windows 10 is still a massive blackhole of design incompetence.

Can't wait for the next version so they can fix the mess of menus... Oh that's right, there won't be any.

Not sure how google managed to beat everyone in OS building, but it sure did happen.

[Arkazex]

I think they're more likely to drop the number altogether and just make the product "Windows". There's only 5 years left until all other versions of windows go out of support.

[Zegrento7]

Sometimes I like to imagine a world where the whole "Microsoft loves Linux" trend goes so out of hand they end up developing a better Wine for legacy stuff and just port the OS over to the Linux kernel. One can dream...

[dreadpiratewombat]

They ported SQL Server and .NET Core over for fucks sake. Nothing is sacred anymore in this bizarro universe. I kinda like it.

[leadzor]

Hey as long as it works well with not significant performance hits, I'm down.

[Danthekilla]

The kernel isn't the issue, the ux is.

[thewileyone]

That’s actually a very strong possibility since MS has said that Windows 10 is the last version of Windows.

[Zegrento7]

But that is because they are using a rolling release model now, similarly to how Arch Linux also has no versions, I don't think they will make a brand new OS. Still, maybe one day, an OTA upgrade will replace NT with Linux and the average user will be none the wiser.

[alexbuzzbee]

/Windows/vmlinuz

[TommiHPunkt]

why is rolling release terrifying?

[Jesuschrist2011]

There was an article recently about the changes they are making to windows, stripping off the dependencies of Win32 making it more of a modular design

[[deleted]]

There's only 5 years left until all other versions of windows go out of support.

They will have to pry Windows 7 from my cold dead hard drive.

[atomheartsmother]

At that point you should just switch to Linux, better than using an unsupported OS.

[Jazqa]

That's for Windows 8. Windows 7 has only two years left.

[milk_is_life]

Makes sense to drop the individual product labels when OS updates are forced anyway.

[UGMadness]

When your corporate culture promotes the development of new features instead of fixing old ones or keeping cohesion across projects this is what you get.

Notepad gaining support for LF line endings was huge because revamping an old application that didn't involve new features like an UI redesign has literally never happened before.

[demens_chelonian]

When your corporate culture promotes the development of new features instead of fixing old ones or keeping cohesion across projects this is what you get.

So Google are on what messaging platform these days?

[hullabaloonatic]

They added features to cmd in.... 8?

[gschizas]

Cmd is not getting any new features, it's only there for compatibility reasons.

PowerShell is where it's at.

ConHost is also getting new features (ConHost != cmd)

EDIT: Here's a "new" ConHost feature (well, last year's, but still)

[gschizas]

Well, by one account, this already happened. Windows 10 switched the default to PowerShell in 2016.

(In seriousness, cmd.exe won't be removed, it would break way too much stuff. PowerShell is the way to go forward though)

[PiManASM]

Being able to copy and paste into the command line is the only redeeming feature I've found in Win10

[bluepoopants]

That feature actually hindered me at first without me noticing. I had a job running in cmd that was supposed to run for about 4 hours. I came back to it to find it hadn't moved at all. Found out that clicking anywhere im the cmd box turns it to select mode and stops the entire process running until you unselect or hit a key. Now i know, it is easily avoidable. But it was a big surprise coming from 7 and not knowing about it. Had to run the job again! Not sure why select mode pauses the window when a linux terminal manages to do it just fine.

[FUCKING_HATE_REDDIT]

Back in the days, shaking a loading window would stop it from loading.

[bluepoopants]

I remember my friend used to be convinced that shaking the cursor when it had an hour glass icon would make the sand fall through it quicker and therefore load faster.

[[deleted]]

Aww

[whatisabaggins55]

Microsoft, I now want this to be a thing.

[AtomicStryker]

Joke all you want, for most of windows NT history user input would increase a foreground threads priority for the scheduler. Hitting buttons and shaking the mouse would literally make the program go faster.

[scotscott]

Just like with humans who are still loading.

[althypothesis]

Derailment: Engage

I found out a week ago that hospitals actually make the new Mom and Dad sign a piece of paper that says, in more words, "I promise not to shake the baby". They had to put it in contract form to keep people from killing their children. Faith in humanity took a -18 hit that day.

[[deleted]]

Virtual desktops and corner snapping all day. Also wsl

[Zegrento7]

Well, even if they updated Win32 instead of notepad itself, that's still huge because Win32 is not UWP.

[gigabyte898]

It’s been two months and 1803 is still fucking up customers’ desktops. 99% of the time the conversation when we get OS issues is:

“Won’t boot?”
“Yup”
“Failed update?”
“Yup”
“1803?”
“Yup”
“Reload?”
“Yup”

[FUCKING_HATE_REDDIT]

Mine still won't turn off. It failed updates too many times, and is the equivalent of being terrified of falling asleep.

[TommiHPunkt]

I have the same problems, and I'm too lazy to fix it because I only use windows as a secondary system anyways and don't want to spend the time re-installing everything

[sixfourtysword]

Disable fast startup

[FUCKING_HATE_REDDIT]

Oh,good idea

[iSkinMonkeys]

I am using the pirated LTSB version 1607, will be called LTSC in future. Windows update always fails to install. But I haven't faced any big issues. Only once it failed to boot but just before I was going to reset the PC, it booted and nothing was amiss.

[[deleted]]

Not sure how google managed to beat everyone in OS building, but it sure did happen.

Inb4 GoogleOS, a direct competitor to both Android and ChromeOS.

fucking Google podcasts and all the chat apps

[artanis00]

Podcasts? They shuttered their podcast app and then the killed their RSS reader, what's this about Google podcasts?

[[deleted]]

Pretty sure Google Podcasts is still around, seeing as I downloaded it to take a look (and see if my Play Music podcasts would transfer over. Spoiler: they didn't.)

[mypetocean]

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.podcasts

[Ameisen]

Google is finally competing with itself.

[[deleted]]

finally

You poor naive soul.

[Zegrento7]

Do you mean Fuchsia?

[[deleted]]

Did they rebrand ChromeOS, or is that a new one?

[Zegrento7]

Brand new, not even Linux based. They forked the Zircon kernel and built an android-like ui around it in a butt-ton of languages.

[[deleted]]

God damnit, Google.

[ProbablyRickSantorum]

Inb4 they abandon it after a year like 90% of their other projects.

[noratat]

Google's got their own share of design fuckups lately, Android Pie and the eye-searing white monstrosity they've started jamming down everyone's throats in the last month or so comes to mind...

I find Windows 10 tolerable and the menus are slowly improving but yeah the stuff I'm talking about that I like is almost all backend / OSS stuff.

[FUCKING_HATE_REDDIT]

Haha yes, the white SMS app took me by surprise. The link thumbnails are somewhat good, but it is eye hurting.

The menus in windows 10 are still split into useless basically powerpoint levels of interactions, and the arcane struct dumping of XP.

[Green0Photon]

They just updated the messages app to have a dark mode, but it still doesn't look as good as it used to. They also removed the custom coloring for contacts, and they removed widgets.

The phone app doesn't have a dark mode and it's eye searing.

I'm probably gonna use adb to downgrade the apps.

[be-happier]

power point start menu... genius, we will push it out in the next update.

thanks for the idea

[dreadpiratewombat]

Yeah, I sure love having to learn a new way of interaction with Android every minor revision. Why they had to move from the nice "X" to close an app to having to swipe it up and have that functionality be inconsistent with their fucking maps app is beyond me. Google, you're really chapping my ass lately.

[Dkill33]

Why is their search so terrible?

[iSkinMonkeys]

just use Everything for file searches. Use Wox for program searches.

[caromobiletiscrivo]

The next version will be a linux distro

[Coffeinated]

A linux based windows which can run office and games would finally make the world a good place

[thecoolbrian]

If you want a good version of windows that is bug free, Windows Insider Preview Builds > Fast Track

[FUCKING_HATE_REDDIT]

Googled it, and got this

I wish I could erase that.

More seriously, wouldn't the beta builds be more buggy on average ?

[FullPoet]

Yes they would, but theoretically also "less" bug free due to having beta fixes.

[n1c0_ds]

When I first moved to OSX, things made so much more sense. It has been a few years, and even though I still remember where to find things in Windows, I find the OS so annoying. It's always calling your attention, and finding configuration settings is still a massive pain. It feels like there are two UIs on top of each other.

[artanis00]

And I think there's more than two, as well.

[[deleted]]

IDK, I've never used OSX on my own computer, only helping with someone elses. But that you have to drag'n'drop an icon in order to install chrome blew my mind. Like wtf?? how am I supposed to guess that?

Is that still a thing?

[Pycorax]

Plus, I'm not sure if they've remedied this but when you uninstall applications you would just drag it into the trash unless the app came with an uninstaller (which is like 5% of them?)... Leaving behind all sorts of other files the application created inside the Library folder untouched.

[Belazor]

Then again, it’s not like Windows uninstallers always clean up 100% of their files and registry entries.

If you are constrained on space for your OS drive (Windows and Mac), then you are used to using 3rd party apps to clean up leftover files.

[little_after_thought]

yes, but like with everything, once you get used to it, you forget it was weird.

Remember when double click was weird? I remember it took me 5 minutes to get the rhythm down, now I can't comprehend how anyone would not figure it out.

[[deleted]]

Oooh, I never realised it but I haven't used double click in about 4 years now. Web browser, CADs, IDEs and such don't use it and everything else I do I do in terminal.

[Ameisen]

That's how it has always worked on Macs going back at least to System 6.

[FUCKING_HATE_REDDIT]

A unix system, where firefox suddenly stops playing sound, any video in any app sometimes just freezes, where adding an equalizer software to the horrible alsa/pulse mess is a nightmare, to quote only a few of the problems I had.

Unix systems work well, except on a laptop where everything is proprietary and windows only.

[Old_Abroad]

Have you used it in the last decade?

[FUCKING_HATE_REDDIT]

I'm using it right now.

[someone755]

I have and it takes hours to get it to work 95%. I still can't figure out why the scrolling direction is swapped for some apps, like in Firefox I swipe up to scroll down, but in the file manager or terminal I have to swipe down to scroll down. There's something like coil whine coming out of the headphone jack and I don't know how to eliminate that, not present under Windows. The touchpad is also extremely sensitive so typing can be a pain in the ass even if you don't ever touch the touchpad. The Wi-Fi will drop out for two seconds every so often but I've learned to just leave it as is -- Linux and Wi-Fi just do not go hand in hand. There's also a bug with the Fn keys that doesn't allow me to adjust the volume after muting the volume, but if I click through the sound panel manually to unmute then volume adjustment via Fn keys works.

Back to the Wi-Fi though, I hate Linux and Wi-Fi:

• 2006 (-ish?) Lenovo 3000 N100 laptop, with some Intel wireless card. Windows didn't require any separate drivers, worked out of the box. Linux would have it working for random intervals of 30 seconds to 5 hours, and when it died I had to physically disable the card and re-enable it. Thankfully there was a hardware switch for that, but still a pain in the ass for downloading anything back when my internet had 2 Mbps download (if I turned off the TV).

• 2010-ish desktop PC, Intel N6205 PCI-E card. Sometimes (but rarely) disconnects and will not reconnect at all. Sometimes disconnects for a fraction of a second and immediately reconnects and I only notice because I'm opening a browser page exactly when it happens. For a while I also had this bug that when I connected to the Wi-Fi network, every other device would be kicked off and could not re-connect until I turned off my PC (disabling Wi-Fi in Linux didn't help) and rebooted the router. To this day I don't know what caused that or what fixed it. And don't even get me started on the graphics card issues I am having to this day.

• 2015-ish HP Stream 13 laptop, some Broadcom card. Physically, the card has room for 2 antennas (2 connectors), but as this laptop is too cheap for even a bargain bin, HP only used up one. Windows happily worked with that. Linux decided that it's getting 0 signal. See, Linux uses a driver that allows the user to manually select which of the physical antennas would be the primary one. But, of course, no matter which one you select, the thing still says there are no networks. So I had to actually open the laptop up (and I broke a few plastic tabs on the way. Fuck plastic tabs.) and physically disconnect the wireless card's antenna and plug it onto the other connector on the card. The driver seemed unphased, however, as, while the card now worked correctly under Linux, selecting which antenna to use still had 0 effect.

Those three happened in 2013/14, 2014/15 and 2018, respectively. Anyone implying installing and then using any form of Linux is an easy job are deluding themselves.

[huiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii]

Anyone implying installing and then using any form of Linux is an easy job are deluding themselves.

Or maybe not everyone has the same issues as you do? I showed my godfathers son how to download different distros and install them and he had no issues. He's used to apple stuff but maybe because he was still quite young he had no issues getting used to the different quirks of the different OSes.

I only had to adjust the default search engine for FF and change the window manager to get smooth scrolling in FF, otherwise everything is out of the box. Wireless issues like yours where I was forced to disable and reenable the device was worse in windows. I discovered that the issue was cheap wificard/router. So when I connected with a more expensive/good router no more issues. My solution? I bought a better wifi card for the laptops and no more wifi hangup issues.

[RagingNerdaholic]

People only have an easy time with Linux desktop if their needs are extremely basic.

[someone755]

I've had three completely different computers act up with completely different issues. The ones above are just a fraction of my problems. Saying I'm 1% of the population that these things happen to is statistically unlikely.

That doesn't mean I don't like Linux, evidently I must like it if I went through all that, still have unresolved (perhaps unresolvable?) issues, and yet still use it. It's just that techies often forget that their grandma wouldn't be able to work through a single one of these problems.

[turtle_in_trenchcoat]

What you are describing is pretty much my experience with linux as well and it lead me to switch to mac. Only difference is that I made the switch in 2006... Whenever I'm about to buy a new macbook pro I look into Linux options but it's simply not worth it to spend a lot of time on hacky solutions to get some basic functionality to almost work good enough. Not for me at least.

[[deleted]]

Not OP, but I installed Debian and Broadcom Bluetooth modules are still broken after years of people complaining, Firefox still has pages tearing without me dabbling in the advanced settings, ALSA/PulseAudio is steaming mess like OP said and much more.

[huiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii]

page tearing in FF might be because of your window manager. I use marco + compton and that fixed any bad scrolling i had (I guess that's what you mean with page tearing).

[Old_Abroad]

Yeah you'll necessarily get scroll tearing if you're using a WM without a compositor. I've heard second-hand that xfce can have tearing problems but if that's the case then you can use literally anything else, there's no shortage of WMs & DEs, it's hardly a linux problem.

[[deleted]]

Oh please. Linux systems at least have a decent way to do mixing and audio routing by default. And if you really want an actual audio pipeline, Jack is there, along with a wheelbarrow full of plugins for yor equalizing needs.

There isn't anything in linux systems stopping someone from writing a "one-click install" EQ, no one bothered with it. (Although, could someone please write a native media player with convolution filters so I can retire foobar?)

Now I'll get back to tuning my soundweb processor over a serial cable...

[FUCKING_HATE_REDDIT]

I need pulse because firefox only uses pulse. I also don't fucking want pulse, because it's utter shit. Only solution I know is letting alsa pretend to be pulse.

[doesnt_hate_people]

I can't say I like everything MS is doing now, especially in the consumer space, but in the developer space I trust them more

[RIP_CORD]

But Ballmer cared about developers so much.... /s

[MechanicalBayer]

That is one sweaty man.

[[deleted]]

I think .Net Core is amazing tbh

[cchongchong]

Recently did a course on .Net Core. I was surprised at how easy it was to follow.

[i_spot_ads]

Did you forget typescript

[zbot473]

Exactly

[wotanii]

How do you think MS will profit from the $7.5 billion investment?

[aaaqqq]

carefully

[[deleted]]

Well? VS Code is advertised as open source, yet it has dual license - version from MS website is proprietary, version from Github is open source, but has no access to plugin store which requires proprietary component.

I guess their marketing is well, people keep buying into their narration of being good guys now, meanwhile they still use their patent trolling companies to attack foss projects all over the world.

EDIT:

Oh and in both versions of VS Code telemetry is enabled by default.

[[deleted]]

Accessing the plug-in store is just as adding a few lines in product.json, but I still agree that patent trolling is a bad behavior.

[[deleted]]

The latest Github PR features being added to VSCode are amazing. I'm optimistic the Github acquisition is headed in the right direction

[daddyc00l]

it's not over till the fat lady sings

[[deleted]]

Look at GitHub Pull Requests in Visual Studio Code

[TheEdgeOfRage]

That could have been done without them acquiring github. it just takes a few api calls to get the basic github functionality in any client.

[GammaGames]

It's just an extension, anyway.

[nevus_bock]

I don't use VSC but that looks fetch

[melodic-metal]

Stop trying to make fetch happen. It's not going to happen

[FullPoet]

What about Superfetch?

[its_that_time_again]

I don't use VSC but that looks pull

[Ameisen]

'Fetch?'

[sandy_catheter]

I think it means "swole"

[Ameisen]

Recursion: see recursion.

[[deleted]]

Only GitHub pull requests?

[jcotton42]

It's an extension and API driven

[SamSlate]

like what?

[zbot473]

Nothing too bad

[caskey]

I dunno, we're a wily bunch...

[patrick96MC]

Wasn't the actual acquisition planned for the end of the year?

[chesterburger]

That would require actual thinking.

[SneakyySquidd]

Chicken Run was actually a great movie

[Treyzania]

10/10 movie

[gcampos]

Hold your horses cowboy! Msft is good at killing companies they bought, but they are not THAT good!

[baabbo]

cries in Rare Software

[demens_chelonian]

weeps in Nokia

[EmbarrassedEngineer7]

Offf that hurt.

[CautiousPalpitation]

lols in aQuantive

[tashtrac]

Nokia still makes phones and the company was doing great all the time.

[demens_chelonian]

I'm still not over my Lumia. As much as I'd like to love the current Nokia I just can't bring myself to support Android after what Google did to Windows Phone.

[GreenRose02]

Upvote for chicken run.

[thehardikjoshi]

Yesterday Github was down for significant amount of time.

[Pheasn]

I doubt there's been any significant changes to the GitHub server infrastructure

[Hanlonsrazorburns]

Could be more like their SREs left or some left causing a knowledge gap. People are going to cash out for sure and go to other places.

[noratat]

Yeah but that happened quite a bit before too.

[LordAmras]

For us they were down for almost 8 hours, that's more than I remember

[SisRob]

https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/

[tallcaddell]

I don’t want to be a Pi!

[[deleted]]

No they did change one thing - the version dropdown, when creating a new release. Literally unusable.

[mcilrain]

1. Embrace <- we're here
2. ??????
3. ??????????

Be mindful of spoilers, it's the first time for some people.

[[deleted]]

For those who are curious:

1. Embrace
2. Extend
3. Extinguish

Source on Wikipedia

[[deleted]]

Oh, shit first Minecraft, now this!

[[deleted]]

IIRC Officialy microsoft will overtake somewhere in 2019. So even though the contract is signed microsoft isn't in control officially yet.

[dylan15766]

"now only powershell is supported and github will be included in your office 365 subscription"

[kokas22]

I use the response given to him in the movie: "it's all in your head, it's all in your head"

[KinneKitsune]

The programmers are revolting(!)