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Re:When Chinese hackers declared war on the rest of us by lightbyte on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @11:19AM (#18912234)
>Back in 2015, though, GitHub was still an up-and-coming, independent company whose success came from making it considerably easier for other people to create computer software.

GitHub was an "up-and-coming" company just three years ago in 2015? They were founded in 2008 and immediately exploded in popularity. I can't take the rest of the article seriously after reading just three paragraphs.

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Re:When Chinese hackers declared war on the rest of us by bluntfang on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @11:58AM (#18912600)
I would consider the audience not being engineers who use tools/services like github everyday. At the end of the day, github wasn't some huge public company with high market cap, and were recently bought by microsoft.
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Re:When Chinese hackers declared war on the rest of us by thro_a_way on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @11:20AM (#18912248)
I did take the article seriously. It was quite informative and entertaining. Very nice writing style.
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Re:When Chinese hackers declared war on the rest of us by goobynight on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @03:29PM (#18914771)
Up and coming doesn't mean small. It certainly saw significant growth from 2015-18. I don't think it's too egregious to write that, even if I wouldn't do it myself.
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