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Re:Scaling from 2k to 25k engineers on GitHub at Microsoft by saghm on Monday July 01, 2019 @11:31PM (#20331919)
Maybe it just sounds that way to engineers then; I'm an engineer, and I read it the same way GP did. "on" is the preposition I'd use if I were describing the engineers as working on Github (as I just did right now)
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Re:Scaling from 2k to 25k engineers on GitHub at Microsoft by uponcoffee on Tuesday July 02, 2019 @12:01AM (#20332023)
I'm in the same boat. On has many meanings, as written 'on Github' could mean:

- Github is the platform/medium/support facilitating work - Github is the target/aim/focus of the work

E.g. 'Working on a table' means I could be making a table or I am using a table to work on something.

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Re:Scaling from 2k to 25k engineers on GitHub at Microsoft by simonh on Tuesday July 02, 2019 @04:08AM (#20333153)
I'm on Github and I'm also on Facebook, but I don't work for either of them, and I don't think either of those statements is in any way confusing. I think the confusion is due to the use of the term scaling. Github has 37 million users, so 'scaling' it by another 25k is kind of meaningless.

Having said that we know Microsoft owns Github. If the same article had come out in relation to Apple we'd immediately know what it was talking about without any confusion.

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Re:Scaling from 2k to 25k engineers on GitHub at Microsoft by iamnotacrook on Tuesday July 02, 2019 @04:57AM (#20333372)
Are you a lead engineer on Facebook? I am. I don't work for Facebook but they host my baby photos. I think it's a little confusing.
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Re:Scaling from 2k to 25k engineers on GitHub at Microsoft by simonh on Tuesday July 02, 2019 @05:06AM (#20333404)
If you worked for the company, I'd usually expect 'lead engineer at Facebook'.
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Re:Scaling from 2k to 25k engineers on GitHub at Microsoft by jessaustin on Tuesday July 02, 2019 @08:43AM (#20334436)
The adjective "lead" would be somewhat diluted if there were 25k of them?
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Re:Scaling from 2k to 25k engineers on GitHub at Microsoft by jeffwilcox on Tuesday July 02, 2019 @12:44AM (#20332190)
Sorry for any confusion! I originally intended this as an update to a previous post (years before we acquired GitHub) that had the title "From 20 to 2,000 engineers on GitHub: Azure, GitHub and our Open Source Portal", so was attempting to go for a good side-by-side comparison.

Post from 2015: https://jeffwilcox.blog/2015/11/azure-on-github/

I do realize it's probably very unlikely anyone here read that post. Happy to see if the OP wants to clarify better.

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