News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:GitHub was down by qbasic_forever on Friday March 12, 2021 @01:49PM (#26439343)
Github folks--this is really getting bad. I find it strange that your leadership will spends weeks of time, and pen hundreds of words about making right the wrongs they created with censorship (see: https://github.blog/2020-11-16-standing-up-for-developers-yo...), yet there's almost no attention given to these major outages that keep happening for a year now.

Where is the acknowledgment of a problem, root-cause analysis, and followup for new practices and engineering to prevent issues? Who is responsible for these issues and what are they doing to make it right? What positions are you hiring for _right now_ to get to work making your service reliable?

[dead]
Re:GitHub was down by koluna on Friday March 12, 2021 @02:16PM (#26439684)
You might be surprised to learn that there are many teams responsible for many things, and SRE is very likely a team different than the one that handles user experience decisions
[dead]
Re:GitHub was down by thanatos_dem on Friday March 12, 2021 @02:56PM (#26440178)
Glancing over your comment history, this seems to be a trend for you; being intentionally abrasive/provocative for no reason. And you get downvoted to oblivion as a result, so I'd hope you understand by now that your comments aren't appreciated.

Obviously you're entitled to your opinion and welcome to share it, but don't be surprised when that begins having repercussions on your career, and don't be surprised when people on this forum in particular don't respond well to it.

HN is focused on technology and business, not so much politics or your personal opposition to making historically oppressed individuals feel more comfortable in tech, a traditionally white & male dominated space. If you're going to make reasoned arguments around why changing the name of a branch has a demonstrable negative impact on your life, please do. If not, this isn't the place to air your grievances with crass and unproductive comments.

Re:GitHub was down by jtdev on Friday March 12, 2021 @03:07PM (#26440289)
Glancing at your comment history, I can see that you believe your opinions are edicts and nobody can express differing opinions without you pulling your quasi moralistic hall monitoring trope.

The fact is, tech is now under the influence of the woke mob, and I believe that's objectively bad for tech, the people who work in tech, and the prospect of solving REAL problems with tech.

Re:GitHub was down by thanatos_dem on Friday March 12, 2021 @04:01PM (#26440867)
Then just find a new career maybe? I sure as hell wouldn’t hire you at this point.
Re:GitHub was down by jtdev on Friday March 12, 2021 @05:12PM (#26441610)
No. I’ll continue to use my skills to solve real problems and voice my opposition to the groupthink mob.
Re:GitHub was down by thanatos_dem on Friday March 12, 2021 @07:33PM (#26442708)
Out of curiosity, what’s the last “real problem” you solved?
Re:GitHub was down by jtdev on Friday March 12, 2021 @08:21PM (#26443021)
They’re real enough problems that I’d be violating legal agreements by discussing them here... so no, I won’t be doing that.
Re:GitHub was down by thanatos_dem on Friday March 12, 2021 @10:21PM (#26443602)
Cool, you’ve said all you needed to. You can now safely be ignored by our entire industry as far as I’m concerned.

Enjoy your lack of vertical mobility!