GitHub Raises $250M at $2B Valuation

Re:GitHub Raises $250M at $2B Valuation by MarkPNeyer on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @07:38PM (#9972383)

"github labs used machine learning to generate a simple english -> python translation algorithm. it crawled the millions of commits, looking at comments and commit logs to understand software"

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Re:GitHub Raises $250M at $2B Valuation by arikrak on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @11:53PM (#9973088)

(c. 2028) Github announced today that it has acquired StackExchange, known for its Q&A site for developers and algorithms. This will let Github enhance their own automated software development suite. Github analyzes open-source and closed-source code (under licensing agreements) to produce new software automatically on demand. Currently Github primarily determines a piece of code's functionality from its unit tests, but this acquisition will let them expand their source of knowledge.

This may increase the concern among some developers and algorithm managers that Github is becoming too powerful. There has been controversy in the past over Github's restricted API access to open source code on its site. Some developers want to move their code from Github, but they've come to rely on the automatic tools Github provides...

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Re:GitHub Raises $250M at $2B Valuation by wstrange on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @07:51PM (#9972461)

But anyone else can do the same (at least for all of the public repos).

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