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by wavemode 213 days ago
It's possible that Microsoft buying GitHub was a large-scale psyop intended to reduce the productivity of the competition.

Any time their startup competitors are making too much progress they can just push the "GitHub incident" button and slow everyone down.
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grepfru_it 213 days ago
We used to obsessively care about 500s. Like I would make a change that caused a 0.1% spike in 500s and I would silently say I'm sorry to the folks who got the unicorn page.

I'm not sure the new school cares nearly as much. But then again this is how companies change as they mature. I saw this with StubHub as well.. The people who care the most are the initial employees, employee #7291 usually dgaf

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0x1ch 213 days ago
I fall into the new school gen z category, and I think you're right. We don't care. We don't care about the problems started before us, and we owe nothing to no one (but our employers, must increase value for shareholders of course).

I simply want to survive. I'll kiss ass where I have to, but not to people I don't work on behalf of.

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kataklasm 213 days ago
Can't say that's entirely true for me ('02). If my [ employer, supervisor, ... ] provides me with logical, traceable tasks with their context properly laid out, I can totally put a ton of effort into providing meticulous, well thought out solutions, that are as good as it gets under the provided constraints. It's the non-sensical (be it actually non-sensical or just not understood enough because of unprovided context) tasks that make me not care.
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Arch485 213 days ago
I'll throw in my $0.02, as a fellow zoomer. I care about the things that are mine (as in, my code, my decisions, etc. etc.). But if management fucks up and tells me to fix it, there is no amount of money that will make me care. Especially if I advised management _not_ to do that in the first place.
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ares623 213 days ago
Hell yeah
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wavemode 213 days ago
A lot of downvoters seem to have not realized that my comment was a joke.

Though yeah, for startups who depend on GitHub for CI and CD, it's been noticeable how absurdly unreliable GitHub has become over the years.

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