Github is a private company that delivers on what it promises, it provides git hosting and tools around it. I don't think they are required to tell you anything about what they plan to do with said money.
It's great that Duke is going to make it, but at this point does it really even matter??? Products that take this long to ship generally aren't the worst ones to hit the market, but they certainly aren't the best, if they were they would have gotten out ages ago.
From each of these different things like this I have seen, even people that get unbanned (rare) don't seem to know why. Although FWIW I have never used Facebook for anything.
The fact that "mastered" was in quotes leads me to believe the author may have been implying that they had not really mastered that much at all, but had an inflated opinion of their own ability, which is surely what people citing Dunning-Kruger are assuming as well.
On top of that find some local user groups that use your language of choice, they are normally very welcoming of new programmers. If you are friendly and want to learn, you will surely find some people willing to give you advice and point you in the right direction.
Currently it has 88 1 star ratings out 107 ratings, then 27 5 star ratings, so I don't really get it. I guess 27 people are right near each other and seeing lots of photos?
I love to see people striking out and building stuff and really going for it, it's something I really want to do. I guess I just don't see the part where this is worth $41M? Not trying to hate though, I think people going out and building stuff is awesome.
It's pretty well known that Github like to hire people that have impressed them with projects that they have worked on, so I'd say it's pretty safe to say that for the most part they probably approach people to join the team that they feel will be a good fit. This would also help them, considering that they have such free work environment with no policing days off and work schedules etc, to make sure that they find people who fit into their company well.
That's true, how dare they build something that facebook has had a stab at!
But seriously, people might not have the people they want to talk to about tech or something else on facebook, so if your twitter followers are your crowd for X subject this is a pretty cool way to have a chat with them.
Without some kind of indication to the security issue doesn't this comment really just amount to FUD? Can you enlighten us to the security issue referred to?
Maybe it is cheaper .... but maybe not in terms of time as you are now responsible for maintaining said server and keeping it up. I am the team lead of a small 3 dev team, we manage about 9 applications that all tie together and were self hosting git, until the server melted down and they didn't have a replacement PC for us to put it onto, and a bug fix got held up for almost two days because we couldn't deploy the bastard. Finally I convinced the powers that be that $20 a month for GitHub was money well spent and we have never looked back.
I was playing poker for a while and I actually found Flop Turn River to be an awesome place to go and read about the game. It's a smaller community than Two Plus Two, but there are also way less trolls, and some amazing meta game discussion if you ever get up to some Mid Stakes + cash games. Check it out.
The author seems to point out that the main problem with the just get started mantra is that there is a good chance that you will fail. My understanding was that people knew this, but although your idea/app/business might not get going, the experience on how to do things that you can learn from this is invaluable and you can leverage that in your next venture.
You will get none of this experience sitting on the sidelines trying to figure out how not to fail, you might .. but you will learn a ton along the way.
You're probably right, but for a significant other just trying to show a level of interest it is probably the easiest place to start and just absorb anything at all about tech.
Actually that is unreasonable. You'd like to think they might, but expecting it is foolish, they are providing a service, if you don't pay you aren't entitled to the service. Linode aren't unreasonable, I have gotten an extension for payment in the past when I needed it, but I didn't do it by not checking my email for a month, I did it by reaching out to them and letting them know I needed some time to catch up a payment. As a result they didn't delete my account.