lucasnemeth

git is distributed. You can give access to a mirror of your git repo for execs that don't access the repo or contribute to it. They don't need to be github users, they just need git access to an url. If github is still convenient for you, there is a solution to avoid paying for this users. It only really makes sense to have developers added as github users (of course, it used to be convenient to just ask them to be github users, but it never really made sense)

It will attract more small companies and freelance single developers as well.

Business are free to close deals with clients in their own terms whenever is lucrative for them. Almost every single company will have "unfair" treatment for big corporations... That way they can get big paying clients. clients that could possibly host their own solutions... It might be that Epic Games in the old business model, with so many users, was not profitable for github, but they are open to negotiate a middle term. It's just business. It is fair.

I think github is on their own right and if you have a case where you think you would be able to negotiate with them, you can send them an email as well... If not, go search another company that have a better cost/benefit for your use case.

Yes there is, but to ignore that everything in the world somehow has a market-capistalist value associated to it is naive.

He complains in a very infantile way about "Business types" who only cares about selling an idea, but ultimately he's leaving Medium because it's a bad marketing decision for him. He says he doesn't want to be associated with medium because it conveys an image of bad content that he does not think it's good for his artwork. He's leaving Medium because of his personal brand.

There's nothing on Medium itself that inhibit the display of the art he wants to share. Medium as an platform, it's enough for his needs. But it is the brand and the marketing aspect of it that he does not like. He is not that different from those "business types". He doesn't see just a platform for sharing content, he sees a brand, and this brand is bringing a negative value to his own brand as an artist.

Besides, this world view of "business types" and "artists" is simplistic and childish, is a persuasive argument to convince us of the legitimacy of his artwork. It is Another marketing strategy: I am the real artist, my artwork is of original legitimacy, different from this capitalist world we live in.

He is obnoxious, loud, and his reasons are contradictory.

Even though he has a point: There's too much self-help on Medium.

You need to learn more about companies outside of the US/Europe.

You can read Peter Wegner's Concepts and Paradigms of Object-Oriented Programming (1990), to get a deep discussion of all the concepts he speaks about oop. He is not criticizing oop, but doing an analysis compared to procedural programming. (And defending why OOP can be useful, but with no sensationalism) And he even predicts that paradigms based in concurrency will be the next buzzword after oop. If you read most of the discussions that happened in those early years of OOP adoption, you'll see a lot of the things he's pointing out has being already argued. They just were done in texts, not videos, and weren't so incendiary.

The 'Bad' one is all about personal opinions, no real arguments beside a bunch of information already well-know about oop and that has been discussed by years. And honestly, it looks like a iluminatti conspirancy video, with the boring narration, the sensationalist tone, the black screen. ugh.

a wiretap does not close the entire communication channel, does it? You used an analogy to the oil spillage, that would not result in the same impact for rhetoric purposes, but they are not similar.

The cold war ended. Look at "Modern Definitions": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_world#Modern_definitio...

For you "western" means "white and rich".

that is correct, I would also add that through the current Marco Civil law, the requests must be technically possible, if not they shouldn't be taken into consideration.

Things should be taken into consideration, a "confidential" investigation that closes an service used by millions of citizens is highly controversial. They don't do the same to any Telecom company, so that's very suspicious.

A spilling of oil is not controversial. It's damage made by a company accidentally and that is causing great environmental damage.

The Brazilian government has the power to ask try to enforce their legislation, but asking other companies to close the service should be the last thing they do. And if necessary, they should close the service completely, 48h is pure nonsense. They should arrest representatives before closing the service. this is nonsense. Also, the reasons are all confidential, so we can't even know it they are justifiable. This is manipulative, not transparent, and very keen to a dictatorship.

Lastly. Brazil is a "western" nation...

It's a confidencial investigation, you have no reason to believe it is a politically exposed actor. It can be any sort of investigation, this is highly manipulative. The people who actually created this block wants to make you think it's related to the Lava-Jato, but they are probably doing it due to lobbists from telecom industries.

They could fine facebook, the owner of whatsapp and that have offices in Brazil. It is unrelated to close the service. Has the Brazilian government ever closed Vivo or Tim because it had legal problems? No. They charge fines.

There are precedents, and they were absurd.

All the information on the article regarding Cunha is correct.

They were masochists.

Brazilian here. Wow I remember those times. People travelling to Paraguay to buy computers. crazy.

This analysis is tremendously racist. period.

another think piece about "Millenials". I wonder if they're all written by Millenials.

Do you necessarily need to go to the US now? Since you don't have a Visa, that is really complicated. You cannot legally work with a b2 visa, if you do that, it can jeopardize future opportunities in the US. I would not recommend this path, not now at least.

I would recommend you to get more experience in the start-up environment first, get a good resume, and then apply for a H1B in the states, if that's your ultimate goal. If you can't find start-up jobs in Colombia, have you considered moving to São Paulo, Brazil? You're a Mercosul resident so it is easier for you to get a work visa in Brazil than in the US. Brazil is currently going through a crisis, so things aren't easy, but there's still a vibrant entrepreneur market. It's not hard to find technology jobs there. It is a good place to get experience in more modern technologies and in entrepreneurship.

I find the rant of the article exaggerated and ridiculous. But actually a lot of those companies do fit the criteria.

fun times.

I'm not particularly a fan of take-home tests. But comparing that to mumbling at a white-board, while a software engineer is pretending to be an expert psychologist at analysing your ~train of thought~, and unfortunately, more often than not, someone in the board is only paying attention at how much of an WASP male you are or pass by it, where you need to do a task that you only repeat at interviews for a job that will not require that...compared to that, give me take home interviews any day of my life. Yes they are free work, but at least they are free work related to actual work. Live coding in the whiteboard performances are not part of the work. And the stress argument (that programmers must be able to deliver under stress) there are categories of stress, social anxiety of a live performance is not the stress we deal at our works. Sometimes I do good whiteboard coding interviews, sometimes I do bad whiteboard coding interviews, none of the situations I felt the merit was of the code or my knowledge of the subject, it is not a proof of how well a programmer does his job, is a somewhat related way of knowing if somebody knows who to code something and if he does not feel too nervous to code on a whiteboard instead of a computer to a bunch of strangers testing him. If you add that to the fact that some interviewers like be to randomly arrogant, you're missing some really nice but perhaps shy coders.

wow. Thank you for that. Learned an important lesson.

There are legislations about sick leave in a lot of countries.

Yes. she just disagrees with a specific article of Shanley and calls it "feminism".

That is a racist comment. You could had said "in the US they make those job postings catered to a specific person that they want to hire as an H1B" instead, but specifying that it is intented to weed out americans (specially given the fact that no one said we where talking about the US market!!) and hire specifically Indians (and not foreigners, or people in search of a visa) is racist. It shows a specific prejudice against Indians and a belief that the position they fill are less legitimate than the ones an American fills.

wtf. They're not entitled to keep this stupid and absurd way of living, they don't NEED 500K. I don't care if "their friends" live like that and it's normal between them!! The world is fucked up. this depressed me.

It just have one criticism about Java. Bah. Can't trust this

CRUD websites for some boring management thing.

Remove the stop words, for god's sake. Don't do an anecdotal analysis over it, you loose all credibility. and... ‘replaces paper patient lists for doctors in hospitals. ’ That seems pretty clear, what's the problem with that? What on earth is a good startup for you? Your idea?

Yes, that was as ridiculous as the start-up taglines.