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You dont pay 2 Billion, and leave it untouched, they see an earnings potential in the company given the right management and shareholders expect ROI that is higher then the average market return


Thanks for this comment.

Most of the discussio here is just centered around Microsofts goodwill and trustworthiness, mostly ignoring that MS wouldn't make this investment without a solid plan and path to profitability.

That doesn't have to be bad per se, I guess there are a lot of options like integrating Github well with Azure and providing alternatives to AWS CodeCommit / pipelines, ...


Microsoft can monetize the data in a way that github themselves couldn’t. It can also afford to lose money for strategic reasons.


the history of Microsoft is the reason why we all reacting this way. But encouraged by the move they made lately coming into Linux, even though other players have forced their hand


I would be as worried if it was AWS or Google.

Github should remain a neutral ground in my opinion.


It already was Google. Remember Google Code?


No, Google code was a failed attempt at a code hosting service from Google.

They failed to make it attractive to other developers.

I don't remember the name, but MS tried for a year or two to create another competing hosting platform if I recall correctly, and they also failed.


You are probably thinking of Codeplex: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CodePlex


Codeplex


> I would be as worried if it was AWS or Google.

Good. Need more people like you.



As far as I can tell, today's MS is very aware of the brand problem they created for themselves and have been working hard to fix it.

A recent changelog episode addresses this exact issue:https://changelog.com/podcast/298#transcript-78


Microsoft has slain giants before. They will try to do it again. No one is too big to fail.


Except HSBC.


Alternatives and no not bitbucket


Gitlab.com is what I was already slowing moving to, because their code is open source. This will just hasten that migration.



This I can nod agreed with, Im forced into open office, with a lot of marketing people, and I cant be productive, often times I end up spending my time at home fixing the hard problems, and just doing the easy ones at work. btw. I'm a junior dev. without mentor working with non tech people.


Im hired as junior dev. at a relatively large non-tech company, to provide them with software tools, I built all these tools by myself with no mentoring and no help, My fear is this, my code looks clunky (probably not written according to good software design ?), and hard to read for others, I also have no skills in collaboration, how would I be able to grow these skills without a mentor ?.


You sound as if you are already able to teach yourself, just read more open-source code to find out what is good or bad style.


I would consider soliciting a formal mentor here on hackernews. Hacking on a open source project together would be a way to recieve that help in a remote fashion.

Sounds like there should be a thread to match mentors and mentees here on hackernews. Maybe a bunch of mentors post some open source projects that they want mentees for?


I would jump on something like that, I'm a senior university student currently with no work experience on my resume. I have been unable to do internships during summers because I usually need to spend that time helping out my sick father every year, and it terrifies me that I'm going to have to jump into the marketplace with no internships or anything really on my resume.

Every time I try to 'contribute to open source projects' online I get overwelmed by the size and complexity of most codebases, I have tried numerous times, and have never been able to fix a bug.

This type of thread is something I'm sure I and others would take serious advantage of.


advances in general intelligence


Does Tesla still use Lidar ?


As I understand it they don't. I don't think they ever have.

https://cleantechnica.com/2016/07/29/tesla-google-disagree-l...


Have they started? I thought they insisted that cameras are good enough?


Cameras are definitely not good enough alone. Tesla's enhanced their camera systems with different models of automotive-range radar (most likely manufactured by Bosch; either the LRR4 or the MRR1).


pm'ed you, also a software developer who increasingly been thinking of doing something in Africa


how can you pm here? I want to enter Africa too!


email in my profile.



As far as i understand it, you dont have be math wiz, but have good grasp of the more common statistical analysis, regression etc..


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