alt Hacker NewsLook at the absolute state of what they are working on. If they are not losers, they are dispirited clock-punchers who don't care about their craft.
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They could also just be people with bills to pay who are maybe faced with—by some accounts—a very challenging employment market. Or maybe due to disabilities they find the process of finding new work difficult or impossible.
Github is migrating from their old infra to Azure. Doing migrations like that is hard, no matter who you are. And from a business and engineering perspective I think it makes sense to leverage the economies of scale of Azure instead of GitHub running their own boxes.
> they are dispirited clock-punchers who don't care about their craft.
Interestingly that is synonymous with losers according the definition of it in gervais principle. Which weirdly makes being called a loser less of an insult. (More like realist)
The absolute state of Github is that I use it dozens of times a day and it works flawlessly, for free, with intermittent outages.
Microsoft is doing more with Github than I can say for most of their products. I won't go to bat for the Xbox or Windows teams, but Github is... fine. Almost offensively usable.
It’s more likely that most of them are competent professionals doing their best in an impersonal corporate environment, just like the rest of us.