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stanfordkidyesterday at 10:36 PM4 repliesview on HN

The dude works for GitHub. I don’t doubt there is some rotten code on there, but what you’re saying seems like a stretch and exactly what he’s describing.


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makeitdoubleyesterday at 10:42 PM

It's been almost 8 years now since the Microsoft acquisition, should it still be seen as an independent culture ?

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rrdharanyesterday at 10:40 PM

GitHub is owned by Microsoft which covers most of what GP is alluding to…

enraged_cameltoday at 7:24 AM

Yeah, that was bizarre to read. I thought “wait, Sean works for Palantir?!”

rainonmoonyesterday at 11:33 PM

Microsoft is currently a target of BDS, which calls it "perhaps the most complicit tech company in Israel’s illegal apartheid regime and ongoing genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza." This isn't about some hobbyist's wonky code. https://bdsmovement.net/microsoft