Tech Biz

Digital Ocean, who I assume are very nice people and meant well, did a Hacktoberfest event in which people were encouraged to submit a pull request to any open source GitHub project. In exchange, “contributors” would get a t-shirt.

You can probably guess what happened:

sigmavirus24: Hey @digitalocean your October pull request event has done nothing

When you are in a business that is engaging in constant warfare with the people who your product is nominally targeted at, you are in a bad business.

To bring everyone up to date:

• Justin Vincent wrote a post offering an opinion about the downsides of the chase of tech entrepreneurs over VC funding.
• Amy Hoy wrote a post expanding on Mr Vincent’s post.
• Alex Payne wrote a post criticizing this position, while finding it necessary to describe “long time acquaintance” Amy Hoy’s product

tl;dr: If you make a tradeoff, be honest about it. Don’t lie to yourself that you are making a positive architectural decision when you make a negative tradeoff.

In a flash of snarkiness, I posted this to my Twitter account, based on a colleague’s attempt to solve a YouTube password problem:

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