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Gitlab and Github look like they are forked from the same branch. https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/09/gitlab-layoffs-company-to-cut-7percent-of-staff-or-about-130-e

Gitlab and Github look like they are forked from the same branch. https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/09/gitlab-layoffs-company-to-cut-7percent-of-staff-or-about-130-employees.html https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/09/gitlab-layoffs-company-to-cu...

xpe 4y ago
This metaphor doesn't work for me. Source code is not analogous to organizational behavior. Not to mention it gives readers confused context about the link, which is about GitLab layoffs.
- drewcoo 4y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway's_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway's_law
  - deleted 4y ago
    [deleted]
  - xpe 4y ago
    > Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure. — Melvin E. Conway (via Wikipedia) > The law is based on the reasoning that in order for a product to function, the authors and designers of its component parts must communicate with each other in order to ensure compatibility between the components. Therefore, the technical structure of a system will reflect the social boundaries of the organizations that produced it, across which communication is more difficult. In colloquial terms, it means complex products end up "shaped like" the organizational structure they are designed in or designed for. The law is applied primarily in the field of software architecture, though Conway directed it more broadly and its assumptions and conclusions apply to most technical fields. Conway's Law does not apply (doesn't say one thing or another) regarding the connection source code and layoffs.
- nfw2 4y ago
  It's not a metaphor...it's a joke
  - proc0 4y ago
    Or maybe a prediction.
    - pc86 4y ago
      Nope, just a joke.
    - brookst 4y ago
      git doesn't have branch prediction
      - fragmede 4y ago
        maybe with colab v3 or so.
        oneplane 4y ago
        gpt-git might have branch prediction, but it might also have side-channel attacks
      - 60secs 4y ago
        make sure your git branch is set to protected
  - xpe 4y ago
    Step 1: throw some words from your keyboard into a comment box and claim it was humor. Step 2: downvote people that don't laugh. Step 3: someday realize that humor and metaphor are not mutually exclusive.
- roboben 4y ago
  xpe is taking everything 100% serious here.
  - xpe 4y ago
    I have a sense of humor; the above was meh P.S. and that attempt at humor definitely involved metaphor
  - mcast 4y ago
    Their post sounds like a ChatGPT response
- eclipxe 4y ago
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madduci 4y ago
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- shagie 4y ago
  If you're going to use that joke, use Copilot as that's a GitHub product. And it can't. And its a boring joke.
- throw1234651234 4y ago
  Except it can't. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34648167 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34648167
- Raed667 4y ago
  I'm so tired of this joke/take whatever it is ..
jamesgill 4y ago
git reset --hard
- ramesh31 4y ago
  git push -f
  - kalnins 4y ago
    git branch -D *
    - pelasaco 4y ago
      ´git blame!

xpe 4y ago

This metaphor doesn't work for me. Source code is not analogous to organizational behavior. Not to mention it gives readers confused context about the link, which is about GitLab layoffs.

drewcoo 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway's_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway's_law
- deleted 4y ago
  [deleted]
- xpe 4y ago
  > Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure. — Melvin E. Conway (via Wikipedia) > The law is based on the reasoning that in order for a product to function, the authors and designers of its component parts must communicate with each other in order to ensure compatibility between the components. Therefore, the technical structure of a system will reflect the social boundaries of the organizations that produced it, across which communication is more difficult. In colloquial terms, it means complex products end up "shaped like" the organizational structure they are designed in or designed for. The law is applied primarily in the field of software architecture, though Conway directed it more broadly and its assumptions and conclusions apply to most technical fields. Conway's Law does not apply (doesn't say one thing or another) regarding the connection source code and layoffs.
nfw2 4y ago
It's not a metaphor...it's a joke
- proc0 4y ago
  Or maybe a prediction.
  - pc86 4y ago
    Nope, just a joke.
  - brookst 4y ago
    git doesn't have branch prediction
    - fragmede 4y ago
      maybe with colab v3 or so.
      - oneplane 4y ago
        gpt-git might have branch prediction, but it might also have side-channel attacks
    - 60secs 4y ago
      make sure your git branch is set to protected
- xpe 4y ago
  Step 1: throw some words from your keyboard into a comment box and claim it was humor. Step 2: downvote people that don't laugh. Step 3: someday realize that humor and metaphor are not mutually exclusive.
roboben 4y ago
xpe is taking everything 100% serious here.
- xpe 4y ago
  I have a sense of humor; the above was meh P.S. and that attempt at humor definitely involved metaphor
- mcast 4y ago
  Their post sounds like a ChatGPT response
eclipxe 4y ago
[flagged]

deleted 4y ago

[deleted]

madduci 4y ago

[flagged]

shagie 4y ago
If you're going to use that joke, use Copilot as that's a GitHub product. And it can't. And its a boring joke.
throw1234651234 4y ago
Except it can't. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34648167 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34648167
Raed667 4y ago
I'm so tired of this joke/take whatever it is ..

jamesgill 4y ago

git reset --hard

ramesh31 4y ago
git push -f
- kalnins 4y ago
  git branch -D *
  - pelasaco 4y ago
    ´git blame!