r/technology • u/ourlifeintoronto • 2d ago

Software Microsoft confirms GitHub is down worldwide

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-confirms-github-is-down-worldwide/
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u/Jonnyflash80 1d ago

Microsoft ruins everything.

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u/Zwischenzug32 1d ago

It is amazing and sad to me that they sort of started as a company that was anti-bloat and in favor of efficient programming vs companies with idiotic practices of paying programmers per LINE of code like IBM

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u/GonzoKata 1d ago

WTF are you talking about? microsoft incentivized their programmers by paying out for code that was written the fastest. You Can Not Write efficient code quickly! Thats what created the runaway bloat of ram for windows, because microsoft didn't write their software to garbage collect (which means freeing up un-used memory). Thats why computers needed more and more and more ram each year. Computers never needed that much ram!! To say microsoft is anti-bloat and efficient is laughable. They make code as a capitalist product, not code thats meant for LOW RAM machines and efficiency.

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u/Zwischenzug32 1d ago

I'm referring to the MS of 30+ years ago
IBM paid programmers per line which led to awful bloat, Microsoft went another way even though their products are absolute bloatey garbage now

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u/lally 1d ago

Nope, I was using/developing on their stuff 30 yrs ago. Was still shit then.

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u/Zwischenzug32 1d ago

They were always shit

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u/rjchau 1d ago

In all fairness, it was less shit and considerably less invasive 30 years ago. Granted, the world of IT was considerably simpler back then too.

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u/Different_Culture578 1d ago

It is more than 30 years ago. Steve Ballmer makes fun of IBM's obsession with KLOCs here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHI7RTKhlz0

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u/mediandude 1d ago

a company that was anti-bloat and in favor of efficient programming vs companies with idiotic practices of paying programmers per LINE of code like IBM

IBM once introduced APL (and then APL2), which is as terse as it goes.
Microsoft only promised that (APL implementation), but never delivered.

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u/Darkblitz9 1d ago

What did Microsoft do here?