Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Tidbits: GitHub Users

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According to This Developers Life 1.1.2 GitHub has over 560'000 users. That's quite a lot ...

Another interesting story from that podcast: Tom Preston-Werner, one of the founders of GitHub, turned down a 300'000$ bonus (plus a "big" salary) that Microsoft offered him for joining Microsoft. This was back in 2008 when he was in the beginning of starting GitHub ... (read his blog post about that decision)

 

As a sidenote: I am really positively suprised about This Developers Life, I did not think it possible to keep up the real interesting non-technical content for so many episodes. I am wondering how long they can sustain that quality of content...

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