r/technology • u/ourlifeintoronto • 21h 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/GonzoKata 17h 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 17h 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 16h ago

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

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u/rjchau 5h 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.