Preston-Werner’s bet has paid off. GitHub is now profitable. Users can sign up for free and start contributing, but they pay money if they want to privately host code there — starting at $7 per month. GitHub also sells an enterprise product that lets companies run your own version of GitHub behind the corporate firewall. That starts at $5,000 per year, but can cost hundreds of thousands annually for companies with hundreds of coders.
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When Scott Chabon wrote a book about GitHub, the first fork appeared within a month. It was a German translation of his book. Now, three years later, it’s been translated into 10 languages, with another 10 translations in the works. Half of the traffic to the book’s website comes from China. “Tons of people in China are learning Git because they can read [the book] in Chinese on my website, because somebody provided that,” he says

25 points by andywhite37 3 hours ago | link

I think Git owes a ton of its success to github.com. Without this extremely well-designed, central repository for repositories, the uptake of Git would have been much slower, and faced much more resistance in the wild. Git is a great tool on its own, but having a centralized place for people to learn and use Git has been huge.

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5 points by beagle3 2 hours ago | link

apenwarr's own "bup" http://github.com/apenwarr/bup - it's the ultimate backup system on one hand, and it's just a git repository on the other.

Way better deduplication than any other backup system you've used, every backup is at the same time incremental, differential and (looks) complete.

It's magic.

10 points by mdwrigh2 8 hours ago | link

The main point of creating his resume with Markdown seems to be the ability to store it in version control, and hold the whole thing in a plain text file. While a resume done in Markdown seems like an interesting idea (and I may end up writing one up just to have a web version of it online), I'd also consider writing one in LaTeX. It's easily storable in version control, and the base file you use to generate the PDF is a plaintext document, which is exactly what he's looking for, and the system is a lot more flexible than Markdown.

As an example, my resume can be found at https://github.com/mdwrigh2/resume/raw/master/mwright-resume... and the source for it can be found at https://github.com/mdwrigh2/resume/blob/master/mwright-resum...

Yes, Perl 6 is still a long way from being production-ready, by many metrics of "production-ready"