VSTS, Microsoft's hosted TFS solution, gives you unlimited private git repos for up to 5 users, 40 hours worth of hosted builds per month, complete project management, a private markdown based Wiki, and free orchestration of local build and deployment agents.
1. They already have such offering (VS Team Services).
2. Their competitors (GitLab, Bitbucket) already have that offering.
3. I don't think they're interested in GitHub for its revenue, but for its strategic value. GitHub has to protect its revenue model by disallowing free private repos, Microsoft can afford to be more flexible.
4. They've already made similar moves. They acquired Xamarin, which was expensive, and made it free.
My local city has just got a slightly different type of bike sharing scheme where there are no stations/docks for the bikes, but you're allowed to leave them anywhere sensible [1]. From other articles including the guardian one linked above, it seems that this a model that's been used in China and certainly seems to have proven very rapidly scalable.
I guess in these cases it's quite difficult, since it's likely not feasible to update the locations of individual bikes for these guys. I've checked their map and Bristol, UK doesn't appear to show YoBike at the moment, however it's only been in action for a few weeks.
I hope it is something cool. They have shown a remarkable willingness to contribute "something" to just about "everything" in recent memory. A lot of has been open to boot!
I do not want to let you down, however, and will provide an equally inflammatory remark: We do know that Apple will continue to build walls around Homekit making it virtually useless to anyone outside the already fortified walls of iOS!
No, they aren't. I don't know about you, but I can't have more than 20 tabs open and consciously be aware of the content. I can't think of people like above, having 120 tabs. It's probably a waste of time and resources. First because you can't possibly hold in your memory 120 tabs, thus you'll have to visit them or read the title to remind you why is it there on the first place. With bookmarks at least you can use the search bar...
Naw, at least with me I seem to be able to by treating the tab ordering as a conceptual discovery ordering. That is, I remember what things I learned / researched prior to and following each tab. It's lossy, but because each has a unique relationship with its surrounding concepts there's plenty of opportunities for parity-like behaviour; redundancy.
When researching a thing I'll open up some high level page about it, then do breadth-first searches of tab contents, opening up new tabs whenever I see something that looks interesting, has wider implications, or possibly has some weaker relationship to a thing with one or both of those properties and I think I might be able to traverse the concept graph this way to find it / them.
So I end up with a sort of flat tree where it corresponds almost directly to my earlier thought graph which produced them. I can work with maybe 200 this way... But not more. Unless I open them in different windows - sometimes different browsers, actually, to help further differentiate/compartmentalise them (eg. I'll use this strategy for largely disparate topics). Then, well, I'm not sure where I top out, all I can say is I once crashed my box from out of memory (not running swap), and it's a 32GB box soooo... I dunno.
There are likely many others that work this way. Perhaps it's not common, but I also feel that it's very unlikely unique!
For me session manager sessions (in firefox) are the new bookmarks.
i try to split different fields of interest into separate windows. Then i save that window as a suitably titled session and close the window. If i need to add a new tab to a session, i use the "append to session" feature. That way i dont clutter up my bookmarks or my primary firefox session.
- Atheists are "just as bad as" [insert religious group with millennia-old history of atrocities.] -- Just because they both try to convince you of something.
- Politician A is "just as corrupt as" Politician B. -- Nevermind that A just gave his cousin a job, while B gave away $500B in contracts to his sponsors.
Search and Replace in multiple files. That's among the top 10 features that should've been available since release 0.0.1 in any code editor. They're at 1.2 now and still no cigar. Who's the project manager who keeps saying "nah, don't need it"?
Then again, it's a good litmus test. If you find yourself opening your old editor to do something so basic your new editor can't do: what the hell are you doing in your new editor?
Same for me. The lack of "search and replace in multiple files" is the main issue preventing me to switch (and maybe an offline spell checker). I hope they fix this soon!
Lack of free private repos is the main (only) reason why I don't use GitHub.