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GitHub Open Sources Their Internal Testing Tool (thenewstack.io)

Posted by timothy on from the good-works dept.

destinyland writes: Last week GitHub released a new open source tool called Scientist, a Ruby-based library they've been using in-house for several years. "It's the most terrifying moment when you flip the switch," GitHub engineer Jesse Toth told one technology reporter, who notes that the tool is targeted at developers transitioning from a legacy system. "Scientist was born when GitHub engineers needed to rewrite the permissions code — one of the most critical systems in the GitHub application." The tool measures execution duration and other metrics for both test and production code during runtime, and Toth reports that they're now also developing new versions in Node.js, C#, and .Net..

62 comments

  1. Github, a bastion for libtard SJWs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Github is a bastion for white hate (male and female). This is a fact.

    1. Re:Github, a bastion for libtard SJWs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      Interesting note is this: https://static2.businessinsider.com/image/56b3d2462e526543008b5049-705-529/nicole%20sanchez-diversity-training2.png. This is actually a Github company slide given during a presentation. Github views white women as privileged and barriers to advancement of "the oppressed". Your point is made.

    2. Re:Github, a bastion for libtard SJWs by Fwipp · · Score: 2

      Why is that surprising? White women aren't magically exempt from being racist, just like black men aren't exempt from being sexist.

    3. Re:Github, a bastion for libtard SJWs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

      Evidence of this is straight from their "code of conduct": Our open source community prioritizes marginalized people’s safety over privileged people’s comfort. We will not act on complaints regarding:

              ‘Reverse’ -isms, including ‘reverse racism,’ ‘reverse sexism,’ and ‘cisphobia’
              Reasonable communication of boundaries, such as “leave me alone,” “go away,” or “I’m not discussing this with you”
              Refusal to explain or debate social justice concepts
              Communicating in a ‘tone’ you don’t find congenial
              Criticizing racist, sexist, cissexist, or otherwise oppressive behavior or assumptions

    4. Re:Github, a bastion for libtard SJWs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Mod parent up or at least not down, I read the discussion over the mass employee exodus currently underway at github. If you look up the social media profiles of their higher ranks you'll see they are all non-white. this is not a problem itself but their social media profiles show they clearly hate whites and view them all as oppressive and privileged. Github blatantly discriminates in their hiring practices as their population of white workers has fallen dramatically over last few years.

    5. Re:Github, a bastion for libtard SJWs by Pseudonymous+Powers · · Score: 1, Funny

      Why is that surprising? White women aren't magically exempt from being racist, just like black men aren't exempt from being sexist.

      Right. Remember, only minority-race non-males are magically exempt from being either racist or sexist.

    6. Re:Github, a bastion for libtard SJWs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Because it's racist. It's like saying black women are what stands in the way of welfare reform.

    7. Re:Github, a bastion for libtard SJWs by Sax+Russell+5449D29A · · Score: 4, Funny

      Harassment includes, but is not limited to: [...] simulated physical contact (eg, textual descriptions like “hug” or “backrub”) without consent or after a request to stop

      I have to admit I actually laughed irl. *hug*

      --
      -SR
    8. Re:Github, a bastion for libtard SJWs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Except that statement is actually true. I fail to see how white women are oppressing non-white women though.

    9. Re:Github, a bastion for libtard SJWs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It is completely true that women are some of the worst policers of women's behaviour, especially when it comes to relatively privileged women policing the behaviour of relatively less privileged women. Ask Adria Richards about this some time.

      Being in a smaller minority does not magically make you less racist/sexist/classist/whatever. It does tend to disproportionately force you on to the receiving end.

    10. Re:Github, a bastion for libtard SJWs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Ask Adria Richards about this some time.

      Or ask any trans woman about Germaine Greer some time.

    11. Re:Github, a bastion for libtard SJWs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Good. If white men can't handle the tech industry, they should grow a pair of tits or gtfo.

    12. Re:Github, a bastion for libtard SJWs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      trans "women" are just fags, no?

    13. Re:Github, a bastion for libtard SJWs by omfgnosis · · Score: 1

      The relative privilege of whiteness exceeds the relative privilege of maleness. The consequent relative advancement of white women exceeds that of other under-represented groups, and the relative culture of privilege of white women broadly undermines solidarity in broader advancement: the success profile of white women in business today more closely resembles that of white men than it does those of people of color, whether men or women; this alignment creates a set of incentives to prefer existing power structures over those which favor more equity for people who are represented or rewarded less.

      Why is this hard to grasp? It literally requires understanding the word "relative".

    14. Re:Github, a bastion for libtard SJWs by omfgnosis · · Score: 1

      You can't possibly be that stupid.

    15. Re:Github, a bastion for libtard SJWs by omfgnosis · · Score: 1

      We will not act on complaints regarding

      ... responses to each below...

      ‘Reverse’ -isms, including ‘reverse racism,’ ‘reverse sexism,’ and ‘cisphobia’

      Good. Discrimination of race, sex or gender identity is each respective thing. Privileging the "default" group for each of those to create a "reverse" is inherently racist, sexist or transphobic (respectively). If you feel like you're being treated unfairly because you're white (racism), male (sexism) or born with the genitals that match your gender identity (uh... cisphobia), address those the same way a person of color, a woman, or a trans person would. If it turns out you are actually being treated unfairly, nothing about "we will not act on complaints regarding reverse-isms" precludes a reasonable outcome. It just precludes creating a special class of each just because you as a supposed victim happen to be in the dominant group in one of those dimensions.

      Reasonable communication of boundaries, such as “leave me alone,” “go away,” or “I’m not discussing this with you”

      Good. Fuck you if you disagree. Seriously. Unless you are actively enforcing a law and have good cause to be doing so, you have no right to expect another person to engage you at all. Even if you are enforcing a law, most of the law is in favor of people being able to refuse to speak. That this is even being questioned is fucking appalling. If someone says any of those things, walk away and calm the fuck down.

      Refusal to explain or debate social justice concepts

      Addressed above. No one is actually required to explain anything to you, at all, ever. This is minutiae.

      Communicating in a ‘tone’ you don’t find congenial

      The above is instructive. If you don't feel respected, end the conversation. If you aren't honored in doing so, you have a valid complaint. End of discussion.

      Criticizing racist, sexist, cissexist, or otherwise oppressive behavior or assumptions

      Here there may be a valid complaint, because it's limited. Criticizing anything should be acceptable, and it implicitly suggests that certain criticism is more protected than other. But while it's not comprehensive, it's certainly not objectionable in its limited scope. No action should be taken to prevent criticism; therefore, no action should be taken to prevent criticism of racism, sexism, transphobia, or any oppressive behavior or assumptions. That's just tautological.

    16. Re:Github, a bastion for libtard SJWs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      White people are really bad at sharing fairly. Remember, the last time we let a bunch of white people write a founding document, they made it so non-whites were considered 3/5ths a person... not a great track record.

    17. Re: Github, a bastion for libtard SJWs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      http://amultiverse.com/comic/2016/02/05/brostitutional-rights/

      This has now become my standard response to people who complain about âSJWs".

      Seriously, get over yourself.

    18. Re:Github, a bastion for libtard SJWs by KGIII · · Score: 2

      I'm not white so clue me in on what I missed. What privilege did the white people get? As near as I can tell, not a whole fuck of a lot if any. By grace of heritage, I was entitled to funds to help my business and scholarships as well as privileged entrance into educational facilities - simply because I was not white.

      And no, for the record, I never disclose my race on any such applications. Why? Those are telling me that I need your help and that I'm unable to do so because of my genetic makeup. What privilege does a white person, in the same situation as a person who isn't, get?

      --
      "So long and thanks for all the fish."
    19. Re:Github, a bastion for libtard SJWs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      What's the 3rd point saying? About referring friends and family? I don't get it.

    20. Re:Github, a bastion for libtard SJWs by AmiMoJo · · Score: -1, Troll

      I'm more interested in why you not-so-subtly changed the meaning of what she wrote to fit your agenda.

      Slide: "Some of the biggest barriers to progress are white women."
      You: Github views white women as privileged and barriers to advancement of "the oppressed".

      Firstly, why the change from "some of the problems are white women" to "all white women are a problem"? It seems like to are trying to paint her as some kind of female misogynist. How does that serve your agenda?

      Then there is the "the oppressed". She doesn't use that phrase, so why do you?

      I've noticed a lot of "hit and run" ACs doing this lately. Paraphrase something incorrectly in the hope that no-one notices, ideally by being close enough to the original that a cursory glance by an already primed and angry reader won't reveal the deception. Sometimes people see it and they end up at -1 Troll, other times it slips through and creates a false narrative.

      --
      const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
      SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
    21. Re:Github, a bastion for libtard SJWs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Oh, come on, you know that "reverse -isms" bit is saying "it's not racism when the target is white".

    22. Re:Github, a bastion for libtard SJWs by AmiMoJo · · Score: 0

      I see the mod-bombers have mod points again. Must have run out yesterday.

      Must be frustrating that my karma never falls, right guys?

      --
      const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
      SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
    23. Re:Github, a bastion for libtard SJWs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      What's happened to Slashdot? Has it become a bastion for the paranoid Trump voter? Seriously, WHAT THE FUCK. Reading these comments is poison.

    24. Re:Github, a bastion for libtard SJWs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      pretty much.

    25. Re:Github, a bastion for libtard SJWs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Not exactly. For census purposes, people are classified as:

      1. Free Persons
      2. Others.

      Free and Other are orthogonal to race -- there were free blacks and other whites. Most people don't realize it, but children (regardless of race) were also counted as Others. To this day, they still are!

    26. Re:Github, a bastion for libtard SJWs by slashdice · · Score: 1

      I kiss you!

      And there's the problem. For many people, that means "hello". But along comes a SJW that's offended by that. Why does someone with a twitter account and a dildo up his (and/or her) ass trump the culture and language off a few million people?

      --
      Copyright (c) 1990 - 2014 Dice. All rights reserved. Use of this comment is subject to certain Terms and Conditions.
    27. Re:Github, a bastion for libtard SJWs by dave420 · · Score: 1

      No. This ridiculous point is often trotted out as some sort of defense against people calling out racism or sexism, and is clearly incorrect. I have no idea what drives an intelligent person to post such nonsense. It surely can't be with the expectation it will help further any fruitful discussion.

  2. Yay by OverlordQ · · Score: 0

    So support for 2 hipster languages, and two M$ languages.

    --
    Your hair look like poop, Bob! - Wanker.
    1. Re:Yay by xxxJonBoyxxx · · Score: 1

      >> and two M$ languages

      If you're committed to using M$, you're probably already using profiling. What would this add that's missing from that today?

    2. Re:Yay by Pseudonym · · Score: 1

      If you're committed to using M$, you're probably already using profiling.

      I don't think they meant psychological profiling.

      --
      sub f{($f)=@_;print"$f(q{$f});";}f(q{sub f{($f)=@_;print"$f(q{$f});";}f});
  3. I wonder by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    How much whitespace is there in the codebase? Is it more than the black characters? Only black characters matter.

    1. Re:I wonder by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I can't even look at whitespace anymore.

    2. Re:I wonder by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      Not in Python. In python the WHITE spaces matter. Python is clearly a racist language supported by the white establishment to hold down people of color by making the WHITE spaces matter.

    3. Re: I wonder by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I use the Obsidian theme. #Blackspacesmatter.

    4. Re: I wonder by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      This thread demonstrates a comic sophistication worthy of a 13 year old who has just discovered irony and thinks that the mere application of it makes something inherently funny. Sadly the mods also seem to be 13 today.

    5. Re: I wonder by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      found the SJW

    6. Re: I wonder by dave420 · · Score: 1

      You misspelled "adult". You perpetrated a three-word ad hominem fallacy, which is quite impressive, but did absolutely nothing to demonstrate them wrong or you right.

  4. Node is for retards by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Don't You think that who has AIDS must marry only who has AIDS? Just get away from my life and take your damanged brain of a fish away with You.

  5. Ruby? Are you fucking kidding me? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Ruby? Ruby has the worst performance. If you needed a scripting language Python would have done fine. But Ruby? I guess I'm just not hip to the time hipster times!

  6. Time to get out the popcorn by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

    If it's not C, C++, or Perl all you slashdotters start rabidly foaming at the mouth.

  7. Fuck this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I'm not a brogrammer and since I'm not a moron I don't need my tools to be written in Ruby. I don't need sugarcoated call back hell node.js. I haven't touched M$ in years so I can't really speak for M$ but I do know I don't need 4000+ M$ phone homes on every GUI interaction I do on their shitty Windows 10. Fuck this story

  8. Looks pointless to me by sdguero · · Score: 1

    It's a Ruby library to help you run regression testing... Big deal. Not /. worthy thats for sure.

    Those basic functionalities could be created in any language/tool in a short period of time by any decent automation engineer.

    1. Re:Looks pointless to me by Hulfs · · Score: 3, Interesting

      It's a little more than that, but not much more. They're pushing this tool hard for some reason, there was even a mention in Wired about it.

      Basically, it runs two codes paths A) Legacy Code Path B) Code path replacing A. and allows for some way of recording timings on the code paths and recording the return value (or catching errors). It's a nice tool to put in place when you want to try and replace some crufty code and try and make sure you're not going to end up hosing your system with the new code.

      One HUGE gotcha with this tool is that the code paths under test must remain side-effect free. Which means it's useless for testing any code that modifies your databases or modifies anything at all in your system.

    2. Re:Looks pointless to me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      > Which means it's useless for testing any code that modifies your databases or modifies anything at all in your system.

      Which is the bit bit you care about.

  9. Where's the version written in Rust by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I would prefer they nix all the current versions and rewrite it in the ground up in Rust. Since Rust is new and avoids all the leaks and holes inherent to C and C++ but offers near equal performance I can't see why not. I guess hipsters have to cling to their hipster scripting languages.

  10. People are finally getting fed up with leftism. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    I think we might finally be getting to the point where more and more people are seeing through the hypocrisy of the leftists who are pushing this "social justice" nonsense.

    While more intelligent people have seen through the charade for a long time, it's finally dawning on the less-intelligent folks that "social justice" is just intolerance, hatred, injustice, and prejudice bundled together and mislabeled with a deceptive name.

    I was reading the discussion at Hacker News and Reddit about this pathetic ordeal over at GitHub:

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11049067

    https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/44hque/github_is_undergoing_a_fullblown_overhaul_as/

    In the past, especially at Hacker News, people would have defended GitHub without question. But surprisingly we saw a lot of people at Hacker News actually pointing out how it would be extremely racist to not hire white people to perform some job just because of their skin color!

    If such people had made such observations in the past, they would have typically been attacked by downmod squads. Perhaps they still did, but just maybe enough people are waking up that the downmod squad attacks were naturally counteracted by legitimate upmods.

    I think it's a combination of factors leading to the ongoing downfall of "social justice".

    As more and more incidents have happened, it has become more and more obvious just how hypocritical and stupid "social justice" is.

    We've also seen leftism fail in other ways. The whole situation in Europe, with them being flooded with illegal invaders who proceed to engage in various sorts of crime, has started to wake up a lot of people there who followed leftism without really thinking about it. They've come to realize that everything the "social justice" supporters and leftists said about these illegal invaders was completely wrong.

    In the US we have Donald Trump who is finally expressing ideas that have been forbidden for so long, yet that so many people know to be true.

    Even here at Slashdot we've seen, so far, the new ownership not bombard us with bullshit "social justice" stories like the previous owners did.

    Hopefully we will soon see the global end of the "social justice" academic quackery that has wasted so much of our time. But when this does happen, we will need to be extra careful. The leftists will return, and they will be seeking revenge.

    1. Re:People are finally getting fed up with leftism. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      hey i heard you like trolling in your trolling so i put some troll in this troll. Also trump 2016.

  11. C and C++ are tools of white oppression by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    C and C++ are tools of white oppression, since most oppressed minorities "learning to code" are learning modern hipster languages like Ruby and JS inside hosted environments like Node. C and C++ requires them to overcome an uphill learning curve. Since most C and C++ experts are from the old times and are likely white, they clearly want these hipsters languages to go away. The more C and C++ is used the more they can keep minorities and hipsters out of hiring pool. They can continue their oppression and discrimination. I can see Github's aim here, I just don't know how effective it will be. Be assured, Github won't be giving up the social justice struggle anytime soon. Let the battel wage on, folks.

    1. Re:C and C++ are tools of white oppression by omfgnosis · · Score: 1

      Yeah us white men folks have it so bad. It sure is a shame to be among the best paid and most over-represented group in a prosperous economic segment that's mostly immune to market pressures.

      Quit whining that you don't have literally everything.

  12. Feminists should die. Men shld Marry young girls. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

    >In the United States, as late as the 1880s most States set the minimum age at 10-12, (in Delaware it was 7 in 1895).[8] Inspired by the "Maiden Tribute" female reformers in the US initiated their own campaign[9] which petitioned legislators to raise the legal minimum age to at least 16, with the ultimate goal to raise the age to 18. The campaign was successful, with almost all states raising the minimum age to 16-18 years by 1920.

            >Also: see: Deuteronomy chapter 22 verses 28-29, hebrew allows men to rape girl children and keep them: thus man + girl is obviously fine. Feminists are commanded to be killed as anyone enticing others to follow another ruler/judge/god is to be killed as-per Deuteronomy. It is wonderful when this happens from time to time: celebrate)

  13. I don't use Github by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Because they suck

  14. Ruby is for faggots and transfreaks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

    Ruby is for faggots and transfreaks.

  15. Why now? by alvinrod · · Score: 2

    I'm kind of curious why they decided to release this now instead of at some earlier point. It doesn't seem like it's a massive code base that would be perplexing and most of it looks well enough documented that there's no reason to be ashamed of the code (though I did notice a minor grammatical error in one of the files which had "alread" instead of "already" in a String literal, but hardly a big deal.) that tends to keep people from wanting to share.

    I suppose if they are interested in porting it, it's a lot easier if you just open source it and allow someone else who may be interested to take on some of the work. It's well documented enough that a college student could probably do it. It might make a good project for someone interested in learning Ruby (or some other language) and getting involved in the open source community.

    1. Re:Why now? by TheCurvyPoet · · Score: 1

      Jesse said they wanted to make sure that not only the code was stable, but also the libraries were not going to go through lots of updates (like daily updates, which happened when the system was new). The article ran long and that part got cut out :)

  16. But... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Does it test if your project is using offensive language and gendered pronouns?

    1. Re:But... by omfgnosis · · Score: 1

      Now I want to write a library that determines if a given Internet comment is written by someone who is obviously butthurt about having lots of privilege but experiencing the reality that people with less privilege aren't entirely silent and therefore not 100% avoidable.

  17. Does the world need more? by barbariccow · · Score: 1

    Does the world really need more ruby scripts? Isn't the backlog of "needs-conversion to real language" high enough already?

    1. Re:Does the world need more? by TheCurvyPoet · · Score: 1

      If the ruby script in question does something that has not been done before and that something adds to the efficiency/accuracy of software development, then I say yes, we need more ruby scripts. This functionality is new and hella useful, IMHO.

  18. Github? nah by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Well I'll have nothing to do with GitHub in futurehttp://uk.businessinsider.com/...

  19. if only.... by categorics · · Score: 1

    if only they ran it on the syntax highlighting code

  20. Attention whipslash! by dave420 · · Score: 1

    This is a great example of a story which will never yield any meaningful discussion. One one side we have people ignoring the tool in question and making rants about 'SJW' culture or jokes about racism and sexism. On the other side we have those trying to actually discuss the tool, but being undermined by people who can't get past the languages being used, and how they are 'hipster'-ish. The number of comments actually pertaining to this tool will be woefully small, especially compared to the off-topic comments.

    This is a great demonstration on how hot-button topics will derail any discussion. It sure was easier to discuss technology on Slashdot when new languages were not overtly popular and equality and tolerance were not discussed. I guess those days have past.