<story><title>Microsoft, currently the most valuable company, is having a Nadellaissance</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-05-02/satya-nadella-remade-microsoft-as-world-s-most-valuable-company</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jlarocco</author><text>&amp;gt; &amp;quot;Contextual recommendations are based on practices developed in thousands of high quality, open-source projects on GitHub each with high star ratings.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Wait, what?  Is there a way to opt out of that in GitHub?  I don&amp;#x27;t want their AI to scan my code.&lt;p&gt;Realistically, since most of my GH code is Common Lisp with few stars, I doubt it&amp;#x27;s looking anyway, but I&amp;#x27;d like to make sure.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m sure it&amp;#x27;s covered in their TOS, but as a (still) paying GitHub customer I don&amp;#x27;t want them to do that with my repos.</text></item><item><author>johnday</author><text>&amp;gt; “Intellisense with AI now available on VS Code” is Microsoft’s nice way of saying “We harvest the shit out of your data”.&lt;p&gt;What? The IntelliCode description says that &amp;quot;Contextual recommendations are based on practices developed in thousands of high quality, open-source projects on GitHub each with high star ratings.&amp;quot;. I&amp;#x27;m not clear on how you think Microsoft will harvest data from doing this - much less how it is related to ads.</text></item><item><author>spectramax</author><text>It’s unfortunate to see Microsoft (along with Adobe, etc) expanding into Ads. If nothing else, they could really differentiate and join forces with Apple from privacy standpoint to oppose Google, Amazon and Facebook.&lt;p&gt;Instead, “Intellisense with AI now available on VS Code” is Microsoft’s nice way of saying “We harvest the shit out of your data”. Ah, like a true Ad company. Don’t get me started on Windows 10 telemetry.&lt;p&gt;I really believe that Apple’s bet on privacy will pay off well in the long term. They’re different companies (Apple is selling hardware) but boy they could have gone into Ads with a MASSIVE user base but they chose to limit Ads in the App Store. It would have been huge expansion opportunity but they didn’t pursue it. And it will pay off as privacy awareness spreads and Microsoft could join them as operating system providers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hirsin</author><text>Should have nothing to do with github and everything to do with you putting your code on the internet with a permissive license. Google or Eclipse could do this too (and I expect they do, since it&amp;#x27;s the best corpus of code available).</text></comment>
<story><title>Microsoft, currently the most valuable company, is having a Nadellaissance</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-05-02/satya-nadella-remade-microsoft-as-world-s-most-valuable-company</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jlarocco</author><text>&amp;gt; &amp;quot;Contextual recommendations are based on practices developed in thousands of high quality, open-source projects on GitHub each with high star ratings.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Wait, what?  Is there a way to opt out of that in GitHub?  I don&amp;#x27;t want their AI to scan my code.&lt;p&gt;Realistically, since most of my GH code is Common Lisp with few stars, I doubt it&amp;#x27;s looking anyway, but I&amp;#x27;d like to make sure.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m sure it&amp;#x27;s covered in their TOS, but as a (still) paying GitHub customer I don&amp;#x27;t want them to do that with my repos.</text></item><item><author>johnday</author><text>&amp;gt; “Intellisense with AI now available on VS Code” is Microsoft’s nice way of saying “We harvest the shit out of your data”.&lt;p&gt;What? The IntelliCode description says that &amp;quot;Contextual recommendations are based on practices developed in thousands of high quality, open-source projects on GitHub each with high star ratings.&amp;quot;. I&amp;#x27;m not clear on how you think Microsoft will harvest data from doing this - much less how it is related to ads.</text></item><item><author>spectramax</author><text>It’s unfortunate to see Microsoft (along with Adobe, etc) expanding into Ads. If nothing else, they could really differentiate and join forces with Apple from privacy standpoint to oppose Google, Amazon and Facebook.&lt;p&gt;Instead, “Intellisense with AI now available on VS Code” is Microsoft’s nice way of saying “We harvest the shit out of your data”. Ah, like a true Ad company. Don’t get me started on Windows 10 telemetry.&lt;p&gt;I really believe that Apple’s bet on privacy will pay off well in the long term. They’re different companies (Apple is selling hardware) but boy they could have gone into Ads with a MASSIVE user base but they chose to limit Ads in the App Store. It would have been huge expansion opportunity but they didn’t pursue it. And it will pay off as privacy awareness spreads and Microsoft could join them as operating system providers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wanderer2323</author><text>I disagree with the paren&amp;#x27;t sentiment but I think they raise an interesting point: is&amp;#x2F;should there be a license that says: you can read&amp;#x2F;use&amp;#x2F;modify {this} but you cannot use it as a training data for the AI.&lt;p&gt;{this} can be code or text or an image or any other content.</text></comment>