Earlier quoted context omitted.
If only git were a distributed version control
It would be nice not to have to rely on centralized servers at all. A P2P/torrent client built specifically for sharing code from git repositories, perhaps?
IPFS, anyone?
GitHub had connectivity problems
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Re: GitHub had connectivity problems
#32Totally speculation, but maybe related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10115641
Yeah my first reaction was it is government based and probably China.
I know, we should keep building up their economy by manufacturing nearly everything there, that should stop them.
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's subjective. In America companies tend to be referred to as singular entities, but in the UK they would be referred to as plural. Neither is wrong, just different idioms.
No, 'are' is, I believe, also incorrect in BrE. It's commonplace here, but not correct. (Or so I was taught!)
http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2011/09/agreement-over-co...
> In British English it’s absolutely fine to treat most collective nouns as either singular or plural – you can say my husband’s family is very religious or my husband’s family are very religious.
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001874.h...
etc.
With something like collective nouns it's probably wrong to make blanket statements about correct and incorrect, even if you're a prescriptivist not descriptivist.
EDIT: And while I love (but am hopeless with) English usage this is the least interesting bit of the submitted article.
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#36Guys, what's the purpose to attack a service like Github?!
China does not like some of the projects it hosts, namely the ones used to circumvent its Great Firewall.
Re: GitHub had connectivity problems
#37Guys, what's the purpose to attack a service like Github?!
Proof that you can take down a service as large and as well connected a Github perhaps.
What makes you think Github is "large and well connected"? Don't get me wrong, I love GitHub, but due to their architecture decisions, they aren't anywhere near a great example of best practices in the industry for preventing DDoS attacks.
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
Proof that you can take down a service as large and as well connected a Github perhaps.
What makes you think Github is "large and well connected"? Don't get me wrong, I love GitHub, but due to their architecture decisions, they aren't anywhere near a great example of best practices in the industry for preventing DDoS attacks.
Maybe they're unable to take down a service larger or better connected than Github, perhaps?
Re: GitHub had connectivity problems
#39Possibly just Round 2 of the massive DDOS from March:
https://github.com/blog/1981-large-scale-ddos-attack-on-gith...
http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/04/ddos-attacks-that-cr...