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Re: GitHub had connectivity problems

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Post by [deleted] »

ilghiro wrote: post #13
marinintim wrote: post #6

All these ideas like "let's fetch our deps directly from github" sound good until github is not down.

Yeh it's definitely preferable to have one of the two developers your small startup can probably afford spending a good portion of their time rolling out, securing and maintaining your own infrastructure

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Re: GitHub had connectivity problems

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Post by masukomi »

i'm sorry but... GitHub IS not GitHub are

Examples: GitHub IS a web site. GitHub is a SAAS app.

The only plural aspect to GitHub is its employees and they are not being DDoSed. The web site (singular) is.

I'm not going to bother explaining the problems with "under DDoS" or the other issues with this sentence.

Re: GitHub had connectivity problems

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Post by dhimes »

masukomi wrote: post #72

i'm sorry but... GitHub IS not GitHub are Examples: GitHub IS a web site. GitHub is a SAAS app. The only plural aspect to GitHub is its employees and they are not being DDoSed. The web site (singular) is. I'm not going to bother explaining the problems with "under DDoS" or the other issues with this sentence.

It's a British thing. Don't try to understand it- just let it be. :)

Re: GitHub had connectivity problems

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Post by honest_joe »

madez wrote: post #27
Zirro wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

But there is much less commercial incentive behind a p2p alternative. Centralized services are easier to monetize. I look forward to the day governments start to fund free software, for example through the GNU project. Then we'll all have better tools. Actually, there were already some fundings. Germany funded GnuPG to port it to Windows. What do I care what is the new world record in sprinting? But I very much do ca…

If you want to live in a twisted communist utopia go to some island please.

Re: GitHub had connectivity problems

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Post by Spiritus »

chinathrow wrote: post #40
Spiritus wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That applies to an in-house solution as well.

Inhouse DDoS seems less likely though, at least ;)

Sure, but I didn't specifically mean DDoS attacks, more of the human error kind. People tend to be more trigger happy with changes when it's "only" an internal system.

Re: GitHub had connectivity problems

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Post by viraptor »

friendzis wrote: post #75

I wonder why are they providing time in FLE[S]T (same as EE[S]T)? Are their engineering team based in Eastern Europe or what?

They're trying to detect your timezone and show the local time. Nice of them, however additional UTC for vpn users and lines with broken geoip would be also good.

Re: GitHub had connectivity problems

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Post by dopamean »

masukomi wrote: post #72

i'm sorry but... GitHub IS not GitHub are Examples: GitHub IS a web site. GitHub is a SAAS app. The only plural aspect to GitHub is its employees and they are not being DDoSed. The web site (singular) is. I'm not going to bother explaining the problems with "under DDoS" or the other issues with this sentence.

I'd be surprised if no one at GitHub has said "we're being DDoS'd this morning." GitHub is a website. It's also a company of people who probably identify closely with the product they build, like many of us. I don't think it's that crazy to use "are" here.
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