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Re: GitHub Outage

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Post by why_advertise »

why_advertise wrote: post #138
ntaylor wrote: post #33

Thank God we're on Bitbucket! Right, guys? Anyone?

If the internet would hire people to advertise for them, it would bring marketing to the next level. Take for example if BitBucket hired someone to go online, and compare the two: GitHub and BitBucket. Of course the comparison would have to disclose that thy work for BitBucket, but it would be a very thoughtful response. We would get these detailed as fuck responses on why one project (BitBucket) is worth more to the…

Thinking about this more, this could be automated to some degree. You could have a bot that listens and responds when key words appear somewhere online. You could use Google's API for when it's bot finds something of interest to you "As it happens"

This would only get you so far. What if a user has a question? How will you help them out if it's a bit. The solution?

Write API's for every site that you want to use. You can either scrape every site for responses that fit your criteria, or let google do the digging for you with the "as it happens" notifications which would indicate that you have to scrape that site for the information.

If the information you get from the site is something you want to respond to, you can.

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Holy fucking shit.

I just described a system that would allow for you to use all websites as inboxes for chat messages.

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Refine:

With this early model, we would have one program on our machine that would understand X websites. It can parse user comments directed at us from a website (A). It can send responses back to A, and so on.

Now, users on Program X can chat with theoretically any person on any website (A, B, ...), but users of website A can only chat with other people on website A OR people using Program X.

Why doesn't everyone use program X? Because it does not exist yet.

Re: GitHub Outage

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Post by gsteinb88 »

debacle wrote: post #136
beat wrote: post #124

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Having used both, I find github's tools (mostly) better. And bitbucket isn't 100% reliable either.

Self-hosted is.

Assuming you pay someone to maintain it, maybe. Which costs a lot more than a github/bitbucket contract.

Re: GitHub Outage

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Post by zymhan »

chuhnk wrote: post #94
ikawe wrote: post #27

Sorry, I think I caused this. =[ bower jquery#1.11.3 not-cached git://github.com/jquery/jquery-dist.git#1.11.3 bower jquery#1.11.3 resolve git://github.com/jquery/jquery-dist.git#1.11.3 bower foundation#~5.5.2 cached git://github.com/zurb/bower-foundation.git#5.5.3 bower foundation#~5.5.2 validate 5.5.3 against git://github.com/zurb/bower-foundation.git#~5.5.2 bower ember#^2.3.0 ECMDERR Failed to execute "git ls-remo…

I once ran rm -rf in the production mysql data directory. Shit happens.

I did that too. Destroyed out Zabbix database. Neither that Zabbix server, nor the other one monitoring the server I destroyed, could alert us that anything had gone wrong for over an hour. I finally realized it when I couldn't login...

I was able to painstakingly rebuild the server after 9 hours without anyone noticing. To this day one of my biggest fuck ups and prouder accomplishments.

Re: GitHub Outage

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Post by kelseydh »

I heavily rely on Github # tags to document my codebase. Failures like this make me wonder if there is any way to decouple my codebase from Github while preserving all the comments and issues on commits I've built up.

Re: GitHub Outage

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Post by bobwaycott »

upbeatlinux wrote: post #73

The status page update seems like some ironic machine rant "The status is still red at the beginning of the day" ( http://take.ms/50Tox ) Hubot has assumed control...the singularity is upon us!!!

Yeah, I am confused by the existence of a status report for a time 3.5hrs in the future. Guess they're just trying to get ahead of the game and set some realistic expectations.

Re: GitHub Outage

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Post by ld00d »

Analemma_ wrote: post #92

sigh Many moons ago when I was a starry-eyed lad just learning to use Git, I remember all the cheerful sentences in the Git book like "Unlike SVN, with Git you can work even when the server is down!" The more things change, the more they stay the same.

git != github. If you're worried, you can always push to another remote in the meantime. Does svn do that?

Re: GitHub Outage

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Post by barsonme »

lazyjones wrote: post #132
mirekrusin wrote: post #117

Google code was turned off and now github?

Can't update to a newer Go devel version; can't fetch Go packages, sigh ...

Ugh. It has also killed my productivity this last hour because an API I was supposed to be writing against is only hosted GitHub.

Re: GitHub Outage

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Post by Perceptes »

Every time this happens people make clever remarks about how Git is distributed but we're all depending on GitHub for so much that we defeat the purpose. But once GitHub comes back up, everyone just gets back to work, trusting and relying on it as much as ever. Eventually it goes down again, and we come back to complain. Convenience is the only thing that we seem to value. (I'm no different, which makes my comment completely hypocritical.)
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