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Good thing git was designed as a decentralized revision control system, so you don’t really need GitHub. It’s just a nice convenience
As long as you didn't go all in on GitHub Actions. Like my company has.
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I think it would be pretty hard to argue against that point of view, at least thus far. If DOS/Windows hadn't become the dominant OS someone would have, and a whole generation of engineers cut their teeth on their parents' windows PCs.
There are some pretty zany alternative realities in the Multiverses I’ve visited. Xerox Parc never went under and developed computing as a much more accessible commodity. Another, Bell labs invented a whole category of analog computers that’s supplanted our universe’s digital computing era. There’s one where IBM goes directly to super computers in the 80s. While undoubtedly Microsoft did deliver for many of us, I am…
So many weird paths we could have gone down it's almost strange Microsoft won.
Good thing git was designed as a decentralized revision control system, so you don’t really need GitHub. It’s just a nice convenience
Gemini 3 Pro after 3 random things announced Github was the issue.
Good thing git was designed as a decentralized revision control system, so you don’t really need GitHub. It’s just a nice convenience
the problem isn’t with centralized internet services, the problem is a fundamental flaw with http and our centralized client server model. the solution doesn’t exist. i’ll build it in a few years if nobody else does.
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Been on GitHub for a long time. It feels like they're more often. It used to be yearly if at all that GitHub was noticably impacted. Now it's monthly, and recently, seemingly weekly.
In the early days of GitHub (like before 2010) outages were extremely common.