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I pay github for the same reason I pay heroku. It just works and I don't have to do anything. That is why they exist. Sure you can set up your own git server, but what do you do when it goes down?
In this way, DVCS's are resilient to individual server failure.
Are you really going to spend less than 1 hour maintain this sort-of-github instance you have?
Watch out with the sending email directly from an EC2 instance. You don't really have a fixed IP so rDNS isn't going to work very well, and that's still a front-line filter for a lot of big email providers.
If you are an Amazon EC2 user, you can get started with Amazon SES for free. You can send 2,000 messages for free each day when you call Amazon SES from an Amazon EC2 instance directly or through AWS Elastic Beanstalk. Many applications are able to operate entirely within this free tier limit. http://aws.amazon.com/ses/pricing/ You could also use Mailgun, mandrillapp.com, etc. I believe they all provide at least 10-1…
My team uses pull requests extensively. The master branch is considered good, clean, production-ready code. Anything you want to get into production gets there by way of a pull request. Want to add a feature? Fix a bug? Make a branch, do your thing, and create a pull request against master. The rest of the team reviews your code in the pull request; the comments in a pull request are an excellent feature. My job woul…
It's a much better system, faster, more powerful and more flexible but not centralized and you have to understand what you are doing.
It's not like this is a feature github discovered and added. They made an easier, prettier and less powerful version of an existing feature. Certainly not a bad idea, git's command line UI is ridiculously bad UI so a super simple point and click interface was a fantastic way to grab market share and get non-command line people involved.
> the comments in a pull request are an excellent feature
Really? I mean, compared to nothing I guess it would seem great. But since I'm used to an email thread serving the same purpose those comments on github pull requests seem awful to me.
Off topic: People who use Mother Teresa as the canonical example of selfless altruism need to read something about Mother Teresa so they don't look so silly.
Off topic: People who use Mother Teresa as the canonical example of selfless altruism need to read something about Mother Teresa so they don't look so silly.
Yeah, no kidding. Feeding and providing medical care for the Untouchables in India? She should have made an iPhone app to help find friends in restaurants nearby, that would have made he a real selfless altriust.
also, she and most othe rreligious still advocate over population and against several sane health treatments. not to mention education.
no little good religion does compensate for the long term damage.