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Re: GitHub had connectivity problems

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Post by [deleted] »

OJFord wrote: post #65
DanBC wrote: post #34

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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…

Ah but that's different. "Company nouns" are not used as collective, they refer to a singular entity - the registered company, not it as a body of people.

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Re: GitHub had connectivity problems

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Post by kzhahou »

dubcanada wrote: post #137
kzhahou wrote: post #132

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Github employees are here on HN, and just as likely to answer here vs a tweet or whatever.

Yes, but this isn't a support channel. Twitter and their support email(s) are a support channel. They may answer the question here, just like they may answer the question if you sent them a snail mail with it written in crayon. But they are not required too.

Support channel is where I go when I can't access my account, or want to submit a feature request. Anyway, it'd be awesome if someone posted a technical response here, but I don't expect them to.

Re: GitHub had connectivity problems

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Post by simoncion »

wtbob wrote: post #102
dTal wrote: post #52

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Hear, hear. I've talked about this with people and it's surprisingly hard to convince them that government-sponsored software is a good idea. While a tiny fraction of the amount we already spend on commercial software would utterly transform the free software landscape, it's not politically viable as long as commercial software vendors have lobby power.

> it's surprisingly hard to convince them that government-sponsored software is a good idea That's because it's not. Governments are not reliably good, and their money comes with far more strings than private money. The FSF have it right: people should write free software because proprietary software is immoral.

> [Government] money comes with far more strings than private money.

Have you ever worked on a government-funded project? The Tor folks have and do. :)

> ...[P]eople should write free software because proprietary software is immoral.

USGov does fund Libre and Open Source software. One big example is the Tor Project.

Re: GitHub had connectivity problems

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Post by smpetrey »

dsmithatx wrote: post #140

I'm getting 500 timeouts on Bitbucket. Didn't Google Code go read-only today? Don't you guys think Bitbucket and Github might be having issues due to people migrating off of Google Code at the last minute?

Possibly, but they are having degraded API performance and high load on their front-end systems.

http://status.bitbucket.org

Re: GitHub had connectivity problems

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Post by vezzy-fnord »

kzhahou wrote: post #112

It seems a certainty to me that github will be breached one of these days, and all internal data (i.e., private repos) made public. On that day, so many companies will inadvertently become open source! Do we have any info on what steps github takes to prevent this? I ask as a paying customer (with both personal and corporate accounts).

On that day, so many companies will inadvertently become open source!

Well, no. They would be inadvertently source-available. If the license doesn't comply with the Open Source Definition, it's not open source.

EDIT: Downvoted as usual for correcting false impressions about how free software and open source works.

Re: GitHub had connectivity problems

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Post by dTal »

microtonal wrote: post #67
dTal wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hear, hear. I've talked about this with people and it's surprisingly hard to convince them that government-sponsored software is a good idea. While a tiny fraction of the amount we already spend on commercial software would utterly transform the free software landscape, it's not politically viable as long as commercial software vendors have lobby power.

Let's not forget that it is not in many governments' interest to have distributed tools (with strong encryption). It is much easier to take down stuff on centralized services. BTW, it is hear, hear ;).

Thank you for the correction :)

Re: GitHub had connectivity problems

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Post by Someone1234 »

hellbanner wrote: post #97
kevinbowman wrote: post #62

Does anyone else find the Github status "messages" page [0] a bit jarring in how it's organised? The way that, when read from top to bottom, time goes forwards within a day but backwards across days? I guess I normally wouldn't notice, but there are currently some messages on there from today and yesterday and I found it hard to read as a story (either forwards or backwards) - I had to jump around a bit to figure it…

Is there a repo you can make an issue / PR on?

Doubtful, GitHub isn't open source software.

Re: GitHub had connectivity problems

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Post by konradb »

pavel_lishin wrote: post #66
fallingfrog wrote: post #56

Ugh, how horrible! DDoS'ing github is like kicking a puppy in the face.

Isn't it more like barricading bus drivers inside their homes because someone you don't like takes the bus to work?

I always say that making an argument using analogies is like trying to tie your shoes with laces made of butter. :)
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