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Re: The GitHub website is slow on Safari

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Post by const_cast »

muglug wrote: post #327
const_cast wrote: post #234

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We already automate that, it's called a compiler. The human review is just for kicks for this type of thing. Of course some languages... PHP ... aren't so lucky. $customer->cusomerEmail? Good luck dealing with that critical in production, fuckheads!

What if I told you there were tools for that

I'm aware of the tools, I write PHP daily.

The point is moreso that PHP won't stop you from doing that. It will run, and it will continue running, and then it will throw an error at some point. Maybe.

If the code is actually executed. If it's in a branch that's only executed like 1/1000 times... not good.

Re: The GitHub website is slow on Safari

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Post by rapind »

const_cast wrote: post #231
tempest_ wrote: post #177

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Servers cost money, the client is free (and pays you sometimes)!

The client costs money too, opportunity cost. Which, unfortunately, cannot be measured :( so no KPIs. Darn! Its all fun and games until you cut quality over and over so much your customers just leave. Ask Chrysler or GE. I mean they must have saved, what, billions across decades? And for free! Well... um... not free actually, because those companies have been run into the ground, dragged through hell, revived, and th…

But taxpayers keep bailing them out... so how did they lose?

Re: The GitHub website is slow on Safari

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Post by 1vuio0pswjnm7 »

kokanee wrote: post #192
1vuio0pswjnm7 wrote: post #166

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"The Github website is slow everywhere." Perhaps it depends what software one is using For example, commandline search and tarball/zipball retrieval from the website, e.g., github.com, raw.githubusercontent.com and codeload.github.com, are not slow for me, certainly not any slower than Gitlab I do not use a browser nor do I use the git software

The website is fast if you don't use the website

A server listening on port 443, responding to HTTP and serving HTML is generally known as as a "website"

The servers at https://codeload.github.com and https://raw.githubusercontent.com are two examples

Each redirects to https://github.com

Re: The GitHub website is slow on Safari

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Post by szundi »

RedShift1 wrote: post #244
const_cast wrote: post #231

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The client costs money too, opportunity cost. Which, unfortunately, cannot be measured :( so no KPIs. Darn! Its all fun and games until you cut quality over and over so much your customers just leave. Ask Chrysler or GE. I mean they must have saved, what, billions across decades? And for free! Well... um... not free actually, because those companies have been run into the ground, dragged through hell, revived, and th…

MBA's ruin everything

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Re: The GitHub website is slow on Safari

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Post by godelski »

const_cast wrote: post #231
tempest_ wrote: post #177

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Servers cost money, the client is free (and pays you sometimes)!

The client costs money too, opportunity cost. Which, unfortunately, cannot be measured :( so no KPIs. Darn! Its all fun and games until you cut quality over and over so much your customers just leave. Ask Chrysler or GE. I mean they must have saved, what, billions across decades? And for free! Well... um... not free actually, because those companies have been run into the ground, dragged through hell, revived, and th…

  > Which, unfortunately, cannot be measured
This is such a subtle but important thing that so many people do not understand about data analysis. It's even at the heart of things like survivor bias[0]. Your measure is always a proxy and this proxy has varying degrees of alignment with what you want to measure.

I know everyone knows the cliche "The devil is in the details" but everyone seems to continually make these mistakes because nuance is hard. But then again what is a cliche if not words of wisdom that everyone can recite but fail to follow?

  > Its all fun and games until you cut quality over and over so much your customers just leave.
The alternative is you develop a Lemon Market. Which is a terrible situation for all parties involved. Short term profits might be up but these are at the loss of much higher long term rewards.

[0] You infer where the downed planes were shot through the measures you can make on recovered planes. But that is very different than measuring where downed planes were shot. You can't just take the inverse of the returned planes and know where to add plating from there.

Re: The GitHub website is slow on Safari

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Post by godelski »

RedShift1 wrote: post #244
const_cast wrote: post #231

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The client costs money too, opportunity cost. Which, unfortunately, cannot be measured :( so no KPIs. Darn! Its all fun and games until you cut quality over and over so much your customers just leave. Ask Chrysler or GE. I mean they must have saved, what, billions across decades? And for free! Well... um... not free actually, because those companies have been run into the ground, dragged through hell, revived, and th…

MBA's ruin everything

To be fair, many programmers are part of the problem too. But then again, it is getting harder to differentiate some programmers from MBAs...

Re: The GitHub website is slow on Safari

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Post by forgotmypw17 »

dwaite wrote: post #208
forgotmypw17 wrote: post #171

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> That's like taking off all of the locks on your house, leaving the doors and windows open all while expecting your house to never have uninvited guests. Depending on where you live (or what websites you visit) it's not unreasonable.

Attacks via ad networks mean that is likely limited more than people would expect.

That's a good point. I assumed they use an effective ad blocker.
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