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Congratulations on creating the one billionth repository on GitHub

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Re: Congratulations on creating the one billionth repository on GitHub

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Post by fancyswimtime »

GodelNumbering wrote: post #34
paxys wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's pretty easy to game this. Just keep creating repos till you hit # one billion and remove the old ones. Their API makes it trivial. The only issue will be rate limits, and other people simultaneously creating repos, so it's a matter of luck.

There was a guy who got fired from Meta for creating excessive automated diffs in pursuit of a certain magic number

69 doesn't seem excessive

Re: Congratulations on creating the one billionth repository on GitHub

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Post by hobs »

bartread wrote: post #50
caleblloyd wrote: post #37

Awesome! Only a little over a billion more to go before GitHub’s very own OpenAPI Spec can start overflowing int32 on repositories too, just like it already does for workflows run IDs! https://github.com/github/rest-api-description/issues/4511

The company where I did my stint as CTO I turned up, noticed they were using 32-bit integers as primary keys on one of their key tables that already had 1.3 billion rows and, at the rate they were adding them, would overflow on primary key values within months… so we ran a fairly urgent project to upgrade the IDs to 64-bit to avoid the total meltdown that would have ensued otherwise.

heh, that's happened at at least 5 companies I have worked at - go to check the database, find - currency as floats, hilarious indexes, integers gonna overflow, gigantic types with nothing in them.

Re: Congratulations on creating the one billionth repository on GitHub

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Post by rudasn »

hobs wrote: post #53
bartread wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The company where I did my stint as CTO I turned up, noticed they were using 32-bit integers as primary keys on one of their key tables that already had 1.3 billion rows and, at the rate they were adding them, would overflow on primary key values within months… so we ran a fairly urgent project to upgrade the IDs to 64-bit to avoid the total meltdown that would have ensued otherwise.

heh, that's happened at at least 5 companies I have worked at - go to check the database, find - currency as floats, hilarious indexes, integers gonna overflow, gigantic types with nothing in them.

I bet you haven't seen indeces on decimals though! Fun times :)

Re: Congratulations on creating the one billionth repository on GitHub

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Post by 90s_dev »

MindTheAbstract wrote: post #54
90s_dev wrote: post #36

This is either staged, or incredible commentary on most github repos , having no purpose, never being realized, and even having given up dreaming .

I really hope it's the latter, that would be quite brilliant

I don't mean intentionally.

I mean maybe he made that repo because he'd given up on his coding dreams. Almost.

That would be some interesting accidental meta commentary on the state of things.

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