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I think there's a difference between people who study lightly and score high, and people who grind it out and then score high. I'd guess that the majority of high scorers fall into the latter, while he falls into the former.

Ah yeah, it disappeared because I thought I would get more reads If I moved it up in the post chain lol.

May I ask what makes your company feel secure about using cloud hosted solutions. I mean, can’t a disgruntled employee easily clone the git repo to his own GitHub account ? I suppose they could do that anyways, just by copying the repo somewhere, but having an entire company’s secret code on the cloud just seems to remove too many barriers of entry for protecting the code.

Which brings into question... what is so special about the "front-end" features that Git provides? Why not use another third-party service that integrates into your Github/Gitlab/Bitbucket repo, storing the meta data of all the pull requests, code reviews, discussions, etc, inside a "meta repo" itself? I see this incident as an important note in taking steps to decouple important "meta" features from the cloud-host itself. It will be better to keep the cloud hosts as a bare bones skeleton that we can swap in/out at will (Github, Gitlab, etc), and then use another layer on top to provide all the nice fancy features.

But a multiple origin solution seems the most sensical. We have failover for everything infra and services.. it seems we now need failover for cloud-based code. It just seems logical, especially if all 3 of the big cloud providers have big incidents.

It doesn't matter, really. Its a black box from a business perspective. Some users have lost faith, and some people will migrate to other solutions. Regardless of how fair or unfair the incident was, it is a fact that it was poor up-time especially for such an important cloud provider for code.

Going forward, I see that the sensible solution for all small companies relying on cloud-hosted git is to always have a secondary cloud provider at all times.

On the plus side, this disastrous calamity by Github really made me try out Gitlab and in the process, I will now set-up a second remote on my repo's:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11690709/can-a-project-h...

  Quoted:
  "Try adding a remote called "github" instead:

   $ git remote add github    
   https://github.com/Company_Name/repository_name.git

   # push master to github
   $ git push github master

   # Push my-branch to github and set it to track github/my-branch
   $ git push -u github my-branch

   # Make some existing branch track github instead of origin
   $ git branch --set-upstream other-branch github/other-branch"

Actually, I don't know why I pay for Github private repo's.. I might as well set-up two origins, one at Gitlab and one at Bitbucket, for all my privates. Then keep Github as a public front-facing portal.

This has been super frustrating, as people have deadlines and are working to finish projects before Monday morning.

What are the (good) alternatives to Github? Gitlab supposedly is Google-backed, so I don't want to have my private code there. Is Bitbucket the only one left?

I don't mind paying monthly, which I already do for GitHub.

Agreed on everything.

However, nobody new (read: young) will want to learn a language that is not able to receive a major version bump. (notable exception I guess, Python).

A language that can't receive major version bump will be (is?) perceived as a dead language.

Perception does matter. Ads, marketing, etc etc, the world is run by perception.

> Imho they should just fork Perl 6 and continue developing Perl 5.

[insert "what if I told you" meme here]

I meant rename Perl 6 into something else and develop Perl 5.xxxx into Perl 6....

Pretty cool, but why would anyone new want to invest in Perl when it has the language problem of Perl 5 or Perl 6 ?

Imho they should just fork Perl 6 and continue developing Perl 5.

First time I heard about this thing. I don’t get it either. It just seems to be somewhat witty but ultimately trite artistic “punnery” - somewhat akin to those Reddit meme gifs with the witty but stupid captions.. just done more artistically.

This is a great anecdotal argument -- I just want to note that it also applies very well, pretty much verbatim, to some other graduate school educations too, such as engineering or comp sci.

Amazon has tipped to bad -- all these dumb services like Pantry box, Fresh now, etc, all offered outside of the now $130 premium for Prime.

I'm going to call in a few days to cancel my Prime. Amazon as a whole is just not worth investing in anymore as a customer.

I will also move off all my photos from Amazon photos and onto my own manual drives until better cloud solutions come out (not goog).

Yeah I go to Target first now -- I like the hassle-free returns (same as Amazon) but with the guarantee that items are verified authentic.

I've noticed that Target has, however, slowly begun to list inventory that I am guessing it doesn't have stock for, since there's literally pages and pages worth -- let's hope that Target does NOT pull the marketplace-sourced inventory scheme, because then there would be no difference between Target and Amazon anymore.

Honestly, does using Google even matter anymore unless you are trying to search for something extremely obscure?

Most of the time, my searches are directly for products (ie, Amazon.com, Target.com, Walmart.com), people (ie fb.com), Wikipedia (first few hits on Google), locations (yelp.com, Google maps, ___ maps), recommendations (yelp.com, etc), hotels or travel (expedia.com, kayak.com, hotwire.com, united.com, southwest.com, etc) or Stackoverflow (first page of Google) — I’d wager any modern search engine such as Bing or DDG can easily present all the relevant Stackoverflow/Stackexchange/Stack{...} results you could ever desire.

It’s not the same as the old days of random (important) data sprinkled across the personal/hobby pages of some knowledgeable people across Geocities — is there even a need for using Google anymore?