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by vulf 12y ago
Based on the history of communication with Gruber, they should probably assume no reply means it's NOT okay... but then no progress would be made, ever.
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by vulf 12y ago
That's also $50/mo minimum to use a custom domain. Github's static page hosting is free.
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by vulf 12y ago
> commit history, push log, and all issues and pull requests A force push will still show up in the log. Issues and PRs aren't deletable, so that lends a bit of credibility to this. Sure, said engineer probably has access to erase
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by vulf 12y ago
> GitHub should have implemented a blocking mechanism to stop people inviting Zed to 'dick' projects They did: https://github.com/blog/862-block-the-bullies They never admitted to it being a response to th
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by vulf 13y ago
It's not throwing him under the bus. It's distancing him from the investigation. That's both to protect him, in case things favor his story, and to protect the company, if it turns out he was in the wrong. In both cases, th
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by vulf 13y ago
How? Easily. If you're investigating the matter you want to distance all parties involved from the situation, so that they cannot influence the outcome. If Julie was still employed there, she would have certainly been put on leave a
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by vulf 13y ago
Yes: https://twitter.com/pjhyett/status/89064336454201346
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by vulf 13y ago
PJ Hyett has been married for many years: https://twitter.com/pjhyett/status/89064336454201346
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by vulf 13y ago
This may sound extra paranoid, but I've locked myself out of 2FA'd accounts before and recovery is not fun, so I go out of my way to keep the recovery codes secured but available to me in case of catastrophe. First, I make an encr
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by vulf 13y ago
You could just use the SMS option instead of the app one when you turn on github's 2fa. Then no 3rd party will have access to the secret.
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by vulf 14y ago
I do believe using Dropbox for distro is against their TOS.
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by vulf 14y ago
> should be producing small files You'd be amazed how even small zip files can quickly make a repo an unruly monster. Tread carefully if you take that route.
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by vulf 14y ago
That's using the zips github generates for every repo, not the downloads section of the repo.
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by vulf 14y ago
When github says "We are disrupting how software is written in the enterprise", the very first thing that comes to my mind is not catering to companies that won't give up IE6.
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by vulf 14y ago
That went away some time ago, when the latest redesign of the page was put up.
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by vulf 14y ago
> Bootstrapping in business means starting a business without external help or capital. Keyword: "starting". GitHub has long moved out of the "starting" phase, which has always been bootstrapped for them.
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by vulf 14y ago
When you are just starting out and have no real leverage in the deal, sure. But it sounds like the GitHub guys were the ones holding all the cards in this deal, maybe they made sure the terms of the deal excluded that "general rule".
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by vulf 15y ago
Did you at least try to contact their support? If "someone is in on it" and they're all laughing at you already, yea, nothing would happen. But what if you're just making assumptions about them for no reason? it's hard to cry that they h
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by vulf 16y ago
HN has a rather specific audience though. Reddit and 4chan have a fairly general audience in comparison.
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by vulf 16y ago
Indeed, this was pulled how long ago?
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by vulf 16y ago
I would guess that github doesn't consider themselves legal experts and does not want to get involved... if they comply with the takedown they get immunity from liability here. The DMCA allows the allegedly infringing party to file counter
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by vulf 16y ago
You should report to security@github.com next time.
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by vulf 17y ago
Users can add a pledgie donate button to their repos: http://github.com/devinross/tapkulibrary Looks like it's bigger than that signup button too...
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by vulf 17y ago
Indeed, GitHub's terms even state "GitHub does not warrant that ... (ii) the service will be uninterrupted..." If uptime was a serious factor for you, you'd probably pay for an SLA to ensure uptime and compensation for downtime... and a SLA
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by vulf 17y ago
I've actually been in that exact situation. Yes, the unit test should expect that once it offloads the message to the SMTP server that everything works correctly, but there should also be another set of tests that ensures the app fails gra
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by vulf 17y ago
The spelling/grammer issues just add to the feel that your post was a pissed off rant. My own typing goes to crap if I'm in a rage. The key is to wait a period of time to cool off and go back over the post and fix the errors before you se
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by vulf 17y ago
How would they do that though? If you look at the details of what cause the outage, it was not a matter of free vs. paid users. Even if they added extra redundancy for paid users that they didn't give free users, that wouldn't do any good
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by vulf 17y ago
The electric company analogy is a good one, but I don't think you're looking at it correctly. No service, not even electricity, has 100% uptime. If thinks are that mission critical, you need a backup plan. Should you disconnect from the