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How reliant people are on Github is puzzling. If Github somehow failed one day, many businesses and OSS projects would just fail to operate. What surprises me
by gkya 9y ago
How reliant people are on Github is puzzling. If Github somehow failed one day, many businesses and OSS projects would just fail to operate. What surprises me is that software teams in companies use it too, when just sending commits/patches around is quite easy with any VCS.
- katastic 9y agoKind of like how that one NPM package took down like 14,000 other packages when someone took a DMCA request against an author's OTHER package and he just took them all down in protest--which took down their dependencies and their dependencies and ... "broke the world". https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/23/npm_left_pad_chaos/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/23/npm_left_pad_chaos/ The code in question was like 11 lines of code (with curly and spaces!!) for calculating left-hand padding for a syntax highlighting code box.