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Honestly all those paragraphs above about how "simple" it is to host it on their own kind of proves his point in my opinion. They don't want to be in the code h

Honestly all those paragraphs above about how "simple" it is to host it on their own kind of proves his point in my opinion. They don't want to be in the code hosting business, they want to be in the improve curl and get the big project to rewrite some of it in rust done business. I maintain our big companies githib enterprise host and we are working on finally convincing security to let us move to github.com. There are more features there and it's one less thing my team has to maintain or risk dealing with downtime. Let the experts do that, it's cheaper and more reliable in the end.

1337shadow 6y ago
I understand what you mean, as it's pretty mainstream/typical, but "they don't want to be in the code hosting business" makes it sound like it's going to be a full time job which clearly isn't, and you get back the little time you've put in doing the upgrades everyday, every time you interact with your repo. But then again, the subject here is not "big companies", so, I'm not really sure how your story is related to the story we are discussing here. As for "let the experts do that", you really make it sound like running a service on a linux box is something "for experts" which clearly is a fallacy. Unless you mean that "running nmap to check that your firewall works is something for experts", not sure where you place the bar for what you call "experts", is making a systemd service or timer or starting a container better left to "experts" ? I'm sincerely wondering what the criteria are in the definition of "expert" in the Hacker News standard.
- res0nat0r 6y ago
  He want's to write curl code, anything else that distracts from that he doesn't want to do if he doesn't have to. Hosting a version control system on his own vs just git cloning and pushing to github.com is more work. He doesn't want that. That's really all it is.
  - 1337shadow 6y ago
    When I want to write code, I also want to have a pipeline that suits my requirements, at the cost of implementing it myself if necessary, because I want to best out of my coding experience.

1337shadow 6y ago

I understand what you mean, as it's pretty mainstream/typical, but "they don't want to be in the code hosting business" makes it sound like it's going to be a full time job which clearly isn't, and you get back the little time you've put in doing the upgrades everyday, every time you interact with your repo. But then again, the subject here is not "big companies", so, I'm not really sure how your story is related to the story we are discussing here. As for "let the experts do that", you really make it sound like running a service on a linux box is something "for experts" which clearly is a fallacy. Unless you mean that "running nmap to check that your firewall works is something for experts", not sure where you place the bar for what you call "experts", is making a systemd service or timer or starting a container better left to "experts" ? I'm sincerely wondering what the criteria are in the definition of "expert" in the Hacker News standard.

res0nat0r 6y ago
He want's to write curl code, anything else that distracts from that he doesn't want to do if he doesn't have to. Hosting a version control system on his own vs just git cloning and pushing to github.com is more work. He doesn't want that. That's really all it is.
- 1337shadow 6y ago
  When I want to write code, I also want to have a pipeline that suits my requirements, at the cost of implementing it myself if necessary, because I want to best out of my coding experience.