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It just shows that we need some kind of distributed version control system.
by noja 13y ago
It just shows that we need some kind of distributed version control system.
- sanderjd 13y agoHa! This is good satire, but for me personally, github going down isn't a version control problem nearly as much as it is a project collaboration problem. I can't go review pull requests and discuss issues when github is down, but I can still do all the traditional version control activities. Github is so much more than distributed version control. If somebody started doing the non-version-control things that github does in a distributed fashion, I would be very interested in taking a look.
- j-hernandez 13y agoI am still laughing at this comment.
- ilaksh 13y agoActually there are quite a large number of researchers who have concluded that the underlying architecture of the internet itself needs to be more distributed. They call it data oriented or name-based networking, content centric etc. The hardest part about switching over to a fully distributed internet is to maintain existing business models. Either someone will figure out and successfully market a business friendly universal data/computing distribution distribution system/network, or we will see free ones pop up that start to supplant more and more centralized services that are associated with particular domain names on the traditional internet. We are also eventually likely to see very strong push back against ISPs that overcharge for business internet. Well, at least in a sane and just world all of this would come true shortly.