[briandear]

The so what is that the majority of people on HN are developers and the majority of them use Github either personally or with their teams. So a major outage is costing potentially millions of dollars in potentially lost developer time. If you calculate an average hourly of just $50 and a developer loses 20 minutes. Then that outage costs $17 x the number of affected developers. That's a pretty big loss.

I'm reading HN right now because I can't manage pull requests and do code reviews of my distributed team's code. So I'm just spinning in my chair.

That's the so-what.

[rblstr]

You can't pull code from another node, i.e another developer? Git is distributed, if you want centralised source control use Perforce or SVN or something.

[bdcravens]

You may want to reread the comment. It's more than being able to commit and pull via the command line.

[briandear]

sure, and I can build a commenting and pull request system while I'm at it. It's highly inefficient to change workflow for an outage that might not last an hour.

[sukaka]

yes you can pull from another node. you can also push to another node.

[wavee]

Github is under ddos at least once a month, how is this still a news worth upvoting here?