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Comment by onion2k

6 years ago

It's almost as if keeping a complex service like Github online and available to millions of users is hard.

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rurp  6 years ago

Building skyscrapers is hard. Does that make it OK for them to fall down regularly?

  • onion2k  6 years ago

    GitHub hasn't collapsed killing thousands or needing to be completely rebuilt though, so that analogy doesn't work. This is more like there's a flood in the lobby so maintenance has closed the front door for a bit.

    • rurp  6 years ago

      I didn't mean for the point to be about the consequences of the failure. What I was trying to argue against was the notion that it's fine for things to fail, just by virtue of them being hard. There are a lot of complicated systems in the world that work extremely reliably.