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		jrockway on Nov 15, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Cause of today's Github outage So basically, you don't make mistakes, only other people do. Is it cold up there on that high horse?

aaronblohowiak on Nov 15, 2010 | [–]

It is trivial to put up barriers to mistakes.

risotto on Nov 15, 2010 | | [–]

After you make them, sure. But trying to predict mistakes before they happen can be difficult to impossible.

binaryfinery on Nov 15, 2010 | [–]

No I make mistakes all the time. That's kinda my point.

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