For those interested, here's what I was able to read from the twitter avatar:
Pro Tip: You can add more
than 140 characters into
your twitter avatar. For
example, here are 156 of
them. Just make sure to
include all links in the
main text ;-) Also, hand
out magnifying glasses!
Thanks! I was trying to decipher it on iMac with a 5k display (? 5120x2880) and an attached LED Cinema Display (2560x1440). MacOS does a good job dealing with the DPI so that they appear the same size (but one is clearer than the other). Using a magnifying glass, I could almost make out the text on the lower DPI screen, though blue was almost invisible, and I could not seen anything other than a colored bar on the high DPI screen :)
And that's because they are cheap enough to buy on impulse, and/or to make an affordable gift for the holiday season that is clearly the hottest and newest available.
If it's one service though there is still always a single point of failure outside of your control. If you want true redundancy you need to use multiple versions with no interconnections and develop your own solution to mitigate partial failure, of course your own solution is also a single point of failure, but at least it's under your control.
That said, Github has never been down long enough for me to justify a fallback procedure and policy for my team. The complexity of the solution outweighs the benefit. We'll cross that bridge when we come to it.
Of course there will be. We are talking about git. Everyone has a full copy of the repository. Github's data center gets hit by a meteor tomorrow and it's a minor setback, nothing more.