Github Arctic Code Vault

This is real glacier archiving unlike the metaphoric AWS Glacier kind. Github is  archiving code on film and storing it in an abandoned coal mine. Money quote:

“It’s more mine-y and rustic and raw-hole-in-the-rock than I thought it would be,” Nat Friedman, CEO of GitHub

Quote of the Day

“Capitalism” is the name Marx (that angry grifter) coined for free trade, which is what humans do if left alone.  Ultimately Socialism’s problems aren’t with “capitalism.” They’re with humans.

Sarah Hoyt