What if the internet goes out?

speiler · on Dec 5, 2012

What if the power goes out? What if your main development PC goes down?

The question is really how often does this happen and how long is it out for. Personally I don't remember the last time my internet was out for more then an hour, and that wasn't even in the last year.

Google Docs must have the same problem, how do they mitigate it?

toyg · on Dec 5, 2012

Google Drive.

I can see the always-on scenario playing out ok for some (web-developers, enterprise folks etc), but I don't see how the hardcore C crowd and their hyper-customized build farms would gain anything from it.

xianm · on Dec 5, 2012

Editing on a laptop in an area with no WiFi or an internet connection would prove difficult as well.

Re: Google Docs - you can enable offline editing with Google Docs.

http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1...

dysoco · on Dec 6, 2012

Oh well, then my ISP must suck :( Anyways, I travel a lot with my laptop: and I don't have WiFi connection everywhere I go: that's why I don't "live in the cloud" for now.

runevault · on Dec 5, 2012

Google docs has local storage capabilities, at least with their android versions though I think the web version supports it too.

vidarh · on Dec 5, 2012

The "local storage" support in Google Docs Android client is still abysmal. I've more than once gotten network related errors when trying to do stuff to a document that I've explicitly marked as "offline".

Vastly better than before though - their offline support is very new.

kgabis · on Dec 5, 2012

You could still use a local copy. DVCS rox.