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majewsky on Aug 26, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: What are your favourite self-hosted tools?

Rebuilding the entire toolchain of your language sounds like a colossal waste of time when you just wanted to avoid a few hours per year of developer downtime.

quickthrower2 on Aug 27, 2017 [–]

No need to rebuild everything. Simply having the "DLLs" or equivalent checked in or in a maven/NuGet folder backed up would do the trick.

Your not just saving developer downtime. Remember that non incident a few months ago? Could be a security issue too.

quickthrower2 on Aug 27, 2017 | [–]

Edit: npm incident

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