Computer guys are so cute, what with their naivety about the speed of progress in non-computer engineering fields. The article might as well be about terraforming Mars.
If you read comments to the post, the proposed solutions are:
self-healing film for tiny holes; baloons that move with the air flow and plug the holes with their bodies for medium holes; and evacuation to a safe place for a huge holes once in a century. It is a Russian blog so most ideas reside not in the article but down in comments :)
To be fair, if we get a good handle on available resources once we're there, the likelihood that we can send a 3d-printer to Mars that will build a living base is quite high. The assemble-in-place science can be made to work, and I believe we will be sending fleets of 3d printers to Mars, in the first wave of colonization, anyway ..
