Ex mathematician, aspiring dilettante.
I hack on the Mir display server and related madness at Canonical.
@[email protected] @RAOF @er1n @[email protected] oh, I'm sure people blame decentralised version control. But I think that's because for most people git *is* decentralised version control.
But git has a uniquely bad UI for decentralised version control - bazaar, mercurial, (monotone?) don't suffer the same flaws.
@[email protected] @er1n @[email protected] it's not decentralised version control that's difficult, it's git. Git's UI is aggressively, *deliberately* terrible.
Like how it uses all the same command names as svn, but uses them for *totally different things*, even though the svn command makes perfect sense (checkout, revert, etc). Like how it pretends that revision numbers are impossible, or that the sensible default for “commit” is “add none of you work”. Like...
Even when you disagree with his ideas, Rich Hickey’s talks are well worth a listen. I always learn something, and find I disagree less and less every time.
I’m normally in favour of type-driven design with static types for large programs, but I have to agree with his points here:
https://github.com/matthiasn/talk-transcripts/blob/master/Hickey_Rich/EffectivePrograms.md
In the interest of load-balancing it seems like it might be a good idea to migrate off the mastodon.social instance.
Because I like platonic solids, I'll be migrating here, to Icosahedron :grinning:
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