Thank you for that comment. I had initially skipped that section and went back and watched it after reading this.
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I'm sure that these new features will find a lot of use amongst many people. And seeing these Excel innovations is heartening.
And honestly, I've never been able to get this argument. It's a version management system! It's supposed to maintain the history of what's been done, both good and bad. In fact, that's the whole point of a VCS, isn't it?
IMHO, if we want to show a different path than what's been actually taken for the codebase to reach where it is now, we might as well use a network drive to store the different versions. Why bother with a VCS then?
But when most of the articles submitted here don't work without JavaScript, this comment seems really irrelevant.
Focusing on the magnitude instead of the value of a number, changes the perspective when we're talking or thinking in these scales.
From the site:
> The universe is very large, but it is not infinite. All quantities in the universe (distance, time, energy, mass, etc) exist within 50 to 100 orders of magnitude.
> The human species interacts with only 25 of these magnitudes.
Good Tools Are Invisible
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48858121
In my opinion, software tools are different from software libraries.
Knowing RDBMS concepts and SQL is one thing, vim and git are something else altogether.
Under the section -
"Applying the Lindy effect to software engineering"
The suggestions are -
- Prudent Adoption
- Stick to Proven Foundation
- Plan for Longevity
- Embrace Evolution, Not Revolution
Every time there's a post here on git and I read the comments, I keep thinking of all the years I've used fossil and how it's been completely invisible, in the background, letting me get ahead with my work.
> every time you have a bug or a regression, you write a test that confirms correct behaviour.
What I fail to see in these rewrites however is - what about new bugs introduced by virtue of this rewrite? I mean it'll have to go through its own challenges in real-world scenarios, right?
I do notice however, in myself as well as in others, that given an amount of uninterrupted time, we quickly get bored and pick up our phones to break it.
I recall that when Covid hit, I suddenly had a lot of interrupted time on my hands. It quite felt like the times from when we were kids, when he had these vast swathes of time in the afternoon and before bedtime.
I think for a lot of adults, besides the chores and errands that keep life busy, it's become a habit for us to fill up what little uninterrupted time we get with distractions.