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"I really don't think the article was seriously suggesting what you think it was" Then maybe it shouldn't have a purposefully click-baitingly title suggesting

• BinaryIdiot 10y ago
  Considering the audience I think it's fine. I don't think anyone on HN is going to see this title and think "oh the author is serious; this whatever thing that appears to be a file system by name can certainly replace git in its entirety!"
• combatentropy 10y ago
  >> I really don't think the article was seriously suggesting what you think it was > Then maybe it shouldn't have a purposefully click-baitingly title suggesting it does I normally hate clickbait, and yet I liked this article and its headline. Maybe because the tone was self-deprecating, like me getting on a bicycle and saying, "Look out, Tour de France!" Actually, it's like a fish getting on a bicycle and jokingly saying, "Look out, Tour de France." Maybe the fish isn't anywhere near good enough on a bike to compete in the Tour de France, but still, it's a fish on a bicycle. In the same way, Git will run circles around ZFS as a source-code version-control system. On the other hand, it's way cool that ZFS can even do some of these things, because after all it's just a filesystem.