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It's because the 'problem' it solves is a corner case that's rarely encountered. I love their absurd examples of repos that take 12 hours to download. How man
by anon987 10y ago
It's because the 'problem' it solves is a corner case that's rarely encountered. I love their absurd examples of repos that take 12 hours to download. How many people have that problem, really?
All they did is create a caching layer.
- testUser69 10y agoShhhhh! It's Microsoft, we're not allowed to have a negative opinion of anything they do on hacker news.
- SippinLean 10y agoThe recent Windows 10 thread was full of criticism for MS
- floopidydoopidy 10y agoAnd full of down votes for the negative comments. This website is very pro successful business, not pro tech.
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- testUser69 10y agoExactly, the top comment in this thread claims MS is the only company doing cool things (which is 100% not true). The top comments in the Windows 10 thread yesterday were mostly people claiming "it's sad to see such negativity toward MS" and there was maybe one or two negative comments followed by a circle jerk about how good MS and their software is. Microsoft has historically been one of the worst tech companies for tech enthusiasts. We can ignore all the awful things they did in the 90's that stifled open standards (because apparently that doesn't matter anymore?) and just look at 2013, when they were exposed to have been participating in the NSA PRISM project. That means there is a whole team at MS that worked on a secret government project to help violate our fourth amendment rights. Even much of congress didn't know about NSA mass data collection, but Microsoft did. People who trust MS these days are either naive or employed by them.
- sctb 10y agoWe've already asked you to please stop this, so we've banned the account.
- nine_k 10y agoIf you deal with code, the case is marginal for you. If you deal with graphics, audio assets, etc, the binary-blob type of data, the case is central.
- aanm1988 10y agoThis is about code, and code history. Just insane volumes.
- sebastos 10y ago"I don't have this problem, so nobody does." Lacking support for large binary blobs is, like, THE #1 reason that an engineer might have to use an alternative.
- rplnt 10y agoWell it's a problem for thousands of employees of Microsoft, isn't it? We've had much smaller repository (10GB IIRC) and it really was annoying how long everything took, even with various caches and what not enabled.
- ska 10y agoHow many people have that problem, really? An easy lower bound is 10s of thousands of engineers : developers at several large tech companies (e.g. MS, facebook, google, ?)
- aanm1988 10y agoIt's not a caching layer, it's lazy evaluation.
- daxelrod 10y agoOk, but you'll encounter similar git limitations with repos several orders of magnitude smaller than that too. All you need is several hundred engineers and your monorepo becomes unwieldy for git to handle.