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Yeah, no disagreement from me there. That bit is dumb and he admitted it was a mistake to do that. It doesn’t mean that everything is bad. I was skeptical ini
by fossuser 6y ago
Yeah, no disagreement from me there. That bit is dumb and he admitted it was a mistake to do that.
It doesn’t mean that everything is bad.
I was skeptical initially too, but was curious enough to check it out. I was surprised when I did.
It's a small community and product is still in pre-widespread adoption stage (though far enough along to be useful for people to play with): https://urbit.org/understanding-urbit/roadmap/ https://urbit.org/understanding-urbit/roadmap/
My quick overview here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23397725 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23397725
- fossuser 6y agoAlso (not excusing the bad design) 0 is often the success error code in Unix for the shell and 1 or something else is often error. So it’s not entirely without precedent, but it’s still an unnecessary and confusing inversion for true and false.