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Apparently astrologers declared this the year of Git implementations. Production of Git implementations has increased five-fold.

by aasasd 5y ago

amznbyebyebye 5y ago
Astrologers you say.. But is no one going to talk about how mercury retrograde wiped out Facebook ..?
- dudus 5y ago
  My mother in law who's into this sort of stuff warned me a few days before the Facebook blackout about this. Her exact words were "Mercury is in retrograde and that is bad news for technology" i just brushed it off and a couple days later Facebook had the worst outage of its history. Gave me chills. But not enough to change my sceptic ways (again her words)
  - psd1 5y ago
    Mercury retrograde happens every few months and lasts three weeks. And it's also "bad news" for travel, change, decisions, activity... I'd get chills too, tbf, but your MIL's gnostic pronouncement is total foofoo
- srvmshr 5y ago
  > Astrologers you say.. But is no one going to talk about how mercury retrograde wiped out Facebook ..? For a fact, Facebook engineering uses mercurial instead of git in their tooling. They are going to do some 'hg rebase' whenever the stars are out of alignment =)
eesmith 5y ago
Nitpicking. :) I know about 'shit' (== Shell Git) at https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/shit https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/shit from last year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git#Implementations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git#Implementations lists JGit (<=2012), Go-git (2015), Dulwich (2008), libgit2 (<=2010), and JS-Git (<=2013). A five-fold increase means at least 30 new implementations. :)
- aasasd 5y ago
  Production is the rate, per year.
  - eesmith 5y ago
    Is it? Well, given last year's 'shit', there should be another four this year, yes?
- emptyparadise 5y ago
  I really want to see a C compiler written in shell.
  - asdff 5y ago
    https://github.com/otakuto/bashcc https://github.com/otakuto/bashcc
    - mypalmike 5y ago
      Now can we unsee it?
      - mmcdermott 5y ago
        It isn't a good idea for a production system or anything, but the code itself seems pretty clean. I've seen infinitely worse bash scripts than this compiler.
        emptyparadise 5y ago
        I wonder if it's good enough to bootstrap better and better compilers until you can build full on GCC?
        eesmith 5y ago
        Here's a couple of projects along those lines. https://bootstrappable.org/projects/mes.html https://bootstrappable.org/projects/mes.html > Mes aims to create an entirely source-based bootstrapping path. https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/stage0/ https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/stage0/ > A class of minimal bootstrap binaries that has a reproducible build on all platforms. Providing a verifiable base for defeating the trusting trust attack. (and comments at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20264848 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20264848 ).
selrond 5y ago
haha love the subtle Heroes of Might and Magic reference
- Klaster_1 5y ago
  Among the russian-speaking IT crowd, the "astrologers declared a week of X" joke is quite widespread, even overdone.
  - potta_coffee 5y ago
    Is HOMM popular with the Russian speaking IT crowd? HOMM2/3 are my favorite games ever.
    - Klaster_1 5y ago
      HoMM3 has a cult following among lots of 25-45 years old males. During recent elections, one of candidates mentioned that he enjoys playing HoMM3 a lot, comments under the video were like 80% "I'll vote for anyone who plays HoMM3" and alike.
    - aasasd 5y ago
      In the 2000s they were among the go-to strategy games. The hot-seat mode probably helped. Of course, the publishers and devs saw little profit from all that following—unlike middle-aged dudes selling pirate CDs in mall stands. HOMM 5 was developed by Nival, a major Russian dev and publisher at that time—though the 4 and 5 games weren't as famed, afaik.
- aasasd 5y ago
  Yeah, I fucking love subtlety. Tons of it.
asdff 5y ago
someone needs to make a script that can scrape tweets/medium articles and predict what the next hot pet project will be. you could have your git implementation out and on your resume six months before the rush with a system like this.

Apparently astrologers declared this the year of Git implementations. Production of Git implementations has increased five-fold.

by aasasd 5y ago

Apparently astrologers declared this the year of Git implementations. Production of Git implementations has increased five-fold.

amznbyebyebye 5y ago

Astrologers you say.. But is no one going to talk about how mercury retrograde wiped out Facebook ..?

dudus 5y ago
My mother in law who's into this sort of stuff warned me a few days before the Facebook blackout about this. Her exact words were "Mercury is in retrograde and that is bad news for technology" i just brushed it off and a couple days later Facebook had the worst outage of its history. Gave me chills. But not enough to change my sceptic ways (again her words)
- psd1 5y ago
  Mercury retrograde happens every few months and lasts three weeks. And it's also "bad news" for travel, change, decisions, activity... I'd get chills too, tbf, but your MIL's gnostic pronouncement is total foofoo
srvmshr 5y ago
> Astrologers you say.. But is no one going to talk about how mercury retrograde wiped out Facebook ..? For a fact, Facebook engineering uses mercurial instead of git in their tooling. They are going to do some 'hg rebase' whenever the stars are out of alignment =)

eesmith 5y ago

Nitpicking. :) I know about 'shit' (== Shell Git) at https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/shit https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/shit from last year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git#Implementations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git#Implementations lists JGit (<=2012), Go-git (2015), Dulwich (2008), libgit2 (<=2010), and JS-Git (<=2013). A five-fold increase means at least 30 new implementations. :)

aasasd 5y ago
Production is the rate, per year.
- eesmith 5y ago
  Is it? Well, given last year's 'shit', there should be another four this year, yes?
emptyparadise 5y ago
I really want to see a C compiler written in shell.
- asdff 5y ago
  https://github.com/otakuto/bashcc https://github.com/otakuto/bashcc
  - mypalmike 5y ago
    Now can we unsee it?
    - mmcdermott 5y ago
      It isn't a good idea for a production system or anything, but the code itself seems pretty clean. I've seen infinitely worse bash scripts than this compiler.
      - emptyparadise 5y ago
        I wonder if it's good enough to bootstrap better and better compilers until you can build full on GCC?
        eesmith 5y ago
        Here's a couple of projects along those lines. https://bootstrappable.org/projects/mes.html https://bootstrappable.org/projects/mes.html > Mes aims to create an entirely source-based bootstrapping path. https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/stage0/ https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/stage0/ > A class of minimal bootstrap binaries that has a reproducible build on all platforms. Providing a verifiable base for defeating the trusting trust attack. (and comments at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20264848 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20264848 ).

selrond 5y ago

haha love the subtle Heroes of Might and Magic reference

Klaster_1 5y ago
Among the russian-speaking IT crowd, the "astrologers declared a week of X" joke is quite widespread, even overdone.
- potta_coffee 5y ago
  Is HOMM popular with the Russian speaking IT crowd? HOMM2/3 are my favorite games ever.
  - Klaster_1 5y ago
    HoMM3 has a cult following among lots of 25-45 years old males. During recent elections, one of candidates mentioned that he enjoys playing HoMM3 a lot, comments under the video were like 80% "I'll vote for anyone who plays HoMM3" and alike.
  - aasasd 5y ago
    In the 2000s they were among the go-to strategy games. The hot-seat mode probably helped. Of course, the publishers and devs saw little profit from all that following—unlike middle-aged dudes selling pirate CDs in mall stands. HOMM 5 was developed by Nival, a major Russian dev and publisher at that time—though the 4 and 5 games weren't as famed, afaik.
aasasd 5y ago
Yeah, I fucking love subtlety. Tons of it.

asdff 5y ago

someone needs to make a script that can scrape tweets/medium articles and predict what the next hot pet project will be. you could have your git implementation out and on your resume six months before the rush with a system like this.