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I think the explosion of the internet sort of squashed some of the great distributed feats. Having blazing fast internet connections (at least relative to sourc
by nijave 5y ago
I think the explosion of the internet sort of squashed some of the great distributed feats. Having blazing fast internet connections (at least relative to source code transfer) available all over the world makes decentralization less important (in the normal pull, change, push model)
- rsj_hn 5y agoYeah, fast internet helps a lot, but being able to grab open source code, work on it, and then push in changes with something better than an email of diffs is certainly nice. The technology of pull requests/cloning has a lot of advantages when you want code to cross organizational boundaries.