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"Making an imaginary-ish copy that stays on the big Microsoft-owned system is mostly unnecessary and probably not enough to keep it around, make sure you save a

by jrm4 5y ago

"Making an imaginary-ish copy that stays on the big Microsoft-owned system is mostly unnecessary and probably not enough to keep it around, make sure you save a copy on your own computer that they can't get to." Don't want to be (too) condescending, but, as an old-timer it's kind of wild to me that people who work with tech a lot do actually sometimes need to be reminded of this.

alias_neo 5y ago
It continues to amaze me that so many people in my profession (software) don't know that Git is "decentralized". GitHub et al have taken over so ubiquitously that many developers I know have no idea that a bunch of what they do isn't even Git, and a bunch of what they don't do, is.
- jrm4 5y ago
  Wonder if they pay any attention to who wrote it as well. :)
vmception 5y ago
Its wild to me too, but I've seen people actually debate fork perseverance and I'm always confused what the issue is when you can just have a local copy but somehow that often never gets brought up in those conversations. Its not even about something used in a package manager, they just really had no backup when the default behavior of the git protocol is to have a backup. I'm like "wait did they actually lose something?" so since that seems to be the case, yeah, gotta remind people.
jrm4 5y ago
Okay, I know I might be breaking some kind of HN rule here, but I'm super genuinely curious as to why the downvotes here. Seriously. Is it "because people already know and I'm being condescending?" Is it "No, they shouldn't do this and instead allow the code to be censored?" Where are y'all going with this?
- ShamelessC 5y ago
  > Don't want to be (too) condescending was what did it for me. basically claiming superiority prior to any actual engagement/discussion.
  - jrm4 5y ago
    :) Fair.
    - johnisgood 5y ago
      I think it is also fair to expect them to know it without such reminders.
tomc1985 5y ago
"Cloud-native" youth seem to have forgotten a huge chunk of computing
- vmception 5y ago
  Did you see this gem the other day? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29668260 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29668260 I'm still not convinced it wasn't a troll thread. Its like its either a troll, or a coding academy class just graduated alongside a bunch of self-starters that made "coding" their pandemic project, where some popular TikTok content creator must be telling people to hang out on hackernews.

by jrm4 5y ago

alias_neo 5y ago

It continues to amaze me that so many people in my profession (software) don't know that Git is "decentralized". GitHub et al have taken over so ubiquitously that many developers I know have no idea that a bunch of what they do isn't even Git, and a bunch of what they don't do, is.

jrm4 5y ago
Wonder if they pay any attention to who wrote it as well. :)

vmception 5y ago

Its wild to me too, but I've seen people actually debate fork perseverance and I'm always confused what the issue is when you can just have a local copy but somehow that often never gets brought up in those conversations. Its not even about something used in a package manager, they just really had no backup when the default behavior of the git protocol is to have a backup. I'm like "wait did they actually lose something?" so since that seems to be the case, yeah, gotta remind people.

jrm4 5y ago

Okay, I know I might be breaking some kind of HN rule here, but I'm super genuinely curious as to why the downvotes here. Seriously. Is it "because people already know and I'm being condescending?" Is it "No, they shouldn't do this and instead allow the code to be censored?" Where are y'all going with this?

ShamelessC 5y ago
> Don't want to be (too) condescending was what did it for me. basically claiming superiority prior to any actual engagement/discussion.
- jrm4 5y ago
  :) Fair.
  - johnisgood 5y ago
    I think it is also fair to expect them to know it without such reminders.

tomc1985 5y ago

"Cloud-native" youth seem to have forgotten a huge chunk of computing

vmception 5y ago
Did you see this gem the other day? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29668260 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29668260 I'm still not convinced it wasn't a troll thread. Its like its either a troll, or a coding academy class just graduated alongside a bunch of self-starters that made "coding" their pandemic project, where some popular TikTok content creator must be telling people to hang out on hackernews.