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In related news, a script called "spark: ▁▂▃▅▂▇ in your shell" has over 1,200 watchers and 79 forks on github at the moment. Scipy is a monumental and long-run
by Radim 15y ago
In related news, a script called "spark: ▁▂▃▅▂▇ in your shell" has over 1,200 watchers and 79 forks on github at the moment.
Scipy is a monumental and long-running effort of creating a scientific library for Python. It's an incredibly advanced piece of software that quite possibly saves lives (literally), and has 207 watchers and 78 forks.
It's just what people really want. I'd even go so far to say there's an art to producing the kind of apps that satisfy this segment of HN.
- rat87 15y agoI believe the Numpy/Scipy official repositories are on sourcefourge and it has its own website. The github page appears to be the main web presence of Spark. I think of Numpy/Scipy as more conservative library not exactly the best github match. I know that Numpy/Scipy are vastly more important/discussed/used then Spark.
- Kliment 15y agoIt's not just that. Spark is smaller, easy to understand, easy to modify, and grabbing someone's modified version is unlikely to make your data invalid. Complex codebases with a lot of functionality are less approachable, and having to verify that each change does not compromise its functionality discourages the use of as many forks.
- kmfrk 15y agoI think this is related to why images and memes are, by far, the most popular submissions on reddit: they are simply easier and faster to understand. It doesn't mean that they are necessarily better, but the time spent on understanding them are at a complete minimum. You don't even need to be a technical person to get a grasp of why the spark graphs do. The challenge of a private business is having to strike a balance between "important" and "intelligible".