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The problem is the network effects. If enough people start hammering with the side to pull out nails, like 95%, there's a chance that could become known as "the
by ParetoOptimal 3y ago
The problem is the network effects. If enough people start hammering with the side to pull out nails, like 95%, there's a chance that could become known as "the right way".
I think a lot of the "get shit done" crowd for instance sees using Github and not "futzing around with git" as the right way to do things for getting shit done.
- palata 3y agoSure, but because "the majority thinks it is the right way" does not mean it is. My point is that when the majority of people don't know how the most basic tool they use is meant to be used, then it is a problem. It would still be better to say "I know how a hammer is meant to be used, but I choose to use it this other way", but that is not the situation right now. The situation right now is that more and more devs don't know that git != GitHub. And that inequality is an objective fact, it has nothing to do with network effects. Everybody believing that the Earth is flat would not make it flat.