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"Who needs git when [..]" No matter how that sentence ends, I weep for our industry.

by wseqyrku 1y ago

waffletower 1y ago
Reminds me of a colleague back in the day who would force push to main and just leave a "YOLO" comment in the commit.
- shepardrtc 1y ago
  At my last job, whenever a commit wouldn't build, we would blast it into a slack channel with an alert that included the comment and the name of the developer.
  - vlovich123 1y ago
    Ah yes. Public shaming. The “beatings will continue until morale improves” strategy of code development. Next time, you may want to suggest an evergreen strategy where commits are tested before they’re merged.
    - baq 1y ago
      ‘Works on my local’
      - vlovich123 1y ago
        No. Evergreen means CI tests your commit, not relying on individuals to be doing before pushing.
  - NordSteve 1y ago
    At one job, we had a garish chicken hat that lived in your office if you were the last one to break the build. This was in the days before automated CI, so a broken commit meant that someone wasn't running the required tests.
  - arealaccount 1y ago
    We used to have a git plugin that snaps a picture on every push, which accompanied the "alert". Was fun.
- 0xffff2 1y ago
  It's mind-blowing to me that any multi-user git repo is set up to allow pushes to main at all.
  - deleted 1y ago
    [deleted]
  - waffletower 1y ago
    It was years ago at a small outfit
- nicman23 1y ago
  what a chad
bgwalter 1y ago
That's nothing. Compare https://xcancel.com/elonmusk/status/1956583412203958733 https://xcancel.com/elonmusk/status/1956583412203958733 : "The phone/computer will just become an edge node for AI, directly rendering pixels with no real operating system or apps in the traditional sense."
- kens 1y ago
  Sounds like the Sun Ray thin client, built by Sun Microsystems in 1999. This was similar to the earlier graphical X terminals, which were reminiscent of mainframe terminals in the 1960s. It's the "wheel of reincarnation". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Ray https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Ray
  - Imustaskforhelp 1y ago
    Super cool! What I am wondering is if there is any interest in lets say having a smartphone that has this tech(see my other comment wishing for a open source phone somewhere on hackernews or the internet really) So lets say we can just have a really lightweight customizable smartphone which just connects over wifi or wire to something like raspberry pi or any really lightweight/small servers which you can carry around and installing waydroid on it could make a really pleasant device and everything could be completely open source and you can make things modular if you want... Like, maybe some features like music/basic terminal and some other things can be seen from the device too via linux x and anything else like running android apps calls up the server which you can carry around in a backpack with a powerbank If I really wanted to make it extremely ideal, the device can have a way of plugging another power bank and then removing the first powerbank while still running the system so that it doesn't shut down and you literally got a genuinely fascinating system that is infinitely modular. Isn't this sort of what stadia was? But just targeted more for gaming side since Games requires gpu's which are kinda expensive... What are your thoughts? I know its nothing much but I just want a phone which works for 90% of tasks which lets be honest could be done through a really tiny linux or sun ray as well and well if you need something like an android app running, be prepared for a raspberry pi with a cheap battery running in your pocket. Definitely better than creating systems of mass surveillance but my only nitpick of my own idea would be that it may be hard to secure the communication aspect of it if you use something like wifi but I am pretty sure that we can find the perfect communication method too and it shouldn't be thaaat big of a deal with some modifications right?
josu 1y ago
Read the article, the author is definitely in favor of using git.
ripped_britches 1y ago
It’s just a joke setup for a funny story
oompty 1y ago
Really? After teaching/mentoring new devs and interns for the last two years at my job I definitely think there's plenty of space and opportunity for improvements on version control systems over git, large files and repos being one thing but primarily on user friendliness and accessibility where even existing ones like mercurial do a much nicer job in many ways.
gregjw 1y ago
Our industry's version of Betteridge's law of headlines.

"Who needs git when [..]" No matter how that sentence ends, I weep for our industry.

waffletower 1y ago

Reminds me of a colleague back in the day who would force push to main and just leave a "YOLO" comment in the commit.

shepardrtc 1y ago
At my last job, whenever a commit wouldn't build, we would blast it into a slack channel with an alert that included the comment and the name of the developer.
- vlovich123 1y ago
  Ah yes. Public shaming. The “beatings will continue until morale improves” strategy of code development. Next time, you may want to suggest an evergreen strategy where commits are tested before they’re merged.
  - baq 1y ago
    ‘Works on my local’
    - vlovich123 1y ago
      No. Evergreen means CI tests your commit, not relying on individuals to be doing before pushing.
- NordSteve 1y ago
  At one job, we had a garish chicken hat that lived in your office if you were the last one to break the build. This was in the days before automated CI, so a broken commit meant that someone wasn't running the required tests.
- arealaccount 1y ago
  We used to have a git plugin that snaps a picture on every push, which accompanied the "alert". Was fun.
0xffff2 1y ago
It's mind-blowing to me that any multi-user git repo is set up to allow pushes to main at all.
- deleted 1y ago
  [deleted]
- waffletower 1y ago
  It was years ago at a small outfit
nicman23 1y ago
what a chad

bgwalter 1y ago

That's nothing. Compare https://xcancel.com/elonmusk/status/1956583412203958733 https://xcancel.com/elonmusk/status/1956583412203958733 : "The phone/computer will just become an edge node for AI, directly rendering pixels with no real operating system or apps in the traditional sense."

kens 1y ago
Sounds like the Sun Ray thin client, built by Sun Microsystems in 1999. This was similar to the earlier graphical X terminals, which were reminiscent of mainframe terminals in the 1960s. It's the "wheel of reincarnation". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Ray https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Ray
- Imustaskforhelp 1y ago
  Super cool! What I am wondering is if there is any interest in lets say having a smartphone that has this tech(see my other comment wishing for a open source phone somewhere on hackernews or the internet really) So lets say we can just have a really lightweight customizable smartphone which just connects over wifi or wire to something like raspberry pi or any really lightweight/small servers which you can carry around and installing waydroid on it could make a really pleasant device and everything could be completely open source and you can make things modular if you want... Like, maybe some features like music/basic terminal and some other things can be seen from the device too via linux x and anything else like running android apps calls up the server which you can carry around in a backpack with a powerbank If I really wanted to make it extremely ideal, the device can have a way of plugging another power bank and then removing the first powerbank while still running the system so that it doesn't shut down and you literally got a genuinely fascinating system that is infinitely modular. Isn't this sort of what stadia was? But just targeted more for gaming side since Games requires gpu's which are kinda expensive... What are your thoughts? I know its nothing much but I just want a phone which works for 90% of tasks which lets be honest could be done through a really tiny linux or sun ray as well and well if you need something like an android app running, be prepared for a raspberry pi with a cheap battery running in your pocket. Definitely better than creating systems of mass surveillance but my only nitpick of my own idea would be that it may be hard to secure the communication aspect of it if you use something like wifi but I am pretty sure that we can find the perfect communication method too and it shouldn't be thaaat big of a deal with some modifications right?

josu 1y ago

Read the article, the author is definitely in favor of using git.

ripped_britches 1y ago

It’s just a joke setup for a funny story

oompty 1y ago

Really? After teaching/mentoring new devs and interns for the last two years at my job I definitely think there's plenty of space and opportunity for improvements on version control systems over git, large files and repos being one thing but primarily on user friendliness and accessibility where even existing ones like mercurial do a much nicer job in many ways.

gregjw 1y ago

Our industry's version of Betteridge's law of headlines.