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The problem is how to make money from something that is more or less solved.
by MidnightRider39 6mo ago
The problem is how to make money from something that is more or less solved.
- mervz 6mo agoYep, something that is sadly becoming more and more common. People with solutions spending insane money trying to convince others that a problem exists.
- luqtas 6mo agohave you heard startups
- BobbyTables2 6mo agoThe beauty of it all is one doesn’t even have to invent a solution… they only have to invent a “problem” to be pitched for VC funding.
- bloppe 6mo agoI'm gonna go out on a limb and say these guys would never have raised if they didn't have "GitHub co-founder" on the first slide of the pitch deck
- easterncalculus 6mo agoIt's basically the entire context of this website.
- MagicMoonlight 6mo agoIt’s not solved because it’s trash. There’s no good interface for it and people find it difficult to use.
- 000ooo000 6mo agoSkill issue. It's the most popular VCS in the world by a huge margin, millions of devs use it every day just fine, countless forges have been built around it, and there's only one semi-compelling alternative frontend (jj). If you honestly find Git challenging, how are you coping with software engineering? Git is the easy part.
- feelamee 6mo agosure, but solving conflicts is still hard in git. This can be simplified.
- Cpoll 6mo agoMillions of dev use it in the most rudimentary way, occasionally lose their stash, rm their local repo and start over, ask the office expert for help every time they need to figure out where-the-foxtrot that commit came from, don't even attempt to use reflog or bisect or interactive staging, etc.
- 000ooo000 6mo ago[flagged]
- trashb 6mo agoI didn't think Github is that bad but if you think that is the case, why would you give the same guys 17M to try again instead of fix the existing?
- brigandish 6mo agoBecause experience is valuable.
- MikeNotThePope 6mo agoAs a spoon designer, I have had some difficulty finding work lately.
- bcrl 6mo agoBitKeeper tried to do that. Git was built because the commercial license of BitKeeper became unworkable for the Linux kernel community. "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it".
- fsckboy 6mo ago>Git was built because the commercial license of BitKeeper became unworkable for the Linux kernel community. BitKeeper was free to linux kernel developers with a "but no reverse engineering" clause, but Tridgell went exploring of his own volition because he wanted to and kinda sorta violated that, so the license was cancelled by BitKeeper. I'm not taking sides or upset about any part of this, I just wouldn't call that "becoming unworkable for the linux kernel community"; that would be like "the fence around your yard became unworkable for me in my desire to trespass on your property so I climbed over it" what Tridgell discovered was pretty dumb and could be considered a distinct lack of a fence, but he connected to a socket and typed "help" and it dutifully printed out a bunch of undocumented useful commands.