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Not sure why but from just reading the title I was expecting a new way to view diffs of normal files in some funky 3D mode
by suhailpatel 13y ago
Not sure why but from just reading the title I was expecting a new way to view diffs of normal files in some funky 3D mode
- mck- 13y agoMe 8
- bollockitis 13y agoI thought the same thing. I thought the title was implying that they were offering "3D diffs for files," not "diffs for 3D files."
- antsar 13y agoSame here, perhaps "GitHub announces Diffs for 3D Files" would be clearer. This is a really awesome feature though, I'd be curious to see what other types of files they do this for (if any).
- benjamta 13y agome too. so whoes up for implementing a funky 3D tool for normal file diffs ;-)
- benjamta 13y agome too. so whoes up for implementing a funky 3D tool for normal file diffs ;-)
- jack-r-abbit 13y agoMe too. But as I was clicking and lagging on getting to the page, I was trying to visualize what a 3D view of a file diff would look like. I can't even imagine it.
- ianstallings 13y agoI thought the same. No 3D GUI for text? Guess I'm gonna have to write my own. Cue swordfish music.
- ceph_ 13y agoDramatic interpretation: http://youtu.be/volV54jPkqI http://youtu.be/volV54jPkqI
- hosh 13y agoMe too, but this is way better.
- mcintyre1994 13y agoSame, I was expecting something like Mozilla's crazy 3d view for webpages
- ape4 13y agoFile one on the X axis, File two on the Y axis, differences on the Z axis.
- castis 13y agomy head already hurts
- Serow225 13y agoThis needs to be done.
- alecsmart1 13y agoReminds me of a scene from Jurassic Park.
- ville 13y agoFeaturing fsn (File System Navigator) on IRIX system: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fsn http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fsn
- alecsmart1 13y agoWow. I din't know it actually existed.
- manlycode 13y agoThis is a Unix system. I know this!
- theoh 13y agoIt really was! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fsn http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fsn
- kbenson 13y agoA always assumed it was fake until a few years later a friend brought an SGI workstation into work to play with, and showed me the file manager. Now I generally try to keep an open mind when I see things in movies as elements, while they may not be entirely correct, are sometimes based on reality. It just happens to be a portion of reality you are unfamiliar with.
- tsahyt 13y agoI was thinking the same thing and was wondering how exactly that would look like as the page loaded. In a way I was disappointed. It's still a pretty cool feature though.
- SCdF 13y agoMe too, and was initially disappointed. Now I think about it, it's super cool that GitHub are putting so much effort into being a useful platform for file formats traditionally not associated (much) with software development. There is so much cool stuff you could investigate over and above text files: understanding photoshop files and describing layer changes; diffing audio and identifying mixes and how they were mixed.
- furyofantares 13y agoAs much as I don't like meta comments I'm going to have to make one finally, because I think about it every day and just need to get it out there to at least relieve the pressure in my head. Why is the top voted comment so often about the title of the story? I guess it's because it's the first thing we interact with and it frames our expectations, but man alive, the title is probably the least interesting thing about any article posted to HN but consistently I see top rated comments talking about the title. Maybe it's just lowest-common-denominator. And it's not that I think the comments themselves are bad, it's just weird to me that I consistently see them at the top of the page. Apologies for the meta rant, it won't happen again, at least from me. (In fact the reason we have a lot of meta comments might be the same as the reason we have a lot of title-comments making me a bit hypocritical, but I digress.)
- jotux 13y agoI've thought about this before and attributed it simply to bikeshedding. When something interesting pops up people really want to be part of the conversation but don't have the background to talk about the main topic so they comment about the meta information.
- hardwaresofton 13y agoI think it's because people upvote most often when they share a particular opinion -- and your first opinion is mostly about the title of the article. For example. I saw the title, clicked through (also opened comments), gave the page a once-over (didn't even read) -- came back here, and saw that first post. I also agree with the guy said, I thought they came up with some amazing new way to view regular diffs in 3D. So, I would have upvoted. Maybe it's just me, but I'm guessing far more people do that
- kbenson 13y agoIn this case, possibly because it may provide some value to anyone reading the comments before the article. I too through it was going to be a diff for text files using a different visualization, not a diff of a specific file type. In that respect, it's a clarification of whatever summary you might infer from the title. In short, I found the comment useful, it not necessarily inspiring of conversation (although a discussion of different visualizations of changes may be worthwhile).
- danabramov 13y agoI thought the same, and I freaked out a little bit because this was something I was thinking about just an hour ago (some sort of parallax).
- drivebyacct2 13y agoOh God, flashes of Contact. Wow, can't find a single relevant screenshot on Google. I'll have to make some tonight.