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by zajd 10y ago
I honestly have no problems with it. I know these are controversial issues today and taking the stance of "we shouldn't have to put up with racist rhetoric in 2016 in the developed world" is not going to be a popular one, esp
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by zajd 10y ago
They'd also be more salient if I didn't have to make them 10 times in a thread because everyone feels like their opinion on how "git is too hard" is worth sharing. It gets tiring defending git from the uneducated masses
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by zajd 10y ago
>All people from one place do generally share a culture, generally speaking - sure, any atomisation of said generalisation will throw up exceptions, but that doesn't make the generality any less valid in its local context. How is th
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by zajd 10y ago
Again, not trolling, just giving a place for the educated among us to click a button and say "hey, this stupid racist shit doesn't represent the HN community" Quite frankly the idea that we should treat all ideas with civilit
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by zajd 10y ago
Here in the real world if you fuck up your local repo by running commands you don't understand there isn't a "git expert" to come by and fix it for you, in the same way if you make a VM and fuck up your local machine the
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by zajd 10y ago
And my point is that compatibility should be measured on an individual basis, not based on where you happened to be born. Assuming that all people from one place share a culture is what got us into this mess in the first place.
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by zajd 10y ago
You don't have to. The difference with git is that it's even possible.
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by zajd 10y ago
It can be though. That's like saying Linux would be better if they only gave you ls, cat and nano because vi, sed and xargs were too complicated. There is nothing about gitless that provides a decent experience (compared to git) and ce
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by zajd 10y ago
Words like "tone of their culture" are exactly the problem. Can you imagine if you weren't allowed to travel somewhere because of the tone of your culture? Do you enjoy being restricted from travelling to Saudi Arabia because
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by zajd 10y ago
It's the internet. I'm not writing to change minds, I'm writing pretty much to the audience that already agrees with me. Nobody thinks we're going to have a productive discussion about race in the HN comments, way better
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by zajd 10y ago
> no, wrong. git is unique in the amount of information that you need to know just to get started with it. Have you ever worked with a different VCS? How is setting up subversion or CVS any more difficult than going git init git add . gi
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by zajd 10y ago
If simplicity was the goal of command line interfaces they wouldn't exist. This is not ls or cat, nor is it trying to be. hg might have a better CLI than git, but it still doesn't justify something like gitless. You need a really
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by zajd 10y ago
It's almost as if "fairness" isn't something we should be concerned about when it comes to immigration. Almost as if... people don't have that much control over their government and should probably be treated as ind
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by zajd 10y ago
https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/ This is generally where I point people who have a technical background
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by zajd 10y ago
Eh the pro-brexit people probably feel they're brown anyways.
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by zajd 10y ago
I tend to agree with you that most people don't need that power but I think the problem is just that it IS a CLI interface, not that it's a particularly bad one. A GUI is the perfect tool to deal with discoverability and providing
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by zajd 10y ago
That was my takeaway as well. If we haven't gotten an answer yet, we never will. Honestly we're spoiled by the internet and way too used to "getting answers" as it is :)
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by zajd 10y ago
Would you be ok if every local government was required to provide welfare programs and subsidies to their population? Seems "fair".
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by zajd 10y ago
It's simplicity and ubiquity are the only reason we keep seeing absurd programs like Gitless put forth. Imagine if someone came out with someone that "fixed the warts of QT" that was just a wrapper around QT. It's a joke
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by zajd 10y ago
> What does it say when resolving these problems the easiest thing is to just reclone the remote repo? It says the git works really well because the CLI offers a simple way to "undo" any mistakes you've made. The real reas
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by zajd 10y ago
It's really not though. And posting articles that pretend like "git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD" is the best way to view what branch you're working on just makes you look dumber than you do for acting like git is difficu
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by zajd 10y ago
Yeah it's a shame that given the level of their delusion there's no hope of a real satisfying answer for "what the hell were you thinking?"
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by zajd 10y ago
Spoiler alert, that's why they track how it's spent and where it's sent to. Turns out that "anonymous transactions" thing opens up a whole giant can of black market worms.
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by zajd 10y ago
it's fiat, not flat smh
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by zajd 10y ago
I don't trust the goodness of human nature, I trust the legal and financial system that we've collectively built over the past millennia. Which actually does (at least attempts to) enforce some level of fairness. Why should I sign
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by zajd 10y ago
Seems pretty weak. You need all three to do anything. Seems like a weak backdoor argument that "money doesn't matter when it comes to the hard things" (as long as your hard things don't take money)
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by zajd 10y ago
The irony being if something like Fusion power happened bitcoin hyperinflation would be guaranteed.
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by zajd 10y ago
Unfortunately for Bitcoin all of the issues 99% people have with fiat currency today have literally nothing to do with how money is created. Yes, it's a difficult problem to solve. No, Bitcoin has not solved it. Piggybacking on the ele
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by zajd 10y ago
The protocol cannot be separated from the physical infrastructure required to carry it out. Until Bitcoin separates from the internet itself and shows it can actually fund the infrastructure required to maintain it... don't see what th
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by zajd 10y ago
It's more or less that all value created from Bitcoin only exists because of the fiat currency systems in place today. It's not like banks hold your money for days when transferring for no reason. Trust is a social problem and sim

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