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db0 to Programmer Humor@programming.dev • 2 months ago

Perfection within the week

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Perfection within the week

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  • @madame_gaymes@programming.dev
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    143•2 months ago

    did LinkedIn merge with Twitter overnight?

    • db0OP
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      125•2 months ago

      They deserve each other

      • The Ramen Dutchman
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        16•2 months ago

        What an eloquent yet brutal statement, I love it!

        • @blazeknave@lemmy.world
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          1•2 months ago

          Help please

          • The Ramen Dutchman
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            1•2 months ago

            With?

            • @blazeknave@lemmy.world
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              1•2 months ago

              Over my head

      • @SatouKazuma@programming.dev
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        1•2 months ago

        💀

    • @mogranja@lemmy.world
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      45•2 months ago

      Not overnight. The merge took 10 days, otherwise it wouldn’t be perfect.

    • @jimmux@programming.dev
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      16•2 months ago

      Yes, and the all new TwinkedIn is already experiencing a surge in active users! Most of them are coming from Grindr for some reason, but it still counts!

      • @I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org
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        1•2 months ago

        I love being in a twink!

  • HarkMahlberg
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    128•2 months ago

    Clown on JS all you like, but if git was perfect within a week of creation, why does it receive updates? 🤔

    • @OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world
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      Those were all written prior to release as a way to ensure git could grow and evolve with its userbase.

      • HarkMahlberg
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        36•2 months ago

        Sorry, the sarcasm didn’t come through. My joke was that no software is perfect because software is constantly evolving as people’s needs and desires change.

        • @OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world
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          51•2 months ago

          Sorry, the sarcasm didn’t come through. My joke was that no software is perfect because software is constantly evolving as people’s needs and desires change.

          • Shrouded0603
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            1•2 months ago

            Sorry, the sarcasm didn’t come through. My joke was that no software is perfect because software is constantly evolving as people’s needs and desires change.

    • 🇦🇺𝕄𝕦𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕕𝕔𝕣𝕠𝕔𝕠𝕕𝕚𝕝𝕖
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      14•2 months ago

      Because it isn’t and wasn’t perfect. I think linus had instilled that within the world 2 most important pieces of software. Its just incredible that he invented both.

      • @OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world
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        1•2 months ago

        I think dude responded to me instead of you, lol

    • @ursakhiin@beehaw.org
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      The post isn’t claiming perfection. It’s claiming production ready. Very different things.

      The confusion there is the claim that good/perfect means done. It means ready for use and extensible.

      Note: I’m not agreeing/disagreeing with the claim. Just clarifying the point

      • @Aux@feddit.uk
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        2•2 months ago

        Git wasn’t production ready in a week though.

  • @bleistift2@sopuli.xyz
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    104•2 months ago

    Only git wasn’t done in 10 days. It was very quickly able to track its own development, but it still took Linus half a year of thinking to be able to make git.

    (No, sorry, I can’t find the interview that would validate that claim.)

    • @sik0fewl@lemmy.ca
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      40•2 months ago

      Not to mention years of using BitKeeper and knowing exactly what he wanted.

      • @Rogue@feddit.uk
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        9•2 months ago

        And it sounds like somebody on the kernel team reverse engineered the internals of bit keeper so they would have a clear understanding of precisely how it worked - but more importantly the ways that it didn’t suit their workflow

    • @mmddmm@lemm.ee
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      And it would still benefit for taking a week to formally define its interface before Linus started coding.

      Also, basic is famous for being already fully specified and mostly stolen from other people’s work.

    • @Fijxu@programming.dev
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      I was going to say this. Linus took some months to think about the design of Git before even writing it.

      • @bitjunkie@lemmy.world
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        Like you’re fucking supposed to.

    • @tribut@infosec.pub
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      9•2 months ago

      Here is one interview where he says that. It’s a great watch, too.

      https://youtu.be/sCr_gb8rdEI

  • @Aux@feddit.uk
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    48•2 months ago

    I don’t understand where the author got the idea that git was production ready in 10 days… Let’s look at git history:

    • Official development started on 03.04.2005.
    • Git could self host on 07.04.2005.
    • Git achieved Torvald’s performance goals on 29.04.2005.
    • On 16.06.2005 git was used to release the Linux kernel for the first time. That can be considered the first beta release, which achieved its goals, but wasn’t production ready yet.
    • Production ready v1.0 was released on 21.12.2005. That’s waaaaaaaay longer than 10 days.

    No good software is released in 10 days.

    • @gencha@lemm.ee
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      It’s bait

      • @Aux@feddit.uk
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        8•2 months ago

        The problem is that too many believe it’s true.

        • @tauren@lemm.ee
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          2•2 months ago

          It’s just git isn’t good/perfect software. Best pieces of software are made within a week.

          • @Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world
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            It’s bait

  • @EnsignWashout@startrek.website
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    Altair Basic was released in 1978 for hardware that sold around 25,000 units..

    I’m sure glad computing remained exactly equally complex since then, with exactly the same number of users, and same minimal diversity of use cases. (This is sarcasm.)

    Everything should still take 10 days. Anyone who tells me it takes longer probably believes all that crap about the Internet being more than a passing fad. (Still sarcasm.)

  • @AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world
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    15•2 months ago

    There are several shell scripts that I’ve written in even less than ten days!

  • @ArseAssassin@sopuli.xyz
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    14•2 months ago

    This guy vibes.

  • @Ideonek@lemm.ee
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    11•2 months ago

    It walks, sounds, smells and looks like a bullshit. I wonder what could it be?

  • @SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1•2 months ago

    what do you have against js?

    • @Blackmist@feddit.uk
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      13•2 months ago

      Untyped horseshit.

      • @Aux@feddit.uk
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        4•2 months ago

        Types in BASIC are amazing!

    • Shrouded0603
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      3•2 months ago

      Most people dislike because it is full of weird quirks. Me personally think its okay (more modern js helps a lot)

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