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Reinventing the Wheel
Personal blog · jheriko-rtw.blogspot.com · on HN as jherikoprogramminggames
Reinventing the Wheel is a personal blog at jheriko-rtw.blogspot.com about programming and games. Since 2009, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.
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you are correct. its popularity is an advantage, and this is precisely why i would want to use git - so many people are familiar with it and it almost seems like the standard solution today for source control. but its still worrying to me for its popularity. either i am fantastically stupid or people are happily using a tool without any idea what they are doing or how to resolve what i consider to be a very standard…
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on “Mercurial developer responds to "Switch to git?"”Submitted Codemasters are on the scrounge as a story · 105 points
HN discussionthanks for the suggestion, i did recreate my problem so that i could present a properly reasoned argument rather than a ragey comment: http://jheriko-rtw.blogspot.com/2013/11/why-i-hate-git.html i'm pretty sure that i need to do this particular shooting myself in the foot to be able to do work unfortunately. i might be lacking knowledge, but it was far too difficult to acquire said knowledge. as someone who self tau…
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on “Mercurial developer responds to "Switch to git?"”Submitted Real-time raytracing at MWC as a story · 2 points
HN discussionNow that I have recreated my original scenario I am now firmly of the belief that the interface to the user, documentation and available reference are inadequate. http://jheriko-rtw.blogspot.com/2013/11/why-i-hate-git.html Hopefully I can claw back some of the respect that I have clearly lost from you. Or at least discourage you from being so offensively defensive about this. :)
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on “Mercurial developer responds to "Switch to git?"”Submitted Some more tidbits from ex-Codemasters employees as a story · 2 points
HN discussioneverything is a changeset, and yes there are multiple types but for the end user they have no need to know about them - from there perspective everything is a changeset and they are all operated on equally. from the end user perspective git does have multiple types of change - and this was precisely my problem. i recreated the problem and documented it here: http://jheriko-rtw.blogspot.com/2013/11/why-i-hate-git.htm…
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on “Mercurial developer responds to "Switch to git?"”Submitted Understanding and improving the fast inverse square root hack as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI appreciate the effort you have made in trying to educate me here. I have recreated the problem I originally had and documented precisely why I think it really is a usability problem. Now that I have done this I am pretty sure that my anti-git sentiment is warranted - even if my initial comment was massively too harsh. http://jheriko-rtw.blogspot.com/2013/11/why-i-hate-git.html
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on “Mercurial developer responds to "Switch to git?"”Submitted Why I 'hate' git as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI appreciate the effort you have made in trying to educate me here. I have recreated the problem I originally had and documented precisely why it really is a usability problem. Now that I have done this I am pretty sure that my anti-git sentiment is warranted - even if my initial comment was massively too harsh. http://jheriko-rtw.blogspot.com/2013/11/why-i-hate-git.html
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on “Mercurial developer responds to "Switch to git?"”Submitted Duck Duck Go better than Google? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI appreciate the effort you have made in trying to educate me here - reflog does look like it might have helped to solve my problem although it is extremely non-obvious even after running it. (i.e. i know i need to google or read something else rather than how to solve the problem). I have recreated the problem I originally had and documented precisely why it really is a usability problem. Now that I have done this…
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on “Mercurial developer responds to "Switch to git?"”I was going to comment here but I went off on a bit of a tangent: http://jheriko-rtw.blogspot.com/2010/04/why-patents-irritate... I believe that no scientific theory or logical argument can support patents - further I believe my opinion can be proved fairly rigorously. Although the utility of such proof is not obvious.
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on “What If The Very Theory That Underlies Why We Need Patents Is Wrong?”