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Re: My Favourite Git Commit

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That resume is something else.

i'm all for adding an artistic flare to set your resume apart from others... but that's a bold move, cotton.

It's not about trying to catch attention, it's saying "I'm so good that even though this is totally unprofessional you're still going to want me"

Re: My Favourite Git Commit

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My favorite (in terms of dark humor, if we’re honest) is YOLO, one of the more interesting deep learning object detectors. [1] It is the exact opposite of yours in every way. The code is brilliant however. Even the papers are snarky. [2] [1] https://github.com/pjreddie/darknet/commits/master [2] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1804.02767.pdf

I was reading it and kind of interested, and thought this line was funny: > I have a lot of hope that most of the people using computer vision are just doing happy, good stuff with it, like [...] tracking their cat as it wanders around their house And then suddenly realized I've wanted to do exactly that for a long time. Well... specifically install a camera that can detect my cat on the counter (and not my hands doi…

I love how he just randomly carries on his own internal dialog in his writing as if he really just doesn't give a fuck who's reading it. Totally brilliant!

Re: My Favourite Git Commit

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i'm all for adding an artistic flare to set your resume apart from others... but that's a bold move, cotton.

It's not about trying to catch attention, it's saying "I'm so good that even though this is totally unprofessional you're still going to want me"

...you're going to want me...kept away from others due to HR cringing at my presence.

Re: My Favourite Git Commit

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I think my favorite (in terms of humor) is a commit from mpv complaining about locales and encodings. You can practically feel the committer's sheer frustration. [1] https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/commit/1e70e82baa9193f6f02...

That reminds me of the glorious https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:JIS_and_Shift-JIS_variant... .

I have an Untagle game on my phone... is there an SVG editor that could do something similar?

Re: My Favourite Git Commit

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post #194

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My favorite (in terms of dark humor, if we’re honest) is YOLO, one of the more interesting deep learning object detectors. [1] It is the exact opposite of yours in every way. The code is brilliant however. Even the papers are snarky. [2] [1] https://github.com/pjreddie/darknet/commits/master [2] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1804.02767.pdf

I was reading it and kind of interested, and thought this line was funny: > I have a lot of hope that most of the people using computer vision are just doing happy, good stuff with it, like [...] tracking their cat as it wanders around their house And then suddenly realized I've wanted to do exactly that for a long time. Well... specifically install a camera that can detect my cat on the counter (and not my hands doi…

On the topic of cats vs automation, I'd recommend reading this post [1] describing the arms race created by the writer's cat attempting to break into an automated feeding machine. HN discussion here [2]

[1] http://quinndunki.com/blondihacks/?p=3023 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13230904

Re: My Favourite Git Commit

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I think my favorite (in terms of humor) is a commit from mpv complaining about locales and encodings. You can practically feel the committer's sheer frustration. [1] https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/commit/1e70e82baa9193f6f02...

Agreed, that's an over the top commit message.

I do disagree with the assertion that it takes a lot of code to convert between the various UTF variants, 3 pages is an overestimate. https://stackoverflow.com/a/148766/5987

Re: My Favourite Git Commit

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I’m torn about whether I’d like to see this kind of information in a commit message, vs. Something more like:

“Remove parser-unsupported character. Closes #340295.”

...where ticket 340295 (wherever, not necessarily Github Issues) goes into more detail about the cause, investigation, and resolution process, as a history of the evolution of said process across a conversation.

Re: My Favourite Git Commit

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> in a way that a centralised ticket system doesn't Why doesn't it? Are closed issues not searchable? It seems to me you doubt the ticket retention, but instead of fixing that, use commits to store issues instead. How do you provide comments or updates on an issue "relevant to the commit" without arbitrary commits?

> Why doesn't it? Are closed issues not searchable? Everywhere I have ever worked has changed ticket systems at one point, and even when they are transferred, the transfer is "lossy". Heck, just moving from one JIRA version to another can be "lossy". > How do you provide comments or updates on an issue "relevant to the commit" without arbitrary commits? In the ticket system. I was not advocating that a ticket system…

I have mixed feelings about JIRA, but if you move to a centralised ticket system you have to plan migration.

If you really need to, put more detailed notes into an "Issues" file for commits/minor releases, and clear it on every major release.

IMO the given example is more verbose that needed. It should give enough information about what and why a fix is done, but no more.

Re: My Favourite Git Commit

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Should this go into a commit message, instead of an issue/ticket?

A great question! I’m still wondering why we all mostly use separate tools for tickets and version control (and knowledge base, and collaboration, and management/hiring, the list goes on), given we already know a lot about software development.

I think it's more than that. Sometimes I feel there is a disconnect between code history and repo contents e.g the current repo often contains a folder with the entire history of migrations, changelog etc

Re: My Favourite Git Commit

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To an extent I find this lazy and even a humorous take is giving it attention it doesn’t deserve I can complain about anything Can this person build a language that’s still as broadly useful as C that no programmer will find issue with “Oh boy I encountered a particular odd and annoying thing. I won’t bother to offer an alternative. I’ll just complain about others efforts while ignoring they ultimately enabled me to…

The commit was complaining specifically about the way locales were designed, not C as a whole. While C was very successful, I don't think you could argue that C locales ever reached the same level of popularity. That being said I do agree with you that this complaining is not massively productive. Dealing with localization and non-ASCII text is notoriously difficult. Look at Java, Python 3, Windows, PHP 6 and how man…

When locales were invented, it was reasonable to assume that the locale would determine the character set. With the subsequent invention of Unicode that no longer needs to be the case, but code standards live forever.
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