Any reason or history behind the name? It means "a stupid person", which seems like a bad choice IMHO: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dolt
That's also what Git means.
Dolt is Git for data
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#13Very cool! The world needs better version control for data.
How does this compare to something like Pachyderm?
How does it work under the covers? What is a splice and what does it mean when it overlaps? https://github.com/liquidata-inc/dolt/blob/84d9eded517167eb2...
Is it feasible to use Conflict-free Replicated Data Types (CRDT) for this?
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#14Maybe not a killer app, but there are certain kinds of collaborative 'CRUD' apps that could benefit greatly from having versioning built into the database as a service.
For instance, how much of a functional wiki could one assemble from off-the-shelf parts? Edit, display, account management, templating, etc could all be handled with existing libraries in a wide array of programming languages.
The logic around the edit history is likely to contain the plurality if not the majority of the custom code.
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#15Any reason or history behind the name? It means "a stupid person", which seems like a bad choice IMHO: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dolt
I was wondering how many new projects with names derived from insults would now arise. Having searched on github for a few, my conclusion is that all the best ones have already been taken.
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#16I think data (as in raw, collected / measured / surveyed data) doesn't really change, but you get more of it. Some data may occasionally supersede old data. Maybe the schema of the data changes, so your first set of data is in one form, and subsequent data might have more information, or recorded in a different way.
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#17Comparison to Dat?
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#18Any reason or history behind the name? It means "a stupid person", which seems like a bad choice IMHO: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dolt
Yeah, I too am tired of projects named mean-ly. Git, dolt, LAME, Gimp... DWARF is borderline, even if it has historical reasons (being based on ELF) it's not nice to hear out of context.
Even if it's a joke on yourself, just like, why would you give anyone who hasn't heard of your project the idea that it might be mean?
You wouldn't name your pet Dumbass. Why your pet project.
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#19Any reason or history behind the name? It means "a stupid person", which seems like a bad choice IMHO: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dolt
What does git mean?
honestly, maybe this reflects my americanness but I presumed it was derived from the (western film/culture) word, a corruption of 'get'. Today I learned that it means something else in british.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's also what Git means.
"I'm an egotistical bastard, and I name all my projects after myself." --Linus
In case it isn't obvious, this is a joke, Linus actually didn't name Linux after himself, the person who hosted the original source tree did: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux#Naming