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The number of inputs before a likely collision is more on the order of 2^80. Which is still pretty large.
This is comparable to the number of atoms in the universe. Pretty large! We will never see an accidental collision.
On the other hand, 2^80 is "only" approx. 1.2 * 10^24. Still, good luck colliding with that without big effort.
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How can something that isn't a programming language be self-hosting?
Version control systems are self-hosting when they are used to manage the primary repository of their own source code. This shows confidence because if the program breaks, then it breaks its own configuration management, which could be a headache to unravel. For example if the repository format changes, then the change has to be managed so that the old versions remain accessible through the new version of the softwar…
stupid. contemptible and despicable.
I wonder what the first commits for big sites/projects look like?
http://jcooney.net/post/2011/06/22/First-Check-in-Comments-f...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_number_%28programming%29...
My god... the comments. Looks like the reddit culture (i.e. fun for in jokes but not particularly professional)
"A marathon of clicking 'next page,' but the view is worth it." So, this commenter practically worships git, but apparently doesn't actually understand it well enough to know a better way to find the hash of the first commit and punch that into Github. Or, it was just a joke and they got there the quick way, but still felt obliged to post a dumb joke to inflate their own ego by "leaving their mark" on git. Maybe I'm…
I love checking out very early versions of projects. You often get to see the essence before the real world came in and ruined the beauty of it.
I do this as well. It really should be more widely broadcast. (I've also spent some time thinking about how it's kind of a hack, and what we can do to make it better: http://akkartik.name/post/wart-layers )
Did all of the inital commit code is written by Linux Torvalds ?
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"A marathon of clicking 'next page,' but the view is worth it." So, this commenter practically worships git, but apparently doesn't actually understand it well enough to know a better way to find the hash of the first commit and punch that into Github. Or, it was just a joke and they got there the quick way, but still felt obliged to post a dumb joke to inflate their own ego by "leaving their mark" on git. Maybe I'm…
It's probably the "I F*cking Love Computer Science" sub-reddits.
I enjoy diving into reddit every now and again. But I use github for work (and code for fun, although it's 'serious' fun). Although open-source collaboration is a fundamentally social activity, I think that mixing source control with a social network does inevitably leads to these kinds of comments. And I wouldn't dream of mixing that up with my professional identity.
Maybe it's just a marker of how versatile github is, and the community of people who write programs and put them in source control.