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Version control, collaborative editing and undo

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Re: Version control, collaborative editing and undo

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> The standard solution to any hard problem [which is] is to find someone who solved it already and steal their answer. Reminds me a little of the Feynman algorithm. 1) Write your question into google. 2) Open the first three results. 3) Copy what you find. Does it already have a name?

"Stacksort" is probably the right thing to bring up here. A sorting algorithm that searches SO and copies code from there until the list is sorted. Origin: https://xkcd.com/1185/ Implementation: http://gkoberger.github.io/stacksort/

Very nice! I already forgot that one!

Re: Version control, collaborative editing and undo

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Shout out to "Out of the tarpit" [1] that's referenced in the "functional-relational" link in the article. This is a great paper that's well worth 20 minutes of your time to read! [1] http://shaffner.us/cs/papers/tarpit.pdf

You can read that in just 20 minutes?

Maybe 25...

Actually I read it a while ago - it must have resonated because I remember it being shorter :-)

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