This has been bugging me for a couple of weeks now, so I want to put it out where it might be noticed by a few more people. Increasingly there is an assumption that one can simply use UTF8 encoding on Unix-like filesystems without any problem. I'm pretty sure this is false; moreover, there is…
The darcs revision control system has all but lost out to git within the past few months. A rather large part of the reason is a rushed and very poorly worded release announcement, following a rather long (I’m told 4 years; I haven’t been aware of it that long, which itself is perhaps ominous) post-1.0 silence from the darcs developers: Continue reading
Even people who are familiar with internal politics may not realize the extent to which technical decision-making can be a distant second, or worse, to political concerns. An extreme case is real politics:
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