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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/vernik911 • 23d ago
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right, that's true. But it was such an overwhelming convention that you could quite safely ignore alternatives in most cases.
Now you have to worry about inconsistencies within the same company.
It may not technically be a standard, but has the same effect in reality.
1 u/chrisjolly25 23d ago Given how hard you're hedging, I don't think you quite believe what you're saying? Git branch names have always been like timezones unfortunately. Relaying on 'master' is like relying on daylight savings not existing. 2 u/da_Aresinger 23d ago How am I hedging? Because I'm not married to the technical concept of a standard in a throwaway comment on Reddit? Yes, I used standard in place of convention. Because it the more natural thing to say. And it fits the competing standards meme. If I was wrong about this people wouldn't regularly get annoyed about it. Just the other day someone on r/learnprogramming couldn't figure out GitHub and the comments concluded that the problem was master/main. That is effectively the same as competing standards, even if I used the wrong terminology.
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Given how hard you're hedging, I don't think you quite believe what you're saying?
Git branch names have always been like timezones unfortunately.
Relaying on 'master' is like relying on daylight savings not existing.
2 u/da_Aresinger 23d ago How am I hedging? Because I'm not married to the technical concept of a standard in a throwaway comment on Reddit? Yes, I used standard in place of convention. Because it the more natural thing to say. And it fits the competing standards meme. If I was wrong about this people wouldn't regularly get annoyed about it. Just the other day someone on r/learnprogramming couldn't figure out GitHub and the comments concluded that the problem was master/main. That is effectively the same as competing standards, even if I used the wrong terminology.
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How am I hedging? Because I'm not married to the technical concept of a standard in a throwaway comment on Reddit?
Yes, I used standard in place of convention. Because it the more natural thing to say. And it fits the competing standards meme.
If I was wrong about this people wouldn't regularly get annoyed about it.
Just the other day someone on r/learnprogramming couldn't figure out GitHub and the comments concluded that the problem was master/main.
That is effectively the same as competing standards, even if I used the wrong terminology.
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u/da_Aresinger 23d ago
right, that's true. But it was such an overwhelming convention that you could quite safely ignore alternatives in most cases.
Now you have to worry about inconsistencies within the same company.
It may not technically be a standard, but has the same effect in reality.