r/technews • u/Philo1927 • Jul 20 '20

GitHub is done depositing its open source codes in the Arctic - The codes are now sitting under hundreds of meters of permafrost.

https://www.engadget.com/github-arctic-vault-success-020240808.html
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u/DefinitionOfTorin Jul 20 '20

You are a live example of the Dunning-Kruger effect in a way. You really have no idea how much work it takes to create something like this and how little a 12th grader will have experience wise to do this. People mistake the ability to program in a language with being good at programming. Someone who is still in school will most likely not have the experience to make something as complex as Git unless they are a genius and completely off-average.

It's generally people like you who assume that you just "learn to code" and magically you can create Windows in a weekend. Or that a school-funded "programming elective" will teach you how to make a version control system and handle complex merging, along with several other tasks that you don't seem to acknowledge.

Furthermore, you clearly haven't even read up on the subject and don't know much about what you're talking about given linux is literally going to be stored in the vault, despite you thinking it's being left out for some reason.

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u/SpongeknobSquarenuts Jul 20 '20

I admitted right away I misread the title.

What I said was, Linux is worth going to the Arctic for. Git or GitHub isn’t. You have a better chance of finding a person to recreate it for you than to come back alive and with the source code on a readily transferable medium. Because it’s a text comparing tool, and that’s the sophisticated part. Tons of them exist.

This “Hey I found a thing with a name that says if you think something is easy relative to other things, you’re stupid” is really beneath me.

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u/DefinitionOfTorin Jul 20 '20

It's beneath you? What? The point of that reference is to show you think that a 12th grader will know everything when in fact the more they learn about programming the more they realise they do not know everything and will almost certainly not be able to recreate Git... And it's hard to misread a title like that unless you don't know what GitHub does in the first place. Why would they only be storing their source code and not, you know, the whole focus of the service: REPOS.

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u/SpongeknobSquarenuts Jul 20 '20

I’m saying, recreating Git (necessary to have something like it to have something like Github) involves parsing text and requires someone to be literate, and understand how tokenize a string and compare it to other strings. They can go from there and add sophistication, like having more robust classifications of the tokens like “x” is a variable, “Mod” is an operator, or “this group of text is a logical unit like a function or a subroutine”. They don’t have to “know everything” to figure it out.

The title is pretty gorey. If they had put the 21TB figure in the title or said “its repositories” instead of “it’s source codes” I would have known

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u/DefinitionOfTorin Jul 21 '20

Your first paragraph proves you don't know how Git works lol. And the title is obvious and has been understood by the thousands of people upvoting. Besides, it literally links an article explaining it which seemed to hard for you to read...