On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 8:27 AM, Stephan Beal <sgb...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>
> One enlightening snippet...
>
> --------
>
> You needn’t look further than how many books and websites exist on Git to
> realize that you are looking at something deeply mucked up. Back in ye days
> O Subversionne, we just had the Red Book <http://svnbook.red-bean.com/>,
> and it was good, and the people were happy.11
> <http://bitquabit.com/post/unorthodocs-abandon-your-dvcs-and-return-to-sanity/#fn-happy>
>  Sure,
> there were other tutorials that covered some esoteric things that you never
> needed to do,12
> <http://bitquabit.com/post/unorthodocs-abandon-your-dvcs-and-return-to-sanity/#fn-svnmerge>
>  but
> those were few and far between. The story with CVS was largely the same.
>
> And then Git happened. Git is so amazingly simple to use that APress, a
> single publisher, needs to have three different books on how to use it
> <http://www.apress.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=git&submit=Go>. It’s so
> simple that Atlassian and GitHub both felt a need to write their own
> online tutorials <https://duckduckgo.com/?q=git+tutorial> to try to
> clarify the main Git tutorial on the actual Git website. It’s so
> transparent that developers routinely tell me that the easiest way to
> learn Git is to start with its file formats and work up to the commands
> <http://newartisans.com/2008/04/git-from-the-bottom-up/>. And yet, when
> someone dares to say that Git is harder than other SCMs, they inevitably
> get yelled at, in what I can only assume is a combination of Stockholm
> syndrome and groupthink run amok by overdosing on five-hour energy buckets.
>
> Here’s a tip: if you say something’s hard, and everyone starts screaming
> at you—sometimes *literally*—that it’s easy, then it’s *really* hard. The
> people yelling at you are trying desperately to pretend like it was easy so
> *they* don’t feel like an idiot for how long it took *them* to figure
> things out. This in turn makes *you* feel like an idiot for taking so
> long to grasp the “easy” concept, so you happily pay it forward, and we
> come to one of the two great Emperor Has No Clothes moments in computing.
> 13
> <http://bitquabit.com/post/unorthodocs-abandon-your-dvcs-and-return-to-sanity/#fn-clang>
>
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> (Google says that Five-hour Energy is a drink akin to Red Bull. Never
> heard of it.)
>

1. I love comparing love of git with Stockholm Syndrome. I'm sure this is
some sort of disservice to people who've actually had to endure anything
like unto that in reality, but it feels right to me.

2. I wouldn't really call Five Hour Energy a "drink" per se. They are
little liquid energy "shots", under two oz / 60 g each, but I haven't heard
of anyone who actually uses them as a "drink", where as I do know of people
who consume Red Bull that way. Thirsty? Grab a Red Bull. Lethargic? A
little FHE to get a bit of concentrated vitamin & caffeine into your system.

Give how long you've been hiding in Europe it doesn't surprise me that
you've not heard of it. Red Bull has been around for 28 years this year.
FHE has only been around since 2004.

-- 
Scott Robison
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