I'm sorry, it's hard to say anything good about a project that brings nothing new to the table while desperately trying to replace a well-established industry standard. Such attempts look annoying at best and irritating at most. At the very least the person behind the project could have been more humble in pushing it, and instead of presenting it as a "git killer" causing everyone only headache he could have had 1) polished it 2) pointed out precisely what "problems" with git his project solves. None of those were clearly stated; instead, the shared page is simply a shameless plug for wasting everyone's time.
Okay, next time I'm simply going to ignore it, but allowing this kind of posting only works against the HN. I'm not sure if you've noticed, but even the original post title was annoying enough that someone from the moderators had to replace it.
I'm the moderator who changed the title, which is a routine action. That doesn't mean the post itself is inappropriate for HN.
> allowing this kind of posting only works against the HN
HN is for curious conversation between good hackers. We can't and won't ever disallow a post about a software project that someone has built and that others find interesting. That would be way too interventionist and completely against the ethos of HN.
If you have a substantive critique of the project, you're most welcome to share it in the spirit of curious conversation that this site strives to cultivate. Your original comment and your reply to me reek of just the kind of curmudgeonliness and snarkiness we're trying avoid here.
We've banned this account. Looking at the account's history going back more than two years, several of the comments are abusive and inflammatory, which is clearly in breach of the guidelines. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Please avoid these kinds of sneers that characterize the whole community as being united in “hate” or “love” for any particular company or technology.
HN is a diverse global community and its views about most topics form a normal distribution, and most people here are able to form nuanced opinions that consider the positives and negatives in all these topics. This kind of “very funny” swipe relies on a caricature that's easy to portray if you focus on the loudest voices on one side of any discussion but falls away if you make the effort to read the discussions in depth.
The guidelines ask us to avoid being curmudgeonly. I'm sure you didn't mean to come across that way, but could you try not to make Hacker News the kind of place that responds with “meh” to a successful space mission?
My pessimism comes from a hindsight that the Apollo missions, while amazing failed to create the future they promised. Looking at how the missions were designed, the political focus, the academic infighting of NASA scientists trying to keep niche research funded.
I fail to see how this time, the same strategy will produce a different result.
I also don't expect benevolent billionaires to fill that either. I hope I would in their place, but I'll not likely get the chance.to find out.
To end on an optimistic note, tang and Velcro are pretty dope.
I blame the "space race" narrative - it made everything unsustainably expensive just to beat the goal of landing on the Moon by the end of the decade and before the Soviets. That also made the program even more dependant on political whims and easy target for budget cuts in the Vietnam era.
I recommend looking into the space flight plans from the pre Apollo - while tere were bonkers ideas like Project Horizon, most of the plans sounded quite sensible, with incremental building of space infrastructure and emphasis on cost and reusability (in the 1960s).
Of course when it became a race all the sustainability and infrastructure went out of the window and got sacrificed in the name of speed. :P
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