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eric-hertzEric Hertz 03/13/2015 at 08:051 Comment

It would seem...

Google-Code is doomed to doomedness.

WTF.

Don't get me wrong... It sucked from the moment I linked my account.

But.

It's Google.

So. I'da thought...

It'd've been 'round for a while.

So, forgive me... I looked at that email as though it was nothing but a trojan... plausibly a joke.

But, it has since been proven to me.

That... Yes. The Big G... Is not the Leader Of The Free Software Revolution (anymore).


I learned some shizzle in the process.

(wasn't there a lady in potential for tonight...? WTF am I doing here, fighting some werid-ass (yes, that's the word I typed over a minute ago) so, backspace is darn-near impossible... esptiptes only 75% CPUusage.... WTF is going on..........?)

... wasn't there a lady in potential tonight...? WTF... The Spurious CPU-usage has seemed to drop dramatically since I acknowledged that said-lady is probably already closing-shop for the night... Dare I relate these concepts...?

ANYHOW:

I learned something tonight... Linus Torvoldez himself allegedly developed GIT for the very purpose of Linux-Kernel-Development.

No Joke. This was ... not quoted-from... but understood-from: (...apparently the very page that's bringing my CPU-usage to darn-near 100%.... ...two minutes later... can I copy-paste...? Project Hosting on Google Code will close on January 25th, 2016.

...is not what I copied. And... where is this 100% CPU usage coming from...?

NO FRIGGIN' JOKE... 20MIN LATER:

Git Ready

How to explain this paradox? It's all about Git, the "version control" software on which GitHub is based. Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, created Git in 2005 as a better way to build Linux. Git made it easy for many people to work on the same Linux code at the same time—without stepping on each other's toes.

In short, Git let anyone readily download a copy of the Linux source code to their own machine, make changes, and then, whenever they felt like it, upload those changes back to the central Linux repository. And it did this in a way that everyone's changes would merge seamlessly together. "This is the genius of Git," DiBona says. "And GitHub's genius is that they understood it."

GitHub created a site where any other software project could operate much like the Linux project—a site the average coder could easily grasp. "GitHub is just really smooth," says Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda, who lived through the open source revolution as the editor-in-chief of the tech site Slashdot. "It's a sexy, modern interface."


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Eric Hertz wrote 03/14/2015 at 17:55 point

HAH! I'm almost certain I didn't post this... my computer crashed somewhere halfway through typing it... Ah well.

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