Re: [gopher] cgod - a new prototype gopher daemon

http://www.programmableweb.com/api/slack

Ya I'm with Kim, I too basically hate everything invented in the last 20 years, that slack thing looks ridiculous.

It seems to me everything since the dawn of the technological revolution has been nothing but a drain on resources, ripe with inefficiencies, and dedicated towards a complete awe-inspiring lack of productivity. For those of you in sysadmin jobs, looking at how much worthless email your employee's send to one another can probably vouch for that last statement. What happened to smoking in your office, sending faxes, making phone calls and banging secretaries with a glass of scotch in your hand, THAT'S how work got done.

Matt

On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 10:53 AM, Kim Holviala <kim@holviala.com> wrote:

Well, I provide normal .tar.gz downloads in both gopher and http. The only reason I have a git repo is because someone asked for it nicely (I don’t use git). And no, I didn’t know what “hg” was, and yep, I’m the old fat bearded guy who dislikes anything invented during the last 20 years.

My current hatred #1? Slack. What the fuck is it? Their homepage doesn’t say anything except some marketing bullshit, and both of the companies I work for apparently want to use it. I think it’s some chat / file upload service which is TOTALLY RAD NEW THING because we’ve never had those before, and I’msure the security guys will love it when I tell them that using Slack means giving all of the company secrets AND files to a random U.S. based company (I’m in EU with different set of laws) and Amazon because I doubt Slack owns their own servers.

Phew. Back to beer. If anyone else is at Frankfurt airport, come to Hausmann’s in terminal A and I’ll buy you a beer.

- Kim

On 18 Dec 2014, at 17:46, Matt Lewandowsky <matt@greenviolet.net> wrote:

You'll get more downloads and people looking at Gophernicus if you don't force everyone to install some app called "git". What is it, anyway? It has an offensive name. ;)

In seriousness, hg is Mercurial, also known as "the other DVCS besides git". (Bitbucket, by Atlassian, for instance, supports both git and hg repos.) It's used by companies like Facebook and Mozilla for their fairly sizeable codebases, as well as open source projects such as Python, wget, nginx, and OpenJDK. It’s not exactly a no-name binary that no one knows, basically.

If you're afraid of learning something new, you can use git-hg or git-remote-hg to interact with hg repositories (the reverse direction also works well, btw).

No need to criticize someone for using common tools that you don't happen to use yourself though. :)

Matt

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From: Kim Holviala
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On 18 Dec 2014, at 14:56, James Mills <prologic@shortcircuit.net.au> wrote:

$ hg clone https://bitbucket.org/prologic/cgod

You’ll get more downloads and people looking at your code if you don’t force everyone to install some app called “hg”. What is it, btw?

- Kim

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