Readit NewsThe alternative is easily classified as naiveté.
Its not quite as damaging as 'people are rich because they work harder' but its really not far off
Beyond that sometimes it’s super helpful to add comments as a human directly to a commit noting details about that specific change set that don’t make sense in the commit itself.
This is one of the most boneheaded moves I have seen GitHub make.
Slippery metric. "Requiring" seems hard to isolate vs other options like "elected to use".
Their marketing copy sounds like a Seinfeld skit.
'He destroyed the single wooden bowl he possessed on seeing a peasant boy drink from the hollow of his hands. He then exclaimed: "Fool that I am, to have been carrying superfluous baggage all this time!"'
'while Diogenes was relaxing in the morning sunlight, Alexander the Great, thrilled to meet the famous philosopher, asked if there was any favour he might do for him. Diogenes replied, "Yes, stand out of my sunlight." Alexander then declared, "If I were not Alexander, then I should wish to be Diogenes." "If I were not Diogenes, I would still wish to be Diogenes," Diogenes replied.'
'Some one took him into a magnificent house and warned him not to spit, whereupon having cleared his throat he discharged the phlegm into the man's face, being unable, he said, to find a meaner receptacle.'
The dude was a modern lunatic homeless man venerated into legend status for thousands of years.
“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.” It's funny, but if you visit some of the vagabond subreddits you can read some very Diogenes-esque philosophies. I don't think they're all crazy - there's a subset who chose that life, and I think some of them have chosen well. Diogenes wasn't mad; he could just hear the music we can't.
Cf. Shaw: “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
I'm not advocating that we accept the status quo, but I do take issue with not seeing the status quo for what it is.