Comments on: Hiding suckyness http://blog.thiagoarrais.com/2009/02/17/hiding-suckyness/ Thoughts, ideas and useless ranting about software development and technology Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:19:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Andrew Cady http://blog.thiagoarrais.com/2009/02/17/hiding-suckyness/comment-page-1/#comment-5 Andrew Cady Fri, 13 Mar 2009 03:32:52 +0000 http://blog.thiagoarrais.com/?p=6#comment-5 It all depends on how available you want to make your tool. The more specialization your tool requires of its users, the fewer users your tool will be capable of having. For example, MediaWiki's version control is idiot proof, allowing the world's idiots to create Wikipedia. In this case there is no doing away with them: there are not enough non-idiots in the world (i.e., people who will ever learn git) to write something as big as Wikipedia. My point is only that excluding "idiots" (non-specialists) is not always desirable or even possible. It all depends on how available you want to make your tool. The more specialization your tool requires of its users, the fewer users your tool will be capable of having. For example, MediaWiki’s version control is idiot proof, allowing the world’s idiots to create Wikipedia. In this case there is no doing away with them: there are not enough non-idiots in the world (i.e., people who will ever learn git) to write something as big as Wikipedia.

My point is only that excluding “idiots” (non-specialists) is not always desirable or even possible.

]]> By: Francisco Trindade http://blog.thiagoarrais.com/2009/02/17/hiding-suckyness/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Francisco Trindade Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:11:56 +0000 http://blog.thiagoarrais.com/?p=6#comment-4 Agreed, but IMO we still have to realize that people make mistakes. It doesnt matter how professional and competent you are, there is always room to be wrong some times. That's kind my view about git. It is really good and I will still use it, but it allows you to do wrong things really easily, what could sometimes be a bad idea. Cheers, Francisco Agreed, but IMO we still have to realize that people make mistakes.

It doesnt matter how professional and competent you are, there is always room to be wrong some times.

That’s kind my view about git. It is really good and I will still use it, but it allows you to do wrong things really easily, what could sometimes be a bad idea.

Cheers,
Francisco

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