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Re:Good books for deep hacks by rootlocus on Sunday December 31, 2017 @11:31AM (#16041149)
Lots of "should"s, but we're talking about advice on using git, not "any decent source control system". This is a problem I see with people not understanding git. They treat it like they think it should be treated. Like it or not, that's not going to work for git.

You don't give python advice to a C++ developer, regardless of how much you'd like C++ to be like python.

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Re:Good books for deep hacks by taeric on Sunday December 31, 2017 @01:07PM (#16041742)
This logic also works on computers. Or, well, anything. You'd be surprised at just how useful people can find things while still making a mess of them.

So, yes, if you have the time, learn the internals. But no, that is not in any way a prerequisite. Nor should it be.

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Re:Good books for deep hacks by rootlocus on Sunday December 31, 2017 @01:34PM (#16041911)
> You'd be surprised at just how useful people can find things while still making a mess of them.

You mean like this? http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2017/12/tatsuo-horiuchi-excel-...

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Re:Good books for deep hacks by taeric on Sunday December 31, 2017 @02:39PM (#16042364)
I wouldn't have thought of that, but yes. :)

Most of my inspiration nowadays comes from my kids.

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