Astrologers you say.. But is no one going to talk about how mercury retrograde wiped out Facebook ..?

My mother in law who's into this sort of stuff warned me a few days before the Facebook blackout about this. Her exact words were "Mercury is in retrograde and that is bad news for technology" i just brushed it off and a couple days later Facebook had the worst outage of its history. Gave me chills. But not enough to change my sceptic ways (again her words)

Mercury retrograde happens every few months and lasts three weeks. And it's also "bad news" for travel, change, decisions, activity...

I'd get chills too, tbf, but your MIL's gnostic pronouncement is total foofoo

> Astrologers you say.. But is no one going to talk about how mercury retrograde wiped out Facebook ..?

For a fact, Facebook engineering uses mercurial instead of git in their tooling. They are going to do some 'hg rebase' whenever the stars are out of alignment =)

Nitpicking. :)

I know about 'shit' (== Shell Git) at https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/shit from last year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git#Implementations lists JGit (<=2012), Go-git (2015), Dulwich (2008), libgit2 (<=2010), and JS-Git (<=2013).

A five-fold increase means at least 30 new implementations. :)

Production is the rate, per year.

Is it? Well, given last year's 'shit', there should be another four this year, yes?

I really want to see a C compiler written in shell.

Now can we unsee it?

It isn't a good idea for a production system or anything, but the code itself seems pretty clean. I've seen infinitely worse bash scripts than this compiler.

I wonder if it's good enough to bootstrap better and better compilers until you can build full on GCC?

Here's a couple of projects along those lines. https://bootstrappable.org/projects/mes.html

> Mes aims to create an entirely source-based bootstrapping path.

https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/stage0/

> A class of minimal bootstrap binaries that has a reproducible build on all platforms. Providing a verifiable base for defeating the trusting trust attack.

(and comments at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20264848 ).

haha love the subtle Heroes of Might and Magic reference

Among the russian-speaking IT crowd, the "astrologers declared a week of X" joke is quite widespread, even overdone.

Is HOMM popular with the Russian speaking IT crowd?

HOMM2/3 are my favorite games ever.

HoMM3 has a cult following among lots of 25-45 years old males. During recent elections, one of candidates mentioned that he enjoys playing HoMM3 a lot, comments under the video were like 80% "I'll vote for anyone who plays HoMM3" and alike.

In the 2000s they were among the go-to strategy games. The hot-seat mode probably helped. Of course, the publishers and devs saw little profit from all that following—unlike middle-aged dudes selling pirate CDs in mall stands.

HOMM 5 was developed by Nival, a major Russian dev and publisher at that time—though the 4 and 5 games weren't as famed, afaik.

Yeah, I fucking love subtlety. Tons of it.

someone needs to make a script that can scrape tweets/medium articles and predict what the next hot pet project will be. you could have your git implementation out and on your resume six months before the rush with a system like this.