I know it's popular here to bash on non-technology people.
And yes, apparently Fox News is terrible (I wouldn't know, I'm Australian).
But seriously, there are people outside our circle, for whom computers are not their every waking moment.
Heck, I know people for whom using a featurephone is the most advanced "computer" they touch (and to them it's a phone, not a feature-phone).
So look, I think we should cut them some slack - the reposotory typo was just embarassing and unforgiveable, and whoever let that go to air should be reprimanded - but the rest of it's, while not great writing, isn't terrible.
However, instead of lambasting it, people be constructive and positive share how they might explain it to a non-technical person?
I'll start:
* Repository - the source code that we turn into a program
* Forked - where we clone a "repository", and then make amendments to the copy
* Pull Request - where we try to merge our amended "repository" and the original "repository" to produce a better program
And yes, apparently Fox News is terrible (I wouldn't know, I'm Australian).
But seriously, there are people outside our circle, for whom computers are not their every waking moment.
Heck, I know people for whom using a featurephone is the most advanced "computer" they touch (and to them it's a phone, not a feature-phone).
So look, I think we should cut them some slack - the reposotory typo was just embarassing and unforgiveable, and whoever let that go to air should be reprimanded - but the rest of it's, while not great writing, isn't terrible.
However, instead of lambasting it, people be constructive and positive share how they might explain it to a non-technical person?
I'll start:
* Repository - the source code that we turn into a program
* Forked - where we clone a "repository", and then make amendments to the copy
* Pull Request - where we try to merge our amended "repository" and the original "repository" to produce a better program