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Comment · 5 years ago
Ah, the winner didn't had to raise tricky PRs, which get scanned multi times with a fine tooth comb, unlike a bug bounty. or go through negotiation rounds to prove it's a bug or loophole in the first place. It's clean
Comment · 8 years ago
Wow, humbleness embodied! As great is redis,so is the maker.
Comment · 8 years ago
Technology and technologists are to solve the problems, they're not the problem or a part of it.

I have spent more than a decade working with brilliant technologists but haven't found anyone impossible to work with. As in technology, I have found some compatibility issues among/with technologists, but that can be worked out.

Also I have seen some technologists are unable to put forth a strong defense verbal or written when accused wrongly and thus becoming aunt Sally, people find them easier to put blame on.

Comment · 9 years ago
Comment · 9 years ago
BitKeeper had been used for the version control requirements of the Linux kernel project. Mackall decided to write a distributed version control system as a replacement for use with the Linux kernel. This project started a few days after another project called Git, initiated by Linus Torvalds with similar aims

Source: wikipedia

Interestingly, both picked negative names. Git: simpleton, contemptible Mercurial: in the sense of fickle

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