5 Jul
2024
5 Jul
'24
3:41 a.m.
Thanks to everyone who’s contributed to this thread.
Lots of good insight and views.
I should’ve said “case studies in software development”.
Summary:
Nobody on list has heard of such case studies.
I took the Lions class, it was not about development, taught us Operating Systems.
John had a pedagogical principle - people learn programming by reading good code.
On 5 Jul 2024, at 06:44, segaloco via TUHS
<tuhs(a)tuhs.org> wrote:
On Thursday, July 4th, 2024 at 1:34 PM, Nevin Liber <nevin(a)eviloverlord.com>
wrote:
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There are something like 28 million public repositories on Github. How many of them are
abandoned (no commitment)?
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Nevin ":-)" Liber <mailto:nevin@eviloverlord.com> +1-847-691-1404
I do appreciate that, while yes there are a lot of abandoned threads on various public
source control providers, that those threads are indeed public and could be picked back up
by the right person in certain circumstances. I've benefitted more than once from
someone leaving something up, even if I had to pay a bit of technical debt myself to get
use out of it. While entropy levies its tax over time, it's better than things
disappearing into some black hole, never to be seen again.
As much as I don't like the LLM trend, one application of the modern trend of
generative LLMs could be plundering the depths of all of this code (respective of
licensing of course) to dredge up hidden nuggets just waiting to be discovered.
Everything useful gets invented at some point, I have to wonder what's sitting in
some abandoned repo somewhere just waiting to fit someone's use-case like hand in
glove. After all, isn't that one of the many reasons we go digging around in
decades-old UNIX code still :)
- Matt G.