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0 pointsTZubiri1y ago0 comments

As a professional software developer, you rely on software written by those hobbyist hackers.

Whenever you do a clone or an npm install or apt get or pip install, etc...

You choose github because your dependencies chose git

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eru1y ago

Sure, but as you say those hobbyist developers aren't responsible for keeping a specific server up. They are 'just' writing some software.

(And even among professionals, there's a big difference between Site Reliability Engineering and Software Engineering.)

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0 pointsTZubiri1y ago0 comments

As a professional software developer, you rely on software written by those hobbyist hackers.

Whenever you do a clone or an npm install or apt get or pip install, etc...

You choose github because your dependencies chose git

eru1y ago

Sure, but as you say those hobbyist developers aren't responsible for keeping a specific server up. They are 'just' writing some software.

(And even among professionals, there's a big difference between Site Reliability Engineering and Software Engineering.)

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse