[HN Gopher] Git repository of Plan 9 History, from 1992 to 2015
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Git repository of Plan 9 History, from 1992 to 2015
Author : 0intro
Score : 97 points
Date : 2021-04-26 16:57 UTC (6 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (github.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
| recursivedoubts wrote:
| first commit:
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| https://github.com/plan9foundation/plan9/commit/3e12c5d1bb89...
|
| love the second line comment: #stolen from pcc
|
| good developers copy, great developers steal
| twobitshifter wrote:
| Who's going to be first to submit a pull request?
| adhoc_slime wrote:
| there's always one
| https://github.com/plan9foundation/plan9/search?q=fuck
| yjftsjthsd-h wrote:
| The real shock is that there is _only_ one :)
| mouldysammich wrote:
| the _real_ testament to its simplicity
| shaicoleman wrote:
| Or two:
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| https://github.com/plan9foundation/plan9/blob/1e-1992-09-21/...
| khm wrote:
| https://github.com/plan9foundation/plan9/commit/9db62717612a...
|
| Did Brantley Coile buy the Plan 9 trademark? Was it not
| transferred to the foundation along with the source code?
| 0intro wrote:
| Brantley Coile noticed the Plan 9 trademark expired and bought
| it on November 25, 2020. It was before the transfer of the Plan
| 9 copyrights to the Plan 9 Foundation (March 23, 2021).
| sdfhbdf wrote:
| So for those of you also oblivious to what Plan 9 is since the
| repo readme seems to make no mention of that.
|
| It's a distributed operating system, developed by Bell, as a
| replacement for Unix, as per Wikipedia [0]
|
| [0]: https://simple.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs
|
| Edit: It might be also important and relevant as fao kindly
| pointed out to mention that it's "developed by the original
| authors of UNIX"
| fao_ wrote:
| Not just "developed by Bell", but developed by the original
| authors of UNIX.
|
| Everything gets an overhaul. Dennis Richie and Pike clean up C
| -- hell, even make(1) gets a complete makeover in mk(1), after
| 30 years of talking with users and having to use it.
|
| From the perspective of software development, UNIX is the
| "build one to throw away" version. Plan9 is UNIX on steroids.
| ahoka wrote:
| I think it's more like "Second system effect."
| ObscureScience wrote:
| I don't think Plan9 "failed" because of any technical
| reason, such at failing to realizing over ambitious goals.
| It was a research project which worked out very well from
| what I can see.
| the-dude wrote:
| Both terms are from _The Mythical Man Month_. Are you
| saying Plan 9 is over-engineered and bloated?
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month
| https://herbertograca.com/2018/11/19/11-plan-to-throw-one-
| aw... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-system_effect
| the-dude wrote:
| So Github was one of the unicorn SaaS'es and it is freakin' 2021
| and we can't browse commits by date? Have a calendar view maybe?
| koolba wrote:
| Commits don't have to be in date order. The date (technically
| dates, plural) is an attribute of the commit.
|
| Try it yourself by committing and then rebasing the commits
| into a different order. Or directly edit the metadata by
| specifying explicit values for the commit and author time
| stamps.
| [deleted]
| throwaway823882 wrote:
| You are viewing them by date: newest to oldest. Possibly as an
| artifact of Git's architecture. But more likely because it
| would be slightly annoying to implement differently, and nobody
| wanted to do the extra work just to make the user's life
| easier.
|
| Pandora's been around for 16 years and they only just added a
| sort button to My Collections. You still can't search your
| collections.
| the-dude wrote:
| That is slightly pedantic, but yes, the commits are sorted by
| date.
|
| But the pagination just paginates on volume, not date.
| DaiPlusPlus wrote:
| Pagination-by-grouping-criteria is a holy-grail for so
| many. It's not easy to implement, but your users will thank
| you. Especially if hovering-over the page number button
| immediately displays the range of data in that page.
|
| GitHub needs it. Web forums need it. Every CRM's obligatory
| giant table of customers sorted by name needs it.
| the-dude wrote:
| Although I don't disagree, we are discussing this on a
| site with the worst pagination _ever_.
| caslon wrote:
| Obligatory: If you're wanting to see an _active_ fork of Plan 9,
| check out 9front.
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| https://code.9front.org/hg/plan9front
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