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Written by justsoup on 2024-12-15 at 00:57

"I disagree with the previous version of [insert program] so I forked it and [list of features]. I've been working on it for [insert amount of time] and am really excited to show it off!"

"https://xkcd.com/927"

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Written by the esoteric programmer on 2024-12-17 at 01:53

@justsoup yeah, but if taken at face value, no one would be doing anything new based on old stuff, and very few people have original ideas anyway, so in practice we'd be all using very old, by modern standards, software which barely works, but we put up with it because that's all we have

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Written by justsoup on 2024-12-17 at 02:02

@esoteric_programmer Oh, yeah. There is nothing wrong with using or basing off of old software. I just think we shouldn't dismiss programmers, usually new or young, that believe that there is a "better future".

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Written by the esoteric programmer on 2024-12-17 at 02:05

@justsoup isn't that xkcd saying the opposite? as in, we shouldn't invent new standards to attempt to solve our problems because we're only making things worse by adding one more standard on to the pile? but then, isn't flatpak, etc etc, every packaging format and invention in this domain, fitting in here?

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Written by justsoup on 2024-12-17 at 02:10

@esoteric_programmer That is exactly what it is saying. The post was about how people sometimes respond with that xkcd whenever someone says they created something new, dismissing them entirely.

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