I think of branches as variables pointing at immutable points in the commit tree. Git commit creates a new node in the tree and updates the pointer. You can manually move pointer around if needed.
I wonder how refund works. What if one buys the code, copies it and then ships the voucher back asking for refund? How do you invalidate the code without linking the code to the purchase?
Thanks, I understand now what you meant by actionspace.
> this is the reason that lots of advice sounds banal.
This is the part I'm not getting. Definition of `banal` is:
> so lacking in originality as to be obvious and boring.
Obviously, personal circumstances apply to every single piece of advice ever given to random strangers on the internet. For example, I don't even remember when was the last time I saw a street musician. Doesn't mean that the one-dollar thing is banal. It may be irrelevant to my life, but that is a totally different thing. It would be banal if the behavior suggested was an extremely common social norm... which it isn't, and some people argue the advice is wrong. Which is good! Discourse is healthy.
Do you require a full-blown argument for every piece of advice or information you ever hear? You are supposed to weigh it yourself and see if you find it applicable to your situation or not. I think this list is great exactly for this reason: it gives you material to meditate on. I don't want any arguments for or against it, figuring those out is part of forming an opinion about it.
There are things that benefit from the economy of scale (e.g. factories) and then there are those that don't. Laundry is clearly in the second league: all the machines are independent of each other so the whole thing can (and usually is, nowadays) split apart (everyone has a washing machine at their place).
This statement is, again, surprising to me: to connect a washing machine all you really need is water, sink and electricity. I can't imagine a kitchen without these things and indeed, a washing machine was often put in kitchens. The other popular choice was bathroom (my grandmother didn't have one, so they have to use kitchen).
I get it that additional, large appliance may be somewhat unwieldy, but I don't think more than having to haul your clothes to get them washed.
Interesting. For a generally rich country the economics seems odd. In contrast, my grandmother was definitely not a wealthy person and she could still put aside the money for the washing machine in the height of the communism. There were no laundromats anywhere.
I do wonder where are the differences coming from.
A decent explanation, but one part strikes me as odd:
> Changing a library's API in a backwards-incompatible way is in general
bad form because it means that developers of programs using the library
have to change their source code to port the programs to the new
library. However, it does happen sometimes in the case of major
libraries, such as some of those in GNOME and KDE.
So only the big guys are allowed to break the APIs? Really?