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lread 2026-05-13T15:12:22.365949Z

I just enjoyed https://youtu.be/lSVgeMoXJTs?si=hypKRqT6t4G1ep9R. Its creator, D. Richard Hipp, reminded me of Rich Hickey when https://youtu.be/lSVgeMoXJTs?si=mug0K3ZVd8Zs4gIN&t=1598: > I don't think it would've been enjoyable if I'd spent all my days trying to deal with pull requests... When you're wanting me to pull that into the tree, you want me to maintain it for you, to document it for you, to test it for you... to maintain it for you for the next twenty five years. > > Linus Trovalds is famous for saying, you know, there's free as in beer and free as in speech, but there's another kind of freedom. Free as in puppies. > > Oh, look! I've got a free puppy for you! Okay? Yeah. Yep. You see where this is going? A pull request is a free puppy... And you can't just throw them out. You are morally obligated to take care of them for their natural life. > > Yep. I know I don't want any free puppies!

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