That's the problem. It's NOT an easy problem to solve.
A lot of posts on hn describing some problem elicit "Why, that's no problem at all!" responses or "That's the wrong problem to think about" responses.
Honestly that mindset is often really useful in programming, but when we get a problem that doesn't have a shortcut and is relevent, conversation goes to shit. Because I guess that's when programmers normally go into a hole and brute-force brain it out.
How to use mass comms to talk about a difficult open problem is, I suppose, itself an open problem.
It comes out of the Linux kernel, where you need a secure hash of a segment to prevent compromise. For big projects you have submodules, you can only get a level higher later.
In a company, you trust the sources. With Perforce you check out files and work with the part you want.
It is a design decision and they could have known before.
A lot of posts on hn describing some problem elicit "Why, that's no problem at all!" responses or "That's the wrong problem to think about" responses.
Honestly that mindset is often really useful in programming, but when we get a problem that doesn't have a shortcut and is relevent, conversation goes to shit. Because I guess that's when programmers normally go into a hole and brute-force brain it out.
How to use mass comms to talk about a difficult open problem is, I suppose, itself an open problem.