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   Dave Anderson (danderson@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jul-2024 10:18:33 JST Dave Anderson

   New rule for software design discussions: if your argument for a design includes the words "the unix philosophy", your design is automatically rejected, with no appeal available.

   If you mean a specific design goal, say what you mean. "The unix philosophy" has half a dozen definitions, unix never followed any of them religiously at all times, and has become shorthand for "I like this and don't feel like unpacking why".

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     Dave Anderson (danderson@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jul-2024 10:20:08 JST Dave Anderson

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     You claim that you want your rust program to embody the unix philosophy, and yet you refuse to implement half your logic in shell scripts to increase leverage and portability. Please explain.

     Your design doc uses "and" in its description of the program. Please explain how you reconcile this with doing one thing only.

     Justify your choice to make this SIMD library compute things fast at the expense of VAX VMS support, in direct violation of the commandment of portability over efficiency.

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     Dave Anderson (danderson@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jul-2024 10:20:09 JST Dave Anderson

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     Alternatively, if you insist on taking Unix's name in vain to win arguments, I am going to start taking you literally, and require you to show your work.

     Please explain how your design for commit hooks embodies "salvation through suffering", as described in Ritchie and Thompson (1974).

     Please describe, precisely, how your protocol buffer based microservice cloud works with text streams, the universal interface.

     Where is the filter in your design, which as we know every program must be?

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     Dave Anderson (danderson@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jul-2024 10:29:31 JST Dave Anderson

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     Or you know, if we're just using the Unix philosophy to mean whatever we feel like to win an argument, I'm going to argue against it on the basis that this small javascript helper library is not designed to run on a mid-range PDP-11 in the late 1970s, nor is it intended to be a self-supporting operating system optimized for rapid prototyping. Therefore, your entire design is premised on a nonsensical set of constraints, and is hereby rejected.

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