In addition to his great sense of humor, Steve is usually ahead of the curve in terms of trends. There's a lesson in this. LLMs have become incredible constraint solvers ("SAT-solvers for code"). Well-thought-out tests, types, specs, and docs are all incredibly valuable constraints. This has big implications - for example what happens to licenses when you can cheaply rewrite the codebase and therefore unencumber it.

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We would love to speak to any Glitch users about their particular use case. Please reach out to natalie [at] gitlip.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42856533

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

Choose these values:

* P, pack "Planck" size, e.g. 100kB

* N, branching factor, e.g. 8

After each write:

1. iterate over each pack (pack size is S) and assign each pack a class C which is the smallest integer that satisfies P * N^C > S

2. iterate variable c from 0 to the maximum value of C that you got in step 2

* if there are N packs of class c, repack them into a new pack, new pack is going to be at most of class c+1

I believe our changes are solid, but they’re tailored specifically to our use case and can’t be merged as-is. For example, our modifications to libgit2 would need at least as much additional code to make them toggleable in the build process, which requires extra effort.

It’s unlikely any Git providers struggle with the number of repos they're hosting, but most are larger companies.

Currently, we're a bootstrapped team of 2. I think our approach changes the kind of product we can build as a small team.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41947513

Points: 144

# Comments: 90

I'd like to hear about how this happened. No one in the team heard of reflog?

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