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posted by n1 on Monday November 28 2016, @04:06AM   Printer-friendly
from the august-29th-1997 dept.

The unix history repo on GitHub has every commit made from the day it was created until now.

Which is great for code historians but what I love is this video(only 59mins long) created with Gource Visualization. It shows how the commits and commiters interact. Starting with Ken Thompson and Dennis Richie and building with odd stops and spurts. Beautiful, it grows with almost organic grace from blobs and tree fronds to a glowing and pulsating amorphous coral like-blob.

It is not hard to imagine code trees with magnitudes more code becoming sentient.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 28 2016, @06:14AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 28 2016, @06:14AM (#433924)

    Wow. Did somebody get up on the grumpy side of the bed this morning?

  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 28 2016, @09:13AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 28 2016, @09:13AM (#433955)

    Yes that's right. I rolled out of bed when the SunOS hit my eyes. Before breakfast I kicked a Linux penguin to death.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 28 2016, @11:27AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 28 2016, @11:27AM (#433984)

      Global warming left him without a home, and H1Bs+TPM+government regulation left him without a job!

      ^.^

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 28 2016, @04:39PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 28 2016, @04:39PM (#434087)

      A friend of mine who had wintered-over in Antartica once told me "you don't want to meet a pissed-off Adélie".

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 28 2016, @09:01PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 28 2016, @09:01PM (#434216)

        What's she so pissed off about? Didn't she win, like, a bunch of Grammys or something?