In today’s lesson the writer of the linked post learns that:
words change meaning over time (consider what ‘hardware’ used to mean vs. what it means now, or ‘systems programming’, or even ‘computer’ for that matter!);
the same word may be used in different ways in different contexts (e.g. “I put my plane in a bank to land by the river’s bank so I could deposit the money in the bank.”); and
words are defined by their users and nobody else.
I’m excited to see what other lessons the writer learns in the future!
I think the point is that Github explicitly coopts the “fork” concept by advertising forks on the platform but failing to acknowledge that many forks live elsewhere.
In today’s lesson the writer of the linked post learns that:
I’m excited to see what other lessons the writer learns in the future!
I think the point is that Github explicitly coopts the “fork” concept by advertising forks on the platform but failing to acknowledge that many forks live elsewhere.