Points of Failure

[Tofu Ninja via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 28 July 2015 at 22:55:03 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 10:41:55PM +0000, Adam D. Ruppe via 
> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 28 July 2015 at 22:28:17 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>> >A lot of his points are highly subjective, e.g., I don't see 
>> >why having a web viewer for the source control system is so 
>> >absolutely important that it's worth 5 points of FAIL. Do 
>> >people seriously read through source code on a web viewer (as 
>> >opposed to, say, git cloning it and looking at it / building 
>> >it locally)?!
>> 
>> Yes, I do it all the time. I'm often interested in just one 
>> small file and don't want to download dozens of megabytes of 
>> irrelevant garbage to get to them.
>
> I see. So this is one of those things where I do thing 
> differently from everybody else, I guess?  Man, do I feel 
> old... ;-)
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> T

Hah yeah, even when I have the source to phobos on my hard drive, 
I still often opt to just read some random file in github because 
it takes me fewer clicks to get open.