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  1. therepanic · · focus · HN ↗
    around 4k commits in a week.

    i am not sure anyone actually understands what is going on under the hood of the project. looks like average slop.

    >> Exactly a week ago (as a joke), I started writing THC,

    you? i hope you have read at least something of what your agent wrote about the project.

    1. vintermann · · focus · HN ↗
      Edward Kmett is a very respected Haskell developer.
      1. therepanic · · focus · HN ↗
        i see, but my statement does not become false because of it. his agent pushes several commits an hour in a continuous loop, meaning this respected developer is not involved in the process at all.
        1. shae · · focus · HN ↗
          I worked with Edward Kmett for a few years.

          He wore out the vim movement keys on a mac laptop keyboard in four months.

          By "wore out" I mean he had worn the plastic down to the keyswitches, in FOUR MONTHS.

          We once had an emergency production outage and Kmett got more productive as he stayed up later. At about 36 hours he fixed the problem. I fell over asleep, he fixed other problems he'd found during the investigation.

          I have lots more Ed stories, but this output you question does not surprise me.

          1. bmacho · · focus · HN ↗
            > I have lots more Ed stories

            Please continue telling them

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