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358 points timsehn | 2 comments | 30 Mar 20 20:24 UTC | HN request time: 0.435s | source
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peteforde ◴[31 Mar 20 03:02 UTC] No.22734564[source]▶
Only 39 days since the last "GitHub for data" was announced: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22375774

I'll say what I said in February: I started a company with the same premise 9 years ago, during the prime "big data" hype cycle. We burned through a lot of investor money only to realize that there was not a market opportunity to capture. That is, many people thought it was cool - we even did co-sponsored data contests with The Economist - but at the end of the day, we couldn't find anyone with an urgent problem that they were willing to pay to solve.

I wish these folks luck! Perhaps things have changed; we were part of a flock of 5 or 10 similar projects and I'm pretty sure the only one still around today is Kaggle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWMjQhhxhQ4

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philipov ◴[31 Mar 20 04:02 UTC] No.22734839[source]▶
Git succeeded because it was free, and then business models were able to be built up around the open-source ecosystem after a market evolved naturally. There is a need, but if you go into it trying to build a business from scratch, you're going to have a bad time.
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waynesonfire ◴[31 Mar 20 05:55 UTC] No.22735219[source]▶
being free is a huge plus; but more equally or even importantly, it's a better product.
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1. dagw ◴[31 Mar 20 06:51 UTC] No.22735430[source]▶
Was git really better than for example Mercury or Darcs for most 'normal' projects when it was released? I certainly don't remember it as such. It was certainly better for Linus and the specific workflow problems he had with kernel development, but I don't recall it being better overall at the time.

What its release (and the very public BitKeeper spat leading up its release) did do was bring the idea of distributed VCS to the forefront.

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2. jfkebwjsbx ◴[31 Mar 20 09:05 UTC] No.22735963[source]▶
Yes, it was way better. That is why people started using it outside the kernel. People forget how old Git is and think GitHub started it.

Hg back in the day was quite limited and followed other VCS paradigm (which was enforced on you, by the way).