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  1. Re:April Fools! on Subversion Project Migrates To Git · · Score: 1

    Replying on a GUI. Jesus wept.

  2. Re:April Fools! on Subversion Project Migrates To Git · · Score: 1

    So an svn "checkout" doesn't "clone"... harharhar, but a git "checkout" "reverts"... terrible humor. Sorry.

    Well, they both can take a long ass time for an initial checkout/clone was all I was trying to say, I have never raced identical repositories with identical histories, but that would be mildly interesting.

  3. Re:April Fools! on Subversion Project Migrates To Git · · Score: 1

    TortoiseSVN (for example), right click drag, drop, select SVN Move versioned files here. That was exhausting.

    So much worse than when, say SmartGit, gets stuck in an endless rebaseing state thereby complete fsking your local repo along with any stashes you may have.

    But this is what you get for replying on a GUI.

    However most GUI devs I work with (myself included) operate from the command line.

  4. Re: Most Divisors on Functional 3D-Printed Tape Measure · · Score: 1

    A few grade school problems? Imagine when they are *not* grade school problems.

    BTW I will be content with using pure water, at whatever accepted definition of SATP you choose...

  5. Re:April Fools! on Subversion Project Migrates To Git · · Score: 1

    It is true, you must use "svn mv" as opposed to "mv."

    The horror.

  6. Re:"Terrorist" is the new "witch." on NSA Confirms It Has Been Searching US Citizens' Data Without a Warrant · · Score: 1

    Pedaphiles: looked down upon by terrorists, communists, witches, drug lords, and file sharers the world over.

  7. Weaponisation on How a 'Seismic Cloak' Could Slow Down an Earthquake · · Score: 1

    If it can produce waves powerful enough to dampen an earthquake, then it can produce an earthquake.

  8. "Terrorist" is the new "witch." on NSA Confirms It Has Been Searching US Citizens' Data Without a Warrant · · Score: 5, Funny

    Not sure where that leaves "communist."

  9. Re:April Fools! on Subversion Project Migrates To Git · · Score: 1

    I thought svn was developed to fix the problems with cvs... which it has mostly accomplished.

  10. Re:April Fools! on Subversion Project Migrates To Git · · Score: 1

    Ha! I see just the opposite: git fucking up miserably to the point where a dev has to locally pull their changes, reclone, and overlay the changes... where svn I have never seen that.

    Of course when the network goes down, so does svn.... choose your poison.

  11. Re:April Fools! on Subversion Project Migrates To Git · · Score: 1

    Both git and svn have the same performance hit for an initial checkout/clone. Ditto for a large team pushing changes when you update/pull. Git seems to "push" much faster than svn "commit".

    Git "commit" is nothing of the sort it is basically a tagging mechanism - which is also awesome and its major strength IMO - maybe a local commit is a better description of it, but I digress. Git with its much more powerful merge functionality is also awesome.... right up to the point that something gets fucked up. Then... well... you will spend a few hours getting straightened out where with svn the fix usually takes 5 or so minutes.

    When things are working well they seem to be about the same, honestly.

  12. Re:April Fools! on Subversion Project Migrates To Git · · Score: 1

    I use both git and svn heavily. They both have strengths and shortcomings. Git has far stronger merge and is very useful if you are a dev who has to be disconnected for any period of time. Svn is far easier to maintain from an admin point of view and is far simpler.

    Choose your poison - both seem to work fine.

  13. Re:Muh freedoms! on Geologists Warned of Washington State Mudslides For Decades · · Score: 1

    Nice ASSumption that the victims were all the original builders. I suspect many of them simply saw a house for sale and bought it - and were not made aware of the risk.

  14. Re:No-Man's Land? on Small World Discovered Far Beyond Pluto · · Score: 1

    Just no men. Lot's of women tho.

  15. Re:Pluto on Small World Discovered Far Beyond Pluto · · Score: 1

    Thanks for Googling that for me (seriously)!

  16. Re:You're getting old? on Ask Slashdot: Re-Learning How To Interview As a Developer? · · Score: 1

    There is a spot on conception in the industry that younger == cheaper.

    This is the real obstacle.

  17. Re:Thank god for Africans... on Functional 3D-Printed Tape Measure · · Score: 1

    IIRC Snowden fled to a non white nation, but they wouldn't have him.

    Just saying.

  18. Re:Typical US creation on Functional 3D-Printed Tape Measure · · Score: 1

    China wants to do the same thing. Don't see how this is a bad thing for either nation to do.

  19. Re: Most Divisors on Functional 3D-Printed Tape Measure · · Score: 1

    So much easier than shifting a decimal from place to place. But let me take it a step further smartypants:

    How much liquid is in a container 12 inches x 12 inches x 12 inches?

    How big of a cube do you need to exactly contain a quart?

  20. Re:Typical US creation on Functional 3D-Printed Tape Measure · · Score: 1

    US instance an cling to the imperial system is indeed maddening.

  21. Re:F-35 is not just American on Iran Builds Mock-up of Nimitz-Class Aircraft Carrier · · Score: 0

    You are of course, completely correct... except for the parts of the program funded by United Kingdom, Italy, The Netherlands, Canada, Turkey, Australia, Norway and Denmark. And let's not forget the design and test portions coming from BAE Systems Plc (not Inc, who is also balls deep).

  22. F-35 is not just American on Iran Builds Mock-up of Nimitz-Class Aircraft Carrier · · Score: 1

    By why cloud a good jab at the US with facts?

  23. Many evaluation methods favor the recently trained on Ask Slashdot: Will Older Programmers Always Have a Harder Time Getting a Job? · · Score: 1

    Translation of "recently trained": the young.

    A shop that evaluates candidates on computer science fundamentals (which is a very good idea, IMO) is going to favor those recently exposed to them. While I took the classes and got A's... I got my masters in 1999. 15 years is a long time to suddenly remember the details of A*, figure out (n) of Boyer-Moore, and white board out a BST delete operation in working code.

    Programming languages change in such time. Techniques, jargon.... it is rough for the old.

  24. Well, let's eat the root worms instead on Overuse of Bioengineered Corn Gives Rise To Resistant Pests · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yummy.

  25. Re:Ubuntu Install? on Python 3.4 Released · · Score: 1

    Ubuntu Server is pretty nice actually.