If you're a distributed team (point of this article), then it's a huge advantage to be able to operate easily against the entire repository no matter where you are or what the status of your connection to the centrally-shared repository.
Additionally, these distributed source code control tools are where the real development action is happening. Awesome features like bisect (which lets you zone in on which commit broke the software) and the attic (which is a little like branching but local, convenient, and not committed to everyone else's repositories) have been appearing and advancing first on hg and git.
Going back to SVN after using Mercurial (hg) for a while is like going back to CVS after you've been using SVN.
That all stems from a lack of ownership of the quality and customer satisfaction of the result. Instead, the people you described felt ownership of the specific literal tasks that you gave.
With people like that, you have to get them to care more about quality. You need to put them around customers or customer representatives who can interact with them so they get a better sense of the whole product, rather than their little sub-tasks in building it
Like you say, their feelings are deeply rooted in culture. Ownership of anything material or significant besides pride in your country is anathema to Communism.
Oh, this other use was intended, you can bet your ass on that.
Not understood by the suckers who keep voting for politicians who keep growing their empires at the expense of citizens -- but the intention was there all along.
I beg to differ. An initial idea is worth almost nothing. The initial ideas for social network sites were already out there. People have great ideas all the time that they just don't do anything with. I started my career right before the Internet took off and lived in Silicon Valley hanging out with people from Apple, Netscape, Exodus, Sun, etc. Whenever the next big idea hit like Ebay, some acquaintance would say, "Damn, I had that idea 2 years ago."
Yeah, well, ideas are barely worth shit.
Discrimination of which ideas to pursue and how to refine them as well as the willpower and ability to execute upon them are vastly more important. Some funding is nice, too.
Guys like Zuckerberg who go after it, not letting anything stop him will succeed time and time again.
It was a movie, dude. Zuckerberg has had a girlfriend since about the same time he started working on Facebook. So he's clearly not lonely, he's extraordinarily successful, and he's obviously brilliant.
Speaking of losers, how many movies about your life do you think Zuckerberg has watched?
Even worse, these super intelligent interstellar beings crashed not one, but THREE of their sufficiently-advanced-to-be-indistinguishable-from-magic space ships into the New Mexico dessert.
Whoops! What, are they too short to reach the pedals?
Wow. The article shows research that demonstrates the lemming-like nature of political opinions and you provide an excellent real-world example of it by stridently defending your political party of choice rather than thinking for yourself and realizing that political party support gets us nowhere.
For example, you think that Obama is "busy not starting [a war] in Libya"? Obama has us there now and anyone without political blinders on could tell from the beginning that putting one pinky into the Libyan situation meant going to war with Libya unless we had gotten lucky and the rebels could have ousted Qadafi without our help. Between Libya and Guantanamo, Obama should really hand back his peace prize. He's barely better than Bush when it comes to avoiding war in the Middle East.
As far as the economy, can you even come close to defending the Democrats' complete lack of leadership on the deficit and sensible budgeting over the last couple of years? Fascinating. Is there any doubt in your mind that if the Democrats hadn't lost big in 2010 that they wouldn't be passing Continuing Resolutions and debt ceiling extensions all day long? The only group even attacking the deficit is the Tea Party.
So, both parties aren't equally bad in all the exact same ways, but they both have enough bad that supporting either one strongly is a really poor idea for us if we give a crap about the future of America.
So, you're suggesting that the old adage of: "The problem with juries is that the only people on them are folks too stupid to know how to get out of jury duty" be more widely applicable across the other branches of government?
I'm glad I'm not the only one who doesn't "get" Twitter. Every time I poke around on twitter.com, I'm appalled by the pathetic levels of narcissism and celebrity following. The site has some okay potential for information dispersion, as you say; but the main way I see it used reminds me of how pathetic our culture really is.
T-Mobile annually won awards for their incredible customer service. Hopefully AT&T adopts their paradigms.
After seeing the Cingular+AT&T merger from close up as a software vendor working for their network decision makers, I can tell you that the executive level corruption-prone penny-wise pound-foolish derp at AT&T will destroy every bit of credibility and quality that TMobile ever had. AT&T management will be given dominance over every aspect of TMobile's current infrastructure. They will fuck it up.
True, Wikileaks was a big step, but we have to wonder: Will the invasion of Iraq and installation of a democracy be looked at 50 years from now as the turning point for the democratization that has happened since?
I know that it's probably a really unpopular thought at the moment, but THAT was the neocons' stated goal: to bring democracy to the Middle East. Is it just a coincidence that within 10 years of their machinations all of these momentous events occurred?
I'm not trying to have a "do the ends justify the means" argument, but rather a frank look back at the sequence of events and how they were caused.
Since no one has been able to show a reliable way to treat these people (short of castration), I think that society has opted for keeping the offenders locked up.
Someday we'll be able to rewire bad brains, but until then let's just keep the societally destructive ones apart from the rest of us.
Yeah, I remember having this whole timeline tinkering scenario figured out. I think that the cabal from the future may have deliberately put a Beefy Cheesy Melt commercial on my tv right at that moment because it made me REALLY hungry. I took another hit off my bong and hauled ass to Taco Bell.
We with quilting mothers who use software are legion. No clue what the software is or if she even uses it anymore. I just remember her telling me a long time ago about some application she bought ages ago that was related to her quilting. I use it as an example because at the time she told me about it I remember thinking, "That sounds like a piece of software not written by and used by the same set of people."
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If you're a distributed team (point of this article), then it's a huge advantage to be able to operate easily against the entire repository no matter where you are or what the status of your connection to the centrally-shared repository.
Additionally, these distributed source code control tools are where the real development action is happening. Awesome features like bisect (which lets you zone in on which commit broke the software) and the attic (which is a little like branching but local, convenient, and not committed to everyone else's repositories) have been appearing and advancing first on hg and git.
Going back to SVN after using Mercurial (hg) for a while is like going back to CVS after you've been using SVN.
That all stems from a lack of ownership of the quality and customer satisfaction of the result. Instead, the people you described felt ownership of the specific literal tasks that you gave.
With people like that, you have to get them to care more about quality. You need to put them around customers or customer representatives who can interact with them so they get a better sense of the whole product, rather than their little sub-tasks in building it
Like you say, their feelings are deeply rooted in culture. Ownership of anything material or significant besides pride in your country is anathema to Communism.
The point is Youtube.
Go to Youtube and search for "ghost pepper". You'll come up with an assortment of fools proving their machismo on camera.
Some of the videos are hilarious.
I welcome these new all-powerful chili pepper overlords and the Internet hilarity they bring with them.
Oh, this other use was intended, you can bet your ass on that.
Not understood by the suckers who keep voting for politicians who keep growing their empires at the expense of citizens -- but the intention was there all along.
I beg to differ. An initial idea is worth almost nothing. The initial ideas for social network sites were already out there. People have great ideas all the time that they just don't do anything with. I started my career right before the Internet took off and lived in Silicon Valley hanging out with people from Apple, Netscape, Exodus, Sun, etc. Whenever the next big idea hit like Ebay, some acquaintance would say, "Damn, I had that idea 2 years ago."
Yeah, well, ideas are barely worth shit.
Discrimination of which ideas to pursue and how to refine them as well as the willpower and ability to execute upon them are vastly more important. Some funding is nice, too.
Guys like Zuckerberg who go after it, not letting anything stop him will succeed time and time again.
It was a movie, dude. Zuckerberg has had a girlfriend since about the same time he started working on Facebook. So he's clearly not lonely, he's extraordinarily successful, and he's obviously brilliant.
Speaking of losers, how many movies about your life do you think Zuckerberg has watched?
Even worse, these super intelligent interstellar beings crashed not one, but THREE of their sufficiently-advanced-to-be-indistinguishable-from-magic space ships into the New Mexico dessert.
Whoops! What, are they too short to reach the pedals?
The Obama administration's web sites for promoting transparency in government were around $34 Million just to keep them running.
Wow. The article shows research that demonstrates the lemming-like nature of political opinions and you provide an excellent real-world example of it by stridently defending your political party of choice rather than thinking for yourself and realizing that political party support gets us nowhere.
For example, you think that Obama is "busy not starting [a war] in Libya"? Obama has us there now and anyone without political blinders on could tell from the beginning that putting one pinky into the Libyan situation meant going to war with Libya unless we had gotten lucky and the rebels could have ousted Qadafi without our help. Between Libya and Guantanamo, Obama should really hand back his peace prize. He's barely better than Bush when it comes to avoiding war in the Middle East.
As far as the economy, can you even come close to defending the Democrats' complete lack of leadership on the deficit and sensible budgeting over the last couple of years? Fascinating. Is there any doubt in your mind that if the Democrats hadn't lost big in 2010 that they wouldn't be passing Continuing Resolutions and debt ceiling extensions all day long? The only group even attacking the deficit is the Tea Party.
So, both parties aren't equally bad in all the exact same ways, but they both have enough bad that supporting either one strongly is a really poor idea for us if we give a crap about the future of America.
So, you're suggesting that the old adage of: "The problem with juries is that the only people on them are folks too stupid to know how to get out of jury duty" be more widely applicable across the other branches of government?
Ack, shame won't work well with a pirate. Instead, have the trojan text REDCROSS to 90999, which sends $10 to the Japan relief effort.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who doesn't "get" Twitter. Every time I poke around on twitter.com, I'm appalled by the pathetic levels of narcissism and celebrity following. The site has some okay potential for information dispersion, as you say; but the main way I see it used reminds me of how pathetic our culture really is.
For a front page /. story, I guess.
Lame story, though.
Does the hot T-Mobile Girl start making out with the AT&T Guy?
She's very cute from the waist up, but I wish they could put some splints on her bowed legs so it didn't always look like she just got off a horse.
T-Mobile annually won awards for their incredible customer service. Hopefully AT&T adopts their paradigms.
After seeing the Cingular+AT&T merger from close up as a software vendor working for their network decision makers, I can tell you that the executive level corruption-prone penny-wise pound-foolish derp at AT&T will destroy every bit of credibility and quality that TMobile ever had. AT&T management will be given dominance over every aspect of TMobile's current infrastructure. They will fuck it up.
Besides really really senile old people, who was bitching about how much better Ma Bell was? I call straw man.
Monopoly != Free Market
One of the few things that the Federal government should do is to block the formation of monopolistic markets.
True, Wikileaks was a big step, but we have to wonder: Will the invasion of Iraq and installation of a democracy be looked at 50 years from now as the turning point for the democratization that has happened since?
I know that it's probably a really unpopular thought at the moment, but THAT was the neocons' stated goal: to bring democracy to the Middle East. Is it just a coincidence that within 10 years of their machinations all of these momentous events occurred?
I'm not trying to have a "do the ends justify the means" argument, but rather a frank look back at the sequence of events and how they were caused.
Wow. We just found the picture that should go in the wikipedia entry for "douchebag".
If it splashes in your eyes, will your tear ducts stop working forever?
There's $200 million that should come directly out of the defense budget.
I know that this kind of shit can be done. I know that it could be useful to "win".
But jesus fraggin' christ... do we have to go there first? Do we have to piss on our own credibility at every turn?
Since no one has been able to show a reliable way to treat these people (short of castration), I think that society has opted for keeping the offenders locked up.
Someday we'll be able to rewire bad brains, but until then let's just keep the societally destructive ones apart from the rest of us.
Great, now you're leaving the 8-year-olds out in the cold. Who's supposed to chat them up?
Yeah, I remember having this whole timeline tinkering scenario figured out. I think that the cabal from the future may have deliberately put a Beefy Cheesy Melt commercial on my tv right at that moment because it made me REALLY hungry. I took another hit off my bong and hauled ass to Taco Bell.
Now I've forgotten everything.
It's all a big conspiracy.
We with quilting mothers who use software are legion. No clue what the software is or if she even uses it anymore. I just remember her telling me a long time ago about some application she bought ages ago that was related to her quilting. I use it as an example because at the time she told me about it I remember thinking, "That sounds like a piece of software not written by and used by the same set of people."