Actually, 'adapting well to a business environment' (i.e. being all slick and jiffy about finding another job) does not automatically correlate to 'good code hacker.'
True, but being a 'good code hacker', as you say, does more than just correlate to a high demand for your good code hacking skills. It causes a high demand for your skills.
So if you are good, you are still in high demand. If you never should have been here to begin with, then you better start practicing the "fries with that?" routine.
I can tell you firsthand it is damn near impossible to keep my clients supplied with quality people. If you know any, please give me a call.
They either got new jobs for 50% more money, or opened their own consulting businesses (like me) for waaaay more money.
The ones who still can't find work are people who should never have been let within 500 feet (that's 15,400cm, just to give you a rough idea) of a computer. They're people I like to call "Morons who got into computing because they heard it was a great way to get filty rich quick but are now on welfare and like to bitch about it on slashdot every day".
They are not going to be writing Linus's next SCM system. Their greatest concern right now is whether or not you would like fries with that.
I can't count the number of times I've gotten build failures because I updated my view in the middle of someone else's big commit. WTF is that all about?
If I wanted that, I could use SCCS.
And don't get me started about the voodoo that is config.spec.
...the difference between being drunk and talking on a cellphone, then you will never understand this. Let me help.
Some symptoms of being intoxicated are:
Aggressive or moody behavior
Double vision
Motor skill difficulties such as stumbling while walking or slurred speech
Inability to concentrate or remember things
Inability to recognize familiar places (gee, think that makes navigation difficult? I have a friend who once passed out in a snowbank in the dead of winter because he couldn't figure out who he was or where he lived. Moron is lucky to be alive.)
Dizziness and/or tingling in the extremities
Vomiting
Passing out
Talking on a cellphone is not in any way comparable to DUI. I have never seen someone pass out or vomit from talking on a cellphone, but I see that from drinking every weekend. I certainly see aggressive drunks every weekend, but talking on a cell does not cause aggression.
You can't expect people to take you seriously if you want to make wild comparisons between unrelated things. Saying that if we allow people to talk on cellphones we might as well allow people to drive drunk is ludicrous.
I can tell you that was easy. You just export the repository into their generic flatfile format, create the FSFS repos, and then do an import into the FSFS repos (I forget the commands to accomplish this... doesn't happen often).
I have no idea how happy your 20k file repository would be with that, though. Never actually seen a 20k FSFS repos.
I can tell you this, however. My client has a 20k file ClearCase repository, and it's a DOG.
Reject all email coming from news*@mx3.efax.com: This will allow your incoming faxes through while rejecting their "How to change your eFax number" spam. This has worked for me for the last few years. I can't believe that they are still spamming me after receiving so many 554s from my mail server. Bastards.
Obviously if you do not wish to use their services, you may reject any email originating from efax.com.
I do, however, like eFax better than ClearCase. With eFax, at least I can shut them up and make them less irritating.
As I rather specifically mentioned that IBM bought Rational ClearCase.
Anyhow, it's not just the changesets. If that were it, Subversion (which might as well be CVS 2.0), with its repository versioning instead of file versioning, would be a reasonable replacement. I have not encountered any panic by subversion if the same change is made on different branches. And subversion handles renaming and moving just fine. In subversion, I can definitely track changes as a set and say "revert to REPOSITORY version 2356" or "merge in REPOSITORY version 2553". But that isn't the point.
Subversion supports all of the things you mentioned, but it is inappropriate because it does not support distributed repositories, foreign branching, or dependency tracking between changesets.
This "CVS 2.0" that you have described is called Subversion 1.1.4, but it is insufficient for the kernel team's needs.
And just so that we are clear, ClearCase still blows donkeys.
You know, normally I think your comments are spot on. So should I give you the benefit of the doubt on this one?
You aren't seriously implying that Linux kernel development should be done on CMVC/TeamConnection, are you? Oh, and you might have been thinking ClearCase, but of course, IBM bought ClearCase.
Oh, and of course, ClearCase blows donkeys. That is in addition to it being the wrong SCM model for the kernel team.
Canadians definitely say "aboot" in place of about, or "sooth" in place of south, etc. You probably say it now as well.
A guy I work with is Canadian, but he's lived in the US for about 15 years. He'll probably never lose that accent. Hopefully he won't. It's goddamn hilarious to listen to the guy try to speak US English.
The cost for all 4 of you to get passports is about the same as 1-day passes at disneyland for all 4 of you. I don't know how long Canadian passports are good for, but ours are good for 10 years. Seems like a worthwhile investment to me.
It's even funnier for a ski trip. Anyone who is willing to shell out US$70 for a daily lift pass plus US$35 for equipment rental isn't really going to balk at the expense of CA$87 for getting a passport.
Don't get me wrong. I think it's stupid to require passports to travel between the US and Canada. I think it's really stupid to require US citizens to have a passport to enter the country. But I really doubt it's going to have much of an effect on that type of tourism. It might, however, deter the average 19 year old college student from crossing into Canada to go get wasted. I'm sure Canada wouldn't mind that being curtailed a bit.
Also, I don't think the big resorts would really care about this. I mean, it's not like Vail would be empty, were it not for the 16 Canadians who come every year to avoid freezing their asses off at Whistler. And if Disney went out of business because no more Canadians went to Disneyland.. well.. I'd drink to that! But it ain't gonna happen.:)
Also remember, there are millions more people in California than Canada. And that's just one state. I guess my point is that if Canadians completely quit coming to the US, I doubt anyone here would notice.
What i got was: europeans generally dislike bush for 3 reasons
1) iraq invasion
FYI, Europeans hated President Bush long before we invaded Iraq. I was in Spain for a while in the summer of 2001, and all I heard from Spanish people was how awful our President was.
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States --United States Constitution, Amendment 14
My reading of the Constitution says that as long as someone is born or naturalized in the US, he or she is a citizen.
I'm afriad I missed the part about the passport requirement, Mr. WaterBreath. Could you please point it out to me?
You know, the funny thing is that a birth certificate is currently what is required, and that actually makes sense. If I can show documentation that I was born in the US, then guess what, I'm a citizen!
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How's that job search going, fry-boy?
So if you are good, you are still in high demand. If you never should have been here to begin with, then you better start practicing the "fries with that?" routine.
I can tell you firsthand it is damn near impossible to keep my clients supplied with quality people. If you know any, please give me a call.
The ones who still can't find work are people who should never have been let within 500 feet (that's 15,400cm, just to give you a rough idea) of a computer. They're people I like to call "Morons who got into computing because they heard it was a great way to get filty rich quick but are now on welfare and like to bitch about it on slashdot every day".
They are not going to be writing Linus's next SCM system. Their greatest concern right now is whether or not you would like fries with that.
I can't count the number of times I've gotten build failures because I updated my view in the middle of someone else's big commit. WTF is that all about?
If I wanted that, I could use SCCS.
And don't get me started about the voodoo that is config.spec.
Thank you, and have a nice day.
Some symptoms of being intoxicated are:
- Aggressive or moody behavior
- Double vision
- Motor skill difficulties such as stumbling while walking or slurred speech
- Inability to concentrate or remember things
- Inability to recognize familiar places (gee, think that makes navigation difficult? I have a friend who once passed out in a snowbank in the dead of winter because he couldn't figure out who he was or where he lived. Moron is lucky to be alive.)
- Dizziness and/or tingling in the extremities
- Vomiting
- Passing out
Talking on a cellphone is not in any way comparable to DUI. I have never seen someone pass out or vomit from talking on a cellphone, but I see that from drinking every weekend. I certainly see aggressive drunks every weekend, but talking on a cell does not cause aggression.You can't expect people to take you seriously if you want to make wild comparisons between unrelated things. Saying that if we allow people to talk on cellphones we might as well allow people to drive drunk is ludicrous.
Who axed you?
I have no idea how happy your 20k file repository would be with that, though. Never actually seen a 20k FSFS repos.
I can tell you this, however. My client has a 20k file ClearCase repository, and it's a DOG.
The chances of my ever stepping foot in the state of Texas remain unchanged at 0%.
Obviously if you do not wish to use their services, you may reject any email originating from efax.com.
I do, however, like eFax better than ClearCase. With eFax, at least I can shut them up and make them less irritating.
How many parts of the country run their A/C at all during March and November?
Anyhow, it's not just the changesets. If that were it, Subversion (which might as well be CVS 2.0), with its repository versioning instead of file versioning, would be a reasonable replacement. I have not encountered any panic by subversion if the same change is made on different branches. And subversion handles renaming and moving just fine. In subversion, I can definitely track changes as a set and say "revert to REPOSITORY version 2356" or "merge in REPOSITORY version 2553". But that isn't the point.
Subversion supports all of the things you mentioned, but it is inappropriate because it does not support distributed repositories, foreign branching, or dependency tracking between changesets.
This "CVS 2.0" that you have described is called Subversion 1.1.4, but it is insufficient for the kernel team's needs.
And just so that we are clear, ClearCase still blows donkeys.
You aren't seriously implying that Linux kernel development should be done on CMVC/TeamConnection, are you? Oh, and you might have been thinking ClearCase, but of course, IBM bought ClearCase.
Oh, and of course, ClearCase blows donkeys. That is in addition to it being the wrong SCM model for the kernel team.
What, exactly, are you implying here?
ClearCase.
Just curious if you trust it yet. :)
Just curious.
SVN with FSFS has been great for me, but my repository is very very small.
A guy I work with is Canadian, but he's lived in the US for about 15 years. He'll probably never lose that accent. Hopefully he won't. It's goddamn hilarious to listen to the guy try to speak US English.
It's even funnier for a ski trip. Anyone who is willing to shell out US$70 for a daily lift pass plus US$35 for equipment rental isn't really going to balk at the expense of CA$87 for getting a passport.
Don't get me wrong. I think it's stupid to require passports to travel between the US and Canada. I think it's really stupid to require US citizens to have a passport to enter the country. But I really doubt it's going to have much of an effect on that type of tourism. It might, however, deter the average 19 year old college student from crossing into Canada to go get wasted. I'm sure Canada wouldn't mind that being curtailed a bit.
Also, I don't think the big resorts would really care about this. I mean, it's not like Vail would be empty, were it not for the 16 Canadians who come every year to avoid freezing their asses off at Whistler. And if Disney went out of business because no more Canadians went to Disneyland.. well.. I'd drink to that! But it ain't gonna happen. :)
Also remember, there are millions more people in California than Canada. And that's just one state. I guess my point is that if Canadians completely quit coming to the US, I doubt anyone here would notice.
But please don't let the facts get in the way of a good US-bashing session. Carry on.
Why do I say this? Because your fucking contry is way more of a pain in the ass regarding visas than the US is. Including with fucking transit visas.
Stay away, moron!
I'm afriad I missed the part about the passport requirement, Mr. WaterBreath. Could you please point it out to me?
You know, the funny thing is that a birth certificate is currently what is required, and that actually makes sense. If I can show documentation that I was born in the US, then guess what, I'm a citizen!
You were given $100. Not "gifted".
Ahh well. Nice try, anyhow
For a fortune 100 company, no fuckin' way.