MaverickSawyer
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And here I was having a laugh in the breakroom at work today about how I look several years younger than I actually am. Several coworkers though I was in my early twenties... Sorry, guys, add about 5 years. :lol:
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jedidia
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Don't know either, but if things go on like this, I know which add-on I'll still be working on with 90 :lol:
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I am pretty sure: I will ALWAYS pretend that I could just go away and stop doing it. Sometimes I feel like the old owner of a family business, always poking in and annoying his successors....
jedidia
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Oh dear, microsoft is buying GitHub.
I'll hold off with putting some money on the table and moving my stuff to bitbucket for now, but I'll be watching...
I'll hold off with putting some money on the table and moving my stuff to bitbucket for now, but I'll be watching...
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Well, it might be a good thing to happen, because Microsoft has become annoyingly friendly for open-source software. Of course, we all know TANSTAAFL and that Microsoft simply learned that business is changing and making Microsoft software smoothly interoperable with free software is simply giving the big customers what the big customers want. That's also why the Linux Subsystem for Windows exists now.
Also it was a good idea for Microsoft, because they had already hosted many of their own open-source projects on GitHub.
(Similar with Minecraft - while Microsoft might not have earned that much money by the software itself, they sure earned a lot by the business with the server hosters.)
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Face
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Why would you have to put money on the table to move stuff to Bitbucket? AFAIK they have a better private repo offering than Github, anyway.
jedidia
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I don't need private repos for my free-time stuff, otherwise I wouldn't be on GitHub... :lol:
I have to admit that my knowledge might be a bit outdated, though. Last time I checked, you had to start paying pretty soon if you have a lot of projects, and especially if you have a few contributors. Not that I have many contributors at the moment, but hope dies last (faith dies before it... :lol
.In any case, I do know that Microsoft has come a long way. But I'll still be watching things more closely.
Face
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I don't need private repos for my free-time stuff, otherwise I wouldn't be on GitHub... :lol:
I have to admit that my knowledge might be a bit outdated, though. Last time I checked, you had to start paying pretty soon if you have a lot of projects, and especially if you have a few contributors. Not that I have many contributors at the moment, but hope dies last (faith dies before it... :lol
In any case, I do know that Microsoft has come a long way. But I'll still be watching things more closely.
Last I've checked you can give push permissions to repos on Bitbucket to 5 devs. This is a reasonable amount for free-time stuff IMHO. AFAIK, count is unlimited, for public as well as private repos.
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I agree with you almost completely with the addendum that anything Mic. bought went through a transition phase in which it was very unfriendly with anything *nix, or common sense. It gets better soon enough but there's an annoying slump in the middle.
This is not a big deal for stuff like Skype I guess but it could be quite annoying for something like GitHub and I don't really feel like surviving yet another "20 tools that do what **** does but better" phase and the ensuing circle-jerk. Plus transitioning anyone older away from the idea that git != github and that it's all the same thing gets a bit boring - this depends on the field and type of work you're in I guess. And I am certain that to a measure current github users might migrate to Bitbucket (I mean, why not - it's great!) which might necessitate further education of older population.
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Well, you know, like many software developers, I love to get paid. :lol: Even for telling the same things to every customer again and again. My typical level boss isn't really the older generation. My toughest customers are engineers. Those are really conservative, especially about their favorite CAD system. Once they manage to master one, its understandable that they don't want to learn a different UI monstrosity.
Me too, I'm just saying - sometimes people work somewhere where it's not *explicitly* their job but still kind-of ends up their responsibility. Much like the engineers, they soon grow to be conservative too!
Usually you can find them busy administrating user permits via Win XP applications.
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Usually you can find them busy administrating user permits via Win XP applications.
I had seen one such special exemplar carefully protecting his COBOL application window against predators....
steph
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Playing around with a plasma ball (got one a few days ago, marvelous thing), I get the smart idea of filming the inner electrode up close with my phone
So, after a few takes with my phone almost touching the glass, it goes black for a few seconds and then restarts. No lasting harm done, apparently. I should have thought of this..the induction currents around this thing should be pretty rad
So, after a few takes with my phone almost touching the glass, it goes black for a few seconds and then restarts. No lasting harm done, apparently. I should have thought of this..the induction currents around this thing should be pretty rad
Linguofreak
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There seems to be something about the whole type of personality that goes for professions like engineering (whether physical or software) that is very crabby and stuck in its ways. We *can* learn new systems, but we *will* complain about it every step of the way. If we try something new and like it, however, we will evangelize for it strenuously until we've annoyed everyone around us.
"Holy wars" like vi vs. emacs are a dime a dozen among engineering types, and I've seen statistics that indicate that engineers are over-represented among combatants in *actual* holy wars.
MaverickSawyer
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Oh, man. You want an example of that, turn a few engineers from Aerojet and a few from Rocketdyne into the same room and say "Diffusion bonding... Discuss." Apparently the results can be quite spectacular.
Andy44
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I did this too once, and it did do some pretty weird things to my phone. I don't recall it rebooting, but maybe.
20 years after Lockheed merged with Martin to become Lockheed Martin, there are still a few old timers from each side of the company who clash, I've been told. This is said of McDonnel Douglas and Boeing, Northrop and Grumman, as well as many other former rivals that merged. The great mergers of the 1990s forced a lot of proud engineering teams into shotgun weddings around the aerospace industry.
