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LethalGeek posted:Holy poo poo, for real? I did enough programing in college but was way more in a hardware course. I can do all the things they mention there still off the top of my head. Ok I'd have to think about it cause it's been years but I feel I can answer all that. Having been on the hiring end, poo poo is depressing. Che Delilas posted:Microsoft ended support for it in 2005, but it certainly did not die. I worked for a company that used it for its software development (not a software business). One of the first things I did was propose to move to something relatively sane; the boss said VSS was perfectly adequate. After two incidents in the space of three months where it just lost 2 weeks' worth of code, he finally signed off on moving our code to TFS. This was in 2013. My first job out of college used VSS. Because the very concept of source control wasn't raised in that school (AND STILL ISN'T BEING!!!) I didn't understand how fundamentally awful the concept of "mandatory atomic locking for files" was. At my next job, which used subversion, I asked how Armageddon doesn't happen if two people try to change the same thing since they can both work on the same file at once  I wish I could go back in time and prevent VSS from ever being made.
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MANime in the sheets posted:How does that work? You resolve the merge conflict (e.g. https://help.github.com/articles/resolving-a-merge-conflict-using-the-command-line/)and move on with your life. Any version control with branching and merging will do this, typically without any impact to the end developer if the changes aren't in the same place, and build servers will ensure that even if you don't cleanly merge you'll know about it promptly. This has been a solved problem for decades before I started working at that place, they were just stuck in the past.
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spankmeister posted:$5 haircuts sounds like a good deal Seriously, were the haircuts good or what you'd expect for $5? Way to bury the lede
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Renegret posted:Thankfully I don't talk to customers. 
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It's not that crazy a request. It's good and bad news is that they want you to spend your last 2 weeks documenting as much as you're able. Good that they want the info, bad that there wasn't a culture where that existed already.
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:I was at a conference and the speaker said that when he gets jobs to unfuck IT departments, the first thing he does is run a script that removes local admin access from all end-user computers. While developers always are potential problems, we also do actually need local admin to do our jobs.
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Collateral Damage posted:What in devops says you have to develop on your local, physical workstation rather than a virtual workstation that you can easily nuke and redeploy when it inevitably becomes too cluttered? I'm not creating a VM to install my IDE and SDKs to just because I want to keep my main work station tidy or whatever that reasoning is here.
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Collateral Damage posted:
What kind of brain do you have where you decide that you need to use "The email computer" now? It depends on the work you do, but I'm happy not having "Maybe it's some weird interference from the VM?" be a part of my "why the gently caress is this mysteriously failing now despite every configuration being triple checked and correct?" troubleshooting. Then again, I also do mobile development so I don't need to worry about having the exactly perfect version of Java installed for some particular arcane service, so there's that. I could understand this being a problem if you had to install some cornucopia of different versions of packages of software, but I don't and this isn't an issue for me.
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What kind of environment do you run where clicking a VM template is a burden?
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I'm sort of curious what happens if someone security minded takes the link and uses curl to download it. Does it count as a hit, or is someone smart enough to capture the user agent and see whahaha who am I kidding.
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spog posted:(Sorry, can't find a more suitable thread, but you're a helpful bunch) I'm a big fan of Google Photos, as long as the browser can see the filesystem you're fine. There's a program you can download to handle syncing though I haven't played with it much. But really, my dude, why aren't you just using rsync?
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AlexDeGruven posted:"Deployments for <product> are going to be delayed due to a licensing issue with the vendor" You joke, but sometimes it's good to sanity check. It would be better phrased as "who is working on the licensing issue with <vendor>, and is there a rough estimate on when that will be resolved?"
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Boogalo posted:Speaking of throwbacks, has anyone heard from Larches lately? That's none of your concern.
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Irritated Goat posted:A ticket came in. To be fair, the fact that this is still a problem for Windows in 2017 is shameful.
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My Windows won't boot. I shut it off Friday while it was doing updates cause I wanted to leave. 
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Neddy Seagoon posted:No software is going to like you killing it halfway through rewriting itself. If only there was a way to write content to a storage device and then later specify the new address to use in an atomic operation that could be retried. Alas, scientists believe that using a different file path is at least 20 years away, and for now we must continue to overwrite content in place in a risky operation.
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