SDGT

Cue the "Prost" engine popping up on GH in a week.

Ah, I read that as "Iran didn't have an isolated system", in that they for some reason had a lapse of judgement.

Like a "See, the government even makes massive, obvious mistakes" type of comment.

Stuxnet happened via thumbdrive. The air gap was already there. (and failed)

The third and most important reason:

They have someone to blame when shit goes tits up. Response time may still be abysmal, but "dammit we payed a million dollars for this!"

> Can you point me to an institution that's managed to consistently pull that one off?

Sure, hoards of shops founded and run by developers with PM's who have actually done the grunt (coding) work in the past.

I've noticed that this problem usually pops up when the PMP certified suits end up managing technical staff.

I don't think they're quite competing with directly with Walmart, but only due to the targeted demographic.

Walmart targets everyone, which usually results in more of a sway towards the lowest common denominator. Target's marketing (Target's target marketing?) is seemingly always geared towards upper middle class, or whatever makes up that income level now. It even shows in their branding. Take a look at how Target specific brands are expressed (Archer Farms, Market Pantry, etc) and compare them to their counterparts over at wally world.

Here's an excellent example of this: Starbucks embedded cafes in Target stores under the Starbucks brand. They did the exact same thing in Walmart, but ran under the Seattle's Best marquee in order to provide the lower priced option.

Best practices are to not use pull unless you certainly know you should.

Things should be fetched then merged with two separate commands.

> Impractical for single repository of libraries

Submodules?

I actually think an entire repo of libraries is the wrong way to go. With the git model, we have however many repos acting as the source for these libraries. This repository that contains all of these submodules can then be the arbiter of which version should be included in the release.

> Yes, some will say - but this is good - centralization is bad... Well, it depends. If you can spend time to figure out who is who, then it will work for you.

And this problem doesn't exist with SVN? Sure, maybe if you are the sole publisher of all these libraries it might be ok, but with most real world examples, there exists multiple contributors. Now they need to go through you when there needs to be a specific update to that library. With git, the maintainer of the repo of libraries(submodules) just updates the specific submodule to whatever release works for their tastes.

Most of these complaints sound like an SVN user having some pain when trying to think in git.

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I need a job that will better my career, as I fear stagnation in my current environment.

I'm familiar with API's, third party service integration, cloud setup, data migration. Is there a general catch all term for "I do web stuff"? I haven't encountered anything in my wheel house that takes more than 3-4 days to figure out. Most recent was working on an HMAC API in Symfony2 for an Angular frontend.

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It's the steam model.

"Why not buy this game if it's only $5?"

20 minutes, 10 purchases, and $50 later with another set of titles to stale in the library.

You might like some of the Heroes of Might and Magic games.

The last one I played was III, so it's been over 10 years, but they were always fun.

I think my PM's have this printed out on a cheat sheet they bring to each meeting.

It embarrasses me when we have techs from other companies doing training or demos and management starts spouting this bullshit.

My last 2 months have been on 4 hours of sleep per night.

Yeah it works, but God does it suck. This has occurred out of a need to get work done, so I wonder how many others found themselves conditioned in the same way.

> I even know people who deliberately did "out and back" jumps to leap-frog over others at the same original company.

This is commonly known as a valid strategy at the place I work. It's very difficult to come in giving a shit about my code when the future of my position is a dead end.

That's why he used the word "needs" and not "status quo".