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NewsUnorthodocs: Abandon your DVCS and Return to Sanity Pin
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In my workplace, given the deployment requirements and the organization of us developers, we use the best and most portable versioning tool: properly named zip and changelog.

Pros:
1) Easy to backup;
2) Always compatible, no new tools to install;
3) Soothes the ultra-conservative copy-only-delete-never approach of all the members of the staff (except the one who sometimes loses some file and has to rework from scratch);
4) Packs the data with the source code, may be useful when developing and deploying customized algorithms.

Cons:
1) Soothes the ultra-conservative copy-only-delete-never approach, leading to several WIP archives and cluttering of the hard-drives.
Geek code v 3.12
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X

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NewsFrom slang to sign: Emoji, PhotoBomb, Selfie, in American Sign Language for the Deaf Pin
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NewsThe science of why no one agrees on the color of this dress Pin
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NewsWindows 8.x still nowhere near as popular as Windows XP Pin
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NewsIs AngularJS ready for the enterprise? Pin
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