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So at age 88 I may see a partial one - if I will be able to see anything at all...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation has released this year's "Who Has Your Back" report, which grades tech giants and some smaller companies based on how they handle government requests for data. "Who loves ya, baby?"
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Back in ye olde days of the information superhighway, curious newbies had an easy way to see how websites worked: View Source. And what of the poor tailor? The soldier? The spy? Does anyone code for them?
Yes, Wired. Deal.
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Chinese researchers have successfully transmitted quantum entangled particles from a station on earth to a satellite orbiting far overhead. "I signed aboard this ship to practice medicine, not to have my atoms scattered back and forth across space by this gadget. "
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Well at least they put 'teleported' in quotes.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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The real excitement today is what the future holds for the Subversion project. "WHO?"
I think the Venn diagram of active users and developers of Subversion might be becoming pretty much a single circle.
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Subversion has one good feature -- it is therefore the second-best Code Management System out there.
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I agree, and might even put it at the top for ease of use and use for non-devs. Sadly, the market picked a different, weird house-like creature.
TTFN - Kent
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Can you please introduce me to your secret and tell me which is the best?
Thank you in advance.
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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DEC's Code Management System (CMS) -- it runs on only OpenVMS (the best Operating System in the world). 
All others are unusable. I still seek something similar for lesser Operating Systems (e.g. Windows).
In 2009, I began writing my own homage to it, using SQL Server* as the 'pository. The basic functionality took about two months to develop, but then I reached a major decision point in the UI and I still haven't chosen a direction. 
* SQL Server 2008, but I later realized that SQL Server CE would allow me to carry the whole thing on a flash drive, so I re-worked the DAL.
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Thank you for this
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Eh, I miss Subversion. There was no need for a "Subversion Guru" - people would somehow figure out how to use it on their own.
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Me too. And in addressing the ability to work offline they appear to be fixing its largest weakness. OTOH doing that will presumably require downloading the entire repo history locally, giving up its diskspace advantage vs DVC. On the gripping hand, too little too late for the wider development community.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I prefer subversion over git and TFS over both. In part because too many of git's features are to get around things caused by git itself, but also because I dislike how git changes how people approach project management.
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You miss Subservsion? I miss SourceSafe.
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Here's a statement that would have been unimaginable in previous years: Ubuntu has arrived in the Windows Store. It has now, officially, frozen over.
or:
"Dogs and cats living together! Mass hysteria!"
or:
That 'spodey sound you hear are millions of heads going off
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Ohhhh!!!! Gotta collect them all![^] (Can you think of 'virtualization' as a little red and white ball?  )
It Is The Absolute Verifiable Truth & Proven Fact
That Your Belly-Button Signature Ties
To Viviparous Mama.
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When I have to use Linux, Ubuntu has been my least favorite distro. (On the other hand, considering how much time Ubuntu spends on idiot, failed ideas, there must be an affinity there.)
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500 years ago, tragic Welsh genius Robert Recorde wanted to teach math to ordinary people. Without him, we never would get people confusing '=' and '==' (and '===')
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Everything good comes from Wales (yes, including me)! 
Now is it bad enough that you let somebody else kick your butts without you trying to do it to each other? Now if we're all talking about the same man, and I think we are... it appears he's got a rather growing collection of our bikes.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Brent Jenkins wrote: Everything good comes from Wales (yes, including me)!
I sure hope you're not implying Sperm Whales.
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Why yes, some of us are known for it..!
Now is it bad enough that you let somebody else kick your butts without you trying to do it to each other? Now if we're all talking about the same man, and I think we are... it appears he's got a rather growing collection of our bikes.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Except "0" (the digit) of course, which came from India.
Enabling us to say that nothing good comes from India 
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Rob Grainger wrote: nothing gooda good nothing comes from India
FTFY 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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