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Comment Re:Like Coca Cola, git is the real thing (Score 1) 203

When I'm forced to use TFS for a project, I use Git locally and Git-TFS to keep them in sync. Now I commit often, all day long, tracking all my changes and (relatively) easy rolling them back or reordering them if necessary.

Lucky you. Where I am, we have such an enormous amount of crap checked into TFS classic that Git-TFS can't handle it. :-(

Comment Just wait... (Score 1) 131

"Usually when I work, so much of my thought process is internal monologue," he said, "but with live streaming I try to narrate my thought process out loud. This has forced me to think through problems a little differently than I otherwise would, which has been really beneficial for me."

Yeah, just wait until you're in an actual office with other developers who try to narrate their thought processes out loud. You'll be wanting to throw chairs through windows in no time.

Comment Re:Same question as I had more than a decade ago (Score 1) 198

Ruby isn't a compiled (type-safe) language, so it sucks on that front. I also don't like the ability to call methods without using brackets after the method name. JavaScript gets this right by causing that to be a *reference* to the method. Then you have some weird unintuative syntax like needing to access members of hashes using a colon prefix (myArray[:test]). So no, I don't like Ruby at all.

Comment Re:Same question as I had more than a decade ago (Score 3, Informative) 198

Why do people want to take proprietary languages and libraries and use them on open source projects?

Speaking for myself - because C# w/ .NET wipes the floor with the competition, including Java. New, useful features being introduced regularly. Properties, lambdas, LINQ, web frameworks like OWIN that aren't massively over-complicated, etc.

Comment Re:Don't make it impossible, just make it hard (Score 1) 385

Why would the cabin crew have the code? The code is for the pilots. If the cabin crew want to come in then the pilots unlock the door from the inside. If your'e talking about eliminating edge cases, giving the entire cabin crew the code is a great place to start looking.

Erm, this is a good idea, but surely the cabin crew WOULD have the code. If one pilot incapacitates the other, the cabin crew realize the plane is going down, they need to get into the cockpit. It's OK because as long as both pilots are AOK, you can't get in - terrorists locked out. But one crazy pilot tries to crash the plane, the second one refuses to stop the door unlocking - plane saved.

Comment Re:people are going to be saying (Score 1) 737

what are we left with? keep the door open and we have murderous hijacking? keep the door locked and we have murderous pilots? yeah both are extremely rare outliers, but it's fucking scary either way

Give the pilots (NOT the cabin staff) PIN numbers that cannot be overridden from inside. That way at least the pilot could have forced the door open. Have the pilots immediately go to and stay in the cockpit any time a terrorist situation looks vaguely possible.

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