I made a post about this above, but yeah, that describes my current relationship with git, and is one of the reasons I don't enjoy using it.

I feel like I truly know svn, I understand what it does and am very comfortable with how it works. Part of that is just having used it for a long time, but I do feel like git is much harder to wrap your head around.

With git I feel like I'm just following a bunch of recipes that I know work (or seem to work), and that's really not a good way to go about anything. Every time I try and get my head around the guts of git, I feel like it's been made intentionally screwy, and most git users I've talked to seem to just operate on the same recipe set I do. I just feels icky.

As someone mostly in the "I dun get it" crowd, I'll say the problem for me is that I feel like while I can use it, I don't have a great deal of understanding as to what it's actually doing outside of the basics. I feel like I'm following a bunch of recipes that I know work.

With svn (which admittedly I've used for many years and on sizable projects vs git which I've used for months and on small stuff), I feel like I have a really good grasp of the whole thing. Sure there are some subtle bits I don't know because I've never needed, but I know the important bits, and I feel like from that I can solve just about any problem I run into by understanding what svn is trying to do and why it's not working.

I get that at least some of this is just inexperience, but I think even with experience, git seems far more complex and nuanced than svn, which has a relatively consistent way of working and a seems to have a much smaller set of features. I feel like I got comfortable with svn way faster, and at that point I was only mildly familiar with version control in general.

I know I'm gonna get flamed for this, but just wanted to provide some insight into the mind of someone who hasn't jumped on the git bandwagon yet.

There's also GPS, for which receivers are very cheap and which provides very accurate time.

This article is nonsense. Assuming IoT ever becomes an actual thing, the vast majority of devices won't need any better than the "good enough" that NTP provides. Those that do will probably manage their own time using accurate clocks and GPS.

Time patronization rarely matters. Usually you need an accurate clock (i.e. exactly 100hz) way more than you need your time to be within 0.100ms of someone elses time.

We used to at least get a disclaimer, even if it was just an article _about_ something geeknet owned.

Slipping their own garbage in the mix with things a user might have actually submitted is pretty shitty, and the campaign id in the URL is just obscene.

I think using slashdot to promote their own trash articles is a bit sketchy.

Take a look at Nerval's Lobster's user page. The account exists for the sole purpose of posting dice.com garbage. There is no way actual users submit this crap. The URL even has a campaign id in it so they can track the success of their shit posting.

This kind of behaviour makes me want to be defiant in the least significant and most petty way possible... so I took slashdot off my adblock whitelist.

I'm actually just now at the "oh shit, I really gotta figure out how money works" stage in my life.

I managed to save enough for a decent down payment on a house by dumping cash into a savings account for a bunch of years, and I have RRSPs because it was a checkbox and a form when I joined the company. I'm pretty good about living within my means (no debt aside from the mortgage), but I don't know shit about investing and if the "retirement calculator" on our companies group retirement page is any indication, I aught to learn soon

Will definitely look into that book...

This really does scare me.

The only options I really see (for myself at least) are:

- management, which as you mentioned isn't for everyone
- self employment / consulting
- develop a niche skillset in a long term industry (aerospace, defense, medical, etc.. some company that will keep you around until you retire because you speak the language, can talk to the customer, and have legitimately valuable experience in some niche area).

Personally I'm banking on 3, with 2 as a fallback.

Agree.

If the resume is going to be read by a human and not keyword filtering software, I think a decent programmer only needs to list the things he is specifically skilled in. I'm going to presume someone with 5 or 6 years experience knows a handful of scripting languages, knows what version control is, can do basic database stuff, can use a bug tracker, etc.

Indeed.

Most decent companies, HR is just a first hurtle. Make sure you specifically use all the key words in the job description exactly as they appear (don't use networking if they asked for TCP/IP .. say TCP/IP), use phrases like "I've been involved with x and similar technologies for <number of years they want> when x is something that has only existed for a year, etc. The project manager/team lead who ultimately interviews you probably has the same level of respect for the HR technical evaluation as you do.

I've tried to keep them on the line and waste their time, but they figure it out pretty fast and just hang up (although once I did get a bit of profanity, so I was kinda proud of that).

I like Marillion. I find the vocals are a bit jagged, but the guitar is definitely good. Haven't heard of the other two. Will throw them on the pile o` stuff to listen to.

Have been wondering this myself. The recent site instability, frequent downtime, and sudden "everything looks like shit" layout changes seem to imply that either:

a) they've given up trying to get us to swallow beta and are opting to fuck up the "normal" version of the site
b) they're trying to encourage people to switch by making the "normal" version of the site even shittier than beta

Pretty much this. I can use just about anything as background music once I've heard it a few dozen times. I use radio and similar when I want to find new stuff, but when I want background music I just put my "good stuff" playlist on shuffle.

For me it just has to be familiar. It can have lyrics, crazy guitar and drum solos, loud screaming, whatever, as long as I've heard it a few dozen times it fades into the background for me.

Personally I tend to like melodic rock (classic, progressive, even some of the lighter metal) when coding. Pink Floyd, the more ballad-y stuff from GnR, Pearl Jam, Red Rider, hell even Metallica (yeah yeah, shuddup).

Also WTF is up with the layout changes on slashdot. They couldn't get people to swallow beta, so now they are fucking up the non-beta site?

That's not even limited to ancient gear. My old PC at work did that, and it had a dual core processor so it wasn't _that_ old. It was kind of a weird long drawn out high pitched "dragging" sound.. very annoying.