Comment Douglas Adams was right (Score 1) 274
Comment Re:Enterprises Will Like This! (Score 1) 249
Most bash systems have ^W as backward-kill-word.
Comment take a VCS history walk (Score 1) 329
Find a project that has its main history all the way back to the beginning. Use a git or mercurial repo as then you will have the complete history on your computer. The check out the first commit and work your way through the history and watch how it gets built up.
As you move through the history pay attention to the commit messages and the changes that were made. You begin to really understand what the developer is doing. Eventually the project will get to be so big that you won't be able to keep track of everything.
I did this with the git source itself. It was pretty neat to see it come together. Then when I found a bug it was easy to find the part in the code where the bug actually was found.
Comment Global Defenestration Demoed In Google Earth (Score 1) 207
Was I the only one that wondered what was being thrown out a window?
Comment Re:So... the solution is more nukes? (Score 2, Insightful) 213
Comment Sturdy Examples (Score 1) 102
Comment Re:Gmail is not ready. (Score 1) 266
I imagine what will happen if they use the same gmail code will be something along the lines of.
dev > test > gmail > GovCloud
GovCloud would be the ultra-stable, world tested, code.