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[Neonivek]

Had to listen to a constant stream of the DUMBEST stuff I ever heard in my life.

[ChairmanPoo]

The warped glass in a window of the train gave a very flattering reflection, which led to me spending about twenty minutes admiring it as I waited to board. I mean, I usually spend an unhealthy amount of time looking at my reflection, but this time it was actually a pleasant sight.
If only my face actually looked like that.

I imagined that with "yesterday" as background music

[itisnotlogical]

Looking at Github, the homepage proclaims you can "Learn to use Git and Github without knowing how to code!"

...... what are you going to use Github for if you can't code and don't intend to learn how?

[Bauglir]

Document storage. I had a math professor, once, who distributed homeworks through Github.

[Shadowlord]

Looking at Github, the homepage proclaims you can "Learn to use Git and Github without knowing how to code!"

...... what are you going to use Github for if you can't code and don't intend to learn how?

Really? I failed at learning how to github a year or two ago, and I know how to code, used to use sourceforge, have no problem with svn, etc.

[Rolan7]

I'm sure linux power users will hate me for this but, Git is arcane compared to SVN.  It's just unusable without a long period of study, whereas SVN is simple enough to explain to anyone in a sitting.

And explaining all the vaunted automated merge-features that the Git paradigm unlock?  Good fucking luck!  It's good if you're a master of the system, but for normal users it's a headache and a half.

Automated merging of branches is inherently dangerous anyway, though it does seem to work out.  I just bristle when people claim that it's at all intuitive.  It makes things really complicated for basic contributors.  Even once we've learned the process, it's several steps longer than SVN.

[redwallzyl]

First day of spring break. Need to travel three hours home. Got a foot of snow and high winds. Oh come on.

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[Rolan7]

Worf voice:  "This is a good place to die!"

[pisskop]

First day of spring break. Need to travel three hours home. Got a foot of snow and high winds. Oh come on.

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Thats purdy

[MagmaMcFry]

I'm sure linux power users will hate me for this but, Git is arcane compared to SVN.  It's just unusable without a long period of study, whereas SVN is simple enough to explain to anyone in a sitting.

And explaining all the vaunted automated merge-features that the Git paradigm unlock?  Good fucking luck!  It's good if you're a master of the system, but for normal users it's a headache and a half.

Automated merging of branches is inherently dangerous anyway, though it does seem to work out.  I just bristle when people claim that it's at all intuitive.  It makes things really complicated for basic contributors.  Even once we've learned the process, it's several steps longer than SVN.

The basics of Git are exactly as simple as the basics of SVN, except for the part where you have a local repository you synchronize with a remote repository, instead of moving changes directly onto the remote repository.

[Rolan7]

Exactly.  Compared to SVN, there are two extra repositories.

They aren't superfluous!  There are benefits to having them, in certain cases.  But, it's confusing and convoluted when all you want to do is update the master.

Then again, half of that process is just putting the onus of the pull request on the contributor rather than the master administrators.  It makes sense.  It's just a pain.

[Rolan7]

Sorry for doublepost but...

Someone I care about cares a lot for miniatures.  Particularly Transformers ones.  I just called them models and "It's not a model, it's a toy"


Anyway I have trouble understanding his need for more plastic figurines.  I keep buying interesting games, but only because I can afford too, and I spent so many years living off a few floppies, then demo CDs, then freeware and java/flash games.

I don't understand what would compel someone to spend over a hundred dollars on a moderately interesting plastic toy
But then, I didn't understand that old fling's obsession with comic books either.  I understand why she loved the new Batman movies, but comics in general?  Different strokes, I suppose.

[MaximumZero]

First day of spring break. Need to travel three hours home. Got a foot of snow and high winds. Oh come on.

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You're in the UP, aren't you? I hear they're getting hammered with snow.

[Akura]

Stepdad bought sesame chicken for dinner. Probably due to the fact that chickens are fungaloids. Either that, or the stuff is made solely out of chicken hearts and livers(which in hindsight could technically be possible knowing the take-out place).

[itisnotlogical]

Sorry for doublepost but...

Someone I care about cares a lot for miniatures.  Particularly Transformers ones.  I just called them models and "It's not a model, it's a toy"


Anyway I have trouble understanding his need for more plastic figurines.  I keep buying interesting games, but only because I can afford too, and I spent so many years living off a few floppies, then demo CDs, then freeware and java/flash games.

I don't understand what would compel someone to spend over a hundred dollars on a moderately interesting plastic toy
But then, I didn't understand that old fling's obsession with comic books either.  I understand why she loved the new Batman movies, but comics in general?  Different strokes, I suppose.

I like minis because they're like action figures, but you can customize them. And the ones on the websites look really cool, and they have decorations and they're painted really well and have custom bits, and they're really tiny so you can have a lot on display at once.

I mean, not that I can afford to buy miniatures. $8 for six Space Marines, after literal days of shopping around on Chinese websites, is not the best deal ever.