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How to end up with 500k commits in your log

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Re: How to end up with 500k commits in your log

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Post by nosajm »

unnouinceput wrote: post #10

Quote: "Two people working on the same file at the same time was … unwise." Yep, that one! That's the one that cracked me up, waking my wife from her afternoon nap :).

I am working with a client today, in 2021, that still has multiple developers making live changes to a dev server as part of their everyday development process.

Some of them make their changes locally in VS Code (or Notepad), FTP the changed files to their home directory, then sudo cp to replace the existing files. Others SSH into the server and directly edit files using vi.

Due to that workflow, none of those devs ever use a proper debugger (and have committed a lot of random console logging) and there are often conflicts when more than one person is working on a file. To address that, there is a Slack channel dedicated entirely to announcing what file you are working on.

Re: How to end up with 500k commits in your log

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Post by wdb »

> One of their websites was a “website builder”, like Geocities, except worse. The value for the customers was that was in Dutch, with Dutch support (it didn’t even support English.[2] Shortly before I joined they decided to rewrite it from scratch (which in this case was probably the right decision by the way).

Or people just want to do the work in their mother tongue instead of a foreign language. Personally, it's quite disappointing to the see Englishification of The Netherlands. Even been to restaurants were I couldn't even speak in Dutch in Amsterdam and had to order in English. Bloody ridiculous. I don't think you will see that happen in London.

Depending on the kind of work I prefer to do things in Dutch, English or German. Anything mathematics is something I prefer to read about in Dutch, while some social science or anthropology related subjects I prefer to read in German.

Re: How to end up with 500k commits in your log

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Post by im3w1l »

fragbait65 wrote: post #30
ishiz wrote: post #28

This is a good opportunity for me to ask something I've been wondering for a while about what is appropriate to put on a blog tied to your real identity. The majority of this article could be seen as negative toward the author's former employer. The website is also listed on the author's CV, and knowing the author's name it is easy to find the website. Is there the possibility that this is seen as unprofessional, or…

I personally wouldn't, but everybody has to decide for themselves. I at least know a few companies that would avoid hiring people who criticize old employers, afraid they will be next. I mean, most companies have at least some "skeletons in the closet" of bad practices or what not. Having said that I'm usually brutally honest in job interviews, I see it as my way of screening companies, if they don't want the honest…

I would imagine that the how makes a big difference. Publicly on a blog vs privately in an interview is one aspect of that. And your tone: matter of factly stating problems vs agitated ranting.

Re: How to end up with 500k commits in your log

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Post by Manozco »

lorlou wrote: post #16
cerved wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

why bother with a message if it's just garbage?

Because a message is mandatory to be able to make a commit.

git commit --allow-empty-message

https://git-scm.com/docs/git-commit#Documentation/git-commit...

Re: How to end up with 500k commits in your log

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Post by nemetroid »

wdb wrote: post #32

> One of their websites was a “website builder”, like Geocities, except worse. The value for the customers was that was in Dutch, with Dutch support (it didn’t even support English.[2] Shortly before I joined they decided to rewrite it from scratch (which in this case was probably the right decision by the way). Or people just want to do the work in their mother tongue instead of a foreign language. Personally, it's…

I don't think the article is dismissing the value of internationalization. As the endnote says:

> People often seem dismissive of that value i18n, “everyone speaks English” Well, depends on who your customer base is. Even in the Netherlands where almost everyone speaks some English there are still loads of people who are not especially good at it and much more comfortable with Dutch. This is probably over half the population, and it’s really not just old people.

Re: How to end up with 500k commits in your log

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Post by patorjk »

> One of the developers could not code at all. ... Nice guy though; he was a lot of fun. Just a bad choice of careers (or maybe not, since his salary was a lot higher than mine…)

I've known a few people like this. One guy told me he realized programming wasn't for him after he'd been out in the real world for a year or so, but it just paid so much he didn't know what to do. I know another guy who just goes job to job and lasts about 6 months to a year before getting axed. He's able to do it because there's just so much demand in the market.

Re: How to end up with 500k commits in your log

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Post by cerved »

im3w1l wrote: post #33
fragbait65 wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I personally wouldn't, but everybody has to decide for themselves. I at least know a few companies that would avoid hiring people who criticize old employers, afraid they will be next. I mean, most companies have at least some "skeletons in the closet" of bad practices or what not. Having said that I'm usually brutally honest in job interviews, I see it as my way of screening companies, if they don't want the honest…

I would imagine that the how makes a big difference. Publicly on a blog vs privately in an interview is one aspect of that. And your tone: matter of factly stating problems vs agitated ranting.

it's often more fun to read the agitated ranting
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