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Re: Best reply to a Pull Request ever?

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... am I the only one who had to hit google news to find out what's going on in Ukraine right now?

Well, apparently there is no trace of Ukraine on the front pages of cnn.com and msnbc.com, and barely a mention on foxnews.com, so it seems that - in the states - that's probably your best bet.

Those are infotainment / political agitprop sites. May as well complain about TMZ not covering it. If you go to bb.co.uk or reuters.com or news.google.com or reddit its front page news.

Re: Best reply to a Pull Request ever?

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eXtreme Programming?

See, this is why I think XP was poorly named. My expectation of Extreme Programming involves guys with body-piercings and facial tattoos coding while base-jumping and chugging Mountain Dew. Not pair-programming, good testing, and a minimalist design process.

My expectation of Extreme Programming involves guys with body-piercings and facial tattoos coding while base-jumping and chugging Mountain Dew.

I think I heard that before who said it?

Re: Best reply to a Pull Request ever?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

See, this is why I think XP was poorly named. My expectation of Extreme Programming involves guys with body-piercings and facial tattoos coding while base-jumping and chugging Mountain Dew. Not pair-programming, good testing, and a minimalist design process.

My expectation of Extreme Programming involves guys with body-piercings and facial tattoos coding while base-jumping and chugging Mountain Dew. I think I heard that before who said it?

If I'm quoting somebody I'm doing it unconsciously - I've been trotting that line out for a while but I thought it was original.

Re: Best reply to a Pull Request ever?

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... am I the only one who had to hit google news to find out what's going on in Ukraine right now?

Ukraine must not have significant oil fields.

Actually, Ukraine's natural gas production has been picking up. Significant shale deposits have been found and off-shore drilling has begun in the Black Sea.

Re: Best reply to a Pull Request ever?

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... am I the only one who had to hit google news to find out what's going on in Ukraine right now?

It's pretty mainstream news if you are in Europe.

Im normally all for having a go at Americans for being so insula, and not realising there is a rest of the world out there, well, the NSA know, but, you know... stereotypes and all that.

But in all fairness, the Ukraine borders the EU and there are political ties or ambitions there concerning the EU. No, I don't know all the details and I wont pretend to, but ultimately, it affects the EU. The US, on the other hand, is a world away and frankly what goes on in the Ukraine is not exactly a big deal to the US or its people. Yes, on a being informed of big events in the world level, it should be reported in the US, but I can understand the US not being that interested. Im sure there are levels of concern for the US, but its a much bigger deal to us in Europe.

Re: Best reply to a Pull Request ever?

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... am I the only one who had to hit google news to find out what's going on in Ukraine right now?

Well, apparently there is no trace of Ukraine on the front pages of cnn.com and msnbc.com, and barely a mention on foxnews.com, so it seems that - in the states - that's probably your best bet.

I think blaming "MSM" is becoming an increasingly poor excuse in an age where you are free to compose your own news feed in places like Twitter - even Tumblr.

I'm sure many of the people unaware of what is going on in Ukraine didn't follow the MSM to begin with.

Re: Best reply to a Pull Request ever?

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I'm in the USA, it's not about snow or football, so it's (embarrassingly) not front page news on the various tv news sites. It is showing up on the nytimes & washington post. so that's something.

It's definitely been on CNN. The elevators in my building have little TVs playing CNN all day long so I get it in 30 second snippets.

When i posted, i went to the front page of msnbc, cnn, and fox and did ctrl-f ukraine. Fox has something now. Actually on tv is probably different.

Re: Best reply to a Pull Request ever?

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Just don't be naive and understand that you are supporting not ukrainians but some (minor? worst?) part of them.

thanks for the `worst' part

There are corrupted but legal government on one side and opposition that tries violently take power on other side. Sure it isn't obvious choose as you try to present it.

Re: Best reply to a Pull Request ever?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, apparently there is no trace of Ukraine on the front pages of cnn.com and msnbc.com, and barely a mention on foxnews.com, so it seems that - in the states - that's probably your best bet.

I think blaming "MSM" is becoming an increasingly poor excuse in an age where you are free to compose your own news feed in places like Twitter - even Tumblr. I'm sure many of the people unaware of what is going on in Ukraine didn't follow the MSM to begin with.

Fair enough, but for me, I've generally used a quick peek at CNN and a relatively large newspaper site as my "Is there some major world event happening right now" filter. Clearly, I was mistaken. Switching to the international edition of CNN seems to be a reasonable start.
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