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Well, for that one time we have a superhero programmer rather than a rockstar I expected more of it.
Did his backstory also involve dead parents?
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The merge issues seem to be TRWTF here, but that seems to have been buried under other stuff. What's WTF-y about those emails? Do I just need more coffee this morning?
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Day of Horror: Batman Possessed by Joker
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I have seen this in the wild...the new developer who demanded (and got) a 4-way 8-cpu box with 32G and RAID 5 so that he could run a virtual machine (with database) for every bug which had to have its own branch. To work on a small PHP application. Unfortunately my reaction to the CIO when I saw this...thing...with its multiple monitors in the cubicle was "You let him have what?", and this caused considerably frostiness between us for the remainder of my time there.
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Probably killed by an exploding NAS.
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If they have unlimited number of servers and storage space, there would not be problem as long as The Batman don't f**k up the merge process.
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So I guess we're assuming this stuff lives forever? Hmm...I guess that's kind of what this seems to be saying:
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No, just orphaned commits.
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This story is obviously made up, everyone knows Subversion can't do branching.
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And he have "job security".
Btw, if he's not there, there will just be some orphaned branched that never make it for merging into MAIN. Possibly about a manweek * developers ' progress is lost, but nothing really big deal. They can always start working in old mode again on the MAIN branch and treat other branches as not exist.
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svn explode-subtree?:running away:...
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Are you also going for git and run management today?
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What's the betting? It's basically a Murphy's Law situation but adding lots of opportunities for something to go wrong.
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Maybe, but most of the branches should be so trivial that they are pretty much risk-free.
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Batman is an awful programmer. I was playing dc universe once, and braniac hacked brother eye, batman's hyper satellite robot army thing. Yeah, he has one, and knows nothing about security.
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TRWTF is "The Batman". It's just "Batman".
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Hrm. Sounds like one of my devs got a bug up his butt about the idea of having a defined release process XD
Feature Branching is a well-defined strategy for managing change. As long as it's combined with Continuous Integration, where those small branches get merged back into an integrated environment as soon as they're ready to go, it's not a big deal. Branches become short-lived, ephemeral means of isolating a stable environment to develop against for the lifespan of a small piece of work.
One DB instance per branch sounds nuts, if they're not being reused or destroyed. Otherwise, sure, why not? Why not spin up a new clean VM for each one as well, so you always have a clean, prod-like environment to develop in? As long as it's destroyed when you're done, it's not that much more space-intensive than having one per person that lives forever and has to be kept up to date.
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And this shows what, exactly?
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It did say, "merge hell."
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sheesh
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This is taking a good idea to the extreme... and fucking it up.
Why? This is the job of each developer to maintain their branches up-to-date with the source branch. Again, a good idea turning into a mess.
Is this server instances (as one server instance for each one) or simply schemas inside the same QA database?
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And that was my point. Adam West's sophisticated acting skills forever established him as the definitive "Batman", and thus renaming the character as "The Batman" is/was a mistake, despite what his pale successors and various frogs might think to the contrary.
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And so anyone else trying to own the character had to leave that and reinvent him as The Batman
Edit: I'll just leave this here
http://www.overthinkingit.com/2008/09/24/batman-vs-the-batman/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvwbVGDk_5A
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It shows a white rectangle with a broken image icon at the top, because it wasn't pasted.
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CLOSED_WONT_FIX_WORKS_FOR_ME
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"who called himself The Batman"
You can't just bestow a title on yourself. It doesn't count if you do. You can't go around calling yourself a "guru". That has to be what other people start calling you.
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I mean, I know it's my fault for using this forum at work. But if it's sfw, it makes sense to paste it here.
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That was what the senior partner at my father's firm once referred to him as, when the Beatles were a thing. He immediately responded "When do I get my fleet of white Rolls-Royces?"
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It depends on the scale of the application and how many people are working on it simultaneously. e.g. lots of Server 2008 instances with 16G of RAM do tend to eat up space rather.
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I think you may have accidentally a word there.
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They call me Mister Tibbs!
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Oldie but goody, there.
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You can, provided it is a title that makes other people laugh at you. Claiming to be the “Lord High Consumer of Taco Bell Products” might well stick. And encourage people to not sit too close too.
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Batman was terrible. Bored me to tears, it was so awful. But then I was a Captain Scarlet fan.
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Will Batman solve the merge crisis? Will Robin swoop in and save the day? What will happen when the CEO finds out?
Tune in Tomorrow, same Bat-Time, Same Bat-channel.
Yes, I did grow up with the original series!
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The upload speed at my work is abysmal, so it tends to be a lot faster to post the link instead. But because I'm a Nice Guy, I've pasted it in instead.
Now don't say I never do anything for you
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Um, actually ... [image]
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I had to sit through one of the movies with the family. I went to sleep shortly after nobody seemed to realise that you could disrupt a fusion bomb safely (except for those near it) with high velocity rifles. The whole thing seemed to be a right-wing attempt to discredit Occupy by suggesting that given a chance they would be homicidal and suicidal villains. Weird.
It's a bit like the plot problem in LOTR: why doesn't Gandalf send the Hobbits off with a fake ring to distract the Nazgul and just get
GwaliorGwaihir (pace @abarker) to fly the real ring to Mordor and drop it in? Churchill or Patton would have been on to that one in a minute. Short circuit a thousand pages of one dimensional characters in a one dimensional plot, and as a bonus the annoying Hobbits get eaten.Admin
Captain Scarlet was creepy and cool.
I was always building LEGO into that giant airliner the mysterons took over...
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Why would anyone do that, when they were perfectly capable of shitting on police cars themselves?
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Not that deeply bonded if they can't sniff it out from a couple of feet away
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Eh, what was so special about Mount Doom's fires anyway?
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As mentioned already:
Further, you may want to read this.
Keep in mind that "dropping it in" wouldn't work. You had to enter Mount Doom by the path that Sam and Frodo took and then drop the ring in. Dropping the ring from the volcano's caldera would not have worked.
Also, I think you mean Gwaihir, not Gwalior.
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I think that shows how much attention I paid to the book. At least I can remember Indian place names from 35 years ago. I think I have a fair attention span and am prepared to wade through a lot of text - I've read Ulysses at least three times along with most of Trollope, but I never managed to finish The Hobbit at school and I only got through LOTR with a lot of skipping. Mind you, despite trying to keep up with the grandkids I never got past vol 3 of Potter, either. Yes,yes, tot homines tot sententiae. But my favourite classical tag is mega biblion mega kakon - a big book is a very bad thing.
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Oh come now, hysterical overexaggeration is a popular technique - remember McCarthyism?
Not according to the book. See a reply to your post.
My goodness that was a lot of over-analysis to get around the simple fact that Tolkien's knowledge of strategy and tactics was at about the level of Beowulf's.
Probably ran on enriched uranium.
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Or it can mean you have a ton of ground to cover -- see for instance Electromagnetic Compatiblity Engineering -- it's about as fat as anything you were having trouble digesting, but it is that way because it needs to cover such a broad problem space.
Haha!proceeds to use The One Ring as a particle-accelerator target until it's no more
Trust me -- heavy-ion beams can destroy in a way very few other things can... ;)