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Git sucks as a Source Control System
Git sucks as a CLI interface
Git sucks

TFS is 3000 times better than anything Git has ever been

that is all

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I'm having to reopen a 3.5 year old project. Which means I need to reconnection and use TFS again for the original source.

God I've forgotten how much I LOVE TFS and only by comparison, am I reminded of exactly how much I hate GIT.

I'm like the frog, I didn't notice how hot the water had gotten until I got to jump into a bath of cold water.

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Informal Poll

How many of you out there have had to set your jumpers correctly on the motherboard when assembling your computer?

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Me almost every day.

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Gently reminding the boss that repeatedly asking

"have you fixed the bug yet? what exactly is the bug? do you know what's causing it? How are you trying to locate the cause of the bug?"

of a programmer that is in full bug fix mode IS NOT FUCKING HELPFUL and in fact is counter productive.

He means well...

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A sign that perhaps today may not be a very productive day

It took me more than 10 secs to realize why the compiler didn't like the following

if(true)
{
// code
} else (
)

"Why in the hell is the compiler giving me red squigglies?"

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In my early days of programming when faced with a rare app crash in my VB apps that only seemed to happen on certain machines and that I couldn't reproduce...

I'd been known to put in 20 or more

`DoEvents()`

LOL

CEO is reporting a bug with my stuff running on his machine.

Of course

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Oh Goody...

Now I have a co-worker that has a system crashing bug in his subsystem, but he's busy code reviewing my code for how I l log information for exceptions.

Mind you, It never gets to my system cause his bug causes an error in the Video Driver, and the OS cuts my app, hosting his subsystem, off at the knees.

But sure, that's a good catch sometimes my code won't log to disk all the inner exceptions that might be in the top exception

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When your CEO boss, who was a good, but hobby, programmer 10 years ago, steps forward to suggest what he thinks will be some of the best ways for you to proceed in order to track down and debug a bug.

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I have now been using Git as my 99.9% primary code repository system for 3 years.

I still hate it, still think it is a hot pile of unintuitive crap, and would go back to almost any other system if I could. I'd be willing to give up 1% of my salary if I could go back to TFS.

I honestly don't understand, other than it is "free" and from Torvalds, why Git became the Source Control of the programming world.

Public Service Announcement

https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/

Your Welcome

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Actual opening, I just sent out to a Vendor that supplies an important component in our app:

"Hey Folks.

One of the best compliments I can give a vendor is that I haven’t thought about you and your component that sits in our app making us money for almost a year."

I don't understand why programmers are so concerned with finding out who is at fault when we are in the throes of an emergency / debugging situation.
For god's sake, right now, who the fuck cares who screwed the pooch.

Right now, let's just figure out the problem and fix it.

We can play the Blame game during the retrospective..

🤬

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Pro Tip.

When you are having problems with a development tool, it pays to actually read the WHOLE error description not just enough so you "think" you know the whole error.

Especially if you are in the 3rd reboot of your machine trying to figure out what is going wrong

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"I've updated the primary data processor machine with the latest updates."

"hmm should I also fire up the backup data processor machine and make sure it's all patched and ready to go in case the primary goes down?"

"nah, we haven't need to use the backup machine in over 2 years..."

I start to close out my server session... and a far back part of my brain yells at me:

"Hey fuckwad... you forgetting about Murphy again?"

*Sigh* starting up backup machine now.

Rebuilding my development machine, which I try to do at least once a year, always involves a month of "irritation by a thousand cuts"

Today was day 8 since I rebuilt my machine. Today I needed locate, download, authorize, and configure cloud storage client app, because that once monthly task I need to complete that uses the app was due today.

normal 1 minute task, 30 mins later done...

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That moment when you are programming in C# and realise by chaining some of the new syntactical sugar in C#10 together you can reduce a 4 deep nested if cycle, into a one line test.

Then you look at the result and think... "And that's why I'm not a C++ programmer..

"Just because you can, doesn't mean you should...

"What's more, future you will REALLY appreciate you leaving the source code self-documenting easy to read!"

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If you are not a programmer and want to be one,

ProTip: don't listen to unsolicited pitches from the internet on how to become a programmer. Especially when they spout out buzzword laden techno-babble.

Especially not an unhatched egg.

Note it's real easy here on CoSo to mute silly people, you can even mute me!