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Drucker's problem is that he is trying to enjoy the "kitchen sink" of the game industry. This is like saying you enjoy cooking as your hobby and then you try to learn the best culinary techniques of French, Spanish, Italian, Thai, and Creole. You can't expect to become a master and experience everything in all of these areas.

My Advice:
Pick the platform or genre you enjoy the most and focus on those games. You will never get to sample them all.
It's not unlimited and not on demand.
I don't own a car :-)

But I do drive one. I use http://streetcar.co.uk/
i watch a handful of tv shows a week through hulu. it's enormously better than when i watched shows on tv. i watch exactly what i want to see when i want to see it. i feel like my brain is destroyed less by not succumbing to additional crap.

also, i read books on my computer. i'm far more likely to read at night (or whenever i want to procrastinate) than watch shows (i don't play an appreciable amount of computer games). the nice thing about reading, other than the story arcs, creativity and writing being far superior to tv, is that it's easier to stop when my eyes and brain get tired and fall asleep.
Not yet -- this is a minimum viable product of sorts. Once I get the kinks worked out, that's one of the first things I want to do.
There is a point that I don't see mentioned in any other comments, maybe because it applies only in my country (Italy).
The main benefit of not watching TV here is that you avoid the relentless, hidden or explicit, endorsement of our right-wing party and the consequent manipulation of reality.
I believe that by "superior branching", DannoHung actually ment superior merging. That is something at which SVN is far, far behind DVCSs in general and GIT in particular.

Also, my experience, as non-representative as it is, has shown that cheap branching with efficient merging results in much less of a mess than everybody playing in the same sandbox and inevitably kicking everybody else's sand castles.
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Well, it is not believable. The point here is that many people dont really notice the URL, specially when they are redirected to that page from inside Wave.
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Branching was a pain for me when using SVN - far too much hassle to keep on top of it all; All branches are visible to everyone and merging between them was slow.

With Git, branching is simple and really fast. It can also be done in such a way as to prevent your own personal development and feature branches from making it back into the central repo.

I've also found that cherry picking commits between branches and squishing small commits help me maintain the cleanliness of our repos (At no point in the history of our central repo is there half of a new feature or fix).
I stand corrected. This makes the news even more exciting!
it's missing prototype, but has scriptaculous, it's UI-part... I the search term and got a different picture
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Except that in subversion, branching is a great way to lose revision history. I think this is partly fixed with the merge tracking features in the more recent subversion, but in git it is simple - it just works like you'd expect.
China will use this as a negotiation point to further their agendas. The US has used this tactic before, notably in the Suez Canal crisis to keep Britain and France from attacking Egypt:

http://www.fpri.org/enotes/200709.bracken.financialwarfare.h...

It's not in the best interests of China to cause massive inflation of the US Dollar, but it definitely gives them the ability to put short-term pressure on US politicians.
Not for nothing, but Wandisco sells $1000/seat software that makes Subversion distributed (i.e. more like Git).

I checked it out about three years ago (before Git was on my radar) when the company I worked for brought on some offshore developers, and they were on a slow and unstable internet connection.
> "everybody playing in the same sandbox and inevitably kicking everybody else's sand castles."

That just points to poor collaboration management etc though. If people don't work together properly, you're just delaying problems until people merge anyway.
I agree that in Microsoft's case, less coordination on some of these separate units would really help. I've read elsewhere that getting buy-in from different departments/product groups has led to some seriously delayed or disfunctional products.

But regarding one of your other statements, I am not so sure:

Harsh experience shows that an organization gets grossly disfunctional as you increase the number of layers from 5.

What about other organizations like Wal-Mart or the Navy? Surely there are more than five layers from door greeter or new recruit to CEO or 4-star admiral, yet the organizations are able to function and carry out their missions. Or are software companies different?
We're taking a bit of a combination approach to our kids. Our six year old is currently taking piano lessons, but he can make the decision to stop them if he wants. He's also free to choose another instrument. We didn't prod him into taking lessons, but it was our suggestion.

As far as physical activities go, we are letting him choose his path. We're avid climbers, and take our kids with us to the crag, but never force them to climb. Some days they insist on climbing, other days they're happy exploring the woods. Both kids love riding their bikes (which also fits with our lifestyle), and our older son has taken a liking to soccer (though again, we suggested he try it).

I think it's also important that parents provide the opportunity for their kids to have autonomy. If they aren't exposed to different things, they'll never take the initiative to be passionate about something.
Two things that would help the music industry I think is to move have free streaming music on sites like Lulu and Last.fm but for a limited number of times. This will still let people discover new music int he manner that many do it online now and will let them decide if they want to spend 50-90 cents to buy the song.

Secondly, more profits from song sales should go to the artists themselves. It's hard to feel bad for recording industries please when you read that only minute percentage of CD sales actually go to the artists.
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Improving subversion borrowing some "distributed feature" from git&co? I'm not sure of how many would care...
The thing that make svn a "toy" scm is the branching model/facilities(e.g. merge) and this is the area that seriously needs to be improved. Do you want to bring svn "to the enterprise"?
Start offering what other enterprise scms offer, take clearcase for example, it has its issues but the branch/merge facilities are great.
Maybe I'm Doing It Wrong, but when I want to tag a release (or create a branch) in subversion, I have to make a copy of the entire codebase. When I want to tag a release in git, it just creates a pointer to a revision. It's far less annoying for the next person who needs to checkout the code.
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I stopped watching TV in early 2008. My TV sat for over six months without being turned on. I didn't download, buy, or watch television content online either. My first return back to TV was so I could watch coverage of the DNC and RNC during the election. Late that fall / early winter, I started meeting friends in sports bars to watch KU football and basketball games.

After I stopped watching television, I found that I no longer want to be invested in series programming. Shows that I had watched for years, I stopped watching and I have not picked back up (House was one of my favorites). There are several series that I keep getting told that I should watch (Lost, Heroes, ...) but I just seem them as big chunks of wasted time now. In 2009 I returned to watching TV but I find that I turn on channels like Adult Swim at night and it's more background noise while I'm online.
Who will buy a debt that will not be repaid?

T-Bills are tracked via the book entry system. I.e., the Treasury keeps a registry of who owns what debt. So all we need to do is repudiate all the debt that China currently owns. Then there will be no buyers.
I literally thought this video was a joke for the first couple minutes. But then it wasn't very funny, and I realized "holy crap, this guy is serious." I don't know what else to say.
The problem is that svn makes branching easy, but merging very hard. This provides an incentive to postpone merges which of course makes them even harder once the excuses run out and they have to be done. Distributed SCMs recognize that branching is necessary, but actually provide the tools to make merging easy. Once merging is easy, branching doesn't look bad any more.
Uhm, what? For a developed country, the US has very cheap labor already. And there are minimum wages laws to deal with as well. How exactly would the US compete with labor as cheap as it is in China?

I can't imagine you actually mean slavery here (and I'm not convinced that would be cheaper in any case, morals aside), but I don't know what you could mean.
I always hated the way svn left its .svn cruft all over the place. Glad to see they're trying to get away from it with version 1.7 but it's the same kind of glad as seeing someone try to make an iPod killer.
There's a fine line. As I mentioned above, our six year old is taking piano lessons. Sometimes he isn't motivated to practice, and there is a fine line between instilling a willingness to work hard and backing off a bit to give him the opportunity to decide for himself what he wants to do.

I'm not sure that kids are immediately equipped to understand the importance of hard work for something they are passionate about. It's certainly possible to instill this in them without being a taskmaster.
As an "enterprise" SVN user, I have to say I hate SVN "in the enterprise". Who the hell would want to rely on one repository in one location for all their writes? Not to mention delays in syncing changes read-only upstream creating confusion and loss in productivity for remote devs.

The HTTP method seems to be one of the most common uses in the "enterprise" because of its flexibility, but it's also the most buggy (in my experience). I know 'wandisco' makes its money off fixing all the typical "enterprise" problems with SVN, but we don't pay for 'wandisco' so we don't have the luxury of a proprietary fix for an open-source problem.

I have not used git. But the fact that it is distributed makes me want to try it a whole lot more.
A couple of questions:

-The time-line on the front page seems to mark major life events. Why would I need a web site to remember when I got married or was in college?

-In hindsight, it's easy to see what events were important (at any level of granularity) but much more difficult as things are happening. How do I know when something is sufficiently important to put it on a timeline?

-What useful information are users supposed to be able to glean from this type of presentation of the data they enter? The example on the front page should show events that are interrelated and the copy should draw interesting conclusions from this. Right now, it seems like each time-line is totally orthogonal, which I can't really figure out the value of.
I don't see any prices. How much will this cost, and what structure are you using? Freemium?
At which point your currency/bonds are worthless to everyone who doesn't have to pay taxes with them since you look for reasons to break your promises when things don't go your way.
Branching in Subversion is easy, it's the merging part that's difficult. That's because branches in Subversion are just copied folders that it tries to keep in sync with some magic "glued on" metadata attributes. (At least they were the last time I checked.)

In Git, branches are an inherent part of the repository graph structure. So the relationships of branches and merges are very low level and stable and work quite reliably in all situations.

Because of this I trust Git more for branching/merging.
I ever only had to go for jquery for the plotting libraries.

other then that, YUI is much more professional to use.

most web searchs for jquery keywords you got a zillion blogs with 'plugins' on how to do stupid little things. yui has a nice documentation and is consistent even when you account community created widgets.

yui can be a little too OO centered, i recognize.

and on the end. diversity is always awesome!
It still looks bad to me. I want 1 codebase, developed linearly.

Definitely I can see the appeal of branches for software you ship, where you need to bug fix an old version and release a patched ver etc, but I can't really see the need for web based software, which I think is pretty usually developed linearly without much mess.

I much prefer doing branches in the source code (If that makes sense).

For example say you have a widget and you want to try a different strategy, create a newWidget in the source, make it so you can swap it in and out of the runtime maybe for testing. Keep developing it, until you're sure it's cool. When cool, replace widget with newWidget. If it doesn't work out, just delete it.
Glancing over at his office and observing his day-old beard, I'm going to go way out on a limb here and suggest that Tyler is, in fact, male.
"Prototype" surpasses everything else but that's because Google finds everything not related to the JS framework as well.
When I was a kid growing up in the 1950s, I thought I was being deprived because my immigrant parents had a thing about not getting a TV in the house. This actually forced me to grow up as an avid reader, which I realized only years later proved a great long-term benefit.

Back then (and into the 60s and 70s), TV was wholesome enough but highly limited: mainly three networks (CBS, NBC, ABC) that gave us news, variety shows, and old style sitcoms such as the Beverly Hillbillies and a few local UHF stations that mainly featured old movie reruns. Apart from the "all-night" UHF station, most stations signed off by midnight and then went silent for the night, using an "Indian" image or some equivalent to alert viewers to the fact that they were off the air. I would say, throughout that entire period, that TV was for me what I would call a pleasant time-killer. I wouldn't watch that much of it but, after working like a fiend all week doing my studies and working odd jobs to pay my tuition, it was pretty relaxing to settle back into a sofa and just passively watch something - an old movie, a sports event, a stupid comedy, or whatever - without any demands being made upon me. That was the appeal: a mostly mindless diversion with occasional drama when some important news event captured the nation's fancy (e.g., the Apollo 13 drama).

Today, with cable and with digital channels, TV has far more variety with its countless channels and its ubiquitous round-the-clock presence but it remains for me a mostly mindless sinkhole for my time whenever I get caught up watching it, which is not too often. Network news has been largely displaced by wall-to-wall coverage by cable networks of whatever story it is they want to pound to death, with an emphasis on "reality" stories (e.g., what is today's tidbit of information that we can add to the story of the missing teenager who vanished in the Caribbean?). Reality-TV formats are everywhere, creating voyeuristic opportunities to watch people interacting with one another in this or that setting and featuring really nothing more than the personalities of the participants as points of interest. All this and more is for me little more than the "vast wasteland" that Newton Minnow called TV back in the 1960s, with the quality of programming having settled in at a level of almost mind-numbing banality.

That said, TV is nothing more than a medium and will always feature this or that item that is indeed interesting or stimulating. It just is not a good habit to find oneself continually caught up in it. Used selectively, it can be just fine for occasional entertainment or for particular items of news or commentary. Not normally very profitable but nothing to be too critical about either.
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As an avid console gamer, I own a nice TV, but I have had the same "hotel TV" experience. I was at PyCon in Chicago last year, and the hotel rooms had these gorgeous flat panel televisions. In a flash, I realized that I had absolutely no idea what to do with the one in my room, since it didn't have a game console attached to it. Like Mr. JGC, I watch some things via Hulu, Netflix or on DVD, but I haven't dealt with cable/network programming & commercials for years.

Worse than news were the commercials. I think it was George Carlin who said, "If you want to see how screwed up our country is, just turn the TV on for five minutes sometime, and watch only commercials." I don't mind the occasional ad on Hulu since they're far less frequent. I often find myself feeling exhausted after 5 minutes of commercials on television--it feels like nothing so much as being buffeted from all angles.
How about an endless source of new memes?
chrome, mac 10.5 : i wish i could scroll horizontally using my macbook's mousepad (two fingers moving horizontally). i assume this doesn't work with a mouse wheel either, but i'm not sure. the click-and-drag method is less good, plus whenever my mouse leaves the square, unclicking does nothing...
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I used to think like you back when using svn... Now I think that when using svn, branching causes a mess and for that reason is bad... But, it's amazingly convenient and simple to use with git
the headline of your post is quite misleading. Are you stating a fact or an opinion?
The dollar-denominated cost of unskilled labor in the US can’t get much lower, but if the dollar-to-[insert some foreign currency here] exchange rate goes down, then US exports will become cheaper when denominated in that foreign currency.
Free for now, likely some sort of freemium model in the future depending on how things go. It's too early to say for sure.
Jason Kottke had a fun time:

http://kottke.org/10/02/chatroulette
Ridiculous. The government should step in and enforce licensing, just like they do for radio.
I use branches in Hecl to play around with experimental features. These are things that I want to keep around for a while, hack on, but that are not ready to be in Hecl proper. If I had to wait for a yes/no on those features to go on with other things, it would slow things down.
Not sure if F# and Linq were innovations that "bubbled up" but I think they are innovative products that transitioned well from MS Research to shipping products.

(Due Disclosure: I don't use any MS products and haven't in years)
It's been 13 years for me. The funny thing is I couldn't even name a friend from my 'hood that has a TV these days. Turntables? Sure. But a TV? That's so 20th century. Expect a comeback when they're retro and cool.
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More developers might, but it's just one of many factors.
I didn't mean that I believe branches in svn are a mess. I mean that the concept of using branches IMHO is messy and should be avoided. I just don't like that workflow at all. I don't think it's good for productivity.
It always intrigues me to read someone's account of how they have given up TV. More often than not, they are just watching some TV show (in this case 24) via some other distribution channel. They are still watching TV just not on TV. Also more often than not, they will degrade some other show as evidence of the disaster that TV is all the time missing the point that what TV programs you watch are a matter of taste and choice.

Ridiculing So You Think You Can Dance for being shallow and pointless while lauding 24 which is filled with completely fake scenes and violence is odd. While the "reality" part of SYTYCD is a little silly, the people on the show are actually doing something amazingly hard in front of quite a few people with no props or fake explosions to manipulate your emotions. And I say this with no real affinity to either show.

In the end, fine, say you've given up TV. But really you've only given up the distribution channel and you have chosen to watch things you like when you like them. But calling one show rubbish and using it as an example of why TV in toto is bad starts to sound like a matter of taste to me. Just because you don't like something does not mean it sucks.
A single repudiation in response to hostile acts, which occurred once in 80 years will certainly make everyone dump US debt?

I doubt it. Maybe we will be downgraded from AAA to AA, but I doubt we would see more than that. In contrast, China would lose $600-800 billion and anyone else who wants to use debt as a weapon would think twice.
Thanks, that's a good idea. I'll see what I can do.
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also, it would be great if i could edit each event right on the timeline. that is, i want a single page for quick edits. the form could be below the timeline, activated whenever i click on an event or layer. whatever. if things take to long to edit to make right, this will waste too much time.

ps - i do like it. always a pleasure playing with data viz.

API? would love to incorporate this in my own time tracking projects.
The whole centralized vs distributed debate does not make much sense anyway, the choice of words is very poor. You almost always want to work on a common repository when working with other people - but the whole point of DVCS is that this common repository can be different for different usages (release vs development vs documentation vs testing ...). Something like subversion makes it very difficult to have several full fledge, synchronized repositories. Once you have a way to easily replicate live repo on the fly, you have already almost everything needed for a DVCS.

Also, something which is often overlooked: subversion was very poor even before DVCS came to light. It was only good at making sure everybody could work on the same snapshot. Branch management was inexistent not so long ago, no usable merge capabilities, awful interface to compare branches, etc... Just using git as a client to svn repository through git-svn already brings many advantages. Git-svn has saved me countless hours already compared to straight svn when working on public projects, especially for release management. svn log, blame, diff are slow to the point of being useless once you need to compare past revisions.
This is something I don't fully understand. How does it make merging more easy?
I tried mercurial some time ago and it gave me conflicts for very easy merges. While I like it very much as a local version control for myself this merging was really bad. Now its not unlikely that I made a mistake somehow. But why should merging be more easy with git/Mercurial than with SVN?
"Peg" is a wrong word to use here, it's got the wrong connotations.

Oil is priced in dollars: if you want to buy oil on the open market/from an OPEC nation, you have to pony up dollars to buy it. That says nothing about how many dollars are required ... e.g. look at what happened starting in the early '70s when Nixon closed the gold window. (I must say it's nice to be on a forum where I can reasonably expect people to know such references.)

As for your second paragraph in toto ... I'm not sure the linkages will work that way.

As for the Continental problem ... yeah, you could be right, I've certainly heard that was a factor, but the bottom line remains the same.
I listen to streaming music all day every day while at work/home ect. I pay a monthly subscription to Grooveshark for this. They in turn pay these record labels when I play the music.

If they take away music from streaming sites I will go back to the way I did it years ago and download everything. I am not going to buy music from them.

Artists make their money from concerts. Record labels make their money from theft and lawsuits.