Cue the "Prost" engine popping up on GH in a week.

Prost is older tech though!

Not sure if it is protected somehow, but the green stripe should be on top and the blue on bottom :)

Stuxnet happened via thumbdrive. The air gap was already there. (and failed)

That was the point. GP said, "You can't hack a plant control system from outside because that network is physically isolated." What happened in Iran proves you can (or more strictly, that systems don't remain perfectly physically isolated even with an air gap).

Ah, I read that as "Iran didn't have an isolated system", in that they for some reason had a lapse of judgement.

Like a "See, the government even makes massive, obvious mistakes" type of comment.

The third and most important reason:

They have someone to blame when shit goes tits up. Response time may still be abysmal, but "dammit we payed a million dollars for this!"

and one more thing with large volume transaction processing is scaling out on I/O and ETL jobs.Oracle (and other DB vendors) offer a lot of utilities that scale out perfectly with least of development time. For e.g. it would rather be a difficult deal to work with parsers to parse a Gigabit-data file with code we have to own up , than to use features these DBs directly offer to parallel-load into a ready to use table within minutes.

> Can you point me to an institution that's managed to consistently pull that one off?

Sure, hoards of shops founded and run by developers with PM's who have actually done the grunt (coding) work in the past.

I've noticed that this problem usually pops up when the PMP certified suits end up managing technical staff.

I don't think they're quite competing with directly with Walmart, but only due to the targeted demographic.

Walmart targets everyone, which usually results in more of a sway towards the lowest common denominator. Target's marketing (Target's target marketing?) is seemingly always geared towards upper middle class, or whatever makes up that income level now. It even shows in their branding. Take a look at how Target specific brands are expressed (Archer Farms, Market Pantry, etc) and compare them to their counterparts over at wally world.

Here's an excellent example of this: Starbucks embedded cafes in Target stores under the Starbucks brand. They did the exact same thing in Walmart, but ran under the Seattle's Best marquee in order to provide the lower priced option.

Best practices are to not use pull unless you certainly know you should.

Things should be fetched then merged with two separate commands.

Pulling is equivelent to doing a fetch then a merge. Unless you plan on doing something between the two steps (like inspecting FETCH_HEAD yourself), then there is no advantage to not simply pulling.

Of course, if (like thrush) you do not plan on doing a merge, then you will need to do the fetch manually and do what you do want to do. Although, git pull does have a --rebase option, but I am not sure if you can pass the -i flag to it.

Having taught people how to use git, I found that it is easier to not show them the pull command until they are used to doing fetch && merge.

> Impractical for single repository of libraries

Submodules?

I actually think an entire repo of libraries is the wrong way to go. With the git model, we have however many repos acting as the source for these libraries. This repository that contains all of these submodules can then be the arbiter of which version should be included in the release.

> Yes, some will say - but this is good - centralization is bad... Well, it depends. If you can spend time to figure out who is who, then it will work for you.

And this problem doesn't exist with SVN? Sure, maybe if you are the sole publisher of all these libraries it might be ok, but with most real world examples, there exists multiple contributors. Now they need to go through you when there needs to be a specific update to that library. With git, the maintainer of the repo of libraries(submodules) just updates the specific submodule to whatever release works for their tastes.

Most of these complaints sound like an SVN user having some pain when trying to think in git.

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I need a job that will better my career, as I fear stagnation in my current environment.

I'm familiar with API's, third party service integration, cloud setup, data migration. Is there a general catch all term for "I do web stuff"? I haven't encountered anything in my wheel house that takes more than 3-4 days to figure out. Most recent was working on an HMAC API in Symfony2 for an Angular frontend.

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It's the steam model.

"Why not buy this game if it's only $5?"

20 minutes, 10 purchases, and $50 later with another set of titles to stale in the library.

But there's also the iOS model to consider:

"Why buy this game if it's not $1?"

I know there's other factors at work, but this is what publishers are (understandably) afraid of.

You might like some of the Heroes of Might and Magic games.

The last one I played was III, so it's been over 10 years, but they were always fun.

HoMM games are not 4X. They're great[0], but they're not like Civ at all.

[0] Though I prefer the King's Bounty remake[1]

[1] Although 1C is excessive in its milking, Armored Princess + Crossworlds had a somewhat better balance and interesting new units wrt The Legend, but Warriors of the North got seriously long in the tooth, felt like "well we'll just reskin a few units and change the magic/rage balance and call it a day