Git365. Git for Teams. Quatermass and the Git Pit. GitHub simply won't do now Microsoft has it In all the furore around the acquisition of GitHub by Microsoft, no one has asked the obvious question: what should the service be called after its Redmondisation? At Vulture Central, we live in constant fear of mixing up GitLab and GitHub. Two letters are all that stand between an amusingly snarky story and a grovelling …
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They did however rename Lync to Skype for Business, meaning that they have two products with Skype in the name that are totally different and incompatible with one-another. Given how MS then loves to try and bundle Skype (home) with Windows 10, it causes all manner of support issues here when people launch the wrong one then log a ticket because they can't sign in.
Sure MS will manage to screw things up somewhere here!
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The renaming of Lync was clearly... stupid. At the time some of us assumed they were going to re-platform or even drop consumer Skype. There's clearly a bit of competition going on behind the scenes, and MS Teams voice and video only make it more confusing. But Redmond can afford to muck things up, because they have no effective competition in the space (talk about stupid branding: what slacker at Google thought that "Hangouts" was a good name for an enterprise conference system -- it's like the 7th graders took over the schoolyard!).
"Note to self, don't click this guys links."
My first thought was "oh my God". Then I burst out laughing because one of the products said "actual size" and while it might be well hard and badass on a 42" monitor, I'm using a phone so it's a bit...fun size. 😂 (<-- because ElReg can't do emoji)
> "Has anyone managed to figure out how to stop cats from posting for you when your back is turned?"
Maybe try the same trick used with tigers? Wear a pair of sunglasses on the back of your head.
Apparently it makes (tigers) think you have eyes in the back of your head, so are less easy to sneak up on.
"(Has anyone managed to figure out how to stop cats from posting for you when your back is turned?)"
Make sure that what you are doing while you have your back turned is opening up what ever is their favourite food. You will then have their undivided attention, at least until you get out of the way and let them eat. With my last cat, if I didn't know where she was, I'd just poke my head out the door and yell "CHEESE!".
My Mom asked a vet if cats like cheese. "Only the ones that have tasted it." Which I've always believed having had quite a few cats just show up and move in*. Right until this kitten. For some reason she refuses milk and cheese, spitting it out. Weird.
*- Yes, I'm a well trained cat slave/slut (depending on whether you ask cats, or humans).
"Has anyone managed to figure out how to stop cats from posting for you when your back is turned?"
Posting when you aren't looking is okay. They're just pranking you and trolling everybody else, which is in the nature of cat.
It's when they want to do it when you are looking, that you've got problems. Moreso if the cat makes more intelligible posts than you (this might be what's going wrong with amfm1?).
I lock the screen/keyboard each time I go away from the machine. Started when a 4 year old showed up wanting to use my devices. Now with the kitten that showed up here looking for a home, it's habit. Only thing that out-stubborn me. The kitten, not the 4 year old.
Q2 2018 "Oh, we're not going to change the name"
Q3 2018 "Our developers have created this amazing new client for git, $128/seat/year!"
Q4 2018 "dammit no one is using MSGit"
Q1 2019 "Github will be using a new *updated* standard for GIT !!!, have to use MSgit since no one else uses this better standard"
Q3 2019 "Wow, traffic on GitHub fell off a cliff ....make it sexy again!"
Q1 2020 "Git For Business is now available, a git repo, compiler engines in the cloud, interface design UI servers in the cloud, and true collaborative coding, we'll search all the gits and find the best code that matches what you're trying to do and pull it into your git!!!!"
I think they should just give up now, rebrand it MScodeGitsnBitsforBusinessFailure
Oh! And happy friday of the weekend Canada Day celebration from the northern leftpondians!
> I know of several people who either can't play or have had to re-purchase Minecraft since MS converted the accounts system.
Our CI system uses MSVC for making publicly downloadable builds. Every few months it stops working, and I login to the system to find out what's wrong. Every single time it's MSVC wanting me to re-authenticate, then refusing to accept my username/password.
To reset my account, they want me to provide my mobile number. Not fucking happening. Ever.
So, instead it gets a newly generated account using random crap email address alias, and that'll have to do until next time. Jeez I hate those wankers (MS if that's not clear).
Per the above, the Visual Git mascot to be Clippy with an RMS haircut and beard (how I wish I were a proper graphics artist! Actually, the more I try to visualise (sic) it, the happier I am that I cannot)
For the puzzled millennials among you, here is a BASIC clue for you.
Icon for irony (actually, not a bad fallback mascot... Clippy aged 65?)
Looking forward to a new UI where we can only see 8 lines of code at a time, each in a separate speech bubble, with the top 25% of the window dedicated to showing us our own username, and the left 25% of the window dedicated to showing us icons for 3 features, in a font and color scheme you can't customize, a minimum window size that's too big, a maximum window size that just expands the whitespace, and a search control that takes 95% of the window title bar so you can't move the window without pinpoint precision.
https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/17408641-please-create-a-professional-compact-chat-layout
Git your hands off of my data, mother Klucker.
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I believed in a thing called Git.
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Git on the rocks
Git on the rocks with no ice
So many issues we should address
'Cos our code just don't correlate
All the emotions that we suppress
Bite our tongues until it's too late
BTW, Look up git in Wiktionary, the free dictionary:
"Git is a term of insult with origins in British English denoting an unpleasant, silly, incompetent, annoying, senile, elderly or childish person. As a mild oath it is roughly on a par with prat and marginally less pejorative than berk. Typically a good-natured admonition with a strong implication of familiarity, git is more severe than twit or idiot but less severe than wanker, arsehole or twat when offence is intended.
Linus Torvalds actually named the VCS system "Git". Maybe it was what he thought of most of the contributors sending him bug riddled Linux code (the first use of Git).
The name still seems just as appropriate for Microsoft and it's programming users.
That isn’t the microsoft way; the first thing it needs is to divide the exact same thing into multiple tiers at different prices.
1. Enterprise edition git: eegit
2. Internet developer git: idgit
3.Mobile app git: magit
4. Federated k8s git: fkgit
And to help guide you to the right git for you: gippy, your git assistant.
OldGit—includes a plethora of appropriate mental images for UK readers, including imminent obsolescence, and correctly implies that all sentient users not yet victimised by Microsoft's "ecosystem"*¹ will be heading for something younger, better and less likely to become toxic.
*¹ "Ecosystem": Trap floored with poisoned punji sticks—refers to commercial practice of attempting to entrap paying customers via contrived dependence, usually on false and superfluous grounds, thereafter to squeeze their wallets until they die.
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