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He should care. The effort to learn git would have saved him time. Time he could have used to improve DF or to sleep, whatever. But instead he's still moving fo
by dudus 5y ago
He should care. The effort to learn git would have saved him time. Time he could have used to improve DF or to sleep, whatever. But instead he's still moving folders around.
I believe it's a balance. You don't want to spend your life just adjusting your IDE settings to the point that you never work on your actual project. But you shouldn't completely neglect anything that could improve your life with little effort.
I confess I'm guilty of "procrastination by configuration". I probably spent a year of my total career life just messing with my settings or getting the perfect git or vim configfiles.
- tzs 5y agoI think you may be overestimating the amount of time and effort it takes to move folders on a modern computer.
- technofiend 5y agoI don't disagree he needs a source code control system. But it's his intellectual property and right now he has some protection through redundancy. At least I certainly hope he keeps some USB sticks with a friend because if not one house fire and his livelyhood is gone. If he goes online he has to worry about someone hacking his account, if he keeps it at home we're back to what is his backup strategy, what does his redundancy model look like, and that's just not losing anything he already has. Next he needs to git's enough to be effective. Not that it's hard but if you've never used any sccm before it can be intimidating, and all of it takes time. It may just be easier to say later, later, later because you don't want to take however long it'll be to move and you're thinking of all the lost development time. Of course if he ever really needs it (house fire, tornado, hurricane) the price will the seem quite cheap. In the meantime I'd at least find a way to backup off-site even if it's scp'ing passworded zip files to an Azure VM.