>Not entire world is a goddamn Sillicon Valley. Internet is not electricity, and won't be for a while - free and reliable WiFi ain't everywhere; sometimes you w

>Not entire world is a goddamn Sillicon Valley. Internet is not electricity, and won't be for a while - free and reliable WiFi ain't everywhere; sometimes you work where you're not allowed to connect to a network, sometimes your ISP decides to fuck up the link for an hour for no reason whatsoever, the other day you work at a venue with office-grade Internet (i.e. slow as hell). And then you might want to hack during commute. Data plans are expensive, not every place on Earth has LTE connection (or any form of reasonable data connection for that matter)... So, in other words, like someone working away from home base...like someone...in the field. I suppose I wasn't clear. I had hoped my use of "virtual wilderness" implied a different domain for "field" that is not necessarily a physical location. >Internet is not electricity And there was a time where electricity wasn't ubiquitous either (and it still isn't depending where you are). Such places, then and now, could be reasonably described as being relatively in the field. >and I don't mean wilderness, I mean the highway between two big cities. That could definitely fall under working in the field, especially compared to an office. >Above all that, what happened with the concept of owning the data? Choose whatever VCS you like for whatever reasons you want; it doesn't matter to me. I'm merely pointing out that I think the author covered that base. You may not be underwater in a submarine, but if you're on the road on your laptop trying to scrounge for LTE or zipping from firewalled office to firewalled office, you may as well be virtually underwater with respect to the Internet.