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Source Control for the unwashed masses

Visual SourceSafe (VSS).  Those words make me shudder, and it’s been years since I have touched it.  I was snapped back to the reality so many Microsoft-centric developers deal with when my friend Dave sent this: More…

I’m bored of all this Smorgas.

It’s common in software that often the absolute basics get trumped by candy-coated interfaces and lists of features that mostly go unused (hmm.. MS office 2001-present?). In fact it used to be that the Operating System’s central role was actually memory and I/O management, can you imagine?  It is an easy mistake to make. It is fun making new features; tail-wagging dogs that help you search or desktop gadgets that crash in new and interesting ways. The saying that “every program will eventually expand until it can read mail”, is pretty insightful.  I swore off using Winamp on the dark day that it took over my video associations, but still couldn’t seem to handle ’shuffle’ correctly - it seemed at the time that every application was expanding until it could play movies.

There is way too much going on here.

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