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@InsertUser@en.osm.town  ·  activity timestamp 6 hours ago
@neil When I have been asked to review documents half of my questions are resolved further down the document. I have to note them as I see them or I'll forget and I deleted on the second pass.

There is no reason anyone else should ever see those let alone be able to see them pop up and respond to them in real time telling me the thing I'm going to discover for myself in 20 minutes.
Derek McAuley
@drdrmc@mastodon.me.uk  ·  activity timestamp 14 hours ago
@neil @Edent My context is usually I want the files to automatically and asynchronously have downloaded onto my laptop while I’m asleep so I can work on the train… (I find none of the online collaborative doc systems usable on a train). So email attachments ✅ Old school Dropbox etc ✅ New cloud first and make manual interventions per directory to sync files to laptop 💩
young man yells at the cloud
@bamboombibbitybop@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 14 hours ago
@neil @Edent from the original post:

"And git! Don't get me started on git! The best minds of a generation stuck in a paradigm of downloading files to their local machine, making changes, then emailing git pushing them up to be approved? Madness!"

Gotta say I disagree strongly on this. Software development is best done with the source code living in files on the local machine. Any network-based shared access thing or concurrent editing would be a fragile dumpsterfire. Git is almost perfect.