Oracle Reveals Funding of Dark Money Group Fighting Big Tech

Re:Oracle Reveals Funding of Dark Money Group Fighting Big Tech by C1sc0cat on Thursday February 27, 2020 @06:47AM (#22432458)

Depends I have seen young supposedly "digital natives" use lesser tools like the google tools and create a complete Charlie Foxtrots

Normally they have zero idea about professional project work the concept of a version controlled document is something they have never heard off

And we are talking Major Brands and Major agencies here

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Re:Oracle Reveals Funding of Dark Money Group Fighting Big Tech by adgasf on Thursday February 27, 2020 @07:20AM (#22432597)

Google Docs solves the 95% case of version-control simply by bringing everyone to the head of master at all times.

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Re:Oracle Reveals Funding of Dark Money Group Fighting Big Tech by lrem on Thursday February 27, 2020 @03:30PM (#22437448)

And further 3% by having a linear revision history. With some luck it will even render diffs correctly.

Disclaimer: I work at Google and hate docs. But acknowledge the thing works ok for its intended user.

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Re:Oracle Reveals Funding of Dark Money Group Fighting Big Tech by DailyHN on Thursday February 27, 2020 @07:02AM (#22432529)

Does excel version control come anywhere near sheets history feature?

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Re:Oracle Reveals Funding of Dark Money Group Fighting Big Tech by C1sc0cat on Thursday February 27, 2020 @07:09AM (#22432554)

The entire concept of version control is something that whooshes by them 50,00ft

I was talking about having documents in source control vitally important when you may have ,multiple teams in several countries

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Re:Oracle Reveals Funding of Dark Money Group Fighting Big Tech by DailyHN on Thursday February 27, 2020 @07:24AM (#22432617)

> Google Docs solves the 95% case of version-control simply by bringing everyone to the head of master at all times.

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