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Re:Abandon your DVCS and return to sanity by lmm on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @05:23PM (#9141209)
> Your machine will stop working sometimes, far more often than your office network stops working(1)

Bollocks. I've had two machine failures in eight years, versus at least 20 network failures. Sure, maybe the network admins at five different companies I've worked for all just happen to be a bunch of muppets, but I highly doubt it.

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Re:Abandon your DVCS and return to sanity by sgift on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @10:17PM (#9142457)
> Sure, maybe the network admins at five different companies I've worked for all just happen to be a bunch of muppets, but I highly doubt it.

That's your privilege. I don't. The only time I remember the network going down was after a complete air conditioning failure in the server room (a highly unlikely event in itself, but not IMPOSSIBLE) which forced a complete shutdown of IT services. And even then people could still work. Sure, not as well as usual but working was possible. The last time a machine failed was .. oh right. Yesterday.

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Re:Abandon your DVCS and return to sanity by lmm on Wednesday March 04, 2015 @05:21AM (#9143508)
Your machine, or anyone's machine? Remember to multiply a network failure by the number of people if you're doing that kind of comparison.

Also, get better machines. The last time a machine failed at this all-macbook shop was several months ago.

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