What about "tear downs"? That's what ifixit likes to say

I'm not sure how it works on Windows. There's a .gitignore that exists in the same directory as the git repo, but you can also add additional ignore files and make them apply to all git repos. My team's gitignore didn't ignore as much as I wanted it to, so instead of updating it I created another one.

Also just found there's another ignore file which isn't checked in, .git/info/exclude, which is what I should have used...

Have you tried adding a global .gitignore? You'd need to find the .gitconfig that's actually being used though.

Depends 100% on your language. Vim is fine for me writing c, with a bunch of plugins for git integration and the like. I live in the terminal anyway and have to edit files on computers I'm ssh'd into. I don't think it would work as well for web dev.

Wfh today too, get to stay in my pjs... But there's no snow coming down here yet

I don't but I should. Especially for older open source tools that are well documented, there's really no reason not to learn them properly (besides time constraints...)

I got Mathematica for free, your University must have been too cheap to get a site license. That sucks. It was Matlab they made us pay for.

Quiver , but it's Mac only

Someone tried to do something fancy with our makefile, fucked up the permissions and hasn't gone back and fixed it. Lazy bastard tells us to just chmod 777 on the files that occasionally get bad permissions

Too bad, the mainframe will keep them alive until all the banks and major retailers move off.

Seriously. Being able to explain something in simple terms is way better than dazzling people with your knowledge of jargon.

For me it's my manager... And he tends to repeat himself and end up talking for waay too long

I do a lot of sshing into machines, it's easier to just use the same editor across all my machines. That does mean I don't have a gui on those, and I do have vs code on my main machine, but I still more often use my heavily modified vim there.

@silly-symphony Three more weeks of this will take it's toll. Maybe it's a one off problem of someone overpromising, but I'd see it as a red flag. How long have you been working there? Can you ask other devs if this is a regular occurrence?

Edit: conjoiner up there brought up good points, better than I could say them

A day of working late is perhaps conceivable. But what you're talking about, a week of not going home, is insane. It sounds like someone really fucked up in setting expectations.

Download packages to a usb on another computer and install from usb

If you can find a surface laptop on sale, that 3:2 aspect ratio is real nice for looking at code

Linux mint maybe? Define "more modern"

With no code, it's completely bug-free!

VS code is the same but seems faster. I have eclipse installed, since most of my team uses it, but an IDE feels so fat after using a smaller code editor.

@JBSnorro he actually overshot Mars, it's just going off into space