The biggest thing I'm taking away from this blog post is that lousy
interfaces and obscure failure modes really are inhibiting adoption of
better computing practices. From the post:
if you’re like me, you will screw up at some point, leading to some
problem, potentially catastrophic, that you will spend hours trying to
figure out. I’m clearly not alone... “Abort: remote heads forked”
anyone? :) At that point, we all just call over the one person in lab
who knows how to deal with all this crap and hope for the best. And
look, I’m relatively computer savvy, so I can only imagine how
intimidating all this is for people who are less computer savvy.
I heard fewer complaints of this kind, and believe that I saw higher
adoption rates, when we were teaching Subversion. I'm not going to
recommend that we switch back, but I do miss it whenever I have to help
someone deal with a detached head...
Thanks,
Greg
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Dr Greg Wilson
Director of Instructor Training
Software Carpentry Foundation
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