I follow relatively little of either, but it reminds me of the conflict over what kind of version control system to use. There's a thing... I blank on the name but I bet you know it... where instead of a centralized database that contains All The Knowledge, and when you take a copy you then later have to compare it to that database (which conveniently uses terms like "trunk") before you add your knowledge.
The other thing is basically everyone's desktop has its own version of The Knowledge, and it differs from other desktops and then you have to reconcile the various desktops but none of them contain All The Knowledge, they all just contain Knowledge. Presumably in the background they all talk to each other and update each other, and I do not understand resolving conflicts. But at a previous workplace, a number of nerds were like "But this distributed model is the coolest thing ever and solves assorted problems" and looked down on people who were like "But I like having a server!" This seems different from the Cloud in how the user thinks about it, although I could be wrong in that maybe the Cloud is all just a version of this, not that I think anyone really knows what the Cloud is except people who are involved in lawsuits about it.
It makes me think of single point of failure and multinode installations and such, and I don't know what to make of all of it.
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Date: 2012-09-03 07:43 pm (UTC)The other thing is basically everyone's desktop has its own version of The Knowledge, and it differs from other desktops and then you have to reconcile the various desktops but none of them contain All The Knowledge, they all just contain Knowledge. Presumably in the background they all talk to each other and update each other, and I do not understand resolving conflicts. But at a previous workplace, a number of nerds were like "But this distributed model is the coolest thing ever and solves assorted problems" and looked down on people who were like "But I like having a server!" This seems different from the Cloud in how the user thinks about it, although I could be wrong in that maybe the Cloud is all just a version of this, not that I think anyone really knows what the Cloud is except people who are involved in lawsuits about it.
It makes me think of single point of failure and multinode installations and such, and I don't know what to make of all of it.