> clear case
replyPlease no.
What, you dont like 6 hour code checkouts of 10 megabyte projects?
replyAll you had to do was access it over VPN and you could go on vacation because nobody would expect you to get anything done!
That's what I remember most about it: how much it lowered expectations on us. We barely ever worked because most of the time we couldn't. It was always broken (not just slow). This became a part of the culture where management didn't even care what we did. They knew eventually things would get done (late) but we'd also have to wait. That was just part of it.
replyI agree. I will say the slowness i could kind of understand - just poor network protocol optimization/etc on their part, etc. Not that i excused it, but i at least could understand how you get there - you are always on a fast network and so you just don't notice what it's like when you aren't.
replyThe brokeness was always what got me. I had to believe either they had no unit tests, or 1000's of them were failing and they released it anyway. Because it was so fragile that it would have been impossible to test it and not notice easily broken things.