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it. And I believe that the Inclupedia, this Internet company I'm building could be important for the world."[http://nathania.org/w/images/c/cb/Nathan_Larson_1-10-cr-00249-GBL_Document_53.pdf] | it. And I believe that the Inclupedia, this Internet company I'm building could be important for the world."[http://nathania.org/w/images/c/cb/Nathan_Larson_1-10-cr-00249-GBL_Document_53.pdf] | ||
A futile attempt to recruit additional developers from the [[wikitech]] community was made on 13 January 2014. A prospective software development trainee and business partner made an appointment to receive on-the-job training at Inclumedia's Catlett, VA headquarters in setting up his MediaWiki development environment and test wiki and fixing a few bugs under Larson's mentorship. | A futile attempt to recruit additional developers from the [[wikitech]] community was made on 13 January 2014. A prospective software development trainee and business partner made an appointment to receive on-the-job training at Inclumedia's Catlett, VA headquarters in setting up his MediaWiki development environment and test wiki and fixing a few bugs under Larson's mentorship. The trainee called in sick on 14 January 2014, then cancelled out for 18 January 2014 citing a last-minute church obligation, then postponed from 25 January to 26 January, saying that he'd looked at the wrong date on his calendar, then cancelled out for 26 January, citing yet another church obligation, then cancelled out again at the last minute on 27 January, saying his cash flow situation prevented him from paying the $80 for a portable hard drive and Ethernet cable needed to get started. Larson then fired him for excessive flakiness and decided to pursue Inclupedia development singlehandedly. | ||
Development resumed on 23 January 2014. The development process has thus far spawned many abandoned development branches that resulted in complete code rewritings, as various approaches were found to be ill-conceived or unworkable. On 29 January 2014, Larson noted, "This Inclupedia programming is like wandering through a really complicated maze with just a notepad with which to keep track of all the dead ends, and having to keep retracing my steps and starting over. It definitely takes a long time to get to that satisfying point at which I can run it and see it work. The part I dread the most is still ahead, though — debugging any database inconsistencies that might arise due to glitchy code. Hopefully I can catch all of those before production deployment, but who knows." | Development resumed on 23 January 2014. The development process has thus far spawned many abandoned development branches that resulted in complete code rewritings, as various approaches were found to be ill-conceived or unworkable. On 29 January 2014, Larson noted, "This Inclupedia programming is like wandering through a really complicated maze with just a notepad with which to keep track of all the dead ends, and having to keep retracing my steps and starting over. It definitely takes a long time to get to that satisfying point at which I can run it and see it work. The part I dread the most is still ahead, though — debugging any database inconsistencies that might arise due to glitchy code. Hopefully I can catch all of those before production deployment, but who knows." | ||