[gnaritas]

My bad, I was overly huperbolic; of course there are situations situations in which distributed is clearly better. I use git. But I'd say those easily fall in the small minority of situations. Most of the time for most programmers I think, internet access is not an issue.

[eropple]

No worries. But I'd turn that around: is it not an issue because it's not an issue, or is it not an issue because we are trained to alleviate it? 'Cause I enjoy working from the park, too, and I wouldn't even want to trust tethered 4G to not be a pain in my ass while doing it.

[gnaritas]

The park... me thinks you live in a bubble and don't know what the average developer day is; believe it or not, most developers don't use git or any kind of distributed source control because most developers aren't working for cool startup's in the valley or on open source projects. Most developers are banging out Java and .Net apps for corporations using some form of centralized version control and not being able to work from 4G in the park isn't a problem they ever face.

[eropple]

Sure. But worrying about the average developer doesn't do much.

They're not the 90% case, anyway, almost by definition. =)