I don’t really get how the notification to 400k people was sent :/
Because it's ridiculous. That "developers" GitHub group has 400k people in it.
GitHub user sends notification to 400k users
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#382Pretty wild that there isn't a countermeasure in place by default.
Has nobody at github/microsoft experienced a Reply All email chain yet?
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#383Seems like an innocent enough mistake. Remind me of when I once helped organize a volunteer hackathon with people from different companies. We created a Slack organization just for the occasion. At the end of the event, I was supposed to ask all attendees to delete all the data we had given them before they went home. The message I posted to #general (the channel everyone in a Slack organization is required to be in)…
The real problem was that so many people felt the urge to reply to that PR making it so much worse than a single ping. I can live with the random message that has nothing to do with me, but having to delete an endless stream of messages because so many people felt the need to reply already knowing that it would go out to everyone is really annoying
I happened to be hit by the Github incident. The worst is not the guy who made the mistake (happens) but the fools who hit Reply-All to first complain about spam and then to yell at each other to stop hitting Reply-All, making the problem exponentially worse ... facepalm
Oh and one has even posted a "goatse" image there ...
Re: GitHub user sends notification to 400k users
#384> This is the friendliest message I'm going to send, while I look for ways to get OP banned from Github for gross social misconduct
Wow, what an overreaction.
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#385I honestly don't see what's the big deal, and, if anything, why this isn't grossly abused all the time. I mean, that's just how Github works, isn't it? Anyone can tag anyone, uh, yeah, ok, whatever. Looks like an intended feature to me. Does Github have problems with sending 400k notifications at once? Doesn't look like that, but if it did, I guess they shouldn't have implemented such a feature, or allowed 400k users…
It's somewhat unique because of the odd situation the UE org is in. It isn't an internal company org, you get invited after accepting their terms and conditions which grants you access to the source code. Which means literally anyone can join this org and then ping 400k users. I'm not sure there is any other org/repo which this is possible. Yes it is expected behavior but its the scale and particular nature here that…
What’s stopping someone from tagging everyone with “buy the hot new $SCAM cryptocurrency”? I’m amazed this wasn’t abused before.
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#386Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah typical of people that have more narcissism than technical acumen The better action would be to report the user as spam
I am in several communities that receive many users from the east and that is very common of them: absolute disregard for the rules, common courtesy or even common sense. If they want something, they will keep asking for it even if it's offtopic or even the wrong channel/group/forum/etc until they get it, regardless of whether they are disrupting ongoing conversations or whatever. I suppose that it's a cultural thing…
i can assure you this is not a cultural thing
it’s just plain neediness
Re: GitHub user sends notification to 400k users
#387Seems like an innocent enough mistake. Remind me of when I once helped organize a volunteer hackathon with people from different companies. We created a Slack organization just for the occasion. At the end of the event, I was supposed to ask all attendees to delete all the data we had given them before they went home. The message I posted to #general (the channel everyone in a Slack organization is required to be in)…
This reminds me of something that happened to me a couple of years ago, near the start of the pandemic and when we had recently switched from Skype for Business to Microsoft Teams. I needed to set up a one-to-one Teams meeting with a colleague, so I hit the 'Schedule meeting' button, added my colleague as an attendee, filled in the meeting name, date and time. I saw that Teams was asking me to select a channel. I did…
what a UX failure
if they labeled this as “Invite members of channels” this would have been avoided
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#388Earlier quoted context omitted.
This kinda looks like an attempt to get a commit into a bigger open source repository. It'd look nice on a resume to say you "contributed to Unreal Engine on GitHub".
But that's so weird because even if that's on the resume, any interviewer would be interested in know what the contribution was. Maybe revealing that you only "fixed typos" would do more harm than good?
Depends on your level of honesty. Given that you're fixing typos to say that you contributed to a project, you'd probably double down and quote the number of PR (remember to only do 1 typo fix per PR) and then add a real bug you may have fixed or make one up.
Unfortunately the entire interview process is why I usually try to hire former co-workers.
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#389Earlier quoted context omitted.
This kinda looks like an attempt to get a commit into a bigger open source repository. It'd look nice on a resume to say you "contributed to Unreal Engine on GitHub".
This. As someone who works with a lot of junior devs in India, I know the competition for early career roles in tech is immense, and so folks look at "open source contribution" as a "brownie point" to add in your resume. Having a "contributed to Unreal Engine" sounds great on paper and 3/5 companies would just take it at face-value and move this guy's resume higher up the stack. And we have enough seasoned devs who t…
A company really wouldn't at least ask what the contributions were? What kind of 'competitive market' is it where you can lie so easily and get away with it?
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#390Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't quite get the mindset here. I'm (slowly and lazily) learning a new language, and can't imagine going into some native speaker's repo and trying to correct it...
Blame the interviewers who require OSS contributions. Same with DigitalOcean and their "hacktobefest"¹, or whatever it's called. LKML is full of attempts at these. For some reason I remember a particular exchange (but it's quite typical) between Linus and some random 16 year old ESL student, who bugged Linus for days to accept his "typo fixes" (most of which weren't really typos), and Linus's replies in the manner of…
I am subscribed to the mailing list used to discuss development of the Django project. This is a very frequent occurrence. There is a constant stream of wannabe contributors that feel somehow inclined or compelled to ask the mailing list for a primer on contribution instead of reading the myriad disclaimers and existing documentation. It’s often obvious that they’re incredibly green behind the ears and barely know what Python or Django are, let alone how to use it. I personally find the combination of hubris and dishonesty jarring, though I appreciate that at the core of it is a cultural difference that I just don’t understand.