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If Wikipedia required edits to be reviewed by other editors, they would probably be thwarted with fake editor accounts.
This is the Wikipedia approach to software development. Why does it seem absurd for software yet it seems to work (perhaps inefficiently) for Wikipedia? What if Linus made the Linux master repository world-writable? If Wikipedia required edits to be reviewed by other editors, they would probably be thwarted with fake editor accounts.
Mostly because software is deeply interconnected - every file will call something within another one. Wikipedia will link to another file, but never depends upon the content within it.
I won't be surprised if some startup comes out trying to sell services/enterprise support for I'll Accept Anything. I'll be even less surprised when they raise like $20m in funding within the month.
this might be a joke, but this is a serious problem i have as well. i want to create something, but i don't know what to do.. there is nothing i need that is not already done, or at least thats why i think.
Here are some of my super secret ideas that will help you take over the world. If you use any of these ideas you agree to remember me when you get rich (you don't actually have to give me any money, just drink champagne and think happy thoughts about me) - Group purchasing for work - what if you wanted to break the cost of a Foosball table up over a group of people. It's cheap if you have enough people involved. - Ap…
Cortana (and I assume Siri) do this out of the box. You just say "show me stores that are open right now" and voila. You can even get more specific and say "show me mexican restaurants that are open right now." You can probably get more creative but I haven't tried yet.
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> - Group purchasing for work - what if you wanted to break the cost of a Foosball table up over a group of people. It's cheap if you have enough people involved. It's called an office manager. Combined with an expense account for the company. > - App for finding which stores are open at 11pm (or on Sunday in places where most things are closed on Sunday) It's called Foursquare. Bonus, it does this for a radius aroun…
On the last one, I've never seen a formal registry (managed through a retail store) that didn't denote whether someone had already purchased an item.
This is the Wikipedia approach to software development. Why does it seem absurd for software yet it seems to work (perhaps inefficiently) for Wikipedia? What if Linus made the Linux master repository world-writable? If Wikipedia required edits to be reviewed by other editors, they would probably be thwarted with fake editor accounts.
Why does it seem absurd for software yet it seems to work (perhaps inefficiently) for Wikipedia? Mostly because software is deeply interconnected - every file will call something within another one. Wikipedia will link to another file, but never depends upon the content within it.
this might be a joke, but this is a serious problem i have as well. i want to create something, but i don't know what to do.. there is nothing i need that is not already done, or at least thats why i think.
this might be a joke, but this is a serious problem i have as well. i want to create something, but i don't know what to do.. there is nothing i need that is not already done, or at least thats why i think.
Do you know what I found out over the last few days? There's no simple tool that you can use to download the actual content of your website, you know, for migrating it to a new CMS or whatever. Unbelievable. Something that will just run a text extraction through `wget -r` and save it all. Boilerpipe does the extraction nicely, but nobody has turned it into a simple tool. You just have to have a job and try to get stu…
If you're talking about the source for dynamic pages, you can use any file copier like rsync. But httrack is your go-to if you're just talking about downloading a web site mirror image.
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Why does it seem absurd for software yet it seems to work (perhaps inefficiently) for Wikipedia? Mostly because software is deeply interconnected - every file will call something within another one. Wikipedia will link to another file, but never depends upon the content within it.
That got me thinking, I wonder if you can make a redirect loop or a mega redirect loop that would OOM wikipedia?