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Re: I'll Accept Anything – Accepting every pull request submitted

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Post by tomasien »

BinaryIdiot wrote: post #33
capkutay wrote: post #25

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 gives me an idea! An....unrelated...idea...BRB

The fact that this parent comment is clearly up-voted and this comment is "greyed out" is emblematic of what I personally think is wrong with HN commenting. The above comment is not helpful, productive, and is unnecessarily negative in tone. The below comment is unhelpful, unproductive, and playful and (if anything) positive in tone. We can't have playful comments but we can have useless negative comments?

Re: I'll Accept Anything – Accepting every pull request submitted

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Post by daveloyall »

ChristianBundy wrote: post #15

This has already been done at https://github.com/tomekw/whatever

And tomekw added various others to the ... contributers list, or whatever, so pull requests are accepted in a timely manner. (I'm on that list and occasionally do the deed, though new PRs don't come in as often anymore.)

Re: I'll Accept Anything – Accepting every pull request submitted

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Post by derekp7 »

cosmez wrote: post #3

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's something I need -- a `tar` command for Windows that stores Windows-specific acl entries (dacl I think they call them?). As for the tar format that would hold this -- take a look at PAX format tar files, and how the Red Hat patches to GNU tar store Linux acl and selinux entries.

If you need a jumpstart on how the various tar file formats work, let me know and I'll do a good write up on it (I had to learn all this when I created my backup system).

Re: I'll Accept Anything – Accepting every pull request submitted

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Post by EC1 »

cpeterso wrote: post #31

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.

>What if Linus made the Linux master repository world-writable?

Goodbye Linux.

Re: I'll Accept Anything – Accepting every pull request submitted

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Post by cdcarter »

bluehex wrote: post #49
delinka wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>> - Group purchasing for work > It's called an office manager. No office manager I've ever had would purchase anything and then seek divided reimbursement from individuals in the office.

If the purchase is for the workplace, even something recreational for the employees, the company should pay for it. There should be a fun-budget for such things. Group purchasing is still an interesting idea, I just don't think the example's a great one.

A lot of workplaces don't work like that! I know my small non-profit can't go buying appliances, but we recently went in as a team on a sodastream and it would have been great to have a system to track it more than someone putting the cash up front.

Re: I'll Accept Anything – Accepting every pull request submitted

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Post by cowpewter »

vertis wrote: post #35
eitally wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Main part of the idea was not creating a huge wish list, but rather just the de-duplicating part of the wedding registry.

The de-duplication is very handy, but I think the main point of a wedding registry is so you know the thing you're gifting is something the couple will actually get use out of.

If you know the couple well enough to get a meaningful gift that is not on the registry, go for it, but I've been to plenty of weddings where I was not close enough to the couple to know their tastes/needs for something as personal as homegoods. No one wants to embark on their new life as a married couple with a bunch of stuff cluttering their house that they'll never use and just have to drop off at Goodwill (or worse, go through the hassle of returns - how many different stores would the gifts come from with no registry?), and no one wants to buy a present knowing that's what will most likely happen to it.

Re: I'll Accept Anything – Accepting every pull request submitted

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Post by mukyu »

cpeterso wrote: post #31

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.

Various Wikipedia's do have what you are imagining.[0] People are not normally automatically given the right to review changes and even if you do manage to review malicious edits they are easily reverted by others.

Every language has their own policies, but the English Wikipedia only has it enabled on certain pages.[1]

[0] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Flagged_Revisions

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:StablePages

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