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I'll Accept Anything – Accepting every pull request submitted
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Re: I'll Accept Anything – Accepting every pull request submitted
#82this 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.
There are plenty of things which are done, but done badly.
"X, but decentralised" is popular at the moment. Or think of things that people would like to do but don't because it's too much hassle: backup. Encrypt.
Ask people what the hassles are in their life and interactions with technology.
Or alternately, do a cool but purposeless tech demo. I've always wanted time to play with procedural generation.
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#83Earlier 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.
That may incur tax liabilities and in non-tiny workplaces purchasing anything is a huge hassle.
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#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
Do you mean like httrack ( http://httrack.com )? 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.
I think he means smarter: given a bunch of CMS pages which are text content (different per page) surrounded by (semi-fixed) boilerplate, extract all the content nicely for re-importation.
It's a bit of a one-off, though.
Re: I'll Accept Anything – Accepting every pull request submitted
#85Someone has already submitted a pull request changing the readme so that it says he'll accept nothing. However, I think this can be rejected under the "don't be a dick" rule.
>However, I think this can be rejected under the "don't be a dick" rule.
I think this makes the title ("I'll Accept Anything – Accepting every pull request submitted") akin to, "I can resist anything except temptation."
Re: I'll Accept Anything – Accepting every pull request submitted
#86What if someone adds in a .gitignore file that ignores everything except for itself? Evil? >:D
He asked not being a dick, no?
Re: I'll Accept Anything – Accepting every pull request submitted
#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you mean like httrack ( http://httrack.com )? 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.
I think he means smarter: given a bunch of CMS pages which are text content (different per page) surrounded by (semi-fixed) boilerplate, extract all the content nicely for re-importation. It's a bit of a one-off, though.
Try a combination of Curl/wget/httrack with Pup (https://github.com/ericchiang/pup/)
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#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have a bit of the opposite problem - I have too many things I could be doing, and not nearly enough energy to do anything beyond the one project I'm working on. I'll tell you how I got there: every time I'd get annoyed, or see someone else get annoyed, I made an effort to imagine what would it take to make the problem go away. Once I achieve a decisive imaginary victory by any means, I start walking back from there…
Thank you for the awesome advice!! I will definitely start doing that. Recently I have been thinking a lot along these lines, and I came up with somewhat similar approach. When I stuck at coming up with ideas, I make a list of what I would do if I would have time/power/resources of: - God - literally ability to fix any problem, do anything imaginable. - Google - billions of dollars and smartest people in the world -…
I don't think that will get you anywhere, because you can't realistically solve any of these problems.
What helped me was to use open source software a lot, by switching to Linux and using FOSS Android apps (have a look at f-droid.org).
Another cool option (like another comment said) would be decentralied versions of existing services, eg Youtube, Facebook, Github etc. Some projects like that already exist.
Re: I'll Accept Anything – Accepting every pull request submitted
#89This 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.
Wikipedia is for humans. A page with a spelling error is almost as useful as one without. If a page has been changed to "LOL JAKE SUCKS COCK", a user can immediately see what's gone wrong and revert it to the correct version.
With a program, a single syntax error breaks the whole thing, and if the program isn't working then it's often not obvious how to fix it.
Re: I'll Accept Anything – Accepting every pull request submitted
#90Someone has already submitted a pull request changing the readme so that it says he'll accept nothing. However, I think this can be rejected under the "don't be a dick" rule.
Adding pom.xml falls under "don't be a dick" rule?