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

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Post by jamestanderson »

Cyph0n wrote: post #58
ChristianBundy wrote: post #15

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

That looks much less.. exciting than the trolling that's taking place in OP's repo.

Well it's died down significantly from its original release. It was very much like how OP's is right now.

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

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Post by matt_morgan »

Immortalin wrote: post #87
pjc50 wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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/ )

Thanks everyone. Httrack is awesome, but yes, I mean smarter. Pup looks cool. I want the result to be something that turns 200 pages of staff bios into something I can pay someone $15/hr to copy-paste quickly into the new CMS. Boilerpipe does it nicely, but doesn't do the whole job without wget and some scripting, plus it costs money or is complicated (it's in Apache Tika, I guess).

But back on-topic, all I really mean to say is that something like this happens to me like every other week. Productize your scripts.

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

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Post by weaksauce »

aerovistae wrote: post #96

I just don't get what the point of this is, really. What could we possibly have ended up with other than a collection of hello worlds and random includes? I see slight humor value but it seems so predictable as to greatly diminish even that.

Perhaps it's social commentary? And the first commit I clicked on was a poop joke. I guess I've seen enough.

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

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Post by wz1000 »

dhaivatpandya wrote: post #62
tomasien wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

We can't have either.

The subject of the thread is playful, unhelpful, and unproductive

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

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Post by capkutay »

tomasien wrote: post #51
BinaryIdiot wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

I agree my comment is useless but is it really negative? I'm not bashing anyones work. Just making a comment satirical of the fact that a lot of open source projects turn in to commercial, VC backed companies.
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