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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

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Post by zem »

possibilistic wrote: post #66
zem wrote: post #14

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change the project name to nomic while you're at it and declare victory!

Wow, so many memories you've just unearthed. I haven't played a nomic-based game since I was a teenager. My online friends and I had a series of mostly text-based nomic instances where we would creatively write and world build, but there was this one crazy performance art piece where we hacked a phpBB instance to grant every user admin privileges. The experiment was in relative harmony for a few days before the first…

my friends and i were briefly fascinated by nomic after reading hofstadter's column on it[0], but somehow never played an actual game. my favourite nomic fact is that long-running games have sent ambassadors to other nomic games :) i can't even picture what that would involve in practice, but i love the idea.

[0] collected in "metamagical themas", highly recommended.

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

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Post by anaximander »

nullc wrote: post #76

should have called it "I'll accept almost anything." kind of a bummer to see a list of non-accepted things right after the name. Not that I wanted to submit any of that, it's just ... inelegant.

He closed a bunch of issues as "dick" moves, which I can understand, but a lot of PRs were just ignored entirely, which is a little disappointing.

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

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Post by rwallace »

Nutomic wrote: post #88
rayalez wrote: post #28

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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.

The last resource category is within reach for a lot of people on this site. The second last one is within reach for a few people on this site. But if they're both out of your reach, then you could always add another line summarizing the resources you do have.

That having been said, your suggestion of using open source software and seeing where it could be improved is also a good one.

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

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Post by wipash »

vertis wrote: post #10
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 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…

> Group purchasing for work

I use https://www.splitwise.com/ for this. Works well for everything from big expenses to burgers. Use it in my flat too.

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

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Post by tomasien »

capkutay wrote: post #100
tomasien wrote: post #51

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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.

Comparing this project to real open source projects with VC backed parent companies is negative, yes. The implication is that investment in those companies is as frivolous as this project at least appears to be.
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