@reset here. Always reply when I get @‘d because I love the laugh and also genuinely find the joy in looking at what people are building afterwards. Never stop, it’s a great part of my day
I got sshole for the same reason.
Super sorry to the guy with the username reset on GitHub
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#232Earlier quoted context omitted.
That reminds me of Slashdot ( http://slashdot.org = “aitch-tee-tee-pee colon slash slash slash dot dot org”).
Thank you. I've been puzzled by that name for literally decades. I always assumed it was a *nix pathname joke about ./ and couldn't figure out why the order was reversed.
From the horse’s mouth:
> What does the name "Slashdot" mean?
> "Slashdot" is an intentionally obnoxious URL. When Rob registered the domain http://slashdot.org, he wanted a URL that was confusing when read aloud. (Try it!)
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#233Earlier quoted context omitted.
If Github has the power to change usernames or account details without notice then I would like them to communicate that to me clearly and upfront. Also, you dont have to pay github to have legal grounds. If the account is used for business purposes(business card, or other forms), then github could cause you financial damages no matter how small. As a business, they should try to be more open and communicative with t…
> If Github has the power to change usernames or account details without notice then I would like them to communicate that to me clearly and upfront. you can want whatever you want, they have no contractual relationship with you and no obligation to consult you about anything. > Also, you dont have to pay github to have legal grounds. If the account is used for business purposes(business card, or other forms), then g…
Great examples of how letting these private companies act however they feel like will ultimately lead us down to a worse experience and quality of life. Apollo and Tweetbot were great software that made those platforms much more useable and brought a lot of dedicated users to the platform. Now we have is poorly made official apps that offer nothing to the users. I don't use either platforms. I don't have an account with them anymore. I removed myself from them. Yet people like you make them important and justify their decisions. Instead of listening to their userbases' feedback, they instead PR it up and wait till there is only dysfunctional idiots left. TickTock started out as that and everyone else is trying to copy that homework. There are too many people in this world with poor mental health.
We should realize that somehow there needs to be an increase in regulation in business behavior. Even to how businesses treat other businesses that use their online platforms. Internet is too much of a wild west. It just does not seem there is modern actions and behaviors at play here. too narrow minded and thinking of how they are free too whatever they like without consequences.
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#234I once changed my mobile phone number so the last 8 digits were 69696969. I thought this was hilarious. Then I found out that people have randomly scrawled that number on every toilet cubicle "For a good time call XYZ69696969" and I would get calls all the way through the night, every night.
Jenny? Don’t change your number.
It's been 41 years since the song came out.
Assuming that Jenny was 21 when the song was written, (since there is a chance the number was written on a bar's bathroom wall) she would be at least 62 years old now.
Statistically, there's at least a 1 in 4 chance that Jenny is dead now, and there is no chance that she didn't change her number after receiving 800 million horny crank calls.
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#236I once changed my mobile phone number so the last 8 digits were 69696969. I thought this was hilarious. Then I found out that people have randomly scrawled that number on every toilet cubicle "For a good time call XYZ69696969" and I would get calls all the way through the night, every night.
I own a few 867-5309 numbers for different areas. I have them do nothing these days but for a while I let them hit a pbx and we’d get up to 2500 calls a day on each line. Lots of drunk dudes trying to call Jenny.
This was my friend's grandfather's number in my area when I was growing up. His name was not Jenny...
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#237I sometimes get tagged on Github as a timezone.
How did you even get that username? Short ones go so fast, you must have been in the first 1000 users!
I have a two-letter github username and I wasn't even an early adopter. I only bothered creating an account when it was clear that Github was more than a fad and a few of the projects I contributed to moved there. I tried just my initials and it worked.
Having a two-letter username is less exciting than simply a common word or name, though. Once in a while I get mentioned by accident in issues, or added to some organization. Twice I have had someone beg me to give it to them under the rationalization that it was "really cool" and I wasn't really "doing anything" with it...
EDIT: I just looked up my ID and apparently none of the first half-million people to sign up for a github account tried to brute-force the small-username space.
EDIT2: There are a few single-letter usernames with IDs in the millions, so I wonder if those are somehow "kept in reserve" by github admins and given out to friends or what's the story there.
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#238Happens a lot with Zig's builtin functions: See https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues?q=is%3Aissue+mentions%... for example
I am @ctz and I'm forever being pinged by zig people lol
I do apologize. The core contributors are all in the habit of using backticks (`@ctz`) but an endless stream of new contributors come in and understandably aren't aware of GitHub-flavored markdown.
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#239Re: Super sorry to the guy with the username reset on GitHub
#240I once changed my mobile phone number so the last 8 digits were 69696969. I thought this was hilarious. Then I found out that people have randomly scrawled that number on every toilet cubicle "For a good time call XYZ69696969" and I would get calls all the way through the night, every night.
Franz Beckenbauer (famous German soccer star) did a promotion for a mobile phone provider and requested 66666666, he got similar calls at night. https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/falsche-nummer-beckenbauers-...