reminds me of the leftist thinking where their retarded imaginary world clashes with the reality. lol. guess who is going to win in the end? i doubt it is your imaginary world with your imaginary rules and imaginary expectations.
One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020
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Re: One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020
#282Earlier quoted context omitted.
But to that intensity, ingrained-ness? That's not how it is in the UK[0] - to anywhere near that degree I mean. edit: the UK is the only culture I'm really familiar with
you did rob us with unparalleled intensity over 300 years, is that ingrained? edit: I only know UK as an imperialist
Ah, sorry :)
More seriously, I have heard on a TV programme, and I have NO DATA for this, that britain put more resources and/or cash into the US than it ever got out (edit: until the US became independent, which is about the 300 years the poster mentioned). Does anyone know reliable sources that can verify, refute or somehow qualify that statement?
Edit: why is the parent post flagged and dead? Flagging should be used for proper offence, which I did not take and led me to an interesting question.
Re: One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020
#283Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have done one letter typo fixes to doc repos as a 3rd party and felt great about them. One of them was actually a typo in a command line that I found by going through their instructions step by step copying and pasting each line. I was seriously confused when it didn't work!
Yes. Fixing up documentation is always helpful, even if it’s a one letter change! Now, updating “copyright 2018-2019” to “2020” isn’t.
The point of the date it to tell people when the material was created. In some jurisdictions / situations, copyright expires N years after it was created, so that date tells people when copyright has expired.
Unfortunately, in many cases now, copyright is based on the year the author died, rather than the year the work was created, which means it is much harder to work out if something has entered the public domain.
Changing the date without changing the code significantly is arguably fraudulent.
Re: One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020
#284I have a couple of vaguely popular repos on github (~100,000 downloads a month) Generally speaking, (T-shirt farming aside), if you find a genuine typo, or small way to improve documentation, then that PR will be very much appreciated. README-typos are quite visible, yet easy for maintainers to overlook. If you are new to GitHub, please do not be discouraged, and as with editing Wikipedia- be bold. (In the large sche…
On the other hand, I was told by boost project that my one line fix for a typo was "waste of maintainer time", so it seems to vary on per-project basis :)
Yeah, some maintainers are friendlier then others, and some seem to care more about their precious time then about encouraging people to make (legitimate) contributions unfortunately...
Re: One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020
#285Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wouldn't say it's an Indian only phenomenon, plenty of that everywhere
But to that intensity, ingrained-ness? That's not how it is in the UK[0] - to anywhere near that degree I mean. edit: the UK is the only culture I'm really familiar with
well check out italy, you can substitute italian with indians and keep the entire paragraph almost word for word.
I suspect it's a common theme of countries that managed to keep an identity while under a long foreign domination. when the state is the enemy for generations, the ethics and norm about law and legality become a lot more flexible.
Re: One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020
#286Earlier quoted context omitted.
Github allows you to search by dates (newer than, date ranges, etc), so for example, you can add the query "created:>=2020-09-30" (the date the youtube video was uploaded) to get a more accurate list. From this search, it looks like it's definitely on the order of hundreds: https://github.com/search?p=5&q=amazing+project+created%3A%3... I opened a few at random to spot-check, and they all seemed like garbage to me. L…
Sorting by relevance doesn't get you a representative sample - that bubbles PRs who say "amazing project" in the title to the top(which are indeed mostly spam). If you restrict it to "in:title", you see that there's only 44: https://github.com/search?q=in%3Atitle+amazing+project+creat... And if you sort by "newest" or "oldest", which provide a more representative sample, you can see that most of them are not spam: ht…
Typically the PRs are titled something like "Improve docs" and the change is to add "an amazing project" somewhere in the README.md.
Here's a search that finds a lot: https://github.com/search?q=in%3Atitle+improve+created%3A%3E...
Re: One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020
#287Earlier quoted context omitted.
To be honest, we are well beyond hundreds of maintainers that will need to clean up their repos. I've been crawling the "Improve Docs" spam issues since they started appearing. As far as I'm aware, there are already 4500+ repos which have had a low quality, single-line-change, "Improve Docs" PR opened in the past two days. Just to pull out a few repos out for example purposes: * 7 spam - https://github.com/seductiveg…
Not to be pedantic but I think there is some conflation here between PR/repo and maintainer ? How do you define "low quality" hacktoberfest was originally also focused on people learning to code who could help clean up docs/fix typos etc.
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Re: One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020
#288I agree that the spam is problematic, but I feel the need to call out his "data collection". As evidence that CodeWithHarry is the cause, he says > A search for "Amazing Project" is now showing 21,177 issues. and > A search for "improve docs" shows 319,251 issues. ??? Improve docs has been a common beginner level PR since the beginning of time. Do you really think that 319k spam issues have been filed in the last day…
Love this one — somebody is trying to rename "package.json" into "package": https://github.com/dinosaurjs/website/pull/28
You can search for all PRs by a user: https://github.com/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3Asalimjaved18
Re: One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020
#289Earlier quoted context omitted.
you did rob us with unparalleled intensity over 300 years, is that ingrained? edit: I only know UK as an imperialist
This made me chuckle. I only know US as an immigrant.
Likewise. Had a good giggle, so who's so sensitive they have to flag and kill?
Re: One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020
#290Earlier quoted context omitted.
But to that intensity, ingrained-ness? That's not how it is in the UK[0] - to anywhere near that degree I mean. edit: the UK is the only culture I'm really familiar with
well check out italy, you can substitute italian with indians and keep the entire paragraph almost word for word. I suspect it's a common theme of countries that managed to keep an identity while under a long foreign domination. when the state is the enemy for generations, the ethics and norm about law and legality become a lot more flexible.
I was also thinking about Italy, especially with how popular people like Berlusconi always were precisely because they were never playing by the rules... but it's possible that it's still a difference in degree. I don't know if Italians would go to such extreme lenghts just for a t-shirt. I don't really know Indian culture though, so I can't judge.