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One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020

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Re: One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020

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Post by tremon »

logicOnly wrote: post #364
mensetmanusman wrote: post #354

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Post modernism embraces this though, and it is rampant in the West post Kant/Nietzsche. When you create your own truth and morals, you are going to disagree with people about stuff like this :)

I'd hardly call this embracing this thought. The hundred dollars you get is nothing when you destroy the environment.

I'll see your destruction and I'll raise you externalization.

Yes, this behaviour is rampant throughout Western society, it's pretty much embraced by capitalism. It's still "who cares about $x, as long as I can get my $y". It doesn't really change the argument much if $x is open source and $y is a free t-shirt, or $x is the habitat of these creatures and $y is gallons of oil.

Don't really see how postmodernism fits in with this though.

Re: One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020

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Post by ficklepickle »

mcv wrote: post #246
bonestamp2 wrote: post #200

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> I'm not joking about these, job-hunting season is starting and I've seen resume of other students mention all this. Be very careful with this. At a company I used to work for, the hiring managers started to have a negative view of Indians as they became known for their inflated resumes.

A year ago I was required to hire two developers from TCS. One pattern I noticed is that a lot of developers from TCS, when they don't know the answer to a question, just answer a different question. Another Indian that I did hire, explained that this is a product from Indian culture where not knowing something is seen as a weakness, so people don't want to admit they don't know something, and hide it by answering so…

...two good people, fortunately. FTFY.

Re: One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020

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Post by rbanffy »

disgruntledphd2 wrote: post #340
fetbaffe wrote: post #334

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Pattern is high trust societies vs low trust societies.

Yeah, personally I think this has a lot to do with post-colonialism. I'm Irish, and there's a lot of this in our society. It was much more accepted in my parents generation, and appears to be reducing a little bit as we become a richer society.

I heard from an Irish colleague (I'm a Brazilian expat in Dublin) that this attitude, in particular towards taxes, changed after the independence from the UK.

Re: One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020

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Post by throw0101a »

VLM wrote: post #330
throw0101a wrote: post #292

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> If not I might as well do this and earn Rs. 100. In fact this attitude is cultivated from childhood in certain business class families. Don't let go of any opportunity of earning a profit, however small it might be. The Ferengi from Star Trek come to mind when I read this. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferengi * https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Ferengi The Rules of Acquisition are always a fun read: * https:/…

General opinion for decades has been the Ferengi are specifically anti-Semitic stereotypes rather than generic Mediterranean-area stereotypes.

> In America, people ask 'Do the Ferengi represent Jews?' In England, they ask 'Do the Ferengi represent the Irish?' In Australia, they ask if the Ferengi represent the Chinese[…] The Ferengi represent the outcast… it's the person who lives among us that we don't fully understand.[19]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferengi#Comparisons_with_anti-...

Or you could view them as the anthropomorphization of the vice of greed or stinginess/miserliness/parsimony.

Re: One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020

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Post by cpursley »

fetbaffe wrote: post #334
farias0 wrote: post #322

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The exactly same goes for Brazil. Am I seeing a pattern here, i.e. countries that are supposed to be great but really aren't?

Pattern is high trust societies vs low trust societies.

Yep, Why Nations Fails talks about this a lot.

Re: One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020

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Post by cainxinth »

farias0 wrote: post #322
_dbdw wrote: post #306

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"Gaming the system" is also a cultural thing in Greece. In fact, it's so expected that you are perceived to be either out of the loop or a fool for not going the extra mile. I broke friendships with people who claimed that "it's all subjective at the end of the day" whenever I was raising ethical/moral concerns. Imagine not being able to provide a reasonable argument to justify your actions, beyond of "because I'm al…

The exactly same goes for Brazil. Am I seeing a pattern here, i.e. countries that are supposed to be great but really aren't?

I was backpacking Europe years ago and I met this Brazilian girl. We were discussing places that required a visa and she said she never bothered with them. I asked how that was possible.

She said that if anyone ever questioned her she just acted confused and found a way to sneak off. I was flabbergasted. She simply (and proudly) explained: "It's the Brazilian way of life!"

Re: One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020

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Post by sumtechguy »

Thorrez wrote: post #151
bobbyi_settv wrote: post #139

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No, he renamed it to "package: An Amazing Project.json"

Windows doesn't even let you have a colon in a filename!

Wonder if NTFS 'lets' you. I know the API does not let it. But I wonder if you could get it in a different way. I know you can sneak case sensitivity in here and there.

Think I shall go ruin a VM tonight... :)

Re: One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020

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Post by mensetmanusman »

tremon wrote: post #381
logicOnly wrote: post #364

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I'd hardly call this embracing this thought. The hundred dollars you get is nothing when you destroy the environment.

I'll see your destruction and I'll raise you externalization . Yes, this behaviour is rampant throughout Western society, it's pretty much embraced by capitalism. It's still "who cares about $x, as long as I can get my $y". It doesn't really change the argument much if $x is open source and $y is a free t-shirt, or $x is the habitat of these creatures and $y is gallons of oil. Don't really see how postmodernism fits…

Maybe this will be interesting: https://youtu.be/8KQcm0Mi5To

I found it interesting at least :)

Re: One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020

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Post by propter_hoc »

throw0101a wrote: post #373
propter_hoc wrote: post #352

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What is this crap comment? You are likening a nation of humans to a fictional alien species? This is not useful or insightful, and pretty offensive imo.

> You are likening a nation of humans to a fictional alien species? If you don't like it, talk to Gene Roddenberry. In ST:TOS the Klingons (IIRC) were used as a stand in for the Soviets: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klingon#Conception * https://www.history.com/news/star-trek-series-episodes-vietn... Or you could view it as the anthropomorphization of the vice of greed or stinginess/miserliness/parsimony.

Yes I know some person came up with fictional alien species based on stereotypes or caricatures. In no way does that make it more okay to use those fictional alien species when discussing real people than it would be to stereotype or caricature people yourself. And it's not insightful to say "Hey, that story about Polish people reminds me of those scurrilous Romulans!"

Re: One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020

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Post by sreevisakh »

hacker_ranch wrote: post #213

I found this project -- https://github.com/DeepfriedDev/hacktober-is -- who is just accepting any pull request as an attempt to somewhat deflect some of the Hacktober spam.

That assumes that the spammers know what they are doing. They are just following a video. Many of them probably are clueless about even what Github is for.
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