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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 908B64B197 »

fergie wrote: post #25

I 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…

Or be bolder: write an up to date "Getting Started" Guide! Or the actual (for the current version) build instructions for the platform you are on!

A lot of projects have simply no easy guide to get from a git pull to a working build for someone not familiar with the language or build system used.

Re: One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020

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Post by 0xFluegel »

schwartzworld wrote: post #357
rjmunro wrote: post #283

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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.…

doesn't moving the creation date forward in time make you vulnerable? if you create some content in 2018 and I rip it off in 2019 and then you update your copyright to 2020, what's to stop me from saying I came up with it first?

I want to like that idea. Unfortunately, I can counter with: When you (as an outsider) see two very similar projects, one claiming to be from 2018 the other from 2020, what will you look into/try out first?

Re: One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020

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Post by 908B64B197 »

ptyyy wrote: post #366
watwut wrote: post #159

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The pull request I have seen were changing "how to install" into "how to easily install" and such. They were not fixing typos or even making sentences better. They were just meaningless changes.

No way man, there are very meaningful changes like this one https://github.com/devraj-kumar/BLOG-/pull/13/commits/1b26bf...

That profile has 6 PR all from yesterday! Previous activity is from... October 2019!

Re: One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020

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Post by yougaindra »

orliesaurus wrote: post #74

I have 2 OSS projects [1]: Sadly, 0 PRs. But I have tons of open issues with complaints. As usual, 0 help given. I guess I am just another unappreciated OSS maintainer sad_face [1] https://github.com/orliesaurus?tab=repositories&q=&type=sour...

don't be sad I raised PR to resolve first issue on first project I saw on your page. cheers.

PS : I really wanted to mark your README.md with "An Amazing Project" but I guess there are enough "Amazing Projects" on github for october :P

Re: One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020

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Post by akashrungta »

exabrial wrote: post #342

Unfortunately his actions will be used by racists for years to come to justify hate and discrimination. I'm hoping github can quickly step up and ban all accounts that submit spam PRs, to protect the integrity of open source but to also protect people from themselves.

Already happening in this thread.

Re: One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020

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Post by belorn »

cyphar wrote: post #441
belorn wrote: post #222

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Is there any translated transcription of the video? It seems established that "I request every one of my followers to make 20 spam PRs" is not an translated quote but rather an interpretation of the underlying meaning. That is good and all but I would prefer seeing the original source myself, and since it is in a different language, an translation that is as close to the original as possible. The translation I am mos…

Languages aren't mathematics, you can't losslessly translate between them. All translations are at least to some degree "an interpretation of the underlying meaning". As someone who was raised bilingual, I always struggle when asked to translate a specific phrase between languages because literal translations are often less useful or accurate than the "interpreted" translation. I would be very suspicious of anyone wh…

I have huge respect for the difficult job of translators and there is a definitive distinction between a paraphrase and a quote. I personal know professional translators and a key aspect of that role that they like to talk about is how they are proud to avoid making personal interpretation of the underlying meaning and instead relay as exact as possible what has been said and how it was said so that the client can interpret the meaning.

As an example of that, translators sometimes get jobs to translate at parties like weddings, and sometimes a drunk person comes up to the client and try to hit on them. If the person is muttering then the translator translate the muttering. If they are rambling they translate the rambling. They don't interpret and tell the client that the person is hitting on them, and they don't hide the drunk speech by making it sounds more coherent. Their job is to relay what is being said as exact as the two languages allows it. Naturally as languages has different concepts and ways to express things you do not get a lossless translation, but you do get the nearest translation based on the skill of the translator.

Re: One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020

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Post by kd0amg »

mmmmmk wrote: post #423
VLM wrote: post #330

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

I forgot where I read it, but I believe Roddenberry modeled the Ferengi after New England traders in the 1800's.

This is stated directly in the episode that introduced them.

Re: One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020

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Post by 908B64B197 »

justinclift wrote: post #247
ThePhysicist wrote: post #172

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I also received one pull request that I thought was spam, where the author made several nonsensical changes like changing "#Features" into "#Features:" in the README. Now it makes sense. I'll probably tell thank them for their contribution and point out a few ideas for things that would really help us, instead of merging this just for the sake of Hacktoberfest.

Yeah. Best approach I can think of would be something like: Cool, looks like you've getting the hang of creating Pull Requests on GitHub. :) The actual change here though isn't useful to us. :( Would you be ok spending some time improving [XYZ] instead? :) eg combine encouragement for the bit they got right + info on what needs work, and point them in the right direction for fixing it Some people will probably just n…

This assumes that the spammers can code/contribute in a meaningful way.

Re: One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020

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Post by schwartzworld »

0xFluegel wrote: post #462
schwartzworld wrote: post #357

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doesn't moving the creation date forward in time make you vulnerable? if you create some content in 2018 and I rip it off in 2019 and then you update your copyright to 2020, what's to stop me from saying I came up with it first?

I want to like that idea. Unfortunately, I can counter with: When you (as an outsider) see two very similar projects, one claiming to be from 2018 the other from 2020, what will you look into/try out first?

Depends on the selling point. A 2 year old library sounds to me like it's just getting mature.

Re: One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020

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Post by mythrwy »

ficklepickle wrote: post #382
mcv wrote: post #246

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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.

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