Pullup, the site you join via pull request

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Re: Pullup, the site you join via pull request

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Post by krapp » Wed, Feb 12, 2014, 12:26 PM UTC

githulhu wrote: post #39

EpicEng wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are plenty of repositories with code for micro-controllers and non-web related projects, but again, that's not the point. The single quote that "pretty much everyone knows javascript" was the focus of my comment. Sure, maybe the author meant "pretty much everyone [who we think will be interested in our site] knows javascipt", but that's not what they said, and I don't understand that attitude at all. It's unnec…

Maybe another take on the idea could be to allow anyone to join who could sign in a with a github account that had had at least one accepted pull request on any repository. Easily hacked I guess, but perhaps that would solve the "just Javascript" problem while still serving to boost the average level of tech cred of submitters/commenters.

Surely there would be a way to check this through github's api once there was a username to check against. It sounds like a good idea and it might encourage supporting open source software while avoiding those issues.

But then I guess the downside would be fewer people contributing to your own site.

Re: Pullup, the site you join via pull request

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Post by SkyMarshal » Wed, Feb 12, 2014, 8:29 PM UTC

derefr wrote: post #21

zheng wrote: post #2

From the about page > We figured pretty much everybody knows JavaScript Even with the implied "everybody" being "everybody that would be interested in joining our site", this is a poor assumption. Not everyone is a ninja-rockstar web developer. In fact, some of the best content on HN comes from people who most likely don't know JS. I get the idea for the site, but the description seems very naive. (FWIW, I do know JS…

What language would you recommend, if you wanted to make something accessible for, say, teenagers who haven't even taken the perfunctory "Introduction to Control Structures In Blub" course yet? Javascript seems like a good guess for "language you might pick up just from everyday computer use." (Another two being, I think, Windows batch files, and Excel macros.)

Consider you'll probably lose lawyers like Grellas and a few others who contribute a great deal here (I think rayiner, and people in other disciplines (a few scientists here and there) who may not know programming but know their vertical better than most hackers and have a lot to contribute in that respect.

It's an interesting idea for some kind of expertise test to contribute to a public forum, but it will be very self-selecting too.

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