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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 disgruntledphd2 »

handelaar wrote: post #500
disgruntledphd2 wrote: post #340

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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.

It has rather less to do with post-colonialism than it does with having a very unethical dominant church for hundreds of years, honestly. We're the only horrifically-bent country in northern Europe

I'm sorry, what? Like I enjoy a bit of Irish-Catholic bashing as much as the next Irish person (probably more than most, given that I enjoy complaining about the Council of Nicea) but I don't really see how the pre-independence Catholic Church was unethical.

To be fair, though I'm not a fan of the authoritarianism, without the Catholic Church neither of my grand-parents or their parents would have had an education, and indeed the church was the centre of irish social life and community for a very long time.

Like, post-independence, the Church did a lot of dodgy things, but I really don't think you can blame the one organisation which actually provided some services for Irish catholics for our issues with authority.

And it's worth pointing out that much of the remaining corruption in Irish life is at the political level, rather than the bureaucratic level. As an example, you might bribe politicians to get planning permission for a large shopping centre, but you don't have to bribe the passport office for a renewal.

Can you give me some examples of Ireland being horrifically bent?

Edit: incidentally, thank you for Kildare Street!

Re: One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020

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Post by albedoa »

aniforprez wrote: post #301
avighnay wrote: post #270

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One more very Indian thing perhaps also is we like to gladly flog ourselves and jump at the chance of discrediting our people. We will start with "As an Indian" but end with "They" instead of "We"

I'm frankly kind of sick of the constant denigration and apologies being written slavishly to foreigners on behalf of all Indians by Indians. As an Indian, I accept there's a lot of cultural problems and crap in the country but to the degree that people will prostrate before the Western elite reminds me of our colonial days. Like, literally everything in that paragraph could be written about literally any part of the…

> Like, literally everything in that paragraph could be written about literally any part of the world

Oh come on. If we are able to mentally swap out cultures in the OP to see how ridiculous your claim is, then you are too. And we have to think you did.

Re: One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020

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Post by VRay »

AlchemistCamp wrote: post #403
aniforprez wrote: post #301

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I'm frankly kind of sick of the constant denigration and apologies being written slavishly to foreigners on behalf of all Indians by Indians. As an Indian, I accept there's a lot of cultural problems and crap in the country but to the degree that people will prostrate before the Western elite reminds me of our colonial days. Like, literally everything in that paragraph could be written about literally any part of the…

> literally everything in that paragraph could be written about literally any part of the world This is untrue. You won't find even a remotely similar tolerance for rule-breaking in Japan. People are all the same in many ways but cultural differences are still vast.

yeah, man. I tried to convince my Japanese wife not to pay off her predatory student loans when she moved to the US, and it was like I was talking about burning down a building or something.

Re: One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020

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Post by ric2b »

raverbashing wrote: post #478
avereveard wrote: post #285

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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.

That's a ridiculous generalization I didn't see lots of Italians creating a PR just to get a T-Shirt

The populations of Italy and India aren't even remotely similar.

India dwarfs the entirety of Europe, never mind Italy, by population size.

Re: One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020

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Post by ric2b »

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?

Obviously the one from 2018. It should still be quite modern but with big issues already ironed out.

Re: One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020

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Post by welly »

YeGoblynQueenne wrote: post #413
_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…

I'm Greek too (γειάα) but live in the UK. It's a cultural thing here, too. Just imagine everyone around you constantly trying to pinch every last penny off your purse, in any way they can think of. Or, look at the way the Brexit campaign convinced half of the UK citizens to vote for Brexit with unsubstantiated claims like "350 million to the NHS" or "Millions of migrants from Turkey coming over" etc. In general, I th…

"Gaming the system" is really NOT a cultural thing here in the UK. Not in the same way as described by the OP. Your two examples are not in any way, shape or form examples of gaming the system.

Re: One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020

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Post by user5994461 »

dannyw wrote: post #248
cbanek wrote: post #39

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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.

It's useful in showing the project is maintained and how old it is.

I regularly have to shop around for libraries. Seeing a copyright 2017 doesn't bode well for the documentation or the project being maintained.

Re: One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020

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Post by orliesaurus »

yougaindra wrote: post #464
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

thank you!

Re: One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020

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Post by tn5421 »

cyphar wrote: post #492
tn5421 wrote: post #483

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They offer 3 options for doing so, in fact, in direct response to this controversy. I can limit interactions to non-new users. I can limit interactions to users that have contributed before. I can limit interactions to users that I have manually whitelisted in my repo. Unfortunately, only one of these can be active at a time, but the options do exist now. Go to your repo -> Settings -> Moderation Settings -> Interact…

Limiting interactions is not the same as disabling pull requests wholesale (you can disable issues completely), they are temporary in nature (you can only disable them for 6 months at a time), and in addition I believe my comment was posted before they announced the new feature -- and this is a feature people have been requesting for a decade now.

Thankfully, they've gone and made it opt-in from now on.

Re: One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020

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Post by fsckboy »

lozenge wrote: post #485
YeGoblynQueenne wrote: post #413

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I'm Greek too (γειάα) but live in the UK. It's a cultural thing here, too. Just imagine everyone around you constantly trying to pinch every last penny off your purse, in any way they can think of. Or, look at the way the Brexit campaign convinced half of the UK citizens to vote for Brexit with unsubstantiated claims like "350 million to the NHS" or "Millions of migrants from Turkey coming over" etc. In general, I th…

I don't see it in the UK actually, and those are not good examples at all. When I go to visit the US, I get nickel-and-dimed a lot more. Compared to the US, there isn't much MLM or get-rich-quick here for example.

I go to McDonald's in UK and get charged money for ketchup.

McDonald's in the US, ketchup is free.

who's nickel and diming? US prices are lower across the board.

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