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> As a GitHub user, I was always seeking green squares to try to make sure I had activity every day. I have never paid any attention to that at all. It surprises me that some do. Do you think it's common?
Most value I produce is commercial and under NDA.
My private time is for family and friends, not coding.
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Others are saying they experience this, but couldn’t that be solved by using one of the many projects that completely spoof the history? I mean there are folks with histories which would make you greeen with envy , but you can have the same history with ~0 effort, making it immaterial.
I used one of those in the past and it was a great subject of interest in my interviews. They thought I hacked Github or something. Good time :)
Woth crons in github actions I’ve been thinking you could create an entire movie, especially with a random generator à la Progress Quest.
I know everyone is upset about copilot. But in all honesty, copilot is awesome. I use it everyday and it takes so much pain out of my work. Theres no other tool like it, i tried them all.
That's fine, but saying this doesn't engage with the problems that have been raised at all. It's like saying "but it's the most delicious thing I've ever eaten" in response to someone telling you a double-bacon cheeseburger with extra sauce is bad for your heart.
What about my home-made cheeseburger with real cheese (not american cheddar), a 180g steak of locally sourced beef meat, pickle, tomato, salad, onions, all fresh and locally sourced, and some tasty mustard?
Is it still bad for my heart?
Because that's what Github taste to me, I'm a sucker for having everything in one place, with such polish. The only thing I don't quite like would be Github Actions, but that's because I hate that YAML became a programming language (all modern CI/CD platforms are guilty of this monstrosity).
When a CI/CD with a Typescript API? I tried to start working on that, but it's too much for me alone.
> As a GitHub user, I was always seeking green squares to try to make sure I had activity every day. I have never paid any attention to that at all. It surprises me that some do. Do you think it's common?
>I have never paid any attention to that at all. It surprises me that some do. Same. I'm only now realizing some people actually do care about that, from the replies to this thread. I think it's weird. I'm not religious (or theist for that matter), but caring about these things reminds me of Matthew 6:7-8: "But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father,…
> As a GitHub user, I was always seeking green squares to try to make sure I had activity every day. This led me to change my workflow to generate more green squares, not for whatever is maximally effective. Having visible stars and followers also turns it into a sort of popularity contest. There's a dopamine hit when you get one of those, so it creates a strong reward function for attention-seeking behavior. > Anoth…
> GitHub dispenses a lot of dopamine and it makes me change how I work to get those nice little green squares. Yerwhat? This is not remotely my experience with GitHub at all. I never look at my green squares. In fact I rarely even look at anyone's profile page (why would I?) I use GitHub every day and it has never once occurred to me that anyone could think of GitHub as addictive/gamified or a "dopamine dispenser".
As it stands, responding to user requests on Github just feels exactly like work.
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Why are you promoting "getting OSS into the hands of everyone" as a good thing, while denigrating OSS with the "SJW" pejorative? So fighting for change is only good when it's the current winners who did it, got it
Does GitHub use code from private repos for AI training?
Sourcehut may have advantages but I just can't get past the design. I need some fun in my products and this feels like an abandoned village. This is a bad reason to not use it I admit
I can’t get over the PR handling with git send-email. I know, it’s “how git is supposed to be used” or whatever, but it makes it just worse. I can’t decide if it’s worse or better than gerrit though. Every time I need to use gerrit for some google stuff, I want to punch my screen.
Sourcehut may have advantages but I just can't get past the design. I need some fun in my products and this feels like an abandoned village. This is a bad reason to not use it I admit
The design is one of my favorite things about sourcehut. It's clean, to the point, and doesn't get in the way. (Of course, taste is subjective, so this is just me offering a different view, not saying you're "wrong".)
Why does he keep calling GitHub a "forge"? Is calling a code repository a "forge" something common that I just haven't run across before?
I think it’s a 90’s/2000’s term (e.g. SourceForge) that is now archaic. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forge_(software) : “In FOSS development communities, a forge is a web-based collaborative software platform for both developing and sharing computer applications. The term forge refers to a common prefix or suffix adopted by various platforms created after the example of SourceForge. This usage of the word stem…