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I couldn't submit a PR, so I got hired and fixed it myself

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Re: I couldn't submit a PR, so I got hired and fixed it myself

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Post by cosmic_quanta »

> It reminds me of George Hotz’s legendary single week at Twitter in 2022, where he joined just to fix a login popup that was bothering users, then bounced.

The author remembers this, uh, event differently than I remember it... George Hotz boldly claimed that he could "fix Twitter search" faster than those lazy Twitter devs, only to bail almost immediately. Hubris!

On the way out, he removed that login popup as a sort of consolation prize.

Re: I couldn't submit a PR, so I got hired and fixed it myself

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Post by rjsw »

arguflow wrote: post #3

Code is always the best documentation and the best thing about opensource.'

Having the source lets you fix something for yourself, there are an increasing number of barriers being put up to prevent you submitting a fix upstream.

Going through this right now with part of libpng, their mailing list doesn't seem to like my email.

Re: I couldn't submit a PR, so I got hired and fixed it myself

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Post by skeptrune »

cosmic_quanta wrote: post #4

> It reminds me of George Hotz’s legendary single week at Twitter in 2022, where he joined just to fix a login popup that was bothering users, then bounced. The author remembers this, uh, event differently than I remember it... George Hotz boldly claimed that he could "fix Twitter search" faster than those lazy Twitter devs, only to bail almost immediately. Hubris! On the way out, he removed that login popup as a sor…

Updated the post to tell that story more accurately. Simultaneously took down the damn blog because Github pages has some freak bug, but oh well.
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