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To be fair, he not only put up his code on GitHub, he also created a semi-professional looking and analogously worded website. That's not something that is post

by embik 11y ago

To be fair, he not only put up his code on GitHub, he also created a semi-professional looking and analogously worded website. That's not something that is posted to HN by "mistake". It sounds more like a startup than a hobby project: > We are a Chicago based team of developers, dedicated to creating useful, intuitive software that helps people better integrate digital computing into their daily lives The GitHub repository also proves it's not "we": https://github.com/agajews/ApricityOS/graphs/contributors https://github.com/agajews/ApricityOS/graphs/contributors

jerf 11y ago
I was replying directly to embik (edit: which is, err, you, which I did not notice at first). I acknowledge and apologize that my parenthetical could look like I was talking about apricity, but I was not. I'm not taking the defense for apricity. Indeed I have a track record of recommending against young people doing things that will make people who trust them very, very angry when they can't follow through properly: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2974770 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2974770 I just didn't see a point in joining the pile-on, which seems to have covered the bases fairly well.
- embik 11y ago
  And in turn, I have to apologize to you as well because I can see how my comment could be viewed as arguing against you. I didn't think you were defending Apricity at all, I was kinda trying to re-inforce your point by pointing out how he missed to point out important information about his project. Thank you very much for giving advice to novice developers, I very much appreciate it!
JohnDotAwesome 11y ago
My favorite part of that: http://storage.j0.hn/Screen%20Shot%202016-04-04%20at%209.35.19%20AM.png http://storage.j0.hn/Screen%20Shot%202016-04-04%20at%209.35.... 3.2 million additions, 916k deletions 20 commits.

by embik 11y ago

jerf 11y ago

I was replying directly to embik (edit: which is, err, you, which I did not notice at first). I acknowledge and apologize that my parenthetical could look like I was talking about apricity, but I was not. I'm not taking the defense for apricity. Indeed I have a track record of recommending against young people doing things that will make people who trust them very, very angry when they can't follow through properly: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2974770 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2974770 I just didn't see a point in joining the pile-on, which seems to have covered the bases fairly well.

embik 11y ago
And in turn, I have to apologize to you as well because I can see how my comment could be viewed as arguing against you. I didn't think you were defending Apricity at all, I was kinda trying to re-inforce your point by pointing out how he missed to point out important information about his project. Thank you very much for giving advice to novice developers, I very much appreciate it!

JohnDotAwesome 11y ago

My favorite part of that: http://storage.j0.hn/Screen%20Shot%202016-04-04%20at%209.35.19%20AM.png http://storage.j0.hn/Screen%20Shot%202016-04-04%20at%209.35.... 3.2 million additions, 916k deletions 20 commits.