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Just stopping by to point out that there is a typo in the first sentence of the article, I think: in "I maintain over many", the "over" should not be there. No

Just stopping by to point out that there is a typo in the first sentence of the article, I think: in "I maintain over many", the "over" should not be there. Now I will read the article. :)

ycmbntrthrwaway 10y ago
Also "the bus factor is high". Should be "low", as it is 1 for most projects.
- NickBusey 10y ago
  I'm not sure if you're just being pedantic, but "the bus factor is high" in this instance means there is a high level of risk to the health of the OSS projects he maintains if he were to get hit by a bus.
  - lgas 10y ago
    I don't think he's being pedantic, it's the opposite of the general usage. The bus factor is the number of people that have to be hit by a bus to cause real problems for your project. Higher is better.
    - CaptSpify 10y ago
      Indeed! > The "bus factor" is the minimum number of team members that have to suddenly disappear from a project before the project stalls due to lack of knowledgeable or competent personnel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor
hk__2 10y ago
You should report this to the blog author; not to HN readers.
- caconym_ 10y ago
  My assumption is that the OP, "geerlingguy", and the post's actual author Jeff Geerling, are one and the same. Not unreasonable, I think. If he wants to post his work on HN and not read the discussion (which is obviously going to be relevant to his work), that's on him.
  - kevin_b_er 10y ago
    https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=geerlingguy https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=geerlingguy https://keybase.io/geerlingguy https://keybase.io/geerlingguy And the assumption is accurate. You can read their HN profile and see the keybase.io connections to the website, HN account, and to github.
  - geerlingguy 10y ago
    I'm here now... had to put my kids to bed; some nights it takes an hour or two (nights when all three act like the Tasmanian devil!). It's fixed now :)
  - akkartik 10y ago
    Grandparent's point wasn't that the author may not be reading, but that HN is better when comments benefit everyone here. This isn't a hard and fast rule; I've certainly done my share of 1:1 conversations on HN. But for typos my usual approach is to go look at the author's profile, maybe click through to his website. Sometimes I'll even `git clone` a repo just to harvest an email address ;) Just my 2 cents. You can keep reporting typos here as well. I'm sure authors would rather get bug reports somehow than not at all. Certainly not the most egregious thing one will see here on any given day.
pkamb 10y ago
Submit a PR :)

Just stopping by to point out that there is a typo in the first sentence of the article, I think: in "I maintain over many", the "over" should not be there. Now I will read the article. :)

ycmbntrthrwaway 10y ago

Also "the bus factor is high". Should be "low", as it is 1 for most projects.

NickBusey 10y ago
I'm not sure if you're just being pedantic, but "the bus factor is high" in this instance means there is a high level of risk to the health of the OSS projects he maintains if he were to get hit by a bus.
- lgas 10y ago
  I don't think he's being pedantic, it's the opposite of the general usage. The bus factor is the number of people that have to be hit by a bus to cause real problems for your project. Higher is better.
  - CaptSpify 10y ago
    Indeed! > The "bus factor" is the minimum number of team members that have to suddenly disappear from a project before the project stalls due to lack of knowledgeable or competent personnel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor

hk__2 10y ago

You should report this to the blog author; not to HN readers.

caconym_ 10y ago
My assumption is that the OP, "geerlingguy", and the post's actual author Jeff Geerling, are one and the same. Not unreasonable, I think. If he wants to post his work on HN and not read the discussion (which is obviously going to be relevant to his work), that's on him.
- kevin_b_er 10y ago
  https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=geerlingguy https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=geerlingguy https://keybase.io/geerlingguy https://keybase.io/geerlingguy And the assumption is accurate. You can read their HN profile and see the keybase.io connections to the website, HN account, and to github.
- geerlingguy 10y ago
  I'm here now... had to put my kids to bed; some nights it takes an hour or two (nights when all three act like the Tasmanian devil!). It's fixed now :)
- akkartik 10y ago
  Grandparent's point wasn't that the author may not be reading, but that HN is better when comments benefit everyone here. This isn't a hard and fast rule; I've certainly done my share of 1:1 conversations on HN. But for typos my usual approach is to go look at the author's profile, maybe click through to his website. Sometimes I'll even `git clone` a repo just to harvest an email address ;) Just my 2 cents. You can keep reporting typos here as well. I'm sure authors would rather get bug reports somehow than not at all. Certainly not the most egregious thing one will see here on any given day.

pkamb 10y ago

Submit a PR :)