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Well, now a 4-year-old has one more kernel patch than I have...

LyndsySimon 8y ago
There's nothing stopping you, except finding the time. One of the things I'm most proud of as a dev is a tiny contribution to the Nim standard library. It's a single commit and very simple, but made the PostgreSQL adapter consistent with the other RBDMSs' adapters. At the time, I'd been using Nim for only a couple of days, but that didn't stop me from being able to contribute in a meaningful way. I'm amused and humbled that despite all of the work I've done over the past decade, it's quite likely that a seven-line change that I did mostly in ignorance will be the thing that impacts the most people going forward. Here's the change, if you're curious: https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/pull/6381/commits/921cc53e40f7d48643c0579ca83dedbfa4c500d0 https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/pull/6381/commits/921cc53e40...
- craftyguy 8y ago
  > There's nothing stopping you, except the one thing that stops a lot of people FTFY. There's a non-zero amount of time investment required to submit kernel patches (learning enough git, using the mailinglist, responding to questions, submitting revisions, etc)
- pravj 8y ago
  Feel the same way about my contribution to the Go language. :)
- brailsafe 8y ago
  Good catch there. Looks like you fixed one of those things that I'd waste hours on not realizing is the issue.
- steveklabnik 8y ago
  > I'm amused and humbled that despite all of the work I've done over the past decade, it's quite likely that a seven-line change that I did mostly in ignorance will be the thing that impacts the most people going forward. My most popular open source project, by the numbers, is a ~40 line Rack middleware I wrote when jetlagged at 2am. ~29MM downloads all-time, 984 github stars. I think about that all the time.
DoreenMichele 8y ago
She should be eight by now, if that makes you feel any better... ;) (Sadly, at age 53, I probably cannot get away with trying to make letters happy or otherwise be "cute", or I might well be inspired to try to do some kernel dev in the near future.)
sverige 8y ago
Here's one you can submit, from the same file near the top in the ToC. It's missing two spaces after the header number. This line is sad because the lines above it and below it are able to stay lined up, but this line looks out of place. Being different may be a good thing for people, but it is not a good thing when you are talking about alignment in the Table of Contents. ---1.9 Ext4 file system parameters +++1.9 Ext4 file system parameters

There's nothing stopping you, except finding the time. One of the things I'm most proud of as a dev is a tiny contribution to the Nim standard library. It's a single commit and very simple, but made the PostgreSQL adapter consistent with the other RBDMSs' adapters. At the time, I'd been using Nim for only a couple of days, but that didn't stop me from being able to contribute in a meaningful way. I'm amused and humbled that despite all of the work I've done over the past decade, it's quite likely that a seven-line change that I did mostly in ignorance will be the thing that impacts the most people going forward. Here's the change, if you're curious: https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/pull/6381/commits/921cc53e40f7d48643c0579ca83dedbfa4c500d0 https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/pull/6381/commits/921cc53e40...

craftyguy 8y ago
> There's nothing stopping you, except the one thing that stops a lot of people FTFY. There's a non-zero amount of time investment required to submit kernel patches (learning enough git, using the mailinglist, responding to questions, submitting revisions, etc)
pravj 8y ago
Feel the same way about my contribution to the Go language. :)
brailsafe 8y ago
Good catch there. Looks like you fixed one of those things that I'd waste hours on not realizing is the issue.
steveklabnik 8y ago
> I'm amused and humbled that despite all of the work I've done over the past decade, it's quite likely that a seven-line change that I did mostly in ignorance will be the thing that impacts the most people going forward. My most popular open source project, by the numbers, is a ~40 line Rack middleware I wrote when jetlagged at 2am. ~29MM downloads all-time, 984 github stars. I think about that all the time.

DoreenMichele 8y ago

She should be eight by now, if that makes you feel any better... ;) (Sadly, at age 53, I probably cannot get away with trying to make letters happy or otherwise be "cute", or I might well be inspired to try to do some kernel dev in the near future.)

sverige 8y ago

Here's one you can submit, from the same file near the top in the ToC. It's missing two spaces after the header number. This line is sad because the lines above it and below it are able to stay lined up, but this line looks out of place. Being different may be a good thing for people, but it is not a good thing when you are talking about alignment in the Table of Contents. ---1.9 Ext4 file system parameters +++1.9 Ext4 file system parameters