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Sharing a password is an uphill battle with the problem of the commons. Automating one account would seem a lot easier.
by taylorbuley 16y ago
Sharing a password is an uphill battle with the problem of the commons. Automating one account would seem a lot easier.
- SingAlong 16y agoYa, after posting the comment I started wondering about the worst case - what if the person who owns the account forgets to post coz he's busy or even worse... is dead. We'll end up creating accounts like whoishiring1, whoishiring2, etc which totally beats the advantage of being able to keep the hiring threads in one place. I finished the Racket-lang intro guide today. I thought I could pitch-in with some code by adding the automated post feature to news.arc (in arc3) and sending a diff. Sadly news.arc is 2610 lines of lisp in one file. Scared me :)
- petervandijck 16y agoLike a good programmer, you're worrying about edge cases :) Let's just do it. We can fix potential problems later.
- allwein 16y agoHe doesn't intend on sharing the password, he intends on doing the posts himself every month. Perhaps he could have phrased it better as, "Can we all agree that Who's Hiring posts will only be made by this account?"