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I think what we need is more along the lines of this blog post: https://opensource.googleblog.com/2017/03/operation-rosehub.html https://opensource.googleblog.c

by jart 6y ago

I think what we need is more along the lines of this blog post: https://opensource.googleblog.com/2017/03/operation-rosehub.html https://opensource.googleblog.com/2017/03/operation-rosehub.... Modern tools grant each individual the ability to fix the world's code at scale. All we have to do is get our hands dirty creating the change we want to see in the world. Doing that effectively it helps to not assign blame since we all make mistakes and ultimately the goal is to improve.

pdimitar 6y ago
This is a commendable initiative. From the article: > With the help of GitHub’s GUI, any individual can make such changes to anyone’s codebase in under a minute. Sigh, so yet again the load falls on the normal working programmers' free time. And yet again the effort is vastly underestimated. Sure it took 5-10 minutes (I doubt it took one, as article claims) this time but what about the next 50 times? The article even supports this: > As more work was completed, it was apparent that the problem was bigger than we had initially realized. I am glad several Googlers decided to help. I wish it happened more often with them and other corporations. The normal working programmers are overworked enough already.
- jart 6y ago
  You have a very negative way of looking at things. Spartacus was born a few miles from you and he was just an ordinary guy. Would he have needed to be a rebel had he been born today, in a time when the system gives each individual the tools they need to make the world a better place? I say why not use them.
  - pdimitar 6y ago
    Because there's a limited amount of hours per day, and even more limited joules of energy. So I'll always disagree that such initiatives must be in one's free time. Guess I am only looking at this as a job now. I do want to work on certain things but nobody is willing to pay for them, AFAIK at least.

by jart 6y ago

pdimitar 6y ago

This is a commendable initiative. From the article: > With the help of GitHub’s GUI, any individual can make such changes to anyone’s codebase in under a minute. Sigh, so yet again the load falls on the normal working programmers' free time. And yet again the effort is vastly underestimated. Sure it took 5-10 minutes (I doubt it took one, as article claims) this time but what about the next 50 times? The article even supports this: > As more work was completed, it was apparent that the problem was bigger than we had initially realized. I am glad several Googlers decided to help. I wish it happened more often with them and other corporations. The normal working programmers are overworked enough already.

jart 6y ago
You have a very negative way of looking at things. Spartacus was born a few miles from you and he was just an ordinary guy. Would he have needed to be a rebel had he been born today, in a time when the system gives each individual the tools they need to make the world a better place? I say why not use them.
- pdimitar 6y ago
  Because there's a limited amount of hours per day, and even more limited joules of energy. So I'll always disagree that such initiatives must be in one's free time. Guess I am only looking at this as a job now. I do want to work on certain things but nobody is willing to pay for them, AFAIK at least.