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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 minut
by 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 agoYou 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 agoBecause 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.