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Reminds me of the 100 millionth OpenStreetMap changeset (commit). A few people, myself included, were casually trying for it but in the end it went to someone w
by Aachen 1y ago
Reminds me of the 100 millionth OpenStreetMap changeset (commit). A few people, myself included, were casually trying for it but in the end it went to someone who wasn't trying and just busy mapping Africa! Much more wholesome, seeing it with hindsight. This person was also previously nominated for an OSM award. I guess it helps that openstreetmap doesn't really allow for creating crap, because it's all live in production, and that's how the Nth commit is way more likely to be someone's random whim? Either way, a fun achievement for Github :)
In case anyone cares to read more about the OSM milestone, the official blog entry: https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2021/02/25/100-million-edits-to-openstreetmap/ https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2021/02/25/100-million-edits-... My write-up of changeset activity around the event: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/LucGommans/diary/395954 https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/LucGommans/diary/395954
- chneu 1y agoYour kind of comment is exactly why HN still rules. What a fun story. Thanks for sharing
- Aachen 1y agoAww, thanks! I wasn't sure if I should go off-topic this much so I'm happy to hear this!
- ash_091 1y agoA friend of mine spent an entire workday figuring out how to ensure he created the millionth ticket in our help desk. Not sure how he cracked it in the end but we had a little team party to celebrate the achievement. This was probably fifteen years ago. I feel like working in tech was more fun back then.
- darkwater 1y agoI wonder which is the latest ID today then...
- deruta 1y agoI was involved in the 99,999th and the 100,000th one in my FQA days. We were being onboarded, they were just for demo and were promptly deleted. No one cared about the Cool Numbers.
- jpsouth 1y agoIn my first job I raised JIRA-1337 and was pretty chuffed with myself, being on a team of young, nerdy gamer type folk. My manager not so much, they wanted to raise it (for a meme?) but I was doing actual work rather than watching numbers go up so that was quite satisfying when it was a genuine defect.