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My life as a Git
- tucif 14y agoThat is very cool as a visualization of life milestones! Specially if you go to the "Network" area of the project (https://github.com/Gawen/life/network https://github.com/Gawen/life/network).
- recursive 14y agoI feel like the I'm the only person who is totally confused by github. Are those little phrases in that graph supposed to be life milestones? They don't make any sense. Aside from this graph, all I'm seeing here is a readme, a resume, and a huge file presumably containing dna. How is this getting attention? I ask this not rhetorically, but I genuinely want to know how to use this/what's going on here.
- lewispollard 14y agoHe has basically modified the dates of each commit so they correspond to the actual date in his life the event occurred.
- neopba 14y agoReally cool :) May I borrow the idea? :)
- gawenr 14y agoSure. Would you be interested in the code which generated this repository ? I'm going to clean it up then push it here https://github.com/Gawen/lifebuilder https://github.com/Gawen/lifebuilder .
- bryogenic 14y agoAre you planning on crawling / parsing the repository to create a time line or something similar? Seems like an orderly way of storing events, but a royal pain to view.
- gawenr 14y agoI don't think so. The point is to hack git <=> to use it in another purpose it had been done, not to build something new upon it. But I'm planning to manage my future blog content based on this repository though.
- tucif 14y agoGithub does that for you already. In the network section of the project.
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- mehdim 14y agoYou've sent the first signal that we are evolving from a facebook generation to a github generation, so from a numerical social generation to a programmable generation. Thank you !
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- dredmorbius 14y agoCall me when Github hits 1 billion users. I mean, I'm all about creation vs. consumption and quality over quantity, but ... that's ... optimistic of you.
- darrenkopp 14y agoIf you fork this repository... do you have to pay child support or get arrested for identity theft?
- pilsetnieks 14y agoI'm concerned about the DNA opensourcing (searching by the preamble, others have published their DNA, too) - it's not computer code, more eyeballs on it won't make it better. Now cloning from raw DNA data is probably far enough off for now but couldn't the DNA be used to find vulnerabilities, for example, allergies or diseases with a genetic component? What about an insurance company looking at the DNA and denying insurance because of preexisting conditions?
- Karunamon 14y ago>What about an insurance company looking at the DNA and denying insurance because of preexisting conditions? Assuming the recent law changes survive coming challenges, such shenanigans will be illegal, at least in the USA.
- MatthewPhillips 14y agoI don't follow politics, what are the arguments against allowing insurance companies to make such decisions?
- adrusi 14y agoIf people are denied health insurance then they are treated as second class in hospitals that know they wont be able to pay for their care and people die. No matter who you are your right to free business practice is second to people's rights to live.
- anonymoushn 14y agoIn the United States, the medical industry is allowed to vary prices significantly based on the method of payment, and the cost of buying care without insurance is much higher than the cost of buying care with insurance. This is true unless you can't pay, in which case you will still be treated and the taxpayer will foot the bill under EMTALA. So the argument goes that, given that the taxpayer is already responsible for unbounded medical expenses for everyone, it would be reasonable to compel everyone to buy prepaid health plans. In order to compel people to buy these, they must be available to everyone, so the government must also prevent insurance companies from refusing to sell prepaid health plans to people who are certain to use them. I use the phrase "prepaid health plan" rather than "insurance," because insurance is purchased to protect against future risk, but a prepaid health plan will cover things that occurred in the past and things that are not risks but certainties. It's a pretty sound argument as long as you don't ask "Why is the taxpayer responsible for unbounded medical expenses for everyone?"
- heelhook 14y agoYou are like a god, created through spontaneous generation! https://github.com/Gawen/life/commit/ca14573e9e4e9769b02e3e224657a2f8cde6b89f https://github.com/Gawen/life/commit/ca14573e9e4e9769b02e3e2...
- htp 14y agoAnother unexpected use of GitHub: https://github.com/norinori2222/boyfriend_require/ https://github.com/norinori2222/boyfriend_require/
- scott_karana 14y agoFor those not fluent in Japanese, and didn't notice otherwise: https://github.com/norinori2222/boyfriend_require/blob/master/README-en.md https://github.com/norinori2222/boyfriend_require/blob/maste...
- B-Con 14y agoI must be missing something. Why is a versioned source code repository the ideal place for this?
- qdot76367 14y agoSee also: Memacs, doing a similar idea using org-mode in emacs: http://github.com/novoid/Memacs http://github.com/novoid/Memacs
- Magenta 14y agogit is a homonym.
- icco 14y agoNeat, I did something similar a while back. https://github.com/icco/lifeline https://github.com/icco/lifeline
- sethish 14y agoThree friends and I have each did this, about a year ago: github.com/itdaniher/itdaniher github.com/alxjrvs/alxjrvs github.com/sethwoodworth/sethwoodworth