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I propose a solidarity movement: Heather Arthur day: On this special day we post useful code that we might otherwise be unwilling to post because of what other
by noonespecial 14y ago
I propose a solidarity movement:
Heather Arthur day: On this special day we post useful code that we might otherwise be unwilling to post because of what other people might think of it. Because some people have the courage to do this anyway and when they do, it makes the world a better place.
If just a few people do this, they might be considered crazy and laughed at, but if all of us do it, why then we'd have a movement.
- mpyne 14y agoWe'd run out of calendar days if we had a "solidarity day" made up everytime something like this happened.
- noonespecial 14y agoI think you just made a very important point.
- saraid216 14y agoThat's why you pick one particular incident and then use it as an anchor point for all the other bad incidents to refer to. This is how all other solidarity days work.
- graue 14y agoIt's a good start, but this shouldn't be a special day. It should be every day.
- petercooper 14y agoI agree, but the common problem there is you get people spouting all the "stop reinventing the wheel!", "looks like NIH syndrome" or "it has no tests so it's irresponsible to release" type lines. This sort of disdain is frequently done politely and seemingly accepted by the community at large even here on HN.
- pjungwir 14y agoI had the same idea: Ask HN: What is your dumbest project on Github? :-) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5112546 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5112546