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I just want to say this kind of future really gets me excited! I love it when a product/service I use is open enough that if I ever spot a typo, it's easier and

I just want to say this kind of future really gets me excited! I love it when a product/service I use is open enough that if I ever spot a typo, it's easier and faster for me to fix it in the source and submit a PR (and enjoy a more perfect product) than to ignore it. That's the kind of future I want to live in. I'm very thankful to Balanced, Gittip for being some of the ones paving the way there.

whit537 14y ago
"ever a spot" -> "ever spot" <:)
- mahmoudimus 14y ago
  HN comments should have pull requests.
  - shurcooL 14y ago
    They totally should. Everything should. There's no reason to make them not available.
  - gabrielsinkin 14y ago
    #winning
- shurcooL 14y ago
  Thanks! Fixed.
  - whit537 14y ago
    :D
steveklabnik 14y ago
I have done this with blog posts by Balanced, actually. Especially with 'edit this file on GitHub,' it's so simple.
- whit537 14y ago
  In my experience, the only nicer UI for fixing typos is Medium.
zende 14y ago
Much of the frontend for the blog was done by github.com/joonas (not a Balanced employee): https://github.com/balanced/balanced.github.com/pull/3 https://github.com/balanced/balanced.github.com/pull/3
shurcooL 14y ago
Here's a few counter-examples of easily fixable bugs in closed systems that really bug me. GitHub has a few tiny bugs that could probably be fixed with a few lines of code within a day (best case scenario), but they haven't for months now since I've reported these issues. http://shurcool.github.io/bettertogether/ http://shurcool.github.io/bettertogether/ The latest version of Chrome for iOS has a shadow not appearing properly when you open a new tab in the background. Once you switch to it, it's fine. Chrome [1] for OS X has a small area around the close tab button where the hover animation occurs (button highlights red), yet clicking the mouse does nothing. You have to move the cursor a few pixels closer to the center before clicking will have an effect. This discrepancy between hover and clicking action is annoying because I often (several times per day) run into it. OS X dock has a similar issue. I'm very picky when it comes to the smallest details... I'd rather fix them and move on than keep running into them every day. [1] I know this one is open source, but because it's a huge project, I never got around to compile it, etc.
- zende 14y ago
  pull requests welcome and much appreciated ;-) https://github.com/balanced/balanced.github.com/issues https://github.com/balanced/balanced.github.com/issues https://github.com/balanced/balanced-dashboard/issues https://github.com/balanced/balanced-dashboard/issues you just reminded me of a mobile display issue on the blog: https://github.com/balanced/balanced.github.com/issues/32 https://github.com/balanced/balanced.github.com/issues/32
- whit537 14y ago
  The Chrome example brings up a good point: it's a lot easier to fix niggling details on small projects than big ones. We could probably stand to see some innovation in architecting open products to be easy to install only part of into a development environment. The GitHub editing interface helps here, though project culture is another barrier. I fixed a typo on AngularJS and started to discover a heavier project structure than I'm used to: https://github.com/angular/angular.js/pull/2374 https://github.com/angular/angular.js/pull/2374 Maintaining a culture of innovation at scale is a challenge for both open and closed companies.
shurcooL 14y ago
Here are some examples of where I was able to do just that. It's tiny things, but it feels great to make something better. https://github.com/liveprogramming/2013/pull/1/files https://github.com/liveprogramming/2013/pull/1/files https://github.com/liveprogramming/2013/pull/2/files https://github.com/liveprogramming/2013/pull/2/files https://github.com/skx/bookmarks.public/pull/1/files https://github.com/skx/bookmarks.public/pull/1/files https://github.com/gittip/www.gittip.com/pull/625/files https://github.com/gittip/www.gittip.com/pull/625/files https://github.com/mojombo/semver.org/pull/55/files https://github.com/mojombo/semver.org/pull/55/files
cmd7d 13y ago
We're working on the same approach at FastCompany--we've already started loading all our Labs posts into github, and soon we'll allow readers to fork articles to correct them, argue with them, edit or create their own versions. Github obviously wasn't meant for dealing with rich text articles, so it's taking some hacking, but we agree that it's a positive experiment. --chris dannen, tech editor, fastcompany

whit537 14y ago

"ever a spot" -> "ever spot" <:)

mahmoudimus 14y ago
HN comments should have pull requests.
- shurcooL 14y ago
  They totally should. Everything should. There's no reason to make them not available.
- gabrielsinkin 14y ago
  #winning
shurcooL 14y ago
Thanks! Fixed.
- whit537 14y ago
  :D

steveklabnik 14y ago

I have done this with blog posts by Balanced, actually. Especially with 'edit this file on GitHub,' it's so simple.

whit537 14y ago
In my experience, the only nicer UI for fixing typos is Medium.

zende 14y ago

Much of the frontend for the blog was done by github.com/joonas (not a Balanced employee): https://github.com/balanced/balanced.github.com/pull/3 https://github.com/balanced/balanced.github.com/pull/3

shurcooL 14y ago

Here's a few counter-examples of easily fixable bugs in closed systems that really bug me. GitHub has a few tiny bugs that could probably be fixed with a few lines of code within a day (best case scenario), but they haven't for months now since I've reported these issues. http://shurcool.github.io/bettertogether/ http://shurcool.github.io/bettertogether/ The latest version of Chrome for iOS has a shadow not appearing properly when you open a new tab in the background. Once you switch to it, it's fine. Chrome [1] for OS X has a small area around the close tab button where the hover animation occurs (button highlights red), yet clicking the mouse does nothing. You have to move the cursor a few pixels closer to the center before clicking will have an effect. This discrepancy between hover and clicking action is annoying because I often (several times per day) run into it. OS X dock has a similar issue. I'm very picky when it comes to the smallest details... I'd rather fix them and move on than keep running into them every day. [1] I know this one is open source, but because it's a huge project, I never got around to compile it, etc.

zende 14y ago
pull requests welcome and much appreciated ;-) https://github.com/balanced/balanced.github.com/issues https://github.com/balanced/balanced.github.com/issues https://github.com/balanced/balanced-dashboard/issues https://github.com/balanced/balanced-dashboard/issues you just reminded me of a mobile display issue on the blog: https://github.com/balanced/balanced.github.com/issues/32 https://github.com/balanced/balanced.github.com/issues/32
whit537 14y ago
The Chrome example brings up a good point: it's a lot easier to fix niggling details on small projects than big ones. We could probably stand to see some innovation in architecting open products to be easy to install only part of into a development environment. The GitHub editing interface helps here, though project culture is another barrier. I fixed a typo on AngularJS and started to discover a heavier project structure than I'm used to: https://github.com/angular/angular.js/pull/2374 https://github.com/angular/angular.js/pull/2374 Maintaining a culture of innovation at scale is a challenge for both open and closed companies.

shurcooL 14y ago

Here are some examples of where I was able to do just that. It's tiny things, but it feels great to make something better. https://github.com/liveprogramming/2013/pull/1/files https://github.com/liveprogramming/2013/pull/1/files https://github.com/liveprogramming/2013/pull/2/files https://github.com/liveprogramming/2013/pull/2/files https://github.com/skx/bookmarks.public/pull/1/files https://github.com/skx/bookmarks.public/pull/1/files https://github.com/gittip/www.gittip.com/pull/625/files https://github.com/gittip/www.gittip.com/pull/625/files https://github.com/mojombo/semver.org/pull/55/files https://github.com/mojombo/semver.org/pull/55/files

cmd7d 13y ago

We're working on the same approach at FastCompany--we've already started loading all our Labs posts into github, and soon we'll allow readers to fork articles to correct them, argue with them, edit or create their own versions. Github obviously wasn't meant for dealing with rich text articles, so it's taking some hacking, but we agree that it's a positive experiment. --chris dannen, tech editor, fastcompany