colbyrussell

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by colbyrussell 7y ago
My phone number is listed on my home page. Please give me a call.
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by colbyrussell 7y ago
I agree with some of what you say—one caveat is that you're still on the hook, for example, for finding out which GitHub URL/repo maps to the project you want to contribute to. In practice, this is roughly on par with the difficu
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by colbyrussell 7y ago
It's literally not my stance. And I've literally said that it's not my stance—in a comment (that should have never been necessary to begin with) meant to remove all doubt. And you know this. To continue saying otherwise (ex
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by colbyrussell 7y ago
I only counted opening a pull request as a single operation to begin with.
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by colbyrussell 7y ago
I'm going to try to make this as straightforward as possible: Where in this[1] comment does an error lie? Please make a copy and edit it to reflect what you're saying here and then show me the result. 1. https://news.
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by colbyrussell 7y ago
> If you contribute many times to the same repo, you only have to fork once. If you do a lot of drive-by contributions, you'll end up forking a lot of repositories. That doesn't contradict anything I've written here, or an
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by colbyrussell 7y ago
Yes, exactly. Literally anything that has an upload button in the bugtracker for you attach your patch that fixes the bug.
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by colbyrussell 7y ago
> you can almost always push to origin Why am I having to repeat myself here? You can never push to origin unless it's your own project or your team's project. > It's a constant cost in the same way that looking up w
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by colbyrussell 7y ago
You can't push to origin unless it's your own project or your team's. We're talking about PR-based workflows. > Adding a remote is generally a one-time cost It's not a constant cost, unless you're saying yo
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by colbyrussell 7y ago
What? You get to imagine some bad argument that would make it most convenient for you, and then demand that I defend that argument, as if it were one that I wanted to make? This is what I'm responsible for? Dealing with someone who
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by colbyrussell 7y ago
Everyone is trying to get me to defend mailing lists. I have no idea why. I haven't said anything about them. In fact, I hate mailing lists.
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by colbyrussell 7y ago
I'm mystified about what's going on right now. Both versions involve clicking. Both versions involve command-line steps. The difference is that the GitHub version requires more of both, needlessly. That's the point of wh
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by colbyrussell 7y ago
Please explain how you got there, because I'm at a loss. Both examples involve using the CLI. The GitHub version I ran through actually includes more CLI steps. How could that possibly have been my intention?
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by colbyrussell 7y ago
What makes either of those things harder than what you have to do to use github.com?
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by colbyrussell 7y ago
Let me ask, do you think that the content of my message reduces to "graphical user interfaces are harder to use than CLI"?
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by colbyrussell 7y ago
"Easy" like: git diff master..bugfix > bugfix.patch # or `format-patch` # now attach/upload bugfix.patch Instead of: # make sure you click around github.com to create third fork git remote add unnece
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by colbyrussell 7y ago
This is exactly right. People can pretty easily make their own lunch, and yet every day there are millions of transactions involving people forking over, say, $8 for an overpriced and overspiced pasta dish. Programmers need to stop looking
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by colbyrussell 7y ago
Completely separate from the submission of this link: I've been working on triplescripts.org, and I have plans to dive into Gnome and GJS, with the goal being to highlight GJS as a potential target for the system layer. Along the way,
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by colbyrussell 7y ago
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15725942