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by cxr 2y ago
> Do you think said "GitHub culture" is just because it's the largest platform, or more intrinsic qualities of the platform? Neither. Everyone and everything develops a culture and/or a set of norms. This is the one
692.
by cxr 2y ago
A test to try out whenever these blog posts show up describing the burnout that is purportedly endemic to "open source": If you ignore GitHub, how many of the problems described go away (and of the ones that remain, how potent are
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by cxr 2y ago
I know it's a long-standing empirical truth that anyone involved with Mono is required to prefer doing just about anything besides thinking about or touching what's on the Mono project website, but this announcement really deserve
694.
by cxr 2y ago
(NB: although the name of the repo is embrace, "Debraced C" is the best title for this submission.)
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Debraced C(github.com)
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by cxr 2y ago
Weird reaction, because redundancy is implied (even while " completely redundant" it is not), and the support is definitely there: > People say, for example, you can't read The Count of Monte Cristo unless it's Buss
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by cxr 2y ago
K. To start with, it's been a common phrase in open source since before "open source" was invented and fairly self-explanatory; it means what it means on its face. Even if that weren't the case and someone were just en
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by cxr 2y ago
Huh?
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by cxr 2y ago
Yes. And there's an orange bar across the top of HN. Were you expecting something else from a link labeled "Previously"?
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by cxr 2y ago
Has it? Using P&V-fueled/-inspired superiority to hate on Victorian translations (or anything non-P&V, really—including e.g. Magarshack) seems to have a lot more meme energy than the reverse. Previously: < https:/&#x2F
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by cxr 2y ago
"Patches welcome" vs "patches wanted"[1]. 1. < https://www.colbyrussell.com/2013/08/06/patches-wanted.html >
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by cxr 2y ago
The build process for the rest of Firefox could be as modular as devtools. When I was involved with Mozilla (and for a while after), it was a frequent criticism of mine that no one was prioritizing making the contribution process as easy
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by cxr 2y ago
It's possible to achieve a similar effect in the browser. The <script> element doesn't have any Content-Type restrictions; it won't reject something outright solely on the basis you serve it something other than applic
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by cxr 2y ago
It's not that hard. PURLs and DOIs have been around for a long time.
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by cxr 2y ago
> 1985 You mean 1940. (Its original publication in the US.) > Because once someone admits that change was okay You seem to be going with the assumption that everyone is on board—that they agree that that change was okay (had it act
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by cxr 2y ago
Cool story. What are you actually arguing for/against here?
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by cxr 2y ago
That, too, would constitute a new edition if the updates went into the work itself. Otherwise, the previous work is still a thing—you're just pretending that it's not and the new thing was the thing all along. That's harmfu
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by cxr 2y ago
> it may be a reasonable expectation that a text-book would be 'correct', and so receiving updates would be appropriate[...] Of course this should be consensual It is implicitly consensual—when the consumer chooses to buy&#x2
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by cxr 2y ago
It's a lot more complicated than that. > some take their own liberties with interpreting the original text as it was written The "original text" in many cases is simply not known; there are multiple "sources" to
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by cxr 2y ago
The "online site"/"web thingy" linked in another comment is 1. like 300 lines of code < https://github.com/innocenat/kindle-epub-fix/blob/master/scr... > 2. runs entirely in
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by cxr 2y ago
It looks like you did the sensible thing and used U+002F for path separator. Snover got this right when he did PowerShell and it stayed that way up through the open source releases. More recently someone fucked it up and started prescribi
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by cxr 2y ago
These are not good comments.
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by cxr 2y ago
Do you mean "… and then it's not very cool anymore"? And if so, then why not?
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by cxr 2y ago
... what?
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by cxr 2y ago
Nominally yes, and insofar as the Mozilla Foundation is "Mozilla". Even then, the relationship is ceremonial. And Mozilla Corp is something different altogether.
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by cxr 2y ago
I use Firefox's existing native support for tab groups that it's had since pre-1.0. They're called windows.
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by cxr 2y ago
Panorama from Firefox 4. Also called Tab Groups.
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by cxr 2y ago
In what way is that a counterpoint? Are you tacitly suggesting that the other commenter's position is that Sourcegraph doesn't hire anyone? They they string everyone along for months before ghosting? There's a distinction b
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by cxr 2y ago
Yet another person equivocating the concepts of publishing code under an open source license and managing a project in public.
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by cxr 2y ago
Thanks for correcting me. I see now that the Bearblog landing page lists "free themes". I'm having trouble, though, making sense of the "no stylesheets" selling point(?) at the top of the page, especially given wha

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