elect_engineer

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by elect_engineer 7y ago
Full disclosure: I am the author of the Wikipedia essay "Wikipedia has cancer". See https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=21700802 and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikiped
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by elect_engineer 7y ago
Full disclosure: I am the author of the Wikipedia essay "Wikipedia has cancer". See https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=21700802 and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikiped
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by elect_engineer 7y ago
Full disclosure: I am the author of the Wikipedia essay "Wikipedia has cancer". See https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=21700802 and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikiped
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by elect_engineer 7y ago
Full disclosure: I am the author of the Wikipedia essay "Wikipedia has cancer". See https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=21700802 and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikiped
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by elect_engineer 7y ago
Full disclosure: I am the author of the Wikipedia essay "Wikipedia has cancer". See https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=21700802 and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikiped
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by elect_engineer 7y ago
A fork would be extremely unlikely to attract enough editors. Forking Wikipedia is already allowed and encouraged: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks That page even has a place to list new fo
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by elect_engineer 7y ago
Full disclosure: I am the author of the Wikipedia essay "Wikipedia has cancer". See https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=21700802 and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikiped
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by elect_engineer 7y ago
Hello. I am the author of the "Wikipedia has cancer" essay on Wikipedia. After I finish writing this I I will confirm this with a post to https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Guy_Mac... ] on Ha
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by elect_engineer 9y ago
I am the author of the Wikipedia essay "Wikipedia has Cancer". Re: "It's also become a target for parties that want to manipulate it, but has been surprisingly resilient to that" not a penny of the budget deals with
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by elect_engineer 9y ago
I am the author of the Wikipedia essay "Wikipedia has Cancer". No, you are missing the point. I did not imply that Waterfall if better than Agile (I have managed several Agile projects and really like it when it is done correctly)
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by elect_engineer 9y ago
I am the author of the Wikipedia essay "Wikipedia has Cancer". I have recently had extensive private correspondence with several current and former Wikimedia foundation software developers. The developers are not living lavishly.
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by elect_engineer 9y ago
I am the author of the Wikipedia essay "Wikipedia has Cancer". I have included links to all of the financials that I could find in my essay, and I have repeatedly asked for more transparency regarding how the money has been spent.
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by elect_engineer 9y ago
I am the author of the Wikipedia essay "Wikipedia has Cancer". For the record, I am myself a cancer survivor, and I have received multiple emails from other Wikipedians who have cancer saying that they have no problem with my ess
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by elect_engineer 9y ago
I am the author of the Wikipedia essay "Wikipedia has Cancer". The previous discussion led to a version of my essay that was published with my permission in the Wikipedia Signpost. That version was dumbed-down a bit by the signp
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by elect_engineer 9y ago
I am the author of the essay "Wikipedia has Cancer". I did put a lot of effort into documenting my claims, and I would encourage anyone interested in clicking on the links in the essay. In particular, I have documented what others
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by elect_engineer 9y ago
I am the author of the Wikipedia essay "Wikipedia has Cancer". For the record, I would prefer that this thread have the same title as my essay. The replacement title("Wikimedia Foundation's runaway spending growth")
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by elect_engineer 9y ago
I am the author of the Wikipedia Essay "Wikipedia has Cancer". For the record, I would prefer that this thread have that title (it was recently changed to "Wikimedia Foundation's runaway spending growth". I would al
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by elect_engineer 9y ago
Were you aware that the vast majority of both the WMF board of directors and the WMF top management have close ties to Google? Or that a large chunk of those millions that the WMF has been spending went to creating a secret search engine?
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by elect_engineer 9y ago
From [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_C... ]: "In particular, their poor handling of software development has been well known for many years. The answer to the WMF's problems
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by elect_engineer 9y ago
You are correct. I am arguing that WMF engineering practices are so disorganized that not only don't they qualify as agile, they don't even qualify as waterfall (which predates agile by several decades). In particular, I am part o
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by elect_engineer 9y ago
(I am the author of the op-ed. A better version is at [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_C... ].) I am very familiar with Agile and Scum, and I have seen the advantages over older paradig
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by elect_engineer 9y ago
(I am the author of the op-ed. A better version is at [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_C... ].) The question as I understand it is is "if no other money comes in how long could Wik
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by elect_engineer 9y ago
I am the author of this op-ed, which I will prove by posting a comment on my Wikipedia talk page [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Guy_Macon#Hacker_New... ] before saving this. I am open to any questions, criti
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by elect_engineer 12y ago
Any time I design a laptop into, say, a robotics system, I have to buy at least a dozen spares and store them away, because five years later when the laptop dies and a $500,000 machine that generates $1,000 per hour in profits goes down, th
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by elect_engineer 12y ago
Bunnie Huang is definitely one of the Good Guys. One of the signs that he really "gets it" regarding open source software and hardware is at the bottom of his web page: "This work by Andrew (bunnie) Huang is licensed under a
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by elect_engineer 12y ago
AxCrypt looks solid for your purpose. Obviously if you are whoever it is who replaced Bin Laden you can't even trust your keyboard -- it might be reporting what you type to the NSA -- but for ordinary users it is a good choice. Plus, i
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by elect_engineer 14y ago
Interesting PR spin... "...the new course called Wiki Scholar, designed by psychology professor Steve Joordens, who believes that by learning to write and rewrite research until it makes sense to the wider Wiki world, students are forced to
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by elect_engineer 14y ago
Because I am one of the Elect of course! Seriously tho created an account because I never had anything to post to Hacker News before and for the title I just copied the title on the Wikipedia page and cut it down to eighty characters as req
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Professor tells 1700 students to edit Wikipedia, 85% plagiarism rate(en.wikipedia.org)
66 points by elect_engineer 14y ago|57 comments