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by wildmanx 5y ago
Oh, where can I sign up? I'd love the concept of being a paid user!
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by wildmanx 5y ago
The way out is to never do anything by hand. Always put it in your release script and run the script from an as-dirty-as-possible workspace. Whenever you do something manually, this manual process that exists as a kind of "virtual
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by wildmanx 5y ago
> it sounds to me like this probably was an actual newbie who made an honest (if lazy) mistake Who then replies with a request for "cease and desist"? Not sure that's the right move for a humble newbie.
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by wildmanx 5y ago
> As far as I'm concerned the University of Minnesota did a public service here by facilitating a mildly sophisticated and ultimately benign attack against the process surrounding an absolutely critical piece of software. We ought t
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by wildmanx 6y ago
The result is to make sure not to accept anything with the risk of introducing issues. Any patch coming from somebody having intentionally introduced an issue falls into this category. So, banning their organization from contributing is exa
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by wildmanx 6y ago
> This "I will ban you and revert all your stuff" retaliation seems emotional overaction. Fool me once. Why should they waste their time with extra scrutiny next time? Somebody deliberately misled them, so that's it, banne
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by wildmanx 6y ago
It took me a sadly too-long time to realize that this had nothing to do with any printer API. Like, I read the whole post, and all the comments here on HN. And only _then_ did it dawn on me.
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by wildmanx 6y ago
Wow, first time I hear that as the main and apparently only argument to using Windows over any Linux distro. With HiDPI displays all over the place, is subpixel rendering really still a thing? Pixels have gotten so small, I can't see i
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by wildmanx 6y ago
> I wasn't a big fan of the Covid tracing app in the beginning Let this be a lesson. If you get something good and still keep complaining and complaining, then what you get in the end is something bad.
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by wildmanx 6y ago
The sad part is that many of us have to constantly fight against those of "us" who are actively working against those improvements. It's easy to take an outside look and say "well, see, humankind fixed it", but the
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by wildmanx 6y ago
Carl has a long history of twisting truth and sources. For example https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2007/dec/09/wikipedia... Or the discussion page of the wikipedia page about him: https:/&#x
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by wildmanx 6y ago
Looks like we agree in principle. Other industries/areas have firmly established standards. Our industry needs those too, badly. Not just for style, but overall for design and architecture. Maybe it's because software development
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by wildmanx 6y ago
Thanks for this long list. But again, that's missing the point. Everybody has their list of what they do and why. And everybody is pretty convinced that this is how it ought to be and they have good reasons. I'm not saying yours a
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by wildmanx 6y ago
Let me play the devils advocate here.. How are they supposed to investigate crime if nobody talks to them?
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by wildmanx 6y ago
What I personally check out does not matter much. My point was a lack of consensus within the industry. It does not help if I read the same book as you and we two agree 100% what exactly we mean, when the next guy considers most of that non
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by wildmanx 6y ago
Part of the problem is that "well written code" is unbelievably subjective. Take 10 people from hacker news and you will get 10 likely very different answers, some of them most likely the exact opposites. Maybe it has to do with b
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by wildmanx 6y ago
Alright, so you are about 5-10 years younger than me and we started programming at around the same time. I'd never say of myself that I've been programming "for a long time", let along "a long, long time".
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by wildmanx 6y ago
Which is not just lacking scientific basis but goes straight _against_ what we know today of fish. Any vegetarian who eats fish because of that reason really needs to update their ethics to the current millennium.
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by wildmanx 6y ago
At least as important for software quality is: 3) Make extension of thorough automatic testing in all levels of the testing hierarchy as effortless as possible. Nobody is going to bother with thorough testing if it takes a day to add a simp
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by wildmanx 6y ago
Freedom and rules are two sides of the same coin. Just doing whatever you want in a market does not make it a "free market". If somebody can go and hold a gun to your head and thereby persuade you to give them your goods for free,
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by wildmanx 6y ago
Maybe the author should look up different modes of rounding. Round-to-nearest is what's the "intuitive" choice Apple made here. It's not "fake time". Srsly.. Besides, instead of truncating, it would even be sen
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by wildmanx 6y ago
This is a very understandable attitude. Another great example of the overall effect described in the classic https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
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by wildmanx 6y ago
This use of "and" and "or" was inherited from mathematical logic though. It's not specific to programming languages.
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by wildmanx 6y ago
That's not a technical problem. No tool can solve this for you. If people keep stepping on each others toes, you need some process in place to ensure some fairness, or better, they talk to each other and find a solution.
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by wildmanx 6y ago
> Should CI create a merged branch behind-the-scenes and run tests on that before allowing the branch to be merged? Yes. Anything else is bound to run into the issue described in the article. I'm honestly surprised that anybody wou
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by wildmanx 6y ago
What I called stupid is "refusing to even listen". Of course you are not getting paid for it. Just as little as the guy sending you a patch. If you want you issue tracker to be pay-only, would you be fine with allowing people to s
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by wildmanx 6y ago
That's of course a determination you can make once the bug report comes in. But rejecting all reports outright without even looking is really missing out on one of the key advantages that open source culture brings to the table. This a
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by wildmanx 6y ago
I don't think we are in disagreement about any of this.
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by wildmanx 6y ago
And that's why the maintainer is free to ignore them, if they choose to. They should not be hanged for prioritizing their time. Others can pick all that up. Fork the project, use the reported issues and proposed patches, whatnot. Accus
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by wildmanx 6y ago
It's not about "nice" even. It's about refusing help that others offer for free. Being "nice" is a bonus, really. A welcome one, but not the main point.

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