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…Kernel patch at age 4. Sigh… What have I done with my life?
You done fucked up from the moment you turned 5. That’s where you went wrong. You should have just stopped getting older
Dose mental age count?
You can start now!
I am no developer, but I’ve submitted my first patch a few months ago.
It simply added my laptop to a list of quirks, in order to make the microphone work.
The Internet didn’t even exist when I was four, let alone Linux, so I don’t feel so bad.
Well, you shoulda been working on ARPANET then, slacker!
Breaking News at msn.com: “Linux uses child labour!”
Unpaid child labour!
Oh god, maybe they’ll start calling actual child labor “open source”
FOSS
Free and Open Source Slave
FOSS: Forces Orphan Se–
No matter how many times I read this I have no idea what’s going on. Can someone explain this like I’m 3
A girl read documentation and see that all the titles are underlined with -, but one of the letter isn’t underlined like the others (that’s the lonely s). Then she asks the person doing the commit to fix it and they fix it together.
And then the older pair programmer goes to social media and calls out their partners age for clout. Ageism is real in tech. :)
Wow we really can’t just appreciate a wholesome/cute moment?
They’re telling a joke.
I didn’t see how it’s funny.
Because it’s an absurd statement, as in completely obviously not an example of ageism in tech.
Inevitably, there will be times in one’s life when another’s attempt at humor fails to amuse. When striken by such terrible tragedy, take heart, for you have the knowledge that it’s just your opinion, bro.
This is obvious
If nothing else, the smiley can be taken as a hint that it’s not serious.
This is truly a Reddit moment
So in the documentation they had
1.9 Ext4 file system parameters ------------------------------As you can see the ‘s’ doesn’t get a ‘-’ under it. So they changed the documentation to:
1.9 Ext4 file system parameters -------------------------------so the ‘s’ in parameters gets a dash under it.
this seems to be the standard as everywhere else the dashes go for the same length of characters as the above line. Example:
2.0 /proc/consoles ------------------The little girl said the ‘s’ in parameters is sad because it didn’t get the dash under it and it was all alone. So they added the dash.
The line of code (well, documentation in the code) used to look like something like this (I’m not sure if this formatting will work on mobile, sorry):
The code ends with an s----------------------And after her changes it looks like this:
The code ends with an s------------------------See how I added an extra
-in that second line? That makes the S happier because now it also has a - below it like all the other letters. This also just generally makes that line more consistent with other spots in the code. So it’s not a bad change. It doesn’t do anything really but making your code format nice, easy to read, and consistent is usually important in programming so although it doesn’t do anything tangible it’s still a valuable change!See the first red box in the documentation text? The underline dashes don’t go up to the last letter (s).
4 year old girl said the “s” was sad because of that, uncle submitted a patch to fix that, and it was accepted.
No no the uncle submitted the patch. The girl did. He helped her though.
So, is it her gmail account, while the minimum age for registration is 13 years? And why does she write about herself in the singular 3rd person?
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The first red box shows that the dotted line underneith the text doesn’t go all the way to the s in the text above. In the other red box, the dotted line goes all the way.
The neice submitted a patch to add the missing line.
That is adorable.
I want her to do a Ted talk on the morality and ethics of making sure no letter is left behind when underlining text.
You mean the inclusivity TED Talk.
lazy to not submit a unit test to check for this throughout the repo. That girl isn’t going anywhere with that kind of work ethic
Sphinx has warnings for these already. They’re just suppressed and ignored :)
Though slightly cliche, this just feels right. That niece has learned a great lesson about how collaborating to improve things is always possible, and that open-source relies on everyone doing their bit.
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You just know she unlocked a core memory that day. No way this experience doesn’t shape her in some way.
Some problems just need a fresh pair of eyes. Sometimes literally.
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Somewhere, somehow, this is going to break something lol
It’s almost 9 years ago, I think we’re good.
I reckon we can still mine it for karma for another couple of years…
This better get backported with high priority.
I just noticed it’s from 2014.
I frankly have to very much agree with her.
This is just adorable. Poor s!
@ken27238 Actually great, it is good to see young people trying to help with a project.
I don’t know, this feels cringe on some levels…(parents)
Nope, I was smiling like a maniac the whole time I was reading. Reject cynicism 😀
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Welcome to Open Source software where its ok to help once and never again. Thats actually not even a bad thing.
Imagine there is this one project that kicks everyones autism and has many issues. But only a team of 100 people is allowed to change its code. I’d rather want the world to change the code and make it improve for everyones liking. Even if it was just one commit and never again.
I “maintain” (I don’t) a thing I made 5 years ago for playing Minecraft. I no longer care about it because I don’t play anymore, but over the years many people have submitted pull requests to improve it to the point there is very few miles of code that are from me.
Think about it this way. It’s a social project. Everybody does their part to help. If they can only help once, great! If they have time to help a few hours a week, great! If they want to help in a significant way, great!
With these social projects, the most important thing is to help, even once.
Except for decades if you tried to help but you were even so slightly wrong the lead developer would yell and swear at you and tell you to never program again. Social projects need better leaders than what Linus was.
You’re right he can be a bit crass without needing to be. The outcome of his methods is exemplary, though.
At every place I worked the motto for hiring has always been, you could be the best person in the industry for this job but if you’re an asshole we don’t want to hire you. I can’t agree more with that. I don’t care how good his code is, if he’s an asshole then I don’t want to submit to his project. He’s like the Elon Musk of Linux. We don’t need to support those types of assholes. I wouldn’t do paid work for Twitter or Telsa because of Elon, I ain’t going to do work for Linux for Linus.
Also, one person is not the life of a project but they can define the project’s culture. If Linus wants to write Linux all himself with a cult of followers then sure, he can have a slightly more successful version of TempleOS. He’s still not going to attract the world of developers out there that are far better as a whole and more successful as a whole than him. He proudly defines and encourages this toxic culture and it keeps very talented developers away. Frankly, someone should fork the Linux kernel and create a non-toxic work environment for people.
Why not be the change you wish to see, then? Fork it, and surely they will come.
That or Linus’ work is of high enough quality that people are willing to put up with his crass behavior.
Also, somewhat unrelated, but comparing Linus to Elon is a nonstarter. Elon has money, but contributes little more than ego past that. Linus, on the other hand, actually gets his hands dirty. I don’t care for his behavior, but I do respect someone who actually does the work.
