What Aspects of Open Source Projects Do You Avoid? 344
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paulproteus writes "I'm a Debian developer and a part-time contributor to a few smaller projects. I do a lot of free software-y and open source-y things. Sometimes, though, I don't do them. I figure some other Slashdotters might have similar hang-ups — we contribute to a project, but there are parts that we really dread thinking about. So I wrote a post about having these hang-ups, and I made a place on the web to share how others can help your project. What are the parts that, in your projects, you would be relieved if someone else looked at for you?"
try this (Score:3, Funny)
Don't bother with IRC. Insist on email instead.
Then train a bayesian classifier (bogofilter) to answer the questions for you.
You just have to remember Bayesian classifiers are good at yes/no classifications (e.g. spam/notspam), so I have several corpuses and test incoming emails serially against them, tagging with the ones which match. Then process the email according to the tag. FAQ should be fairly easy. Use a procmail rule to answer, "thanks for your question, please have a look here".
Thanks for Slashdotting me (Score:5, Funny)
Working on fixing the site...
Re:real hackers don't dread (Score:4, Funny)
How do you write code to do PR/create docs? Please, be my hero.
Simple, you obviously just need to write a program capable of passing the Turing Test.
Of course when you finish you probably want to give it some interesting tasks besides just PR/documentation, last thing you want is for it to get pissed off and go all Skynet.
Re:real hackers don't dread (Score:5, Funny)
Sorry, but I tried that already. It was an incredible AI, so I assigned it the process of documenting my latest project. Unfortunately that was too unpleasant of a task for it, so now it's working on code to create PR docs. I guess I'll just see what it comes up with.
Re:The BSD license (Score:2, Funny)
Not to mention that the op is suggesting that one fights fir with fire, which would normally result in the fir being summarily consumed, immolated, if you will.
Unless the original fire is extremely small AND the fir is extremely green.
hth,
Re:Adding comments (Score:5, Funny)
There's the Commentator [cenqua.com] for that.
Anybody have an implementation of that for *nix?
Re:Security through obscurity (Score:3, Funny)
The situation, of course, is that a player might simply lie about not knowing where enemy units are, or might substitute a different map, or might lie about which units he has killed or where his units are located.
When it comes time to show the cards (we will ignore the issue of exchanging cards; this is also possible to do, using a similar procedure), players 1 and 2 simple reveal their secret keys -- thus, cheating is easily detected, because player 2 can see if player 1 lied about his hand, and visa versa.
I don't think your plan would help detect players whom lie about enemy units.
Assuming the whole point is the actions are public but some items are hidden, and you want to prevent substitution, you'd just hash, sign, and share your interpretation of the gameboard at each move, and then at the end, when its time to reveal the board and tally up and see who won, you reverse engineer what the board should be at each step working backwards, recompute the hashes, and make sure the provided and calculated hashes match, and the sigs are valid? That would catch any odd substitutions that you mention.
Re:Ego (Score:5, Funny)
You are probably right, but I think open source programmers need more of one more thing , which they maybe not getting enough of. Blow jobs. I think free and open source programmers need more blow jobs. From hot women. We should get the hot women to join in on this idea somehow.
Re:Ego (Score:1, Funny)
That were five words, retard.
Re:real hackers don't dread (Score:3, Funny)
See? If you had licensed your code as OSS he wouldn't be obliged to re-invent the wheel! You're a bad parent*.
*If the AI is Turing-test passable, is it considered a being?
I try to avoid (Score:1, Funny)
RMS
The aspect of open source projects I avoid is (Score:5, Funny)
contributing.
Re:Ego (Score:5, Funny)
So were those! Pattern, perhaps?
Re:Ego (Score:3, Funny)
There are FIVE words!
Re:RTFM (Score:2, Funny)