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I would welcome some rules and regulations about this kinds of stuff. Can you imagine that google wakes up one day and decides to kill gmail? It would cause so many problems. It’s already impossible that even as a paid gmail user you can’t get proper support in case something goes awry. Sure you can argue they can decide what ever they want with their business. But if you have this many users, I do think at some point that comes with some obligations of support, quality and continued service.
This both helps keep the feature creep and complexity down, and makes sure you always have a running demo to show or play with.
Side projects should be all fun, if they are not, its not a side project its a second job.
Where Im from those programs and activity are usually ran by multiple teachers and need a lot more than hard science knowledge to run well. For you they could provide a on ramp into more and more tech without losing too much of what you have know
Basically when I start the PR is approved in my head until I find something blocking. I.e. major problem that causes dataloss, big performance issue or breaks other code. Anything else is a minor comment at most. The PR is approved by default. This gives the dev responsibility and ownership. Plus it increases release cadence
Doing a follow up PR to improve or fix something is just as fast as blocking the MR, but blocking the MR can be bad for morale.
This strategy might work better in young startups where having the feature _exist_ is better than not shipping. in my experience this builds up responsibility and ownership and removes the whole policing of other peoples work vibe around code review.
Also decisions and discussion around formatting, when to test, design, features, functionality, architecture should not happen during code review, they should have happened way before coding, or collaboratively while working. Code review is the worst time for that stuff, imho it should be to sanity check implementation.
Also, Freedom of speech doesn’t mean acceptance of hate. Im glad that content and people who encourage racism are removed.
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-85155-2_...
Are you saying the incas should thank the Spanish for boosting their immune system?
Should native Americans be happy their children got sterilized?
Aka how confident are you that the information you are getting today is honest, accurate and not influenced in any way? That you get the full picture, the good and the bad?
While I do feel like my personal views are more aligned with the US / west. I’m not convinced im getting balanced information. Its a little naive to suggest that only our enemies are doing propaganda.
Anything they sell just gives them more money to buy more ownership.
China might not even need to influence the west through tiktok, meta and friends seem to be doing plenty of it themselves. None of it seem to be making us progress forward tbh
The idea of a imdb for open source is really cool, cracking the code to get industry buy in will in my opinion be the way to ensure a long tail of value for anyone using it.