"All projects, ever, should begin with picking the correct Ruby framework to base your application on. Since we don't know what this application does yet, I added all of them."
Someone has already submitted a pull request changing the readme so that it says he'll accept nothing. However, I think this can be rejected under the "don't be a dick" rule.
Wow, so many memories you've just unearthed. I haven't played a nomic-based game since I was a teenager.
My online friends and I had a series of mostly text-based nomic instances where we would creatively write and world build, but there was this one crazy performance art piece where we hacked a phpBB instance to grant every user admin privileges. The experiment was in relative harmony for a few days before the first rounds of deletes and IP bans. After one or two attempts to regain equilibrium, there were rampant impersonations, terrible javascript popup spam and redirect loops, and disappearing server files (the joys of using PHP prior to formal CS education and any form of engineering discipline...). Finally we acknowledged that the experiment had been a great success when all HTTP requests returned 500s--testament, at least in our minds, of the ultimate fate of mankind if ever given absolute and unlimited power.
Then there was that time we piped say yes to each other's terminals, somehow creating a pospositive feedback loop. Or those dotfiles that brought down the whole server... none of that stuff was very nomic related, but ah... teenage years.
The hosting company certainly loved us. :') I hope every one of them got a raise for having to deal with our endless support tickets as a result of our own foolish and stupid games.
And tomekw added various others to the ... contributers list, or whatever, so pull requests are accepted in a timely manner. (I'm on that list and occasionally do the deed, though new PRs don't come in as often anymore.)
I won't be surprised if some startup comes out trying to sell services/enterprise support for I'll Accept Anything. I'll be even less surprised when they raise like $20m in funding within the month.
The fact that this parent comment is clearly up-voted and this comment is "greyed out" is emblematic of what I personally think is wrong with HN commenting. The above comment is not helpful, productive, and is unnecessarily negative in tone. The below comment is unhelpful, unproductive, and playful and (if anything) positive in tone. We can't have playful comments but we can have useless negative comments?
Readit News
https://github.com/samsquire/ideas
http://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/854/what-are-good...
http://suckless.org/project_ideas
http://www.weekendhacker.net
http://wiki.osdev.org/Expanded_Main_Page / http://littleosbook.github.io/book.pdf
Enjoy!
https://github.com/mrkrstphr/illacceptanything/pull/230
My online friends and I had a series of mostly text-based nomic instances where we would creatively write and world build, but there was this one crazy performance art piece where we hacked a phpBB instance to grant every user admin privileges. The experiment was in relative harmony for a few days before the first rounds of deletes and IP bans. After one or two attempts to regain equilibrium, there were rampant impersonations, terrible javascript popup spam and redirect loops, and disappearing server files (the joys of using PHP prior to formal CS education and any form of engineering discipline...). Finally we acknowledged that the experiment had been a great success when all HTTP requests returned 500s--testament, at least in our minds, of the ultimate fate of mankind if ever given absolute and unlimited power.
Then there was that time we piped say yes to each other's terminals, somehow creating a pospositive feedback loop. Or those dotfiles that brought down the whole server... none of that stuff was very nomic related, but ah... teenage years.
The hosting company certainly loved us. :') I hope every one of them got a raise for having to deal with our endless support tickets as a result of our own foolish and stupid games.
Anyhow, very astute parallel to draw.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomic
I appreciate the memories / feels.
We added a way to vote using public keys and then we got bored because nobody else was geeky enough to join our game.
I think this makes the title ("I'll Accept Anything – Accepting every pull request submitted") akin to, "I can resist anything except temptation."