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Re:Why curl closes PRs on GitHub on Wednesday June 12, 2024 @06:54PM (#40664077)
Besides what they mentioned in the blog post you also can't push to PR branches owned by organizations on GitHub without getting manually added to the fork repo.
Re:Bountysource is changing their ToS to keep unclaimed money on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @10:09AM (#23551578)
Apparently this was a pull request ~a month ago and due to wishes of the stakeholders... https://github.com/bountysource/core/pull/1480

Bountysource is changing their ToS to keep unclaimed money

Posted by phoenix616 on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @10:01AM
from the self-post dept.

Starting July 1st Bountysource.com will have a new section (2.13) in their Terms of Service which basically lets them keep all money on issues that have not been resolved and claimed after 2 years: https://www.bountysource.com/termsIf you have an account with them then you probably have gotten an email already but this is the section in question:2.13 Bounty Time-Out. If no Solution is accepted...

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Re:VVVVVV’s source code is now public, 10 year anniversary jam happeni... on Friday January 10, 2020 @05:40PM (#22016403)
Game development mostly relies on getting creative stuff implemented fast, not good. And if it works then it works, why spend any more time on it if you can implement even more cool ideas (or release it).

And Minecraft is one of the best examples for a game that is still paying for such a development style.

Re:Browsers on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @03:03PM (#18719000)
I mean google was recently caught doing the same thing with baidu... https://theintercept.com/2018/12/17/google-china-censored-se...
Re:Show HN: A CSS Keylogger on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @09:39PM (#16426415)
Yeah, I have JavaScript disabled by default with uMatrix and it's a pretty annoying trend that almost every second page — even a static one page site — needs JavaScript to display anything