Best reply to a Pull Request ever?

https://github.com/fre5h/DoctrineEnumBundle/pull/12#issuecomment-33023169

by jenkoian • 13 years ago

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Pxtl5• 13 years ago

... am I the only one who had to hit google news to find out what's going on in Ukraine right now?

ajankovic• 13 years ago

It's pretty mainstream news if you are in Europe.

singold• 13 years ago

I'm in south america and it is on the news too

alan_cx2• 13 years ago

Im normally all for having a go at Americans for being so insula, and not realising there is a rest of the world out there, well, the NSA know, but, you know... stereotypes and all that.

But in all fairness, the Ukraine borders the EU and there are political ties or ambitions there concerning the EU. No, I don't know all the details and I wont pretend to, but ultimately, it affects the EU. The US, on the other hand, is a world away and frankly what goes on in the Ukraine is not exactly a big deal to the US or its people. Yes, on a being informed of big events in the world level, it should be reported in the US, but I can understand the US not being that interested. Im sure there are levels of concern for the US, but its a much bigger deal to us in Europe.

cushychicken• 13 years ago

I only found out yesterday. US news sources are too busy talking about some polar vortex junk.

Pxtl5• 13 years ago

Here in Canada we got distracted by Toronto's mayor being caught making racist jokes after he fell off the wagon again. Also polar vortex 2.

jaynos• 13 years ago

NPR has been covering pretty decently.

bluetidepro• 13 years ago

I'm glad I'm not the only one that did this. I felt like a horrible person for a second! Ha

vanderZwan• 13 years ago

I suspect that by and large it's the lack of media coverage that's the problem, not the public.

BruceM• 13 years ago

Al Jazeera has been covering it.

valarauca12• 13 years ago

Al Jazeera, RT, BBC, basically every news organization that isn't based in the US.

Demiurge• 13 years ago

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuO53xeZkm8

peteorpeter• 13 years ago

For my fellow ignorant folks, I found this summary useful: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/01/21...

jowiar2• 13 years ago

Well, apparently there is no trace of Ukraine on the front pages of cnn.com and msnbc.com, and barely a mention on foxnews.com, so it seems that - in the states - that's probably your best bet.

drcode• 13 years ago

Yeah, pretty sad that it is on the front page of reddit but not the front page of cnn.com.

ry0ohki• 13 years ago

This is why as an American I go to the BBC for news. US news is just glorified talk shows and entertainment.

runjake2• 13 years ago

Ukraine is all over the front page of CNN.com this morning when I went to read it, but I have the "international" edition set for my preferences.

VLM• 13 years ago

Those are infotainment / political agitprop sites. May as well complain about TMZ not covering it. If you go to bb.co.uk or reuters.com or news.google.com or reddit its front page news.

kmfrk• 13 years ago

I think blaming "MSM" is becoming an increasingly poor excuse in an age where you are free to compose your own news feed in places like Twitter - even Tumblr.

I'm sure many of the people unaware of what is going on in Ukraine didn't follow the MSM to begin with.

vanwilder77• 13 years ago

The Indian media is too busy featuring the new CM of Delhi, along with some new gang rape that recently occurred.

Along with the Indian Cricket Team which continues to lose games abroad.

sebnukem22• 13 years ago

Ukraine must not have significant oil fields.

saryant2• 13 years ago

Actually, Ukraine's natural gas production has been picking up. Significant shale deposits have been found and off-shore drilling has begun in the Black Sea.

Toenex• 13 years ago

eXtreme Programming?

Pxtl5• 13 years ago

See, this is why I think XP was poorly named. My expectation of Extreme Programming involves guys with body-piercings and facial tattoos coding while base-jumping and chugging Mountain Dew.

Not pair-programming, good testing, and a minimalist design process.

igorgue• 13 years ago

My expectation of Extreme Programming involves guys with body-piercings and facial tattoos coding while base-jumping and chugging Mountain Dew.

I think I heard that before who said it?

andrewflnr• 13 years ago

"You have 30 seconds to finish coding this function before you reach the ground, perhaps a bit more if you angle your body just right."

auvi• 13 years ago

It is so kind of the developer to even have responded in such a situation. There are people in the streets and 3 are already dead.

ignu• 13 years ago

brb. revolution.

Ryel• 13 years ago

This is awesome

ck22• 13 years ago

The revolution will have internet access?

This I didn't predict.

nmc• 13 years ago

Heard about the "Arab spring"? [1] That was three years ago.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Spring#Social_media_and_th...

ck22• 13 years ago

If I am not mistaken, the first thing the middle-eastern governments did was try to kill internet access?

In fact it is how people knew something bad was about to happen?

hidden-markov4• 13 years ago

It has pretty decent internet access. Check this out: http://www.helpeuromaidan.info/

I also personally organised 2 Euromaidan hackathons in the last 2 months.

fahadkhan• 13 years ago

Am I the only to find jokes like "What is the ETA for the completion of the revolution?" and "Is there an issue for the revolution? Can we label it as a blocker?" inappropriate?

jeremysmyth• 13 years ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallows_humor

matthuggins• 13 years ago

Either that, or they don't understand what a revolution really, truly means for those involved.

Argorak• 13 years ago

I would count the initial reply under that.

Gallows humor is very hard to pull off without being involved yourself and there is the clear danger of overdoing it. I think the replies are an example of both.

badman_ting3• 13 years ago

Gallows humor is when the person about to be hung cracks a joke. Not when the people watching crack a joke.

roshansingh• 13 years ago

Some people start making fun of everything that does not affect them.

mhurron• 13 years ago

Other people just have dark scenes of humour, yet others deal with the world around them with humour.

ShawnBird• 13 years ago

Some people also make fun of everything that does affect them.

People are complicated. I have been to funerals where it is almost like a roast. Some people deal with heavy emotions through humor.

I do understand how if something doesn't affect you it can be very disrespectful to mock it. I am just pointing out that not everyone holds a reverence for even very serious situations.

themgt• 13 years ago

Yeah. It's an extremely serious situation and there are people who are injured and dead. fre5h's reply was fantastic and darkly funny, but the people trying to turn it into a running gag are being deeply tasteless.

wfunction• 13 years ago

I think you meant "No."

seanhandley• 13 years ago

If you can't laugh, what can you do?

juliocc• 13 years ago

Those comments are not taking sides or minimizing the impact of what's happening. They're just mixing a bit of project management-jargon with real life events.

You, my friend, lack a sense of humor.

badman_ting3• 13 years ago

Welcome to tone-deaf nerds' sense of humor.

jcutrell• 13 years ago

I'd tend to say I agree with you, except for one thing: the response itself is clearly slightly in jest.

You'd expect a comment like "I'm caught up with some day job work at the moment" to show up, but this one is clearly pulling humor into the situation, so I think the responses are relatively in matching humor.

sebnukem22• 13 years ago

I will disagree with the rest of you people and say that I thought it was hilarious, it made me laugh. It didn't make me think less of Ukrainians or fre5h in particular. As other GH commenters said Героям слава.

runjake2• 13 years ago

Not me. I like a little humor in dire situations.

But the comments themselves are tired and not funny. They seem more like shills for karma or whatever is of value in their community.

alan_cx2• 13 years ago

Dunno.

I recommend looking up the evolutionary purpose of laughing. Then apply it to the people who used humour in this instance. IMHO, its a perfectly natural response. Appropriateness is there for irrelevant. Certainly not an issue by which one should get one one's high horse and judge others by.

As such, I have to ask: Is it appropriate to judge such people?

rburhum• 13 years ago

For the past four days I have been looking at this non-stop streaming channel of the revolution. Really crazy that we can do that nowadays http://www.ustream.tv/channel/live-action-spilno-tv

PavlovsCat2• 13 years ago

also: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/euromajdan/pop-out

Doches• 13 years ago

Apparently the revolution will be televised...

networked• 13 years ago

There's also this 24/7 stream: http://videoprobki.com/eng/camera/70-nezalezhnosti-majdan. It shows Maidan Nezalezhnosti and a good part of Khreshchatyk from above (through a robotic camera originally intended to stream live traffic).

guard-of-terra• 13 years ago

Some context:

http://icdn.lenta.ru/images/2014/01/20/04/20140120045601963/... http://cs313830.vk.me/v313830150/6f8f/54NP95_-Eh8.jpg

chiph• 13 years ago

Just IMd with some former contractors I worked with that live there - they're doing ok so far. They said that this law isn't final - there are people in the Rada who oppose it and want more debate before it can go into effect.

na85• 13 years ago

For anyone like me unsure what the Rada is, it's the Ukrainian parliament (they have a unicameral system).

ihsw• 13 years ago

It seems unicameralism and despotism go hand in hand.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Unibicameral_Map.svg

There are a few notable exceptions.

hidden-markov4• 13 years ago

If you are concerned, please support ukrainians here: http://www.helpeuromaidan.info/donate

oddx4• 13 years ago

Just don't be naive and understand that you are supporting not ukrainians but some (minor? worst?) part of them.

hidden-markov4• 13 years ago

thanks for the `worst' part

xando• 13 years ago

HackerNews ranking algorithm works in the really odd way.

How this happened that after few secs this went down from #1 having more than 200 votes.

Is it an algorithm after all?

glasz• 13 years ago

i just hope they don't just go from one dictatorship to another, that is, eu membership. the most noble thing i've seen so far is protesters wearing gear and going against those thugs who call themselves police -- they're cowardly on the wrong side, the establishment's.

snitko• 13 years ago

As I'm watching these news from Ukraine, it makes me really sad. People getting hurt on both sides (a couple of police officers were attacked by molotov cocktails and got burns, really horrific). All the while politicians sit in their offices and give orders. The saddest thing of all is that all this fight will eventually be in vain. Whoever comes in power next will be corrupt or even if they themselves are not corrupt, then they wouldn't be able to get rid of an endlessly corrupt apparatus.

People fighting governments in protests should really understand one thing: they feed the beast with their own money. If they want to have any influence whatsoever they should organize not to go protesting, but to stop paying taxes and stop using corrupt currency. If you do that, then at least everyone will be able to see who initiates violence (and it will be the state trying to take tax money by force) Unfortunately, people are wired to fight individuals, because it's easy to identify them and see some actual paths to fight them. And most people reject the idea that they don't need rulers to make peace and order. Until they keep believing that, they will keep fighting and losing these battles against their owners. History predominantly is on the dark side, showing that most protests either lead to civil conflicts and wars or don't lead anywhere.

There's this joke I once heard: there are more good people than bad people. The problem is that bad people are better organized. That is very true.

prostoalex• 13 years ago

Ukrainian government is less dependent on individual taxation, and more relying on corporate taxation (of enterprises divvied up among oligarchs) and external borrowing.

Taxation in a corrupt environment transforms into endless series of bribes one must succumb to "speed up the process" for pretty much anything.

wallawe• 13 years ago

Why did this get removed from the front page? I hadn't even heard of this news until seeing it here.

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