Hacker News: phoenix616

New comment by phoenix616 in "Why curl closes PRs on GitHub"

phoenix616 — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 22:54:00 +0000

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.

New comment by phoenix616 in "Bountysource is changing their ToS to keep unclaimed money"

phoenix616 — Wed, 17 Jun 2020 14:09:30 +0000

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

phoenix616 — Wed, 17 Jun 2020 14:01:06 +0000

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/terms

If 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 If no Solution is accepted within two years after a Bounty is posted, then the Bounty will be withdrawn and the amount posted for the Bounty will be retained by Bountysource. For Bounties posted before June 30, 2018, the Backer may redeploy their Bounty to a new Issue by contacting support@bountysource.com before July 1, 2020. If the Backer does not redeploy their Bounty by the deadline, the Bounty will be withdrawn and the amount posted for the Bounty will be retained by Bountysource.

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At least they seem to be giving you the opportunity to move the money onto other issues until July 1st but it would be a lot better if they just returned the money (even if with fees removed) to the sender like most other bounty platforms (gitcoin, issuehunt) seem to do it.

As someone who has seen a lot of startups, altcoins and other internet projects pop up and fail this kinda seems like a last attempt to get some money before they shut down. Not that I have any proof that this is indeed the plan, but their recent outage without any communication about it as well as the lack of communication on their issue tracker makes me think that the service is no longer actively maintained. Additionally claiming ETH bounties and withdrawing it has been impossible for a while now so they will basically keep all old, non moved ETH bounties after July 1st which nobody can claim. All in all this paints a pretty bad picture.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23551461

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New comment by phoenix616 in "VVVVVV’s source code is now public, 10 year anniversary jam happening now"

phoenix616 — Fri, 10 Jan 2020 22:40:58 +0000

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.

New comment by phoenix616 in "Browsers"

phoenix616 — Wed, 19 Dec 2018 20:03:57 +0000

I mean google was recently caught doing the same thing with baidu... https://theintercept.com/2018/12/17/google-china-censored-se...

New comment by phoenix616 in "Show HN: A CSS Keylogger"

phoenix616 — Wed, 21 Feb 2018 02:39:21 +0000

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

Programming in MSPaint

phoenix616 — Mon, 11 Dec 2017 21:51:22 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/RubbaBoy/MSPaintIDE/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15900834

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