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by gherkins 1348 days ago
What is it with this recent trend of people posting their projects before they've done any work whatsoever on them?

Last week we had libsql with a disparaging blog post about sqlite but zero code written, this week we have someone who says he's going to build a Linux distribution but has only penned a single blog post that says just that, nothing else.

Can we get back to posting and upvoting things where some actual work of interest has been completed? Doesn't have to be a finished product, but like, anything at all would be nice. Thanks.
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mikewarot 1348 days ago
>What is it with this recent trend of people posting their projects before they've done any work whatsoever on them?

Because the opposite is a waste of time. If you build code, and it gets totally ignored, what was the point? Do you think the Time Cube^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^, ok... maybe he would have anyway... but if nobody is going to reward the effort, why waste it?

Besides... it's always been done this way

  Hello everybody out there using minix -
  I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been brewing since april, and is starting to get ready. I'd like any feedback on things people like/dislike in minix, as my OS resembles it somewhat (same physical layout of the file-system (due to practical reasons) among other things).

  I've currently ported bash(1.08) and gcc(1.40), and things seem to work. This implies that I'll get something practical within a few months, and I'd like to know what features most people would want. Any suggestions are welcome, but I won't promise I'll implement them :-)

  Linus (torv...@kruuna.helsinki.fi)

  PS. Yes - it's free of any minix code, and it has a multi-threaded fs.
  It is NOT protable (uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably never will support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that's all I have :-(.
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toast0 1348 days ago
That sounds like he did a lot of work before he posted it. It wasn't complete, but it had work done.

Day 1 of I'm going to work on X is not really interesting, unless it's part of a series where we know there's a bunch of days.

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