<div dir="ltr">Jon --<div><br></div><div>I agree, they could work to fix the software problem, but they're not interested in fixing the software problem.</div><div><br></div><div>I think their intention is to gamergate the corona virus, spreading FUD about expert opinion.</div><div><br></div><div>With due respect to Marcus, I do think they're trolls, they think that all of reality is one big con game, that the pandemic is a fraud, and that acting like simpletons who believe that unit testing is sacred is the con that they are called upon to play today. </div><div><br></div><div>And if github does anything about it, that just plays back into the Bill Gates conspiracy theory.</div><div><br>Meanwhile, we have <a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/physicists-criticize-stephen-wolframs-theory-of-everything/">https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/physicists-criticize-stephen-wolframs-theory-of-everything/</a> working the same angle:</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span style="color:rgb(50,50,50);font-family:Georgia,serif;font-size:18px">So why did Wolfram announce his ideas this way? Why not go the traditional route? “I don't really believe in anonymous peer review,” he says. “I think it’s corrupt. It’s all a giant story of somewhat corrupt gaming, I would say. I think it’s sort of inevitable that happens with these very large systems. It’s a pity.”</span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Might take that as the conservative troll manifesto: corruption is inevitable, you may be all wrong in all the details but your heart will be in the right place.</div><div> </div><div>-- rec --</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 1:02 PM Jon Zingale <<a href="mailto:jonzingale@gmail.com">jonzingale@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Roger,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51)">It seems to me that because this is open source software,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51)">any individual who wishes to fork the repo and write unit</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51)">tests can. Doing so would be a kind of verification replicability.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51)">That <span style="text-align:right">the trolls are attempting to toxify and </span>politicize the very</div><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:start;font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51)">space where the open source community establishes</div><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:start;font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51)">work-to-be-done is concerning. If jMyles wishes to object<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:start;font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51)">to the lack of unit testing in an albeit long-winded rant, fine.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:start;font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51)">That others, many of whom are suspicious actors in that</div><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:start;font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51)">they have have little to no commit histories or repos to</div><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:start;font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51)">speak of, are attempting to <i>upvote</i> this same idea by creating</div><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:start;font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51)">new issues (in a GitHub sense) is in bad faith. GitHub issues</div><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:start;font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51)">do not function the same way as YouTube comments, but</div><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:start;font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51)">here the (dare I say) metaphor is being attempted.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:start;font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:start;font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Jonathan Zingale</div></div>
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