Google To Shutdown Google Code, Concedes To GitHub

[asdfblah]

This makes me quite sad, because I've seen lots of abandoned (but still useful) projects in google code

[Baconmon]

Sorry, I loost my cool.

His meaning is quite clear and his lose vs loose is among the smallest issues on this forum. Go grammar nazi elsewhere. kthx.

You are right that I am being overly picky about his misspelling of one word. But that misspelled word has become a giant pet peeve of mine. For many years/decades of reading various stuff on the internet, for some reason it seems like 80% of the time when people try to type that word, they spell it "loose". I think it bothers me so much because it is such a simple word that every one learned in like 1st grade, yet no one on the internet can hardly seem to spell it correctly. There have even been a couple of times when I am reading some article where the author uses huge complicated words through-out the whole thing, but then misspells that one word. I swear that that is the most misspelled simple word on the internet, by far.

Sorry for my rant. Thanks.

[Nobu]

You are right that I am being overly picky about his misspelling of one word. But that misspelled word has become a giant pet peeve of mine. For many years/decades of reading various stuff on the internet, for some reason it seems like 80% of the time when people try to type that word, they spell it "loose". I think it bothers me so much because it is such a simple word that every one learned in like 1st grade, yet no one on the internet can hardly seem to spell it correctly. There have even been a couple of times when I am reading some article where the author uses huge complicated words through-out the whole thing, but then misspells that one word. I swear that that is the most misspelled simple word on the internet, by far.

Sorry for my rant. Thanks.

No problem--nobody's perfect.
I can't stand incorrect grammar--actual grammar. Though, I wouldn't normally correct anyone for a case like this:
"...no one on the internet can hardly seem..." : "...hardly anyone on the internet seems able to..."

...but I digress.

I'd go back to altavista'ing

They still exist?

[Baconmon]

No problem--nobody's perfect.
I can't stand incorrect grammar--actual grammar. Though, I wouldn't normally correct anyone for a case like this:
"...no one on the internet can hardly seem..." : "...hardly anyone on the internet seems able to..."

...but I digress.

I understand that you are trying to point out that I am not always 100% correct on my grammar either, as if I am a hypocrite. I understand that every one can not be a 100% accurate grammar robot all the time. But seeing (what seems like to me) a majority of the people on the internet not being able to spell a small simple word that it is very common to hear, it just boggles my tiny mind how many people think that "loose" is the correct spelling of that word. If it were a typo, it wouldn't bother me. A typo is when you know how to spell some thing, but your finger makes a mistake. But "loose" isn't a typo (most of the time). These people genuinely believe that that is the correct way to spell that word. If no one ever points it out, it will just become the new common way to spell that word, and eventually be admitted in to webster's dictionary, at which point all hope is lost and Earth blows up.

[Nobu]

Not to say that you are, though who isn't? IDGAF what's in webster's dic., it just seems to me like you're over reacting. The 'o' in lose sounds similar to the 'oo' in loose, just shorter. I can see how someone who doesn't understand vowel usage could easily get the two confused, especially if they didn't really pay attention in 1st grade (or grade school in general). It's not like everyone doesn't just ask for the answers to test questions instead of figuring it out themselves--oh, wait...

I even mix them up sometimes, though that is more due to my dyslexia than anything else. I usually catch it after it leaves my head and hits paper.

[Delgarde]

You'd probably notice pretty quickly as Google hosts a lot of random stuff in their CDN, for example jQuery.

Yeah, people might not type google.com in the URL bar, but that doesn't mean they're not dependent on stuff hosted on Google servers.

[V10lator]

for some reason it seems like 80% of the time when people try to type that word, they spell it "loose". I think it bothers me so much because it is such a simple word that every one learned in like 1st grade

English isn't the mother tongue of 80% of people writing english on the internet, especially on forums like this one.

[rdnetto]

I'll just leave this here, from the Libreboot developers:

http://libreboot.org/github/

http://libreboot.org/gitorious/

Happy reading.

In short, GitLab is partially proprietary, and GitHub's back-end is proprietary, like Google Code's was.

The complaints about Github seem overblown to me, but I guess that's what you get from purists. The patch to chooseyourlicense had some pretty clear issues - they were replacing neutral/objective descriptions of the GPL with political ones (e.g "licensed under the same terms" ->"protects free code from being turned into proprietary software"). Yes, their core product is closed source, but if you don't like it you can just run your own git server, or fork Gitorious. They might not be pandering to the zealots, but they otherwise seem to be a pretty decent company.

[Baconmon]

Time to learn English, kids.

English isn't the mother tongue of 80% of people writing english on the internet, especially on forums like this one.

Thanks.. TIL 80% of the time when I am reading english on the internet, it was typed by a non-native english speaker.. That actually explains a lot about the internet's grammar and spelling abilities in general..

[curaga]

Insert anecdote about how non-native speakers have way better English than native speakers.