All these "awesome list of ..." maybe means that there is a need for a site like Yahoo in the 90's which tried to catalogize internet in a hierarchical list-of-lists manner.
Well, the list of tools is at least as useful as the most useful tool on the list, and probably reflects the overall usefulness of its category. Which means that if we go enough levels farther, the master list of lists [of lists...] would reflect the overall usefulness of all software on GitHub.
Also maybe GitHub needs a "list of stuff" category, so these lists of things don't muddle search results and conversely can be searched for easily. Curated lists of links are generally quite useful and putting it all in a public vcs with a pull request infrastructure makes it easy to contribute.
I definitely see a usefullness in these lists, I just feel sad that they get a lot more attention than actual code repositiories.
Indeed, Github should find a solution for this. I didn't care much about Github stars but recently I noticed they're being required in various scenarios, for example some CDN require a certain number of Github stars to include a library [1]
I don't think Github stars should be considered as anything more than built-in bookmarking. Personally, I only use them that way. With this view, it's obvious why lists get more stars than the projects listed.
Well, Github could select an official list per technology, move it to eg. the github.com/explore part and reward the curator with money or software licenses/subscriptions.
What if I'd like something that the arbitrary community manager of GitHub doesn't? Why would a software project management site be the arbiter of good software?
dmoz was that site for a long time after yahoo became it's 2000s incarnation, but then dmoz went away, there are a couple of live archives of it, but still...
But these lists also already fulfill the need. When there's a category of something people are interested in someone will eventually make an "awesome list of ...". The good lists become popular and become included in various "awesome list of lists" improving their discoverability, while the bad lists fade into obscurity. And since there is no central authority and plenty of alternatives each list can be opinionated instead of including everything under the sun.
These lists follow the same "survival of the fittest" that underlies capitalism and evolution, and while coordinated efforts have many advantages they also have all the disadvantages of monoliths. I think a Yahoo-like site would have a hard time producing a better result.
Free markets mostly work because people vote with their dollars. Democracies mostly work because people vote with their votes. Web democracies fail because votes are trivial to manipulate and gamed by SEO.
But web dictatorships work great because switching costs are low, so if a dictator doesn't deliver people just go somewhere else. While centralized link lists are often democratic, awesome lists form a network of dictatorships.
Yeah, I have it. Linux works great, except the function key layer and stereo sound on the built-in speakers due to the unusual audio chipset.
Performance is fantastic, the keyboard is passable, the screen looks beautiful, and build quality seems on par with my 2010 MacBook pro, and definitely better than my Lenovo Thinkpad.
Apple have to consider themselves lucky Huawei isn't having an easy time in the US. In my opinion they are better than Apple in design and hardware. I wonder how much lobbying Apple does against Huawei in the mobile market.
Wonder how this will affect Chinese citizens that have used and trusted Opera Mini to bypass censorship and the great firewall of China in the past. What browsing history is kept by the Opera Mini servers?
Opera mini runs Chinese servers separately. If ppl use Opera mini in mainland China, their activity is already on servers which the gov has a legal access to.
"The study was inspired by the case of McArthur Wheeler, a man who robbed two banks after covering his face with lemon juice in the mistaken belief that, because lemon juice is usable as invisible ink, it would prevent his face from being recorded on surveillance cameras."
Since it took a while to find out how to set this up using duplicity to backup the home directory under Ubuntu Linux, here is how I got this to work. Maybe this can be of help for somebody: https://gist.github.com/molobrakos/ff1620ce6031c99f120b
What I love about the Contour+2 is that the battery is compatible with old Nokia phone batteries, which makes it very cheap to have a bunch of charged batteries in reserve.
