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My life as a Git

87 points| gawenr | 13 years ago |github.com | reply

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[+] pilsetnieks|13 years ago|reply
I'm concerned about the DNA opensourcing (searching by the preamble, others have published their DNA, too) - it's not computer code, more eyeballs on it won't make it better.

Now cloning from raw DNA data is probably far enough off for now but couldn't the DNA be used to find vulnerabilities, for example, allergies or diseases with a genetic component? What about an insurance company looking at the DNA and denying insurance because of preexisting conditions?

[+] Karunamon|13 years ago|reply
>What about an insurance company looking at the DNA and denying insurance because of preexisting conditions?

Assuming the recent law changes survive coming challenges, such shenanigans will be illegal, at least in the USA.

[+] zacharyvoase|13 years ago|reply
You don't need to clone a whole human being to do serious damage. You could synthesize the necessary chunks of someone's genome and use it to fake a bioassay. Imagine a disgruntled former lover using your genome to fake a paternity test—this kind of thing isn't very far away, and there are already services which let you upload a sequence and have DNA mailed to you.
[+] baggers|13 years ago|reply
I'm looking at open-sourcing my DNA at some point. Partially for my own curiosity but also because we are in a time where companies are patenting genes and I'd like to see the open-source community put down a body of prior art.
[+] Heliosmaster|13 years ago|reply
Did you ever see Gattaca? That great movie, all about eugenetics!
[+] darrenkopp|13 years ago|reply
If you fork this repository... do you have to pay child support or get arrested for identity theft?
[+] gift|13 years ago|reply
I was more interested about what sorts of pull requests he might accept.
[+] gawenr|13 years ago|reply
"Don't fork with me"
[+] tucif|13 years ago|reply
That is very cool as a visualization of life milestones! Specially if you go to the "Network" area of the project (https://github.com/Gawen/life/network).
[+] recursive|13 years ago|reply
I feel like the I'm the only person who is totally confused by github. Are those little phrases in that graph supposed to be life milestones? They don't make any sense. Aside from this graph, all I'm seeing here is a readme, a resume, and a huge file presumably containing dna. How is this getting attention? I ask this not rhetorically, but I genuinely want to know how to use this/what's going on here.
[+] B-Con|13 years ago|reply
I must be missing something. Why is a versioned source code repository the ideal place for this?
[+] imjared|13 years ago|reply
It's not. It's just a novel, somewhat funny use of github.
[+] bryogenic|13 years ago|reply
Are you planning on crawling / parsing the repository to create a time line or something similar?

Seems like an orderly way of storing events, but a royal pain to view.

[+] gawenr|13 years ago|reply
I don't think so. The point is to hack git <=> to use it in another purpose it had been done, not to build something new upon it. But I'm planning to manage my future blog content based on this repository though.
[+] tucif|13 years ago|reply
Github does that for you already. In the network section of the project.
[+] mehdim|13 years ago|reply
You've sent the first signal that we are evolving from a facebook generation to a github generation, so from a numerical social generation to a programmable generation.

Thank you !

[+] dredmorbius|13 years ago|reply
Call me when Github hits 1 billion users.

I mean, I'm all about creation vs. consumption and quality over quantity, but ... that's ... optimistic of you.

[+] sethish|13 years ago|reply
Three friends and I have each did this, about a year ago:

github.com/itdaniher/itdaniher github.com/alxjrvs/alxjrvs github.com/sethwoodworth/sethwoodworth