mishraprince
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Comment · 4 years ago
Aah, yes. My bad.
Comment · 4 years ago
Gary Bernhardt wasn't all that wrong when he mentioned anything that can be written in JavaScript will be written in JavaScript.
This post indeed reminded me of his talk https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
Comment · 4 years ago
Why that audio? Scared, I could have spilled some fine coffee!
Comment · 5 years ago
That one reply in that flame war is still hilarious so many years later. To anyone who didn't get the reference of Putnam https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079
Comment · 5 years ago
Didn't see this mentioned, but Wordpress and Drupal have had a huge impact on my early career.
Wouldn't count them as developer tools per se, but as a software provider, I could serve a lot more customers with ease and confidence thanks to hundreds of thousands of man hours put in by the Wordpress and Drupal developers.
Comment · 5 years ago
Yep, that is the long term agenda of the project. Most (all?) amendments have certain socio-economic/political context which gets lost over time. Amendments (and laws in-general) are better understood when the context is well laid-out.
I'll add all such contexts to all these amendments, including who tabled the bill, how did the debates go, were there any following judicial reviews: all that data.
Comment · 5 years ago
There is a repo for the USA-Constitution: https://github.com/JesseKPhillips/USA-Constitution
I am not sure if there are any for the states.
Comment · 5 years ago
- Constitution of India applies only in the Union of India
- The first article of the constitution defines the boundaries of the Union of India: https://github.com/prince-mishra/the-constitution-of-india/b...
- The terminology referred to as "socially and educationally backward classes" is to provide certain underprivileged sections of the society better living standards
- PART-3 (https://github.com/prince-mishra/the-constitution-of-india/b...) guarantees the Fundamental Right to Equality 14. Equality before law.—The State shall not deny to any person equality before the law or the equal protection of the laws within the territory of India.
Comment · 5 years ago
Till 96th amendment, I used the work done by https://github.com/captn3m0/constitution and https://github.com/anoopdixith/TheConstitutionOfIndia/
96 onwards, I downloaded the gazette notifications and applied the changes manually. I could not find any automated way.
I'll file an RTI one of these days to the Legal Department to source the Constitution as is, after every amendment. Let's see where that goes.
Comment · 5 years ago
lol, I took it too seriously then. I thought it to be a reference towards squashing all amendments into one commit.
Comment · 5 years ago
Yes, the original constitution was drafted in English and the full official text of the Constitution in English, available here: https://www.india.gov.in/my-government/constitution-india/co...
However, Amendment 58 (https://github.com/prince-mishra/the-constitution-of-india/c...) made sure Hindi translations exist Hindi version here: https://www.india.gov.in/hi/my-government/constitution-india...
I am not sure about authoritative versions in any other language.
Comment · 5 years ago
oh, I meant "courts" not press. Let me correct the comment.
I was especially referring to https://github.com/prince-mishra/the-constitution-of-india/c...
This amendment to Article 368 essentially gave the legislature unrestricted power to amend the constitution without fear of a judicial review.
Comment · 5 years ago
Yeah, now that you pointed out, it does look ugly. I created an issue: https://github.com/prince-mishra/the-constitution-of-india/i... to track this one.
I anyway plan to rewrite all commits with corrected time and author info; will be a good time to rename files as well.
Comment · 5 years ago
Especially look at the restrictions on courts!
Comment · 5 years ago
An amendment in the Indian Constitution is an act/law/bill in itself. It does modify the core document (the constitution) but it has an independent existence.
In that sense, one could argue that every "amendment" is a bugfix, feature-request of sorts.
Debatable both ways.
I personally like the idea of independent commits better as the "git browse" UIs handle individual commits better.