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What It's Like To Be Ridiculed For Open Sourcing A Project

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Re: What It's Like To Be Ridiculed For Open Sourcing A Project

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Post by nesquena »

mintplant wrote: post #43

> Steve Klabnik ‏@steveklabnik > @harthvader @zeeg nothing's _wrong_ with it, but I don't want to build my app on top of others' code who are at this level of understanding This message [1] in particular is absolutely disgusting. Someone hacked together a script that met their needs, and threw it up onto GitHub in case anyone else found it useful? Yes, let's take the opportunity to condescendingly insult their mental…

What a great idea to go around calling other people stupid for creating personal open-source projects that they enjoy using, mocking their competence and treating them as if they should go away because they aren't as good as you. What a productive use of a developer's time.

Re: What It's Like To Be Ridiculed For Open Sourcing A Project

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Post by jmillikin »

dandelany wrote: post #31

Many people here seem to be commenting on the quality of the code in question - they are clearly missing the point. Others are offering advice on how to deal with negative criticism on the Internet. They, too, miss the point. The point of this post isn't to complain "people trashed my work and now I feel bad, make me feel better", it's a call to action - "as a community, we should be better than this". Of course ther…

  > Of course there will always be trolls and negative
  > comments on the Internet. Instead of just preparing
  > ourselves to deal with them, we need to be proactive
  > about creating a community where everyone feels welcome
  > to share what they're working on
"Instead of"?

Attempts to reduce the number of undesirable comments or people in a community are commendable, but do not let yourself become confused about how well they work. Washing hands is no substitute for vaccination; if you want to grow a better community, then its members need to be trained both in how to avoid giving offense and how to avoid taking it.

Re: What It's Like To Be Ridiculed For Open Sourcing A Project

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Post by protomyth »

jmillikin wrote: post #22

> Then I see these people’s follower count, and I sob > harder. I can’t help but think of potential future > employers that are no longer potential. My name and > avatar are part of its identity, and it’s just one step > for a slightly curious person to see the idiot behind > this code. Oh come on now. Potential employers are not going to be crawling through your github on the off chance they can find a hastily-writt…

  > Oh come on now. Potential employers are not going to
  > be crawling through your github on the off chance they
  > can find a hastily-written script to laugh at
No, they won't, but they do sometimes hire something new and worse than Checklist HR folks, Social Media for HR Researchers. At some point someone is going to hit an automated connection between "Heroes" and negative comments on other's work. It actually sounds like a "good" startup idea. Klout for hiring.

Re: What It's Like To Be Ridiculed For Open Sourcing A Project

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Post by maxerickson »

doktrin wrote: post #38
crazytony wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not one she specifically mentioned (or possibly thought of) but it runs on windows without Cygwin. Edit: using the proper gender pronoun would help.

I've never configured Node on Windows, but apparently it requires Cygwin [1] Currently, you must use cygwin to install node. To do so, follow these steps: [1] http://howtonode.org/how-to-install-nodejs

No:

http://nodejs.org/download/

Re: What It's Like To Be Ridiculed For Open Sourcing A Project

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Post by arcatek »

manicdee wrote: post #15
arcatek wrote: post #2

I'm curious : what is the use case for this utility ? If I look at the README, it says : > Modifies files when matches are found Just like sed's -i option (except that -i allows you to specify a backup extension just in case) > Recursive search on directories with -r I usually use find with sed, so it's not so much a problem (and it actually allows to filter the files by extension, exclude directories, etc, which is…

The tool is simpler than sed because it misses a lot of stuff that sed actually does. That's what you and the people mocking this project have missed. Well, there's also the old idea of "if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it." Or the idea of constructive criticism. Or the idea of contributing useful patches to the project. So yes, there is something you and the armchair experts missed: software doesn't…

I see your point, but I slightly disagree. It could be worthy to kindly say that there is a 'standard' way to do it, since the author may not be aware of find or sed. And if they are, some readers may not.

Re: What It's Like To Be Ridiculed For Open Sourcing A Project

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Post by wippler »

"Most of being nice, in a software context, is about being considerate. Not unnecessarily trash talking other people's stuff. Not going out of your way to be a jerk. Try to be helpful. Treat others how you want to be treated" - http://blog.steveklabnik.com/posts/2011-08-19-matz-is-nice-s...

What can I say?

Re: What It's Like To Be Ridiculed For Open Sourcing A Project

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Post by jussij »

crazytony wrote: post #3
arcatek wrote: post #2

I'm curious : what is the use case for this utility ? If I look at the README, it says : > Modifies files when matches are found Just like sed's -i option (except that -i allows you to specify a backup extension just in case) > Recursive search on directories with -r I usually use find with sed, so it's not so much a problem (and it actually allows to filter the files by extension, exclude directories, etc, which is…

Not one she specifically mentioned (or possibly thought of) but it runs on windows without Cygwin. Edit: using the proper gender pronoun would help.

It is possible to run a version of SED on Windows without Cygwin:

http://www.zeusedit.com/zforum/viewtopic.php?p=2683

Re: What It's Like To Be Ridiculed For Open Sourcing A Project

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Post by mintplant »

nesquena wrote: post #51
mintplant wrote: post #43

> Steve Klabnik ‏@steveklabnik > @harthvader @zeeg nothing's _wrong_ with it, but I don't want to build my app on top of others' code who are at this level of understanding This message [1] in particular is absolutely disgusting. Someone hacked together a script that met their needs, and threw it up onto GitHub in case anyone else found it useful? Yes, let's take the opportunity to condescendingly insult their mental…

What a great idea to go around calling other people stupid for creating personal open-source projects that they enjoy using, mocking their competence and treating them as if they should go away because they aren't as good as you. What a productive use of a developer's time.

Even stranger is the fact that harther isn't exactly a novice programmer: apparently, she's part of Mozilla [1], and wrote brain.js [2], a neural network library in JavaScript with almost 1,400 stars on GitHub.

[1] https://twitter.com/harthvader

[2] https://github.com/harthur/brain

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