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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 pnathan »

bmmayer1 wrote: post #70

For years I have been terrified about putting my code on Github for fear of rage and retribution from the programmer community. This is a real problem for us amateur coders who enjoy hacking but don't necessarily have the chops to go head-to-head with the serious guys.

Dude, these people who tear code bases apart for lulz are not worth your time. If they can't cogently point out the flaws in a reasonable fashion, then they can go fart around on /b/ as far as you should care.

Sure, some employers might care... "new guy might get flamed online". Yeah... okay... do you want that shallow of an employer? :-)

If you want, put your code online and email me, I'll be happy to look at it and point out any obvious mistakes.

(I don't know why harthur reimplemented parts of sed. I don't really care. sed is hard to use, I wouldn't mind rewriting it myself).

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

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Post by mylittlepony »

anthonyb wrote: post #127
byroot wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Linus is often rude, but AFAIK not gratuitously, but I may have missed some of his public messages. But even if it's the case, he is rude with the guys who work with him, his "captains" that he knows since a long time. He do not bash a random project on Github totally unrelated to him just like that. You can't compare.

No, Linus is often gratuitously rude.

tubbo 0 minutes ago | link [dead]

He's usually rude to code presented to him, but he doesn't go out of his way to diss code. It's a big difference.

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

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Post by akent »

jamesaguilar wrote: post #165
pazimzadeh wrote: post #150

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Steve Klabnik: "I find it incredibly hard not to be judgmental. I'm not sure what part of my personality makes this happen, but even when I try to curb tearing down other people, I end up doing it anyway. I'm not sure if it's just me, but I think part of the problem is that these kinds of things are rewarded." http://blog.steveklabnik.com/posts/2010-09-24-trolling-is-a-...

Textbook weasel apology.

Note the date; this one was from 2010.

His most recent post is http://blog.steveklabnik.com/posts/2013-01-23-node

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

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Post by keyboardP »

sinak wrote: post #131
jlongster wrote: post #36

What the fuck. (And I rarely say that word.) We've got to grow up. This is 9th grade all over again. You know, those weird people that do things that you don't understand? They're the ones that grow up and make big impacts on the world. Why can't we get over our negativity? We can't stop ourselves from thinking horrible things, or even saying them out loud to people around us, but surely we can restrain ourselves fro…

Corey Haines wrote a thoughtful apology here: http://programmingtour.blogspot.com/2013/01/im-sorry.html Only one of the three to do so thus far.

Steve Klabnik has now also posted an apology http://blog.steveklabnik.com/posts/2013-01-23-node

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

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Post by ispivey » 

  $> diff @coreyhaines-apology @steveklabnik-apology
   sorry if i made you upset
A side-by-side example we can all use to learn how to apologize better.

[1] http://programmingtour.blogspot.com/2013/01/im-sorry.html

[2] http://blog.steveklabnik.com/posts/2013-01-23-node

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

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Post by marcamillion »

This is par for the course in the Rails community. Once some Rails devs get more experienced, they think it's ok to shit on everyone else.

Granted, not all are like that...but many are.

God forbid you should stumble into #RubyOnRails on IRC. Thank God for Stack Overflow!

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

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Post by swdunlop »

res0nat0r wrote: post #176
byroot wrote: post #159

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Got a link ? Of Linus being gratuitously rude with a perfect stranger ?

Linus telling someone to shut the fuck up last month: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4962912

I don't think another maintainer on the Linux kernel qualifies as a perfect stranger. The team isn't /that/ large.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

jamesaguilar wrote: post #165
pazimzadeh wrote: post #150

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Steve Klabnik: "I find it incredibly hard not to be judgmental. I'm not sure what part of my personality makes this happen, but even when I try to curb tearing down other people, I end up doing it anyway. I'm not sure if it's just me, but I think part of the problem is that these kinds of things are rewarded." http://blog.steveklabnik.com/posts/2010-09-24-trolling-is-a-...

Textbook weasel apology.

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

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Post by marshray »

tlear wrote: post #139

You have been ridiculed by a RoR core team member.. that is pretty awesome.

Inorite? A Rails core developer dissing someone for gratuitious use of Node.js. Now I've seen it all.

This project https://github.com/harthur/replace is some of the least sucky code you're likely to see in a month of reading Javascript.

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