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Re: Code Reads

#11

Post by klibertp »

kenkam wrote: post #5

I'm sure Jeremy can only do so much code reviews a day (unless he's a ninja robot), so why isn't there a crowd-sourced version of this? Sometimes I write code that I would like other coders to help/critique with. Github is great for collaborating and some code reviews happen (pull requests) but sometimes you're just working on a project and have no idea whether you're writing the right things or not. There have been…

You mean something like this: http://codereview.stackexchange.com/ ?

Re: Code Reads

#13

Post by rapind »

kenkam wrote: post #5

I'm sure Jeremy can only do so much code reviews a day (unless he's a ninja robot), so why isn't there a crowd-sourced version of this? Sometimes I write code that I would like other coders to help/critique with. Github is great for collaborating and some code reviews happen (pull requests) but sometimes you're just working on a project and have no idea whether you're writing the right things or not. There have been…

Does a robot also need to be a ninja in order to process code quickly? Why so elitist?

Re: Code Reads

#15

Post by oinksoft »

Probably a silly question, but what's the deal with this?

  
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Not a huge deal but I think it's good to show where a link goes on mouseover, especially a mailto: link (some mail clients take a while to start) ... it'd seem you want here.

Re: Code Reads

#16

Post by jenius »

rapind wrote: post #13
kenkam wrote: post #5

I'm sure Jeremy can only do so much code reviews a day (unless he's a ninja robot), so why isn't there a crowd-sourced version of this? Sometimes I write code that I would like other coders to help/critique with. Github is great for collaborating and some code reviews happen (pull requests) but sometimes you're just working on a project and have no idea whether you're writing the right things or not. There have been…

Does a robot also need to be a ninja in order to process code quickly? Why so elitist?

Well, we all know that the best people at writing code happen to be ninjas (have you read any job descriptions or got any recruiter emails lately?), so I think this may perhaps be the reason.

Still open to explanations of why ninjas have an enhanced coding ability though.

Re: Code Reads

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Post by joshmcmillan »

oinksoft wrote: post #15

Probably a silly question, but what's the deal with this? Small Not a huge deal but I think it's good to show where a link goes on mouseover, especially a mailto: link (some mail clients take a while to start) ... it'd seem you want here.

Could be spam prevention?

Re: Code Reads

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Post by aviraldg »

oinksoft wrote: post #15

Probably a silly question, but what's the deal with this? Small Not a huge deal but I think it's good to show where a link goes on mouseover, especially a mailto: link (some mail clients take a while to start) ... it'd seem you want here.

Maybe because of the fact that bots usually scan the href attribute, but not the onclick attribute?
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