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Re: A DOGE staffer appears to be posting DOGE work on his public GitHub

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I think it does, objectively. In a pull request, I’d comment: “You imported pandas with an abbreviation. You economize the variable name `df` instead of dataframe. Those anticipate a reader who already knows when to chose the read_csv method.”

If you are in charge of reviewing someone's pull request and ensuring they adhere to specified company guidelines, you can do whatever your organization wants. Outside of that though, you lack the authority to tell programmers how many comments are too much. I too know how to write self-documenting code, but that doesn't mean your code should have no comments or shouldn't be liberally commented.

GP mentions that this is a textbook unnecessary comment and I would beware any textbook and professed expert that disagrees.

Whether a LLM coding model demonstrates understanding of unnecessary comments might be interesting, as would any differentiation in quality if my prompt asked for more or fewer lines of comments.

Re: A DOGE staffer appears to be posting DOGE work on his public GitHub

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Works created by U.S. federal government employees as part of their official duties are in the public domain, according to 17 U.S.C. § 105, except for classified or restricted information (but none of what he posted is classified or restricted)

Implying that DOGE bozo is law-compliant while breaking laws and destroying trust is...humor too soon?

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Re: A DOGE staffer appears to be posting DOGE work on his public GitHub

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What a weird thing to say. They are slashing and burning government and routing the permanent bureaucracy of democrats that run the country no matter who wins the election. That’s simply what the GOP has been promising to do for decades, but has been too feckless to do until now.

So undermining national security by leaking oddly specific and contemporary critical infrastructure data is just "draining the swamp"? Interesting how "routing the permanent bureaucracy" conveniently includes actions that benefit foreign adversaries. Funny how Conservative principles now include strategic incompetence at the exact points that serve Russian interests.

What was leaked? It was all publicly available datasets?

Re: A DOGE staffer appears to be posting DOGE work on his public GitHub

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Some have said that the folks running DOGE follow an Anarcho-capitalist philosophy. According to Wikipedia, that philosophy "seeks to abolish centralized states in favor of stateless societies with systems of private property enforced by private agencies." If so, I don't think they care if it's a "good" program or a "bad" program, they just want to reduce the size of government. Some might say, they are throwing the…

Afghanistan has that. Instead of landlords, they have warlords, just a different term for the same thing. Why is anybody interested in repeating that thing? I've been told that billionaires think differently than the rest of us, but I still can't fathom why someone would want to be the king of a shit hole when they could be richer as a regular citizen of a liberal democracy. Why do they hate our success?

Is life really that much better for billionaires of today than kings of last millennium?

Sure you can acquire a private fleet of jets and cars now. But given that you rarely if-ever drive them it's no different than a fleet of rare animals.

Sure you can play video games and watch sports on TV but is that really much better than watching sports from a private suite?

I will conceded that their life expectancy has basically doubled but I don't think there's anything you can do as a king to fix that. If you don't hoard all the wealth it's not like life expectancy immediately doubles. A rising tide raises all ships but the tide takes centuries to do that lifting.

Re: A DOGE staffer appears to be posting DOGE work on his public GitHub

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DOGE moving under the presidents executive office instead of as a separate agency seemed to be done for the purpose of shielding DOGE From FOIA and only subject to President Records Act

And Trump's history with that act suggests it'll go to the highest bidder, foreign or domestic

Is it OK to make baseless accusations on Hacker News now? When did that become OK?

Re: A DOGE staffer appears to be posting DOGE work on his public GitHub

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Implying that DOGE bozo is law-compliant while breaking laws and destroying trust is...humor too soon?

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“Bozo” is pretty lightweight for someone actively trying to destroy the foundations of this country’s government and democratic policies.

Re: A DOGE staffer appears to be posting DOGE work on his public GitHub

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idk try to make a FOIA request

DOGE moving under the presidents executive office instead of as a separate agency seemed to be done for the purpose of shielding DOGE From FOIA and only subject to President Records Act

A reference for those curious:

- https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/us/politics/trump-musk-do...

Re: A DOGE staffer appears to be posting DOGE work on his public GitHub

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Implying that DOGE bozo is law-compliant while breaking laws and destroying trust is...humor too soon?

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When Elon became the role model probably

Re: A DOGE staffer appears to be posting DOGE work on his public GitHub

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Succeed at what? For example, they canceled invasive species control programs for the Great Lakes. Is it a success that they saved a modest amount of money, while letting the condition of the lakes further erode?

Source? The only news I’ve heard is that they fired 12 of 85 staffers and prohibited hiring seasonal workers, which was then rescinded a few days later. https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/03/federal-firings-coul... Not to attack you personally, but I’ve noticed there is a lot of hyperbole here based on dramatic headlines, extrapolation based on feeling rather than facts, so important but difficult to stay informed.

From that article:

> Cutting back the control program by one-sixth would allow over one million lamprey to survive, McClinchey estimated. Those lampreys would eat nearly 5 million pounds of fish, equalling $105 million in lost economic output and potential, far outstripping the cost of the workers’ salaries.

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