Ughhh linkbait titles. This isn't ridicule for open-sourcing, it's ridicule for BAD CODE
What It's Like To Be Ridiculed For Open Sourcing A Project
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#572Earlier quoted context omitted.
Here's the other apology, http://blog.steveklabnik.com/posts/2013-01-23-node Heather, don't take it personally - your code is fine! JavaScript, on the other hand, is a wounded warrior by now..
Out of curiosity, do you think there would there have been blog post apologies if the harthur post was written by a guy?
It took me up too now to realise it wasn't written by a guy, so.
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#573Then 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. There's a big responsibility that comes with being well-liked and nice. When someone with a good reputation and the means to broadcast it speaks negatively about someone, it matters much more than someone who is routinely rude, frequently negative, or unknown. I know that if t…
"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." Speaking as a hiring manager, if I see people behaving like assholes on Twitter or mailing lists, those people go on my do-not-hire list. Yes, we are all assholes from time to time, but for some people it's a pattern of behavior. Those are not people you want to work with, n…
There's a fine line between being critics (constructive) and being assholes (destructive). When hiring, be sure to differentiate the two.
Re: What It's Like To Be Ridiculed For Open Sourcing A Project
#574Twitter is a zoo. Tweeting developer "celebrities" are monkeys throwing feces.
Let them have their fun; apparently their full-time compulsive Ruby masturbation leaves them enough time for these curious antics. As long as they are not on your team, they are relatively harmless.
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#575Earlier quoted context omitted.
Here's David Cramer's notpology: http://justcramer.com/2013/01/24/being-wrong-on-the-internet...
Hate to say it but I think his post is fair and to the point. You don't have to like what he said but he puts it in context and within the realm of Twitter - a 140 limited space of communication. His original tweet was "Ever wanted to make sed or grep worse?". Really. Can we not be critical on the internet any more? And here is EVERYONE saying worse things about him in the comments!? Go look in the mirror people. I'l…
sed 's/critical/snarky/g'
Or rather,
replace 'critical' 'snarky'
Re: What It's Like To Be Ridiculed For Open Sourcing A Project
#576One nit: I'm not seeing an open source license in the repo. This is what would keep me from using or caring about this code snippet or start caring about how the developer was being treated.
Is there one and am I just missing it?
Re: What It's Like To Be Ridiculed For Open Sourcing A Project
#577Earlier quoted context omitted.
He didn't merely say the project "wasn't good", he implied it in a snarky, very unconstructive way. Here's his quote from twitter: > Ever wanted to make sed or grep worse? http://github.com/harthur/replace In the world I live in, that's called being an asshole. Look, I'm not saying these guys should apologize (in fact, if this is how they apologize it's probably best they don't), I'm simply stating that they're dicks…
It shouldn't matter if it's unconstructive. He's not talking to the author of the code. I still don't see how being snarky, or god forbid considering being snarky, makes you an asshole. It's just some code; he's not insulting anybody.
So you don't take pride or feel a sense of ownership over your code? That would put you in the minority I surmise.
Fact: The vast majority of people would take the twitter conversation Heather posted as a personal attack. Not many people are able to separate attacks on their work product from attacks on themselves (for good reason - since I feel like most people derive a sense of pride from their work).
I dare say it would also take an asshole to not recognize this fact and make rude comments and not realize someone would be personally offended even though "it's just some code".
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#578Heather, I agree that people are unnecessarily rude to you. Don't sob. Your code shows you are already a more capable programmer than most of the ones I interview. No one has given you a clear answer as to why your code is reinventing the wheel, so allow me to do it politely. I took every single example from your README, and show you below how everything can be reimplemented with sed -r (nice extended regex syntax, m…
I've been coding since 1993 and I have never made room in my brain for stuff like -print0. Moreover, there are times when you'll want to do this stuff from within another program. What are you going to do, shell out to a find(1) pipeline? Then people like me will be giving you shit. There's nothing wrong with rewriting sed in Javascript.
One of the subtler issues I've had with piping find in a scriptis that you end up calling a program N times instead of just opening N files in the program.
So if the program has overhead when loading, using a -r option instead an outer find loop can make a magnitude of difference to program operation.
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#579Earlier quoted context omitted.
He didn't merely say the project "wasn't good", he implied it in a snarky, very unconstructive way. Here's his quote from twitter: > Ever wanted to make sed or grep worse? http://github.com/harthur/replace In the world I live in, that's called being an asshole. Look, I'm not saying these guys should apologize (in fact, if this is how they apologize it's probably best they don't), I'm simply stating that they're dicks…
It shouldn't matter if it's unconstructive. He's not talking to the author of the code. I still don't see how being snarky, or god forbid considering being snarky, makes you an asshole. It's just some code; he's not insulting anybody.
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Re: What It's Like To Be Ridiculed For Open Sourcing A Project
#580Earlier quoted context omitted.
He didn't merely say the project "wasn't good", he implied it in a snarky, very unconstructive way. Here's his quote from twitter: > Ever wanted to make sed or grep worse? http://github.com/harthur/replace In the world I live in, that's called being an asshole. Look, I'm not saying these guys should apologize (in fact, if this is how they apologize it's probably best they don't), I'm simply stating that they're dicks…
It shouldn't matter if it's unconstructive. He's not talking to the author of the code. I still don't see how being snarky, or god forbid considering being snarky, makes you an asshole. It's just some code; he's not insulting anybody.
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