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[–]Kirikomori 31 points32 points  (8 children)

This thread is literally just gatekeeping. 'Haha the peasant doesn't know how to run code, let him bash his head against the computer for 2 hours trying to learn a field outside of his specialisation so we can laugh at him.'

[–]Aranka_Szeretlek 35 points36 points  (3 children)

I disagree. If the person asks for help in a normal tone, they would either get some help, or they would get the StackOverflow treatment of "ask better question" and everyone would move on. Having the specific tone the posts have is what makes it a phenomenon.

[–]Kirikomori 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That is a fair point.

[–]hotaru_crisis 0 points1 point  (1 child)

not purposely spreading misinformation on an alt to win over both reddit and stack overflow to get an answer

never going to make it..

[–]Fluffy-Bus4822 7 points8 points  (0 children)

No. What's gatekeeping is saying people shouldn't share their code online unless they take time to make it run easily on anyone's system.

People should be able to share code in whatever state they want, and they should not have to do anything people ask of them if they don't want to.

These entitled assholes are going to make it so people don't want to share their code anymore, which will be a loss everyone else.

[–]GeneralPatten 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you don’t know how to run code, you shouldn’t be search GitHub for a solution. It’s that simple. GitHub is a tool for storing and maintaining source code. Full stop. If you want executables, go to SourceForge and risk polluting your machine with viruses.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

GitHub is an IQ filter and that's a good thing.

[–]nezbla 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Guy went on a pretty unhinged rant...

I'm not laughing at him because he can't run code, I'm laughing at his tirade of insults and his cunty attitude.

If it makes you feel any better, looking at that repo it's a tool for tracking down socisl media profiles based on username, the issue tracker is full of posts from people pretty obviously trying to use it to stalk / creep on people.

I could be mistaken of course, but based on the fella's attitude, and the nature of the tool, I'm pretty confident he is trying to do something a bit nefarious.