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There is a special place in hell for anyone doing this. I'm going to watch this repo and blacklist pull requests from anyone who forks it :-)

by sheraz 11y ago

creshal 11y ago
They share the place with coding blogs that use   instead of spaces for code snippets.
- minikomi 11y ago
  Or “real” quotes in code examples..
  - scintill76 11y ago
    Or en-dashes instead of double hypens for command line flags... I can feel my blood pressure rising just thinking about it.
  - zaptheimpaler 11y ago
    Damn you Google docs! they also do this :(
  - TorKlingberg 11y ago
    I don't think people do this intentionally. Either the code snippet has passed through MS Word (why?) or their blog tool is being "helpful".
    - harryc2011 11y ago
      It happens if you paste the code into an Outlook email (which used Word as the rendering engine IIRC)
    - jff 11y ago
      I once had to do a team project with another student who did all his coding in Wordpad, god knows why. His indentation was more or less random. I wanted to murder him.
    - nommm-nommm 11y ago
      Emailed code snippets have this problem when emailed using some email clients (Outlook, looking at you)
  - jimbokun 11y ago
    Hah, I was giving a presentation where I was running little queries as part of a demo. I had copied the queries into the presenter notes in PowerPoint, then pasted them one at a time into a web app to run them. Couldn't figure out why one of them wasn't working, and it was actually an audience member who figured out PowerPoint had turned a quote character into a "smart quote".
- ciupicri 11y ago
  I've had to use   a couple of times in order to get a proper indentation. I know there's <PRE> and <CODE>, but they aren't allowed on every blog, so I had to improvise.
  - creshal 11y ago
    Then for $DEITY's sake, put the code snippets on pastebin or similar. Nothing's more infuriating than having to hex edit a file just to get all the \u00A0 out.
    - slazaro 11y ago
      Wouldn't a regular text replace work, switching one character for another?
ygra 11y ago
> blacklist pull requests from anyone who forks it Why, if I may ask? If they introduce compile errors in your project, those should be caught by the CI build and test run, shouldn't they? In any case, accepting a code change just by looking at the diff and without even trying it out sounds like not the best course of action to me anyway.
- sheraz 11y ago
  Yes. A good CI will blow up any malicious pull requests provided you are using a compiled language. Or if interpreted, you need sufficient code coverage that your tests will blow up

There is a special place in hell for anyone doing this. I'm going to watch this repo and blacklist pull requests from anyone who forks it :-)

by sheraz 11y ago

There is a special place in hell for anyone doing this. I'm going to watch this repo and blacklist pull requests from anyone who forks it :-)

creshal 11y ago

They share the place with coding blogs that use   instead of spaces for code snippets.

minikomi 11y ago
Or “real” quotes in code examples..
- scintill76 11y ago
  Or en-dashes instead of double hypens for command line flags... I can feel my blood pressure rising just thinking about it.
- zaptheimpaler 11y ago
  Damn you Google docs! they also do this :(
- TorKlingberg 11y ago
  I don't think people do this intentionally. Either the code snippet has passed through MS Word (why?) or their blog tool is being "helpful".
  - harryc2011 11y ago
    It happens if you paste the code into an Outlook email (which used Word as the rendering engine IIRC)
  - jff 11y ago
    I once had to do a team project with another student who did all his coding in Wordpad, god knows why. His indentation was more or less random. I wanted to murder him.
  - nommm-nommm 11y ago
    Emailed code snippets have this problem when emailed using some email clients (Outlook, looking at you)
- jimbokun 11y ago
  Hah, I was giving a presentation where I was running little queries as part of a demo. I had copied the queries into the presenter notes in PowerPoint, then pasted them one at a time into a web app to run them. Couldn't figure out why one of them wasn't working, and it was actually an audience member who figured out PowerPoint had turned a quote character into a "smart quote".
ciupicri 11y ago
I've had to use   a couple of times in order to get a proper indentation. I know there's <PRE> and <CODE>, but they aren't allowed on every blog, so I had to improvise.
- creshal 11y ago
  Then for $DEITY's sake, put the code snippets on pastebin or similar. Nothing's more infuriating than having to hex edit a file just to get all the \u00A0 out.
  - slazaro 11y ago
    Wouldn't a regular text replace work, switching one character for another?

ygra 11y ago

> blacklist pull requests from anyone who forks it Why, if I may ask? If they introduce compile errors in your project, those should be caught by the CI build and test run, shouldn't they? In any case, accepting a code change just by looking at the diff and without even trying it out sounds like not the best course of action to me anyway.

sheraz 11y ago
Yes. A good CI will blow up any malicious pull requests provided you are using a compiled language. Or if interpreted, you need sufficient code coverage that your tests will blow up