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This feels, not ethical.

O__________O 4y ago
Might be worth explicitly staying you feel it’s unethical so it’s possible to respond to your position. I for one am able to think of numerous ethical ways it might be of use.
- trailingComma 4y ago
  Could you share them?
  - andy_xor_andrew 4y ago
    ethical use: you use it, and the squares on your github.com profile, which is a website that hosts git repos, turn green.
    - O__________O 4y ago
      While I would be the first to say those squares are meaningless without context, if someone led others to believe they were the result of anything other than automatically generated posted and didn’t have a legitimate reason like the one I posted, that might potentially be fraud, especially if it was used as a basis for future economic exchanges, such as employment.
      - onethought 4y ago
        Isn’t my GitHub profile mine? Is it unethical to manipulate my own data? People manipulate their identity all the time, flashy IG posts, financed fancy car, combing their hair, wearing makeup. But code commit history is the line?
        QuantumGood 4y ago
        Thank you for making your framing clear with examples, and your POV with "code commit history is the line?"
      - pertymcpert 4y ago
        Using GitHub green squares as a basis for offering employment is as stupid as using the color of their hair. Don't play stupid games if you don't want stupid prizes.
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  - O__________O 4y ago
    Sure, for example, as way for a researcher to generate realistic GitHub profiles to combine with realistic resumes to do field research on labor market discrimination. Example of such research, which is common, ethical, and completely legal to do: https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/hr-topics/talent-acquisition/pages/researchers-new-study-method-catches-resume-bias.aspx https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/hr-topics/talent-acqu...
blagie 4y ago
This feels ethical. We have broken, emergent incentive structures in our system. Tweaking those can be good or bad. It's not like a cheating on a test. If I were to modify it, I'd make it draw a picture :)
NavinF 4y ago
Decorating the commit history calendar has been around since forever: https://github.com/gelstudios/gitfiti https://github.com/gelstudios/gitfiti Fake code generators have been around since forever: https://hackertyper.net/ https://hackertyper.net/ Combining them seems like the logical next step.
- michaelsshaw 4y ago
  HackerTyper isn't a generator, but is actually from the Linux kernel. It's kernel/groups.c, but just a really old version.
  - amyjess 4y ago
    This would explain why I've seen groups.c code pop up in various TV shows as filler when someone is writing code on the fly.

Might be worth explicitly staying you feel it’s unethical so it’s possible to respond to your position. I for one am able to think of numerous ethical ways it might be of use.

trailingComma 4y ago
Could you share them?
- andy_xor_andrew 4y ago
  ethical use: you use it, and the squares on your github.com profile, which is a website that hosts git repos, turn green.
  - O__________O 4y ago
    While I would be the first to say those squares are meaningless without context, if someone led others to believe they were the result of anything other than automatically generated posted and didn’t have a legitimate reason like the one I posted, that might potentially be fraud, especially if it was used as a basis for future economic exchanges, such as employment.
    - onethought 4y ago
      Isn’t my GitHub profile mine? Is it unethical to manipulate my own data? People manipulate their identity all the time, flashy IG posts, financed fancy car, combing their hair, wearing makeup. But code commit history is the line?
      - QuantumGood 4y ago
        Thank you for making your framing clear with examples, and your POV with "code commit history is the line?"
    - pertymcpert 4y ago
      Using GitHub green squares as a basis for offering employment is as stupid as using the color of their hair. Don't play stupid games if you don't want stupid prizes.
      - deleted 4y ago
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- O__________O 4y ago
  Sure, for example, as way for a researcher to generate realistic GitHub profiles to combine with realistic resumes to do field research on labor market discrimination. Example of such research, which is common, ethical, and completely legal to do: https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/hr-topics/talent-acquisition/pages/researchers-new-study-method-catches-resume-bias.aspx https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/hr-topics/talent-acqu...

blagie 4y ago

This feels ethical. We have broken, emergent incentive structures in our system. Tweaking those can be good or bad. It's not like a cheating on a test. If I were to modify it, I'd make it draw a picture :)

NavinF 4y ago

Decorating the commit history calendar has been around since forever: https://github.com/gelstudios/gitfiti https://github.com/gelstudios/gitfiti Fake code generators have been around since forever: https://hackertyper.net/ https://hackertyper.net/ Combining them seems like the logical next step.

michaelsshaw 4y ago
HackerTyper isn't a generator, but is actually from the Linux kernel. It's kernel/groups.c, but just a really old version.
- amyjess 4y ago
  This would explain why I've seen groups.c code pop up in various TV shows as filler when someone is writing code on the fly.