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Does the author have a legitimate reason for having not uploaded anything? I don't see how they're different than any other name squatter, they wanted to reserv

Does the author have a legitimate reason for having not uploaded anything? I don't see how they're different than any other name squatter, they wanted to reserve the name while not using it. Another person who goes by rbishop wanted to actually use name. From the latter rbishop's perspective, Russ was name squatting his username. Doing a bit of snooping, this post was March 2014, his first interaction on Github was February 2015. So he still didn't do anything on Github for 11 months after the name change.

crooked-v 3y ago
> Does the author have a legitimate reason for having not uploaded anything? Plenty of projects are using GitHub as a social hub. Pushing code isn't the sole use of a username there.
- pohl 3y ago
  But was he using it as a social hub?
  - eesmith 3y ago
    siva7 was, at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38384928 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38384928 . ("I was using Github still actively but hadn’t committed for quite some time in public.")
pests 3y ago
I didn't realize people needed a reason for not uploading code for a dueation. Wtf?
ghusto 3y ago
> Does the author have a legitimate reason for having not uploaded anything? Sure, he mentioned it. He reserved the name in preparation for open sourcing some projects, but medical and personal issues delayed that happening for a while.