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I'm surprised this is upvoted so much. All we have is a LinkedIn post and a GitHub repo. We haven't seen any of the original emails/writing from UW, not have we
by croemer 2y ago
I'm surprised this is upvoted so much. All we have is a LinkedIn post and a GitHub repo. We haven't seen any of the original emails/writing from UW, not have we heard UW's view.
Am I being overly skeptical here?
- ec109685 2y agoYes, with a completely clickbait intro (given he took the site down after the university warned him, which he said later in his post). To be fair he follows up the first post saying that the university is holding his future registration hostage unless he builds them a similar website:https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jdkaim_github-jdkaimhuskyswap-huskyswap-project-activity-7282891503142641664-nA8Y https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jdkaim_github-jdkaimhuskyswap...
- croemer 2y agoThe followup is a bold claim with no receipts. He should share the uni's letter otherwise I won't believe it. What might have happened is that UW offered that he could keep the website up if he changed the project in such a way a way that the university is happy with it. We don't know how much escalation has happened already, maybe he gave grounds for UW to not give him the account back because he has indicated he wouldn't back down and try to find a way to get his project to work nonetheless.
- croemer 2y agoNote that in the LinkedIn post he exclusively talks in first person: I developed the project etc. In fact if you go on GitHub, their project presentation lists a 6 people team: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/117dGuEK98-TwAPGUBijfTXKM1hCZNRdOGHY__NDKyi0/edit?usp=drivesdk https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/117dGuEK98-TwAPGUBijf.... He was on the backend team, but still mentions angular in the LinkedIn post. Did the others not do anything? Or why is he not giving them credit in the LinkedIn post?
- craftman210 2y agoIf you look at the commit history and contributors, it's mostly him.
- croemer 2y agoI'd take commit numbers with a grain of salt. Also, I wouldn't call half the commits _mostly_ at all: https://github.com/JDKaim/HuskySwap/graphs/contributors?from=2024-07-29&to=2025-01-09&type=c https://github.com/JDKaim/HuskySwap/graphs/contributors?from... By that metric, he did half the work. But it still means he completely disregards the other half.
- prophesi 2y ago56 commits, +273,244, -7,270 LOC vs 46 commits, +478, -94 LOC I think it's safe to say it was mostly him.
- croemer 2y agoDon't get fooled by LOCs. Out of the 273k LOC added, all but 20k, that is 253k are just from the boilerplate auto-generated copy/paste initialization code: https://github.com/JDKaim/HuskySwap/commit/e9f0df0d5a221b3c7892c997d089989b9c3e35c7#diff-e1f4f87cc9d43f016d3a857f1db0c6df63bcb095b8992743abaa6a53411be3b0 https://github.com/JDKaim/HuskySwap/commit/e9f0df0d5a221b3c7... Sure he probably did most of the coding, but it's still weird to talk all about I and not mention the other 5 in a single word when they _did_ contribute. Maybe they did testing or other things that are not reflected in LOC, e.g. presentations etc.
- cdurth 2y agoNot just random biloilerplate/framework code either. A framework his dad created. So with this logic his dad did the majority of the project.
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- MichaelDickens 2y agoI'm not saying the story is true, but the intro is accurate to the story AFAICT. The university is allegedly threatening to expel him if he doesn't build them a website for free.
- ec109685 2y agoIt wasn’t true when he wrote the first post. Maybe he updated it.