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I might be an emotionless robot or something, but I don't get the furore over this. Everyone writes crap code sometimes (viz. github.com/007 aka craptown USA).
by web007 14y ago
I might be an emotionless robot or something, but I don't get the furore over this.
Everyone writes crap code sometimes (viz. github.com/007 aka craptown USA). Just because you are "exceedingly talented" or have "well-used" projects doesn't mean everything you write is rainbows and unicorns.
If your project is useful to you, then screw everyone else - why care what they think?
https://github.com/harthur/kittydar https://github.com/harthur/kittydar is useless but brilliant. I'll be bookmarking it for the next time I need feature detection in JS, and because it mentions HOG descriptors.
https://github.com/harthur/replace https://github.com/harthur/replace is useful but not-brilliant. I'll bookmark the 'sed' or 'awk' manpage instead.
- talmand 14y agoBut it seems that complaints against the replace code wasn't about the code itself. It seems it's more about the fact that it isn't sed, that it's javascript, that it's node, and that they themselves would choose not to use it. For all those reasons they chose to publicly criticize the project in what can be considered a demeaning way. For an "open" source community, that's a bad thing and deserves this furor. In fact, it should happen more often than it does.