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Topic: a quip concerning GitHub

boof started this discussion 1 year ago #122,130

"Pisshub is a better name for it. Great for pissing away my valuable time"

boof (OP) double-posted this 1 year ago, 1 minute later[^] [v] #1,334,201

The end user should never ever have to look at github. If you point your end users to your github you are a lazy developer.

To use your analogy, what if I bought a house, showed up to the lot and found piles of wood and bricks with a sign that said "everything's here just compile your new house lol."

Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 1 year ago, 1 day later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #1,334,377

@previous (boof)
What if your end users are other developers looking for your libraries?

Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 1 year ago, 4 hours later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #1,334,392

It's very rare that I see someone pointing to their GitHub expecting the user to compile it themselves. GitHub repos have a "releases" page where devs can post already compiled builds that you download like you would any other program. Why waste time finding an external file host when you're already using GitHub?

Anonymous D joined in and replied with this 1 year ago, 26 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #1,334,397

And it's not the silver bullet for internet security anyway. I seem to remember some python stuff causing hell last year because some bad actors were putting it on there.

Anonymous E joined in and replied with this 1 year ago, 8 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #1,334,398

@previous (D)
It's the world's largest repository of leaked API keys too

Anonymous B replied with this 1 year ago, 16 hours later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,334,517

@1,334,392 (C)
> It's very rare
No it isn't. Developers getting source code from GitHub happens all the time.

Anonymous C replied with this 1 year ago, 6 hours later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,334,536

@previous (B)

I mean in terms of developers releasing software for end users.
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