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michaelnovatitoday at 4:10 AM5 repliesview on HN

I was being threatened by anonymous Reddit accounts a few weeks ago so I made some defensive PR docs but I need to sleep on it to decide what to do.

This is what I do all day: https://github.com/mnovati

But yeah two sides to every story and if this has been going on for years, "1000 posts", there's clearly more to the story, and it's irresponsible to not reach out for comment if you are going to try to summarize that.


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stuaxotoday at 10:42 AM

What does showing your github do with writing about writing negative posts about a company almost every single day ?

malfisttoday at 4:41 AM

Is that what you do all day? Its trivially easy to make a profile look like yours, its a lot harder to actually have an average of 28 commits a day every day for a year with zero days off. Not for weekends, not for vacations, not for sickness. All in completely private repositories

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ChrisMarshallNYtoday at 9:06 AM

> This is what I do all day: https://github.com/mnovati

You showed me yours, I'll show you mine[0]. It’s all organic. A pretty significant part of that is open-source, or source-available, so it’s easy to verify. I think I may only have two or three private repos (but one of them is where I do a lot of work).

I’m retired, and work on code all day, most days. I’m just a wee bit obsessive, being “on the spectrum.” I average about 1,900 checkins per year. Some of the days that I do the most work, have 1 or zero checkins. I will sometimes shitcan a whole day’s worth of work, if I find myself in a rabbithole.

Here’s a fun GitHub tool[1].

I have no opinion on the article, or the responses, other than there’s a lot of ugly going on, and it isn’t really making my life any richer, reading it.

[0] https://github.com/ChrisMarshallNY#github-stuff

[1] https://github.com/gelstudios/gitfiti

qingcharlestoday at 5:45 AM

A github with no public work isn't really a flex.

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simianwordstoday at 7:00 AM

I just don’t see how a GitHub link is supposed to answer the question. We all have day jobs too.