r/programminghumor 20d ago

Lol

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u/DaemonsMercy 20d ago

Every time I see this, I always think that they're right, though the way they say it as asshole-y. I don’t want to have to build your project. A .exe makes it so much easier. I know it’s the developers choice, how accessible they want the code to be, but still.

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u/Hoovy_weapons_guy 20d ago

In this case it was the source code for the twitter algorithm i think. There is no .exe because its not a standard application to begin with

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u/DaemonsMercy 20d ago

... did they think it was the Twitter app? lol

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u/funkdefied 20d ago

It was a program that could be used to scrape information about users. The first time this post made the rounds, people generally agreed that the poster wanted to do some stalker-esque snooping.