This screenshot is old (at least 12 years).
Why is the headline in quotes?
Because trashy people never saw Austin Powers and updated their use of quotation marks to denote sarcasm.
Quotation marks were historically used to add emphasis to text, the way asterisks are used today. Old people who refuse to change and don’t realize their way of writing is actively making fun of themselves still use them this way. These are also the people who watch Fox.
“Scare quotes” definitely precede Austin Powers, though that may have spurred a rise in popularity of the usage. (Also, “trashy people never saw Austin Powers” is honestly a pretty weird statement, IMO.)
That said, in this case, arguably the quotes are appropriate, because “the github dictionary” isn’t something that happened (i.e. a headline), but a thing they’ve made up.
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Scare quotes are used informally, but it’s not proper usage like a “news” channel should be doing. Which, fair enough, it’s Fox “News.” But it’s already larger text and all caps - why is more emphasis necessary?
Quotation marks we’re historically used …
Meh. I am in my late sixties, and that was never proper usage. These people were merely always illiterate.
It’s valid usage if you go waaay back, i.e. centuries. You also see it in some late 19th/early 20th century newsprint and ads.
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Then it should be THE GITHUB “DICTIONARY.”
No, because the thing they are naming is “The Github Dictionary”; they’re not applying scare-quotes to the word “dictionary” implying that what they’ve written is not really a “dictionary”.
Because of “reasons”
It doesn’t matter. None of faux news viewers can read.
I’m almost more irritated by the use of two hyphens instead of a colon after the first definition. They just didn’t give a shit really.
I’m sure they could have afforded an em dash.
Well, – you see – a colon can never follow quotation marks, in traditional typography: only ever two hyphens~
“reposotory”
Good news! It’s a suppository.
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The suppository of all knowledge
sopposotory
Sopposotoro
Soppozuuuuuuuuuu !!!
I’m surprised they didn’t sneak in a swipe about open source being a socialist conspiracy to undermine American ingenuity.
At least chat gpt would have spelled it right for fucks sake.
Did they let a 6 year old write that up?
THEY GET PAID TO DO THIS. SOMEONE GETS PAID TO CHECK IT TOO.
Or am I being trolled.
You know how scam emails intentionally include mistakes because they want to filter out smart people? Same idea.
Reasonably smart people will see this and go “this is garbage”. The idiots will go deeper, and become loyal gop voters.
they would have been better off asking chatgpt.
how is fox dumber than AI?!?
Description says the screenshot is at least 12 years old, though asking google at the time would have probably at least yielded the correct spelling of repository, so I wouldn’t go as far as to dismiss your conclusion
don’t think that was there when I commented. but yeah, google still existed.
I’m convinced that’s ment to get people riled up.
From Fox News? Couldn’t be.
It’s 10pm, do you know where your Secrets are?
Either that or they’re doing the same amount of research they normally do. It’s hard to tell.
Is this is where hacker named 4chan lives?
Here’s the full video.
Part of me is bothered by those explanations, but if I had to explain GitHub to a tech illiterate grandparent with that much screen space I don’t know if I would do much better.
You’d probably spell words correctly though, right?
Given historical evidence of my writing that is not a sure thing.
Why even bother explaining those terms if you only have that much screen space.
I haven’t seen the news release, but I would hope they are explaining those terms because they are going to have someone on to talk about github and they were planning on using said terms
Repository: a collection of computer code for a software program (or app if you insist).
Fork: a copy of a repository so you can edit it without affecting the original.
Pull request: a request to the owner of a repo to bring in some changes you made in a fork.
I think I even got the word count down.
Repository: your code.
Fork: my code.
Pull request: u want my code?
in a *branch?
What do trees have to do with computers?
Repository: a collection of related computer code, like related files in a filing cabinet
Fork: a copy of a repository at a certain point in time, like a fork in the road, they diverge from that point
Pull request: a request that a repository owner incorporate your changes into their files.
“forked” when you push broken code to prod at 5 on a Friday.
“CI” - “Come In” which is what your boss says when they ask for a meeting after you thought it was fine for that one line change to skip CI and it broke something
This physically hurts me.
What the hell? If they just asked ChatGPT it would have been much better:
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Repository: A folder of project files on the internet.
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Fork: Your own copy of that folder to make changes.
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Pull Request: A way to ask, “Can my changes go back into the original folder?”
*reposortory(sic)
To be fair ChatGPT didn’t exist 12 years ago.
Spell-check did though.
Oh yeah, I overlooked that detail.
The Fox News intern probably didn’t need a ton of water and the energy of a small country just to be trained, though.
Human needs more water and less energy, yes.
Get desalination plants and a closed loop manufacturing process and all you need to care about is energy.
Isn’t facebook trying to buy a nuclear power plant?
They might even be trying to get an enrichment plant while they are at it, who knows?
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At least they didn’t call it a suppository.
“GitHub just reached its 1 billionth suppository!!”
“Hopefully it will help with shit. Let’s talk to the originating author, Aasish Pokhrel.”
shit init
