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In recent days (the last 12-24 hours), there have been a couple of posts on a one
'Marak Squires', who goes by the tag JimBastard. He stands accused of stealing code,
and being a general douchebag. Stealing code isn't good. Being a douchebag isn't
acutally illegal. However, the way that the campaign against him has been carried
out worries me.
The post to reddit that brought this issue to attention was entitled 'Code Thief at
Large: Marak Squires / JimBastard'. It can be found here:
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/ebge2/code_thief_at_large_marak_squires_jimbastard/.
It was a link to a github gist that can be found here:
// List all files in a directory in Node.js recursively in a synchronous fashion
var walkSync = function(dir, filelist) {
if( dir[dir.length-1] != '/') dir=dir.concat('/')
var fs = fs || require('fs'),
files = fs.readdirSync(dir);
filelist = filelist || [];
files.forEach(function(file) {
if (fs.statSync(dir + file).isDirectory()) {