That feeling when you email the authors of a paper to get their code and, unlike what so often happens, they just email it to you right away instead of feeding you some bullshit excuse about why they can't 😊
Once I emailed a French economist to get his code and he openly told me that he didn't want to because it was his work and it had taken him a long time to write it 😮
To be honest, he was right not to send it to me, because his model was pure garbage and I intended to trash it by showing that a simple change would totally alter the results.
I guess eventually I will still do it, except that since I'm going to have to replicate his results from scratch, it will piss me off and I will be even nastier, which in my defense would have been fully warranted even if he'd sent me his code.
For the record, and in case the guy who just sent me his code reads this and starts worrying, this is *not* the case of his paper, which is actually good and that I just want to extend 😄
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