People are looking for a reason to be butthurt. Mulder wasn’t being judgy at all, and the were-creature was just confused and looking for a way out of his predicament. It wasn’t a commentary on transgenderism at all.

For some very helpful context, here’s a response

U mad because you code like that?

Coming from someone who basically championed the idea of using as few characters as possible in variable and function names, I would take this as a compliment.

Getting chewed out by Linus is the ultimate rite of passage for a programmer.

Ah, people bitching about C minutiae. I’d wager most experienced programmers can barely understand the finer details, either (because nobody uses C unless they’re writing an OS or system-level software anymore).