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I think it's even worse than that, I suspect there have been a lot of companies like CA that have had their access cut off and have retained the data. FB probably has never done a serious investigation of most of them.

This one is only important because it's gotten so much media attention. If it wasn't related to the election it would have been business as usual and nobody would care or know about CA.

Agreed, I always double check that the browser password manager works, but it's tricky because there is no standard around what the fields should be called to make it always work. The best way to make sure it works is to put the username directly above the password in the same form, that will result in most password managers working, and this is especially important on registration forms.

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It makes sense to me that larger projects would use forums, just to make sure you don't pollute issues too heavily.

TBH when I do interact with projects on github I'm mostly interacting with smaller projects and maybe issues are 'good enough' there.

For the larger projects they tend to have better documentation or I can have questions answered on stack overflow, maybe that's why I haven't run into this yet.

I'm wondering if you would have success trying to target projects that are growing rapidly or are in a mid range of popularity. Ideally the product is also giving back to the github repo authors, maybe it's automatically creating an FAQ for them?

I hope some of this helps :)

my 2 cents.

github issues seems to be where most interaction with the community happens. It might be a bit of abuse for their intended purposes but every time I've had a question a github issue usually gets an answer pretty quickly.

What use cases does the forum service fullfil that github issues isn't a 'good enough' solution for?

I just wanted to take this opportunity to thank you and the team at Lightbend. There is a clarity of thinking and expressiveness in Scala that I haven't found in other languages. I have used Scala professionally for the past 3 years and enjoy it immensely as a language.

completely agree. There is a certain beauty to the first version that once you've learned the concepts it seems a shame to have to write the second one.

I haven't tried Go myself and I've been meaning to, but I have spent the last 3 years writing Scala code. Before learning Scala I didn't have any real experience with FP, and I think that was the real learning hurdle for me. Once I learned the FP ideas Scala became my preferred language. I think it's really funny but Java and C# have been becoming more Scala like, and to some extent the latest version of JavaScript are also starting to become Scala like. What I have come to accept is that Scala does take people time to learn, but it's not typically Scala the language, it's the FP aspects of it that are the stumbling blocks.

PS. I also work on a 100k Scala program and can go from clean to compiled in less than 2 minutes, and incremental compiles are extremely fast.

Where I sit with the entire thing is that this is a stark lesson in why security is important, and how effective phishing scams are.

However, once that information is out there, and verifiable through means like DKIM, we should absolutely scrutinize its content, and every voter should follow reports closely.

This was my thought as well. Then I started thinking about the huge amount of moderation effort to make sure that comment sections stay civil. From where I stand it seems like for most writers offering a comment section is a lot of work for a very small payoff.

I'm curious what people think about type checkers in JS. I've been doing full stack development for the last few years and BE development before that. Type safety has always been worth it to me, we adopted Flow and haven't looked back, although some FE developers aren't big fans of it.

I think the interesting thing is that for 90% of what is being built most tools are overkill and JQuery is really good enough. I say that as someone that started using React/Flux almost 2 years ago, and as someone in the midst of moving from Flux stores to Redux. The power of these tools is when there are large teams involved, when the complexity of the state on the FrontEnd is extremely high, and when you absolutely need a Single Page Application. Most of the time all 3 of those conditions aren't true, and in those cases you're better off using something like jQuery which is boring, easy to reason about, and everybody already knows it well.

I've found that code reviews are one of the best ways to increase code quality. Even just talking with other developers about why they've done things is helpful in thinking about simpler options and keeping things closer to the architectural vision.

You'll likely have the easiest time looking at an industry you've already worked in. Your years of 'X' experience in a given industry means you'll know all the jargon and have a leg up on the competition. Good luck with the job hunt.