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A single individual should not be able to override a set of core committees in a public open source project.

Fork WP, and cut Mullenweg out of the loop.

Teams have been building services like this for ~20 years. They very rarely stick. I agree that it’s still too hard, but the market has historically been too small. It’s at-best a hobby side project for a larger company that can afford to burn the cash.

Like Apple offers this for email for iCloud users. I think Firefox Relay offered it too. There was another company in the late 00s that offered a P2P version.

I mean _cool_, but I’ve not seen a company with this as its primary product last more than 18 months before. With that, _good luck_.

Unless I personally gave you my work email address, you can f*k right the hell off.

Buying a list of email addresses off the internet that has mine in it is top-tier shady.

1. If you have $800 to spend on an emotional support robot — OR you’re dumb enough to spend $800 on an emotional support robot, I don’t see this as a big loss.

2. Never spend money on multiplayer-only video games. Never buy a robot that is 100% cloud connected — ESPECIALLY from a startup. This is the same concept stated twice.

3. You buy things for what they are today; NEVER for what they might be tomorrow.

I feel no remorse. Stupidity should be painful.

People hate Windows, but won’t stop using it.

Everyone gets to make their own decisions, I suppose, but let’s all tell the truth about what’s happening here.

Ones that are highly complex but poorly documented.

I used to own an API service at work, where we worked hard to ensure that the documentation was of a very high quality. When I got promoted and moved to a new team, I'd warned my manager NOT to hand it over to one team that was remarkably bad at their work. My manager did anyway.

During the transition, the new development lead said "I'm not going to read the documentation. If the code isn't self-documenting, we're going to rewrite it." Note that he said that not knowing anything about the service they were taking over. Also, it was in a language that had never established strong patterns for itself, so self-documenting when there are no strong patterns is generally meaningless.

Over the next 6 months, he proceeded to ruin the service to the point where it was impacting customers, and got fired for it. In any project of large enough size, self-documenting code falls apart unless you are remarkably good at it. IMO, Go's standard library is an exception to my experience.

I disagree with most of these posters. I am a person on GitHub. I don’t become a different person once the work day starts. I’ve done plenty of OSS as an employee of companies, and I’ve done more OSS work as an individual.

Although you _can_ use separate accounts, the idea that you MUST is nonsense.

But yes, I encountered the same thing once I was added to my full-time employer’s GHE Cloud account. So far, not a problem.

I play instruments, read books, and have an iPad.

It reminded me of the old magazine clipping of a guy holding a camcorder over his shoulder and pointing to a table full of technology. "All of this fits in your pocket now."

Same thing. Chill out. You're free to not like something and have it continue to exist despite your dislike of it.

FFS

In fact I think it’s symbolic of the direction Apple took since the passing of Steve Jobs.

…aaaaaand I've tuned-out.

So much this.

As a founding, but former, member of the SDK team: can confirm.

I’m not going to answer the question as-asked because its core premise is flawed.

Instead of looking to disable 2FA, look to speed-up providing 2FA codes.

Most passwords managers support auto-filling 2FA codes. Yes, some are still super-old school and only support SMS and email. But Safari on macOS (for example) can pre-fill the texted/emailed codes (as long as Mail.app is open, and/or your phone is paired with your computer).

Even better/faster? Passkeys. GitHub supports them, and they’re the fastest (and most secure?) login solution.

There are all sorts of solutions for this problem outside of making security worse.

This is what Google’s and Apple’s (and Nintendo’s, and Microsoft’s, and Sony’s) cut covers. They built the platform, the system, provide straightforward billing, provide the “shopping mall” that draws eyeballs, etc.

It’s not just payment processing.

Fair fees for the exchange of value they provide is perfectly valid and fair in capitalistic societies. The percentage number is up for discussion, but “charging for value” by the platform vendors who built the thing and provide the platform itself is a valid point.

As an aside, can you explain to me why Cloud9 has never worked correctly in Safari? The cursor positioning in text has been messed up for as long as I can remember. AWS has never fixed it, despite having owned it for over a decade.

I worked at AWS from 2010 to 2014 after also getting acqui-hired (AWS SDK for PHP, fka CloudFusion).

This.

Same here. I think what I realized is that coding is not a thing. Rather, it is a tool which enables you to do other things.

About 13 years in, I pivoted in two interesting ways.

1. I started looking far more at the backend, infrastructure, and how to design efficient end-to-end systems (from UX, through the stack, to the infrastructure).

2. I realized that I have a passion for building products that take complex things, and simplify them for the masses.

So, I was doing more "building", but I was also creating new "products". And that flipped a switch inside me.

In my opinion (others will disagree), the vast majority of CS concepts are not very useful for most software developers. I don't think you should feel bad about that. I consider my time & money getting a CS degree to be almost entirely wasted.

I would agree for a web dev. But if you start getting more into backend, infrastructure, building distributed systems and APIs (which was the path I took), data structures and algorithms definitely start to come into play.

I started out self-taught on the web. Got a degree in design. Then learned web dev, then moved to backend, then to infrastructure, then devops, and now platform and cloud engineering. For me, I wanted to understand "the whole widget". And there are things I learned about UX that when applied to DevOps/SRE work, have elevated me as someone to listen to.

(As a fan of Avatar: The Last Airbender, I want to point to when Iroh was explaining how the 4 nations achieve balance. Same concept here. UX, engineering, infrastructure, and product need to work collaboratively together with mutual respect for the other disciplines to achieve the balance that leads to something great happening.)

I've picked up some data structures and algorithms along the way over the years, but I don't have college definitions of them. This hurt me when interviewing at Google, but I also have the ability to search the web and learn new things. So I do.

Just last week, I was working on tokenizing and building an AST for NRQL (New Relic's Query Language). As I was working through the tokenizer, I realized that this is what a linked list is.

I'm thinking about taking a single college course this upcoming semester about data structures and algorithms, just to fill in the blanks. But I've been building things for the web since 1997. For the most part, using anything beyond lists, maps, sets, queues, etc., is (relatively) rare, but again, it depends where you want to go next. Sorting large datasets efficiently, parsing things into trees, binary search, and making sure I iterate over things as few times as humanly possible will give you FAR more bang for your buck.

I’m a dual citizen of Canada and the US. But I also know that if there’s a language selector, and I see the British flag, I know it’s gonna get me English.

Perfection is impossible when human beings are involved.

Please stop manufacturing rage.

False equivalence.

A better example would be having the confederate flag. Except that the confederacy being dissolved is already a decided issue at the national level. (Also most Americans are only familiar with the confederate army flag, and not the confederate national flag.)

China and Taiwan have no such agreement. Taiwan says one thing, mainland China says the opposite. There is no resolution.

Airbnbs in the desert, during the hottest summer on record, can’t find renters?

Didn’t read the article.

For this specific article, it’s 100% speculation.

I’m not saying it isn’t true, but rather there is no evidence to support it. Ars Technica is also reporting on this topic this morning, and they are also missing evidence-backed sources. It’s all Wall Street analyst speculation.

Read with several large, coarse, grains of salt.

Before this moment, I had referred to it as “transparent source” — you can look, but cannot touch.

Idiots. Idiots everywhere.

Serverless is great for event handling and bursty workloads. It is not efficient for a long running or constantly running processes. That was never what it was designed for.

There is a time and a place for serverless.

Over 900.

AI is only coming for your job if you suck at your job.

The robots are ALWAYS coming to get you.

In other words, “we’ve learned nothing”.

As a principal engineer who left the Bay Area in 2010, this post obviously excludes me. If I have my choice, I’ll never go back to the office.

One word: support.

Support does not mean “it works“. Support refers to who is on the hook when something goes wrong.

If the company is not prepared to support Linux, there is your problem.

This didn’t age well