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Forking the Web 2 months ago

Seems like somebody is not accepting that every successful project will grow and become unwieldy like this. This is all legacy backwards compatibility of all iterated ideas that now you have to support.

Bro no one will use a web service and trust it is 100% private. This is an unprovable claim. Maybe it is private now, but you sell this in 5 years and it stops being so.

Maybe a JavaScript ad jailbreaks an iframe and reads this.

There is no beating a locally running program

Couldn’t they add a ChatGPT like bot that would answer questions about confluence or jira content as first AI feature instead of adding unhelpful chatbots for customer support

I wouldn’t say you’re at fault for delivering. You are at fault of not delivering a concise solution that uses least elements possible and has a nice clean fast-to-read readme, one setup script or docker file or whatever.

And tbh the result is just a solution (ignoring all the issues of is this terminal inspired and is email backend as a service acceptable choice) - looks generic, nothing interesting besides a super long proposal and super long readme to achieve nothing special honestly. Just a solution checking the boxes. Probably one of many. That’s why probably wasn’t selected.

TL;DR

1. Be more concise in messaging and documentation 2. Do something more than just the working solution esp if they mention brownie points for cool stuff in the task description

Also former Wikia/Fandom engineer. I won a hackathon with a wiki text validator on page save - the idea was never moved to production because nobody ultimately cared about the wiki part of it for years and years. It was just a cost center. Nice chrome to put around ads.

Yeah this is correct. Other comments seem misinformed.

You can fingerprint a device using this because you know the wall clock difference and you know the previous cpu cycles. So you can assume any device with appropriately more cpu cycles may be the same device.

We’re talking measurements taken from different apps using Google or Facebook sdk.