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I love open source software and use it every day. I also donate to organizations who contribute to that community. My issue with OP's proposal, rather, was that those who create software and hardware should be forced to release it for free.

You are welcome to write the software for systems you describe and release it for free. Unfortunately, the economic model of the real world is a little more complicated than you seem to realize.

Not at all, in my opinion.

While it is true that there are poorly-trained and malicious cops in the USA (and anywhere in the world), the reports that go viral are very much in the minority. That doesn't diminish how tragic they are, however.

It really upsets me that people in our country grow up thinking that law enforcement officers may not be the people to go to when they need assistance. It is an issue that permeates into various others—for example, in light of the Kavanaugh circus, who would go to law enforcement to report sexual assault if they feel (or have been told they will be) discriminated against?

A very sad state of affairs...and it can't be solved with dynamic programming. :(

I absolutely love your music analogy. That is brilliant and accurate!

I have tried to get in touch with Keybase multiple times with zero response. I don't even think my application was acknowledged upon submission, though I sent it in response to a post just like this.

Maybe I was just not a match, which is fine, but I thought I would share in case this treatment was not intentional.

As others have pointed out, this is an odd issue that really shouldn’t be happening. Hopefully, since posting, the author has investigated alternative solutions for website hosting as there are many (which are very nice and very free).

I sort of got the impression that this was just a paid promotion for CloudFlare workers. If it wasn’t, maybe they could do you a solid and help you identify the actual issue. :)

When I reached out to Asana regarding roles in their NYC office, a recruiter told me that they were only considering senior candidates for that location. Is that still the case?

I love this idea. However, I think it is crucial that you have some sort of demos available for people to look at on the front page.

Edit: You should also allow users to change fonts / text colors, as well as section background colors. I would be very annoyed if every single restaurant website looked exactly the same. I'd also recommend allowing them to upload their logo as an image.

Also, let them download their menu as JSON maybe?

I use the Cash app as well. And I can't really tell if your second paragraph is a joke or not!

I have been complaining about this, basically since Venmo came out. My friends would just say "oh, you just make your account private" like it was no big deal, but I was still flabbergasted. Was it supposed to be some kind of social networking aspect? It just boggles my mind that people would participate in such a product. My primary experience with it was as an undergraduate, where student groups would use it to send money for things like membership fees, outfits, etc. Most of these people were downloading the app for the first time, and I doubt they bothered managing their privacy settings.

The fact that this is now just getting attention kind of makes me want to hit my head on my desk. I'm glad it is though; this site is very well done and I hope Venmo and its users take note.

> ...it includes important independent innovations

Meaning they send your browsing data to Chinese government agencies?

I agree it was a little much to complain about the offer, but it was not competitive at all.

Disclaimer: not an IBM employee here; I have only interacted with current/past employees and these examples are anecdotal:

One fresh-out-of-college software engineer spent the first year or so working on nothing but PowerPoints and watching "agile training" videos to improve his score on some kind of IBM social/point system. He moved to actual programming when he relocated to a different office. Then, one Friday, a manager came to him and said his project was shut down, and that he was starting on a new team that following Monday.

When I interviewed at Google, the woman I talked to at lunch (CS PhD) had nothing nice to say either, and she worked on Watson which seems to be their saving grace. She made a lot of the same critiques of the work environment there, also adding that Watson is mostly just a marketing stunt for non-technical customers.