Terrible compared to what? http? I don't understand why we get big scary warnings from browsers for self signed https, but never a peep out of them when submitting the same form over http.
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The same argument could be made for spam email.
If simply dumped in front of school teachers and administrators, I suspect it would be harmful. The data will simply reinforce biases those people already have about certain students.
Interestingly, the data could be turned around on the teachers as well. A teacher may be so effective that students can pass courses without reading the material. Administrators might not recognize the astounding ability of the teacher and instead interpret it as a teacher handing out easy As.
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How many of you have suggested a course of action that is plain to you as a developer, but is shot down by non-technical management? Are you allowed to solve problems with new tools and languages or must you ensure compatibility with everything written at the company since 1970? Are you busy writing a great service, or are you expected to integrate with some clunky service that will limit your work in the future because using a third party is expected to be faster and cheaper?
I believe Jeff Dean in charge of healthcare.gov would have failed. Not because he's not great. It's just certain environments are not conducive to producing 10x results.
I guess go ahead and find where one of them contributed to prop 8 or something.
According to the readme, the guy only worked on the repo for a week while he worked there. Shouldn't be too hard to redo a week's worth of work. Maybe easier than undoing the damage being done to appendto's reputation by their scumbag policies.
It isn't just accidental errors you need to worry about. Obfuscated intentional errors are a problem too. If the language design prevents bugs that an NSA mole would try to slip in, then that is a very good reason to rewrite in a new language.
Let me add a rebuttal:
There are many hungry Android developers out there. Developers who do not whine about how Android is hard. Developers who have actually invested the time and effort to be good at Android development.
If you write iOS first, and your app is a big hit, these hungry developers will clone your app within days and soak up 75% of the market that you ignored. Since iOS is so easy, many of them will port to iOS just as quickly. Their Android success will have a network effect. The 75% that loves the clone on Android will tell their iOS friends who will then choose the clone over your app.
That results in you writing an article on hacker news about how some guy just cloned your Threes/2048 app and is now doing better than you.
I have no sympathy for developers who are unable to compete because Android doesn't make development as nice/easy as iOS.