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That’s one way to not do responsible disclosure and give the company a chance to address/fix the issue. I guess clicks on the blog are more important.

That’s a stretch. If we fired everyone every time something like this happened, you would have nobody working in tech. This bug does not result in data leakage/disclosure, nor it put anyone’s business at significant risk. Lesson learned, let them fix it, and see what we can learn.

I mean, sure, but then not everyone ends up at Google.

“rm -rf when ran under sudo deletes everything”

Oh no, how do I report this!?

Wow. I’ve known pg to sometimes make empty statements, but this one takes the cake.

Read: guy with immense privilege tells others not to work for others.

This doesn’t even begin to account for the risk that comes with startups that some people cannot take. When you make $7/hr and do a Bootcamp, and now can be employed by Google, you’re not going to abandon that for a tiiiiiiny possibility to build a successful startup just because “you weren’t meant to have a boss”.

Do you feel the need to repost the exact same argument word-for-word?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24702805

At this point, picking AMD for your CPU becomes such a no-brainer. Compounded by Intel’s security issues and all.

Stop using social media. Help your friends and family move to alternative communication channels. If you own your site, remove any kind or Facebook of social integration.

While there is no regulation, you need to vote through elimination of these parasite services from your day to day activities.

Clayton Christensen covered that in Innovators Dilemma. Large companies, on average, are very risk-averse.

Everyone I talk to in the States also talks about their salaries in gross amounts, not post-tax (same applies for business advertising jobs).

Canada in general has much lower income inequality, which is an a-OK trade off for slightly lower wages, as long as basic needs are covered.

How is that related to immigration?

That is... the opposite of what Canada does? Healthcare there is not uber-funded, but also not necessarily strapped for cash.

If someone is keen on cost-cutting through outsourcing, they already don’t have an incentive to bring someone in and pay benefits. This is a false narrative.

Which... can already be done today?

OK, so where exactly has this NOT worked? Where is this huge number of people that just aren’t adjusted to the “Canadian lifestyle”?

Mind sharing some numbers? This is a patently false statement. Wages in Canada might be lower, but that is because they get a number of other social benefits, such as healthcare, that gets paid through taxes taken from said wages.

Canada is selective about immigrants (they have a points system), so all the things you call out are accounted for in their model - they bring in those their country needs. And from what I see from down south, they benefit a lot from it.

If you are going to call out “infrastructure to support it”, care to elaborate and maybe throw in some numbers?

The things you are describing are not even close to being the revenue drivers or “reasons for existence” for the companies you listed. As someone who worked at FB, there is nowhere CLOSE to the amount of funding that Oculus gets compared to other parts of the company. I would venture to say the same about MS - Hololens is nothing more than an experiment, that is not the funnel in which Microsoft is pouring its revenue from other parts of the business. I am not arguing that companies don’t innovate. I am, however, arguing that companies, once reached a certain size, are less and less incentivized to do so.

And then the consumer/acquired parts become completely derailed/destroyed/super-monetized. This is conjecture, but awfully common.

None of those things were “invented” or truly brought to the edge of technological abilities by the companies you described. They piggyback off of existing invention, and pretty much are interested in keeping things as-is.

Your phone manufacturer doesn’t care about invention as much as they care about you buying the next, slightly better model.

Your TV manufacturer is interested in recouping the losses they have on selling you a cheap device by pushing as much advertising as possible.

The pharma company is interested in gouging as much money as they can through holding patents - they don’t develop medicine out of the goodness of their hearts.

You get the point.

_ Monopolistic competition is more dynamic than the free, small-firm dominated market. Size gives companies the ability to earn surplus profit which is turned into long-term innovation rather than short-term fighting for market share._

Ah yes, this good ol’ myth. To debunk it, look around you at all the major players in tech who are hoarding cash like there is no tomorrow while doing incremental improvements to products rather than building something interesting.

The larger a company becomes, the more bloated and bureaucratic it becomes. Once they’re big enough, innovation is close to impossible, and the self-preservation instinct kicks in. Again, you can see that in almost all BigTech players today.

This is all nice, but here is the important part you gotta remember - the more you take dependencies on AWS and its integrations, the harder it will be to actually have any flexibility and say in your own systems design. AWS is interested in taking your money first and foremost as well as having you depend on it from one side to another of your stack. Instead I’d look at containerizing my workflows and only using cloud tools on the edge (like load balancing).

Literally nothing from what you showed is a pleasant customer experience. Overly complex workflow that can be simplified by what GitHub is doing.

Think of a beginner developer who wants to learn how to contribute to an open source project. If they would be put through the process you showed, it will be a meat grinder that is going to be error prone. Zero need for that when GitHub has a great UX that focuses on getting shit done instead of fiddling with conventions from the 90s.

Wait until your mail server goes down or experiences a malfunction that erases all mail threads. Wait until your hard drive fails and you lose all the code.

There can be a lot of hypotheticals. GitHub does not preclude you from using git for what it’s intended to be - a distributed source control management system. If you don’t have backups, that’s on you.

Next, Google partners with Trader Joe’s in its upcoming acquisition of CarFax.

100% this. I will take GitHub’s PR process over emailing diffs any day. It’s just a matter of improving user productivity.

This person seems very upset about something that customers actually love. Speaking for myself —- GitHub pull requests are amazing. I have an easy way to collaborate and propose changes to my projects through a human-friendly interface that doesn’t require me to use tech from early 90s.

Surprise - technology evolves. We’re not all going to stick with BBS just because “it’s a standard everyone uses, ZOMG don’t extinguish it!”

Well this is rich coming from Kaspersky.

If Apple is so keen on a great user experience, and that’s why they force everyone through the their own IAP funnel, then they should do the same on Android - after all, it’s not about the profit margin, but ease of use.

Clearly it is not.