philderbeast

There is an abundance of bad tests out there, but blanket statements that you won't use a tool that is used for assessing candiates is just as rediculas as saying you won't give apply to jobs that ask for your cv to apply.

and still more DMCA notices going in since this post has been up, Looks like they still haven't learnt there lesson despite what they have said in this thread

bad hacker rank tests are bad, but not all hacker rank tests are bad.

I am sure however you have already assesed this and applied for the appropriate registration for these works that you are claiming to own the copywrite to? right?

1) register the copywrite of the tools you have written inhouse for hacker rank and 2) ONLY issue DMCA claims based on your registered copywrites.

The questions and peoples answers to them are not something you should EVER have even considered issuing takedown notices for.

literaly everything your assessing is programming 101. its not something that you can or should be asserting any copywrite on.

infact I would challange you to register the copywrites on your questions/answers and see exactly how far you get with that process before you even consider sending a single DMCA notice.

I feel like hacker rank might be facing an uphill battle for this one.

its a case of your can't see it because there is no light, not because you dont have an angle of it (although that is also a chalange to overcome.

As soon as the author started listing things like k8s as needed for microservices it shows they havent stopped to think out side the box. there is no reason you can't run your set of microservices as 3-4 docker containers on the same host, no load balancers, no k8s, no log aggrigation, etc etc etc.

If your application makes sence as microservices you don't need to start with all of that, so including it all in the cost of startup makes no sense at all, as your application starts to scale out and need them, add them at that time, your going to need most of it for a monolith application as well, and some of them you may NEVER need (k8s for example, there is no reason you can't run your application on just plain old compute infrastructure, you don't even need to look at the "cloud" that old box in the corner of your office might be all you need for the project)

if you stop and remember that "microservices" just means small single function services, not things like k8s you will probably find that you can actully do a lot less work if you go down that road by letting other exsisting projects so a whole bunch of the work for you and save you re-inventing the wheel to get your project finished and out the door.

how do you feel about getting locked out of all your money for a false-positive fraud detection?

These days the bad actors have automated there exploit attempts to the point that its not even really about asking when you will get hit rather then if you will get hit anymore, its almost instant in most cases.

with so little leeway its just not viable to self host anything that is exposed to the internet, and then if you still have to deal with things like off-site backups if you care at all about your data.

can the user control the updates, including choosing when, what and if they happen.

"we have additional teirs..... but we havent launched them yet"

so you DON'T in fact have addtional teirs since I can't buy them, resulting in only 128gig of cloud backup being availble regardless of what hardware I buy.

Not to mention this "cloud backup" takes my files back out of my control and hands them over to big tech (apparently encrypted, but from your other comments there is no way to verify that since there is no option for the user to access the device)

there are plenty of ways to get around that particular problem (although a cloud server is one of the best). so why not provide the information and let the user decide rather then telling us all we need to use your subscription service.

the manditory subscription with no option to avoid it is a 100% non-starter for me.

I would much prefer a documented method for seting up my own cloud cutout with a variety of providers then be stuck with whatever they choose and no way to change it to something of my own chosing, particularly with the cost of the subscription.

Regardless of the licence, does the produced code even quality for copywrite protection, or does it fall under fair use?

what licence, if any, is there for unique code generated by co-pilot etc etc etc.

its a great big ball of who knows, however I expect that noting your only getting snippets you would be highly unlikly to get code that dosent fall under the fair use provisions, that said IANAL

how is that not misleading?

if YOUR license is not open source, you need to remove this claim from your website.

false claims like this will ensure I never use or recommend this product

so while they cant just ignore a claim, they can make it harder to make a claim.

Take the first demand for instance, pay $0.01 per play. on the face this sounds fine, until you look at the economics of this. Spotify Premium is $9.99, that means for every premium user there is only 999 plays per month at BEST if you don't consider any other overheads, before that payment is exhausted (not including things like discounts for 12 month plans, student and family pricing).

This is not to say artists shouldn't get paid more, but how many people would take say a 10x price increase to fund this level of payment?

That's not to mention they also want to remove the income stream of artists paying for increased plays on the platform (pushing more cost to the user)

again, the demands may be well intentioned, and many should just be adopted such as crediting all labour for a recording, but obviously no-one has looked at the economics' it would take to actually realise the level of payment being asked for here and thought about if consumers would be willing to pay that price.

there has been no reason now for years to start any new project in python2, and since it went EOL last year you would have to be crazy to use it.

I just finished a Graduate diploma at a local University, a single subject had over 100 students each paying $3500 to do that subject alone yet the Uni tried to claim they didn't have the staff/resources to update that course (that was 10 hours of face to face class time) each session. I find it hard to imagine that running that one session cost even a fraction of the $350,000 paid by students to run such that there was nothing left over to fund resourcing for updating the materials.

and lets not forget that with python 2 not being supported anymore, even getting it installed and running in the fist place is going to start getting harder and harder.

if its not being used, then does it running with the latest tools even matter?

Keeping current with industry is the only way they can stay relevant in the modern world, particularly in IT and related fields where anyone with a computer at home can do the same research as someone at a university.