Is this why when I'm on Etsy, some obscure, niche item that I'm looking at will always say "13 people have this in their carts right now"? Etsy doesn't seem like the type to me, or maybe that code is just flawed
When the company I worked for was in the process of being acquired, our codebase was frozen as well. I'm pretty sure this is just standard practice, no?
> It seems like many of the variables are given names that are not descriptive at all to make it a bit more difficult to read.
The code is just minimized for prod..
The article as written makes it sound like the developer(s) intentionally wrote their code cryptically, whereas minimization for deployment is fairly standard practice
If you don't mind my asking, what could be improved? I work in engineering but would like to send the feedback over to our customer support team.
Unfortunately, a large portion of HelloSign's customer support team was affected by a reduction in force earlier this year, because Dropbox didn't want to pay salaries for support staff in high cost of labor areas, like San Francisco.
You're not wrong, and maybe "hostile architecture" like this is cruel, but damn if I owned a business and I had homeless people setting up tents or loitering outside my door every night I'd probably find a way to stop it too. Spikes are a cheap and easy-to-deploy deterrent.
In a similar vein, I volunteer with a pigeon and dove rescue organization, and it's no secret that businesses install spikes on eaves and ledges to deter birds too. Although it always makes me sad to see them, I can understand and appreciate why they do it.