I’m pretty sure GP is saying if you already had an account and you delete it, it’s trivially easy for someone to register with your old handle and impersonate you
Of course people can always impersonate you but the goal here is to prevent them from impersonating you with a social handle people knew you had.
How are you allowed to tell me if that's an honest question or not? Do I have some hidden WP Engine shill comments in my history or something? Can you read my mind?
I don't have a strong opinion on WP Engine's behavior, because I'm not convinced by Matt's arguments. I do have an opinion on Matt's behavior though. I think it's unhinged.
Feel free to respond but I'm done with this conversation, given how unpleasant I feel it's going to be given the incredibly uncharitable tone in your response. I recommend taking a walk or something.
I'm in the same boat as GP. Was invited early, loved the Arc UX far more than any other browser. I've recommended it to many people.
As many other comments have pointed out, this vulnerability is such a rookie mistake that I don't think I can trust them again after this without understanding what factors in their security/engineering culture led to it. Patching this one issue isn't enough.
Paying a non-trivial portion of your engineers high salaries will kill any startup without unlimited money, regardless of what other guardrails you have in place.
This is the weirdest sentiment out of the entire article. "Only hire A-players" and "monitor them". I know exactly 0 A-hire engineers who would tolerate being monitored. Why wouldn't they leave to go to one of the many companies that would love to have them and where they won't have someone breathing down their neck?
Perhaps it's a take on how bad the job market is right now, but I still disagree. There are far fewer job prospects out there but way more than 0.
Lots of comments here saying "it's just marketing". I agree to some extent, but Datadog is easily the worst offender I've ever seen.
I work on a small engineering team and more than half the team got calls to their personal numbers and emails from Datadog. They are relentless. It's a huge turn-off, and I hope companies like this get named-and-shamed more often.
I haven’t seen anyone saying the founders shouldn’t have done this or that they wouldn’t have done the same in their shoes. I’m allowed to be happy for the founders and also hate Adobe and worry about the future of a product I use at the same time
For me, the unsettling part is that this has to be done virtually now.
I remember fondly during my college years the times I was studying in silence with my friends. We were bonding over the shared experience of working towards our goals together. And I felt motivated by being with them.
There’s nothing weak-willed about benefiting from accountability devices. But I do wonder if the unidirectional nature of it (his followers know him and not vice versa) actually fulfills a social need for his followers rather than just feeling like it does.
If you equate "consuming information" with learning, yes you are right that learning in public is more time-consuming than learning in private.
However, there are several studies[1] that show dramatic improvements in retention and understanding from material vs. just studying it. So if you consider retention and understanding to be the goal outcomes of learning, forcing yourself to structure your thoughts about the material enough to communicate it with others has clear benefits to learning rate.
This is a strange way to phrase the question. Sites that had to shift to app-like experiences are hard to find, because nowadays pretty much every web app is an app-like experience from the beginning and is created with a JS framework. The shift happened years ago.
Barring informational sites like blogs and news publications, it’s actually more challenging to come up with new web products that are NOT app-like in nature, and that do not use any kind of JS framework. Craigslist may be one of the few big ones and even it is losing market share to FB marketplace, which is an app-like experience.
Okay? You gave one example, C#, and extrapolated that to every single serious programming language you've ever used. I just took a quick look and none of Java, ruby, python, and PHP has this functionality in its standard library. Also yes ANSI codes work but it's not easy to write or read, so that's what these libraries are for. I'm not a JS apologist but it seems inaccurate to imply that its need for a terminal colorization library is a unique deficiency of the language.
We’re talking about a terminal colorization function though. Fragmentation of packages aside, are there any other languages that have terminal text colorization built into the standard library?
I feel like GUI vs. IDE misses a major part of the workflow. There's a lot to this workflow that isn't replicable on Github currently (dependency graph, frequently edited files, etc.). Navigating locally in your IDE is also part of this workflow, and yet is only one small part of what's being presented here.
That’s a reasonable assessment. I worked at startups for 3 years before joining a FAANG company and they flat-out ignored my startup experience for leveling purposes, placing me as a junior engineer.
Of course people can always impersonate you but the goal here is to prevent them from impersonating you with a social handle people knew you had.