Ask HN: Have you ever thought of leaving programming for something else?

Re:Ask HN: Have you ever thought of leaving programming for ... by nf05papsjfVbc on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @03:54AM (#12898669)

Though I know that your intentions were harmless, I'd like to add that it's not a good idea to do such a lookup without a sound reason. At some places where I worked, I could have been fired for doing that unless I was looking to fix a bug and this particular bit of data was essential.

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Re:Ask HN: Have you ever thought of leaving programming for ... by crypt1d on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @04:33AM (#12898858)

I'm going to assume that those companies u worked at had good intentions as well, but this seems like an unfounded fear.

Unless u are working on a heavily confidential project that has a certain legal anonymity requirement (in which case the user's IP should be scrambled anyway), I don't see how doing a whois query could create any damage.

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Re:Ask HN: Have you ever thought of leaving programming for ... by nf05papsjfVbc on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @11:31AM (#12901573)

- It diminishes privacy

- It shows by example that this behaviour is okay thus others are less reluctant to run queries of smilar nature

In itself each of them is not so big but all these behaviours add up to the 'culture' of either respecting the user's privacy or taking it not very seriously.

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Re:Ask HN: Have you ever thought of leaving programming for ... by pc86 on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @10:17AM (#12900875)

You should generally have a reason to do anything in production regardless of the confidentiality.

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