Re:How a VC-funded company is undermining the open-source co...
by michaelmior on Monday July 24, 2017 @08:20AM
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I don't really want to defend Kite, but when it says "Kite achieves this by analyzing your code in the cloud" I would assume that my code is uploaded to the cloud.
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Re:How a VC-funded company is undermining the open-source co...
by daxelrod on Monday July 24, 2017 @09:02AM
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Which code is "my code" here?
My assumption from that dialog box would be that at most, the code I currently have open in my editor would be uploaded. Not all the source code on my computer.
Re:How a VC-funded company is undermining the open-source co...
by iainmerrick on Monday July 24, 2017 @11:08AM
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How can autocomplete work without looking at all the other code too?
Edit to add: oh, wait, I misunderstood. It grabs all the code on your computer? That's crazy. I just meant it's not totally unreasonable to grab the whole git repo you're working in, say.
Re:How a VC-funded company is undermining the open-source co...
by keganunderwood on Monday July 24, 2017 @10:59PM
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Yeah, screw kite.
Re:How a VC-funded company is undermining the open-source co...
by sofaofthedamned on Monday July 24, 2017 @03:53PM
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Exactly. How do they know what is my code, or somebody elses? Dodgy.
Re:How a VC-funded company is undermining the open-source co...
by api on Monday July 24, 2017 @11:22AM
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This plugin helps for sites like Kite:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cloud-to-butt-plus...
Re:How a VC-funded company is undermining the open-source co...
by mrkrabo on Monday July 24, 2017 @08:32AM
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If you're going to upload potentially private code from your user's computer to your servers, you better warn him with big fat red letters before you upload a single byte.
Re:How a VC-funded company is undermining the open-source co...
by mercer on Monday July 24, 2017 @09:11AM
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If you don't want to defend Kite, why bother defending Kite?
Re:How a VC-funded company is undermining the open-source co...
by michaelmior on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @04:06PM
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I'm not defending their actions. I'm just saying that I don't think they're as surprising as people make them out to be given the messaging in the product.