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Re:Show HN: TabNine, an autocompleter for all languages by achamayou on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @02:48PM (#18394300)
If the amount of traffic is predictably small though, you can be confident that it’s not uploading the entirety of your source code, so perhaps some mechanism to estqblish that would help?
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Re:Show HN: TabNine, an autocompleter for all languages by gbear605 on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @03:15PM (#18394538)
Some code is a lot more valuable than other code. For example, token files for connecting to remote servers.
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Re:Show HN: TabNine, an autocompleter for all languages by achamayou on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @03:23PM (#18394596)
There is no good reason for authentication secrets to be in your source tree though.

I’m not suggesting this is perfect in any case, but it would at least place an upper bound on whatever amount of IP leakage you think might happen.

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Re:Show HN: TabNine, an autocompleter for all languages by heartbreak on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @05:44PM (#18395591)
But do you ever edit your authentication secrets in your text editor? I edit my .env file in vim all the time.
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