almightygod

I find your anecdotal evidence satisfactory to caste judgment on doctors that prescribe medication for ADHD

The Verge did a big write up on Assembly here http://www.theverge.com/2014/11/21/7258667/assembly-collabor...

This whole incident is sad. It's incredibly sad for Julie, for everyone at GitHub, for the founders, and for the alleged "crazy" founder wife who was banned from a company she probably sacrificed a lot for

This kicked it off: https://twitter.com/mattetti/status/438494095506280448

whois atom.io =>

Domain : atom.io

Status : Client Updt+Delt Lock

Owner : GitHub Hostmaster

Owner : GitHub, Inc.

Owner : 88 Colin P Kelly Jr St

Owner : San Francisco

Owner : CA

Owner : US

Needs more triangles.

Why is this press release on Hacker News?

No doubt Atlassian sees GitHub quickly approaching in their rear view mirror

Its all about prioritizing. As much as the TSA may be a now, 30 minute inconvenience, there are so many more serious problems to solve. IMO it would be irresponsible of a candidate to position their political platform around improving the TSA which affects the avg american probably once or twice a year at most.

Meanwhile you have a struggling economy, attempts to ban scientific progress, shutting down the internet, inequality for minorities, the list goes on

Right! Time to step up the rhetoric and hype machine in prep for the release

I counted 5 problems, not 99...is it just me?

One of your responsibilities:

Identification of product and services potentially infringed by IV’s patents

Seems like hype. This page http://githire.com/job_board shows only 19 job requests and only 3 intros made so far. Also if these intros are made by programmatically scraping emails on github, then they could be in some trouble for violating spam laws.

hey coderrr - a little delayed as I try to finish our product release - will post it as soon as I can

but THEY have permission...clearly lifting another companies design w/out permission is illegal and should be frowned upon

So as a hypothetical ignorant consumer, they'd bait me into providing more information. The effort to get my initial quote would require significantly less data - I'd see the results, like what I see (a.k.a. establish trust) and then it wouldn't be much more effort to get that SSN/DOB at that point.

why does it matter, the typical consumer wont care. The square design has been successful for them, why not piggyback on that success

Find a company that will let you telecommute

First off, I don't understand where your rage is coming from. My point is that if you contribute to open source then your coding ability is clearly demonstrated in those projects. I'd rather spend my mental powers on coding something that others could use afterwards then a stupid code challenge that will just be rm -rf after the interviewer reviews it.

None of them has a GitHub account and that is unlikely to change

I'm surprised your so proud that your team will never have a free account on the largest repository of open source. Regardless if you contribute, why wouldn't you take advantage of FOSS instead of re-creating the wheel.

I will take a bet of dollars to donuts that every programmer in my office has more raw coding acumen than you

Thats a rather baseless statement. What would you know about my ability to code or not to code. On the other hand, your team's apparent anti-open-source position (based on above comment) seems to indicate they are not as awesome as you describe.

The problem is you, and people like you

You mean people that are passionate enough about programming to voluntarily write code on evenings and weekend and share it for the broader community of developers for the sole purpose of being proud of something you create and sharing it so others can benefit? I'd be happy if there were more problems like me

dont be a github douce

Honestly I don't care if you use github, bitbucket, codeplex, or your blog

I have so much open source to demonstrate my ability, I promise you I'll never use this site or complete any code exercise for an interview. If you don't want to look at my github profile, fine, I don't want to work at your company

I also happen to hire and if the candidate does not have an open source project I give them a meaningful challenge (add value to the community) and tell them to create a github acct and share a link to the repo. At least by the end of the process they have something to walk away with

I don't care about karma burn; F&$# those damn ignorant republicans

There is an agreement between the user and their ISP, I for one have never made any agreement with KISSMetrics though I've used sites where they have tracked my information. Now I do make an agreement between a service like hulu when I use the site (Terms of Use) but the kicker here is (from their privacy policy):

You have choices about the collection and use of your information by third parties

But in fact because of KissMetrics shenanigans, the user did not have the choice which is probably why Hulu is in trouble. I suspect the other defendants have similar clauses that were not followed

For all startups in general, probably not much, for kiss clients? Probably a lot. If I used kiss the first thing I'd be doing is removing their service from my site

the takeaway for me is respect privacy and other general laws of the country you do business in

i personally believe kissmetrics had to fully know they had figured out a way to bypass privacy settings and thought themselves clever for it. Most likely they said the far too often: "It will only be a problem if we are successful and then, hey we are successful"

Your argument falls into "Misleading Vividness" (http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/misleading-vividnes...)

The more common case is a driver being angered by the slight inconvenience of slowing down. Which usually is because they are in fact the one driving over the speed limit and therefore driving dangerously according the law.

To sum it all up, we need more empathy for others and their situations we are not aware of. I highly recommend this short TED video http://www.ted.com/talks/sam_richards_a_radical_experiment_i...