cjoelbrowning

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I don’t think you're wrong to be worried, and you certainly don’t have to justify yourself to me. Achieving security and privacy (not just online) is possible, but I believe it comes at a cost. How you choose to strike that balance is your right, and may be entirely justified, but it does signal something about you in the end, for better or for worse.

cjoelbrowning

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It’s obvious that they want privacy, but it’s not obvious why they want that level of privacy. I want privacy too but I don’t own several burner phones that I paid for with cash.

cjoelbrowning

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Right, it starts to raise questions for me when someone goes out of their way to choose less popular, more encrypted options. There are certainly contexts where I think that makes sense though.

cjoelbrowning

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A paradox in my own life is that I think people should have a right to use encryption for their personal data and communication, but I’m often suspicious of people who do so without an obvious reason.

cjoelbrowning

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I think coding tests can be done in a way that’s useful, but on the other hand I’ve never been fooled by a candidate who was an “impostor” during a non-technical screening. Everyone I’ve judged to be a competent engineer after 30 min of semi-structured technical discussion has indeed been a competent engineer.

cjoelbrowning

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Anecdotally, I was in a fraternity many years ago and we were warned that forcing new recruits to perform tasks that aren’t the responsibilities of being a full-member could be viewed as “subtle” hazing.

Not that I necessarily agree but I could see how someone might argue that a coding interview that doesn’t test the actual duties of the position might also be “subtle” hazing.

cjoelbrowning

2 anni fadiscuss

Wow! I didn’t even realize heroku was still around. Made my first web apps there back before the big cloud providers became ubiquitous.

cjoelbrowning

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One thing I’ve observed is that outside the main tech job markets (bay area, nyc, etc), many remote jobs offer higher salaries than similar in-person roles.

cjoelbrowning

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OpenTofu PR’d a feature in response to a request to do what Terraform had done under a different license. Hashicorp would be foolish not to look into it.

cjoelbrowning

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The argument OpenTofu and their lawyers are making is that they didn’t copy the “removed” statement, which is under the new BUSL license, they looked at the “moved” statement (licensed originally under MPL) and derived their own removed statement from that. Maybe true but I can’t help but wonder if there was any “parallel construction” involved.

If you look at the PR in OpenTofu: https://github.com/opentofu/opentofu/pull/1158

It claims to fix this issue: https://github.com/opentofu/opentofu/issues/1032

Which in turn references this issue in terraform: https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/issues/34402

I’m not a lawyer and have no idea who is right or wrong but I understand why Hashicorp is scrutinizing this.

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