It's important to choose who you invite, and who invites you, carefully. If the invitee screws up, it reflects poorly on the inviter. If the inviter screws up, everyone they invited may also get looked at.
I don't know anyone on Lobsters enough to have that sort of relationship with. I don't really submit things, even here; not worth the trouble of being told something's a bad fit, off-topic, repost, bad title, or some other nitpick. There is likely to be friction if I were to participate there, so it's for the best.
That's a fantastic story. I hope fortune has followed you. I would be thrilled to find even one user of software I've wrote. To be interviewed by one for a job? That's amazing.
Their design allows them to focus on 'acculturating' new users, but does very little to spell out that culture or present unambiguous guard rails.
There are some prominent posters whose personal projects get free passes.
I don't feel like Lobsters is a community friendly to people on the spectrum. They expect allistic members who all understand socializing on an intuitive and instinctual level.
I've considered looking for an invite, but I don't think I'd be well received and I don't care for being reprimanded by a stranger over tone or 'unprofessionalism' when I see straight trolling or passive aggression in comments.
The invite system is solid but I would change a few things to turn it into a place I might have a chance of being welcome.
Neither Hamas or Israel are correct in their aggression. I urge you to read about the formation of Israel and ask yourself what value colonialism has in the modern age.
Strange that favoring peaceful civilians, of any ethnicity btw, means hatred. People are so binary in their thought that they assume only two sides exist.
Show us some proof. Tall claims require tall evidence.
For the record, Israel is killing medics and press members, and have done so for their entire existence. Their status as a state, and the US's backing of them at any cost including threats of violence and terrorist accusations if we don't just 'fall in line'.
Maybe you should realize the character of who you're supporting. Israel is not a legitimate country and the US has no right instigating more bullshit in that region.
There are no correct sides in this conflict except with innocent civilians which nobody seems to genuinely care about.
Accuse me of whatever you want, the alternative is being okay with one side raping and pillaging, which imo is worse.
I disagree, I consider it a matter of ethics when I'm deciding whether or not to add telemetry to a piece of software. Passing it off as a preference is equating them, when the software with telemetry is less trustworthy and has a broader attack surface due to network connectivity. Maybe doing all that is worth treating your users like a science project, but it's not just a preference to me.
There is too much behind-the-scenes telemetry, analytics, and other intel-gathering happening on websites and in software. The gains are held solely by developers who either cannot figure out how to build their software, or whose management is so incompetent that there's no real connection to the users of the software, so making meaningful and helpful change to the software is less accessible.
I strongly hold that the practice creates less durable software that also primes a user to expect their software to study their behavior and change accordingly. That is supremely creepy, and users deserve better treatment than that. It's our job as developers to respect the resources our software is using on the user's machine, and for them to be 100% informed of anything they may be sharing over the wire.
Maybe that viewpoint isn't in line with VC-backed startups or enterprise, but I also don't expect them to act ethically wrt software, either... Analytics and telemetry created the data brokerage industry. Programmers are responsible for allowing that behemoth to invade and shape lives.
Says responsible developers. Good software doesn't need to phone home or report to the dev that they clicked widget X instead of Y.
Telemetry is what happens when lazy or complacent devs move forward in their software but decide to be 'data driven'.
What's wrong with accusing someone of having the ability to spy of maybe spying? The point with technology and humans is, if the ability is there, it's not 'if' it will be abused; it's when.
Software that doesn't phone home or have telemetry never has to worry about that moral hazard. User data doesn't belong to developers, and that includes behavioral data.
Why should a user ignore when a developer has the means to spy? Telemetry is used as a false metric for a lot of bad decisions that make sense for the numbers but don't improve the product itself.
Even A/B testing could be considered an ethical hazard because it disrupts the user's understanding of the software for the sole purpose of decisions that, frankly, devs should have made before telemetry.
Users should be able to trust that their software won't be blabbing over the network about what you're doing. In an age where privacy is attacked from all angles, it's the least a developer could do.
Yes! There are few things as pleasant as having no subscription services to worry about. Bills are plentiful enough as it is, I'm in no hurry to add to them. I love one-time purchases.
I don't know anyone on Lobsters enough to have that sort of relationship with. I don't really submit things, even here; not worth the trouble of being told something's a bad fit, off-topic, repost, bad title, or some other nitpick. There is likely to be friction if I were to participate there, so it's for the best.
If it works for you, that's good.