iamtew

"Doing the right thing by default" is a weird concept.

Who's default are we talking about here? The developers desired state of default, or the users?

Sounds similar to here in NL. Ubder drivers need to be licensed taxi drivers with all the appropriate permits and insurances.

There are taxi companies, but people are free to get a taxi permit and be a taxi driver without a boss. These guys use Uber now, and it seems to be working good.

The rating of drivers and customers seems to be well received, especially from my conversations with drivers. Also you have history in the Uber app, so if something happens, you forgot something, you know which car and which driver, or the driver knows which customer. This is almost impossible in a regular taxi unless you take time to bother to write down the driver details and the taxi car number.

There is still some issues with drivers not getting appropriately compensated for trips, and there's been a lot of attention to drivers not getting the extra cut of the surge pricing, Uber takes it all. Obviously not fair, but in the bigger picture of things it is good.

The cookie wall won't let me continue without agreeing to cookies. I can reject them in the Cookie Policy, but that too is protected behind the cookie wall.

Obviously, this doesn't comply with the GDPR, and makes the site unreadable for some.

You could just GPG sign your commits, then you can know for sure where the commit is coming from.

You don't have to be a customer for GDPR to apply to you, they just have to collect PII from you to be considered the data subject and now the organization need to follow GDPR.

If you collect data from me when I visit your website, even without me buying anything, you have now collected data and you need to comply.

The use of the word "customer" in this context is incorrect.

What's with this negative attitude against regulations with regards to startups?

"Move fast and break things" should be applied to your technology, not the laws where you operate!

That's exactly why the GDPR is put in place, to give users transparency and force website to ask the users consent before tracking.

You'll see some sites have quite an extensive menu of opting in to various tracking etc. For example Engadget or TechCrunch have a popup asking you to give consent, or not, before using the website. This is how it should be done.

Then there's other websites that shows you all it's tracking and ask you to just accept, there's no option to refuse, which is against GDPR, as implied consent is no longer valid.

And then you'll have websites like latimes that just goes "fuck it, we'll just block 500 million people in EU instead!"

Is the article available to Europeans somewhere? All I'm getting is a message with this:

> Unfortunately, our website is currently unavailable in most European countries. We are engaged on the issue and committed to looking at options that support our full range of digital offerings to the EU market. We continue to identify technical compliance solutions that will provide all readers with our award-winning journalism.

On the other hand, I'm wondering how much I want to read an article from a website where they must track me to when I just want to read something...

> Whenever a change in any service is merged to master, the CI rebuilds _all_ the services and pushes new Docker images to our Docker registry.

Why are you rebuilding _all_ the services, wouldn't it make sense to just rebuild the ones that have changes? You're now rebuilding perfectly working services without any new changes just because some other service changed, or am I misunderstanding something here?

They probably don't want to send expensive science payload on the first test flight of a new launch system, in case of catastrophic failure or such.

I feel exactly the same, and I've rarely met people who do the same!

Specific task has its own window, with all related tabs in there. Another window, another task/context.

Agreed, this should really be a toggle switch in the user profile. The information about the date doesn't change, just the displaying of it.

It should be a simple thing, and it'll cater to more people's workflows.