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how many billions of dollars and they still host their blog on a nagware site SMH It's not like moving would be high drama since they already have a custom doma

how many billions of dollars and they still host their blog on a nagware site SMH It's not like moving would be high drama since they already have a custom domain for it https://scribe.rip/introducing-safetest-a-novel-approach-to-front-end-testing-37f9f88c152d https://scribe.rip/introducing-safetest-a-novel-approach-to-...

mdaniel 3y ago
it also has no license file, with https://github.com/kolodny/safetest/blob/main/package.json#L29 https://github.com/kolodny/safetest/blob/main/package.json#L... saying "MIT" but as far as I know it says that a lot and I doubt gravely that any court would consider a json file a legitimate license declaration
- kolodny 3y ago
  Sorry about that. I just added an official LICENSE file https://github.com/kolodny/safetest/blob/main/LICENSE https://github.com/kolodny/safetest/blob/main/LICENSE
joks 3y ago
Is hitting the (x) on the banner that difficult?
- mdaniel 3y ago
  Is having nagware for another company a good look for an engineering blog? > How we GraphQL all the things, after this brief message from our ... sponsor?
  - phantomathkg 3y ago
    Not OP, but apparently many companies still hosted their engineering blog on medium. So the answer to your question could be, yes and no, it depends. Pinterest: https://medium.com/pinterest-engineering https://medium.com/pinterest-engineering Workable: https://engineering.workable.com/ https://engineering.workable.com/ Skyscanner: https://medium.com/@SkyscannerEng https://medium.com/@SkyscannerEng Agoda: https://medium.com/@agoda.eng https://medium.com/@agoda.eng
MajimasEyepatch 3y ago
From the Hacker News Guidelines: "Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

mdaniel 3y ago

it also has no license file, with https://github.com/kolodny/safetest/blob/main/package.json#L29 https://github.com/kolodny/safetest/blob/main/package.json#L... saying "MIT" but as far as I know it says that a lot and I doubt gravely that any court would consider a json file a legitimate license declaration

kolodny 3y ago
Sorry about that. I just added an official LICENSE file https://github.com/kolodny/safetest/blob/main/LICENSE https://github.com/kolodny/safetest/blob/main/LICENSE

joks 3y ago

Is hitting the (x) on the banner that difficult?

mdaniel 3y ago
Is having nagware for another company a good look for an engineering blog? > How we GraphQL all the things, after this brief message from our ... sponsor?
- phantomathkg 3y ago
  Not OP, but apparently many companies still hosted their engineering blog on medium. So the answer to your question could be, yes and no, it depends. Pinterest: https://medium.com/pinterest-engineering https://medium.com/pinterest-engineering Workable: https://engineering.workable.com/ https://engineering.workable.com/ Skyscanner: https://medium.com/@SkyscannerEng https://medium.com/@SkyscannerEng Agoda: https://medium.com/@agoda.eng https://medium.com/@agoda.eng

MajimasEyepatch 3y ago

From the Hacker News Guidelines: "Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html