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> One way to see if someone is an engineer is to ping GitHub directly. This strikes me as slightly creepy. If I give you my email as a customer, I am not sure
by eshvk 12y ago
> One way to see if someone is an engineer is to ping GitHub directly.
This strikes me as slightly creepy. If I give you my email as a customer, I am not sure I want that information to be mined for this purpose.
- opendais 12y agoPersonally, I don't mind. I assume anything I give to a social networking site [e.g. GitHub] is public knowledge or might as well be. I mainly value my privacy about non-public information [e.g. lovers, close friends, current location] and that isn't acquirable without violating the privacy of my phone/email/etc.
- michaelt 12y agoWhile you may consider user e-mail addresses to be public, some people take umbrage when their e-mail addresses are disclosed. Personally I use a different e-mail address for almost every site, so searching by e-mail address wouldn't find my account, but I know many people use the same e-mail address for several things.
- abracar 12y agoTrue, some people use a different address for each service (ie. yourservice@mydomain.com), and they tend to be the the kind of people one would want to hire as engineers! I wonder if Sourcing.io figured it out somehow, but at least compared to option 1 it seems better to look them up manually.
- opendais 12y agoThat is what the parent comment basically said. Yes, I do understand people in the world don't all share my opinions given I was replying to the opinion you present. ;)
- pizza 12y agoWould you find it creepy if an employee were doing this manually?
- eshvk 12y agoYes.