1. If you have $800 to spend on an emotional support robot — OR you’re dumb enough to spend $800 on an emotional support robot, I don’t see this as a big loss.
2. Never spend money on multiplayer-only video games. Never buy a robot that is 100% cloud connected — ESPECIALLY from a startup. This is the same concept stated twice.
3. You buy things for what they are today; NEVER for what they might be tomorrow.
I used to own an API service at work, where we worked hard to ensure that the documentation was of a very high quality. When I got promoted and moved to a new team, I'd warned my manager NOT to hand it over to one team that was remarkably bad at their work. My manager did anyway.
During the transition, the new development lead said "I'm not going to read the documentation. If the code isn't self-documenting, we're going to rewrite it." Note that he said that not knowing anything about the service they were taking over. Also, it was in a language that had never established strong patterns for itself, so self-documenting when there are no strong patterns is generally meaningless.
Over the next 6 months, he proceeded to ruin the service to the point where it was impacting customers, and got fired for it. In any project of large enough size, self-documenting code falls apart unless you are remarkably good at it. IMO, Go's standard library is an exception to my experience.
I disagree with most of these posters. I am a person on GitHub. I don’t become a different person once the work day starts. I’ve done plenty of OSS as an employee of companies, and I’ve done more OSS work as an individual.
Although you _can_ use separate accounts, the idea that you MUST is nonsense.
But yes, I encountered the same thing once I was added to my full-time employer’s GHE Cloud account. So far, not a problem.
It reminded me of the old magazine clipping of a guy holding a camcorder over his shoulder and pointing to a table full of technology. "All of this fits in your pocket now."
Same thing. Chill out. You're free to not like something and have it continue to exist despite your dislike of it.
Buying a list of email addresses off the internet that has mine in it is top-tier shady.