Seth Vargo is a Distinguished Software Engineer at LinkedIn. Previously he worked at Google, HashiCorp, Chef, CustomInk, and some Pittsburgh-based startups. He is the author of Learning Chef and is passionate about reducing inequality in technology. When he is not writing, working on open source, teaching, or speaking…
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You would think less than a month after a very popular HackerNews article on how Dropbox hacks your Mac, the file sharing company would be careful about their software distribution. They just distributed an update that hacks your UI and presents a Yahoo-like banner from 2004.
Go is one of my favorite programming languages, but it is still far from perfect.