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Homebrew 1.4.0

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Re: Homebrew 1.4.0

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Post by jdmnd »

daveFNbuck wrote: post #9
mmastrac wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can disable it if you aren't comfortable with it (they document this clearly multiple places). analytics (on|off) Turn on/off Homebrew's analytics.

I've been using brew for years and wasn't aware that it was using google analytics at all. It may be clearly documented, but they're not doing much to ensure users know about it.

There was an announcement[0] a couple of years ago that certainly provoked a lot of debate on HN[1].

[0] https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/master/docs/Analytics.... [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11566720

Re: Homebrew 1.4.0

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Post by the_watcher »

drinchev wrote: post #4

The Patreon page says they receive $177 per month. That's too low for a project with such a high popularity and usage. I read somewhere ( and I bet ) it's used by Google / Facebook / Apple employees.

Basically anyone who does any kind of work with code on a Mac is pretty likely to be using Homebrew for something or another.

Re: Homebrew 1.4.0

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Post by daveFNbuck »

k_sh wrote: post #17
daveFNbuck wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been using brew for years and wasn't aware that it was using google analytics at all. It may be clearly documented, but they're not doing much to ensure users know about it.

IIRC, it's mentioned when you install brew

I never noticed it. A lot of text scrolls across the screen during the installation.

Re: Homebrew 1.4.0

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Post by ubernostrum »

philip1209 wrote: post #19

The maintainer's tweet about interviewing at Google is one of my favorites: https://mobile.twitter.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768?la...

One of my less-favorite things is how many people always pop up to defend the Google approach and argue that if he couldn't pass such an interview he must by definition not be qualified.

Re: Homebrew 1.4.0

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Post by jpk »

drinchev wrote: post #4

The Patreon page says they receive $177 per month. That's too low for a project with such a high popularity and usage. I read somewhere ( and I bet ) it's used by Google / Facebook / Apple employees.

Until reading this comment, I didn't know they had a patreon page. As far as I can tell, it's not linked from the front page of brew.sh. It is linked down at the bottom of the README on github though.

Anyway, that number would probably be higher if it were advertised more.

Re: Homebrew 1.4.0

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Post by daveFNbuck »

jdmnd wrote: post #21
daveFNbuck wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been using brew for years and wasn't aware that it was using google analytics at all. It may be clearly documented, but they're not doing much to ensure users know about it.

There was an announcement[0] a couple of years ago that certainly provoked a lot of debate on HN[1]. [0] https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/master/docs/Analytics.... [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11566720

I guess I didn't happen to check HN that day :(

Re: Homebrew 1.4.0

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Post by rdtsc »

philip1209 wrote: post #19

The maintainer's tweet about interviewing at Google is one of my favorites: https://mobile.twitter.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768?la...

I love that one. I now regularly use "invert a binary tree" as a proxy joke for "let's grill you at a whiteboard with algorithmic puzzles that we never use in practice here but they make a great reason for us to belittle and laugh at you for not being desperate enough to drill these kind of questions for months before coming here"
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