Is that a common source of typing errors? Genuinely wondering as I don't have a whole lot of experience with statically typed languages. I've personally never had a bug related to it.
I wasn't meaning to imply everything is perfect, though. For example equality operators take anything. I believe there may be changes coming around there.
Despite the fact that this is a claim with no basis in reality, what you are saying is that people who don't understand the core concepts the language is built on write bad code...Isn't that true for every language?
Do you mean overloaded methods? You can "override" methods in Go in the sense that if you have an embedded struct you can provide your own implementation in your struct to use instead
20 years ago, someone stole my credit card information and bought some stuff as me. I'm in Michigan, and they sent a bed and mattress to Florida. I called the store first, asking about the charge. Verified some part of the card number, name the order was under, etc... I asked what address it was sent to. "We can't tell you that. Our privacy policy prevents that".
Me: "So... you're charging what is my credit card, you've verified my identity, you acknowledge this order was placed in my name, and you're happy to take my money, but you won't tell me where 'my' order was sent?"
Sears(!): "Yes, that's correct".
Called the bank... got a 'fraudulent charge' form faxed(!) to me, which I filled out and sent back same day.
To be fair to the store, their privacy policy was likely designed to stop things like abusive spouses/parents tracking down people who they gave permission to use a card.
To be unfair to the store, they are probably just being stupid.
Not giving the shipping address to the “customer” is just dumb. I think it’s good to protect people from abusive spouses and parents, but if someone is using their credit card and impersonating them then that’s not quite right.
I also think it’s more likely to have identity theft than to have a spouse trying to find the new address where a mattress was sent.
My theory is that the store was trying to protect their sale and was gambling that with less info the real person would not be able to cancel the order. So short sightedness.
> Please know that as soon as the freelancer applies or is offered a contract, we would run an identity verification process which would have them submit a Government-issued ID and have a quick video chat or send us a selfie to prove their identity.
However, this is way too late in the process for my liking...and who knows how strict they actually are?
According to Upwork support, they do something like this before a contract is actually signed. But in my opinion that's way too late in the process - someone impersonating me could completely ruin my reputation before any contract is handed out
I did one gig on Upwork and at no point I went through a process like that. The client invited me to their Slack, we discussed some more then they accepted the proposal and I did the work. At no point I had to do a video verification step with Upwork itself.
