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More accurate headline would be "75% of Software Engineers Who Reported Wrongdoing Claim They Faced Retaliation". I know there are some obvious cases where people were explicitly r…

The Bolt is the best EV in its price range (<30K)

Profit sharing at a company that "wasn't doing great" is not a promise to be paid more.

I'm not sure what you're trying to say with this story. But the whole "work harder" is a business euphemism for "put in more hours". It probably wasn't the words that were used. Yo…

Again, in my experience there is very little correlation between how much you pay for something and how rotten it is. And I find the opposite, when you get open source software and…

In my experience licensed products with paid support packages aren't any more secure, they just let you pass the buck when things go wrong.

So, your advice is that if you care about security even a little bit, you should write all your software from scratch yourself?

Probably not, need to leave room for Alyx episode 2.

No. And a year from now I won't remember this time either.

I think the reference is to the fact that on Windows you download some random .exe installer from some place on the internet and trust it, rather than selecting a signed package fr…

In what strongly typed language does the division of two integers result in a float?

I don't think it's "you aren't going to find any startups interested" as much as "you aren't going to find DoD interested in trusting startups to be around". No one gets fired for …

I worked on the handheld JTRS radios some years ago, it was running Green Hills Integrity RTOS at the time.

The same fines and jail times associated with any foreign carmaker who issues a recall that isn't related to deliberate and intentional fraud.

We tried Blue Apron but stopped for two reasons: - We have toddlers, and the menu was too "fancy". It's difficult to get a 4 year old to eat squid ink pasta. - I felt bad about all…

Oh right, we already had this discussion. At least they got upgraded from "unethical marketing" to "irresponsible marketing". But how long can you continue to claim that the compan…

How is it irresponsible marketing?

I would go with the guy who _purports_ to be an electrician, over the guy who specifically states that he is not an electrician. That is the comparison when you say "I am going to …

"a little cheaper"? That product you linked to is more than twice as expensive even compared to the Soylent 2.0 bottles. Whenever Soylent comes up there's always the "soylent is no…

This just seems to be a biased claim that Soylent hasn't done any "real testing". Do you have evidence of that? Soylent has been out for years and a lot of people have been drinkin…

"unethical marketing"? Please explain..

That's an interesting point of view. Sort of like, when it comes to wiring up my new house, I'm going to go with the guy who doesn't purport to be a licensed electrician.

Not according to the Copyright Act of 1976: https://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html A “work made for hire” is— (1) a work prepared by an employee within the scope of his or …

That link and Joel seem to agree. By default the contractor owns the IP, unless the contract contains the legal phrase "work made for hire." Maybe you should have kept reading?

Also consider what the average marijuana user is spending per day vs what the average heroin user is spending.