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I presume you meant one way NDA, your overall point is a really good one. Contracts are very useful as a leading indicator of how the counterparty thinks about the relationship.

FWIW professional liability insurance absolutely can make sense, even be necessary when writing software, depending on the nature of the contract and your overall responsibilities.…

FWIW in my experience building both, hardware is always finished first because it’s cheaper to change the software later in the cycle. Much like drywallers patching over electrical…

>>> In fact, in certain cases it can increase the size instead of compressing. Fwiw, all (lossless) compression algorithms will increase the size of some inputs.

But also yes. There may be some loss as you describe , but they’ll taste better brought back till room temperature than straight from the fridge .

"On paper this was supposed to lead to the immanent collapse of it's service." I don't know anyone who expected this. The typical failure mode is slow degradation and lack of new d…

I think the problem runs deeper than that. What you’ve done is an interesting tool for finding out more about a relatively small slice of developers.

Didn’t they just release a small-ish one ?

May have been the wrong time too. 1999 was chock full of companies that failed to get traction and died during the dot-com collapse, but variants became much more successful 20 yea…

This is something Common Lisp got really right.

Sure, there are also cases where it is not needed. But some called out in GP were not typically correct. And often it is opaque to the researchers only because someone did an IRB i…

This is correct. IRB will be simple is not the same as not needing one.

Not having to play the game isn’t as expensive as you suggest. Lots of tech employees, if they don’t let lifestyle inflation take over, hit a point where they could retire early bu…

This is a problem with 'prosumer' gear in general. If camera manufactures bought a transferable commercial license for everything in it, it would be too expense for consumer use, b…

This is one example of an area where economic incentives make it difficult to shift. - There aren't that many people willing to pay for such software, but those that do *really* ne…

If that's what you want to do, why would you ever sign a contract saying you won't do it?

You often will not be, explicitly by contract. Honestly in this case it’s easier to keep things clean.

Well deserved!

Oh you’re right about relative size of Mexico - my memory had a units error (km vs mi). Still, it’s not even as big as Canada so the statement wasn’t close to right…. It’s a bit un…

>whose physical presence spans a majority of a major continent, I take your point, but this part isn't true. Canada is a little larger, and then there is also Mexico which is about…