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> Of course you need to be able to explain and summarize it yourself How can I hold you to that unless I make you do that in your own words?
In my own words it would be 10 times shorter, with much less educational value.
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In my own words it would be 10 times shorter, with much less educational value.
Ten times shorter just means "readable without losing an excess of time on ramble" and I feel like someone's comeback to this will be "you should ask an AI to summarise".
The AI makes it clear even for execs, juniors or flybyes. Which you usually don't want to have around near that code.
But in the end Stallman was right. it pays off to follow GNU changelog conventions, and be very verbose for outstanders. The AI can do that for you.
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You don't generally buy people. You can employ them, though.
In slave states without proper civil rights, like the US, you can buy them. Your contract forbids everything. Eg every SW you produce in private belongs to the company, not to you. Or everything you say in private will affect your contract.
Then theres reference checks, less formal but generally still follow some kind of rigor or process and you generally know who they’re going to talk to.
Then there’s the third type of investigation, where they actually don’t tell you they’re doing it, may or may not admit to doing it, and you have no way of knowing whether you were singled out for some reason, assuming you are able to find out it happened in the first place.
And good luck searching for any recourse if ethics or even laws (such as HIPAA) are ignored in that situation, even if it’s for example a b2c healthcare company that is expected to set an example for health privacy standards, rather than calling everyone you knew to probe their memories of how healthy you appeared to be at the time, then using that information to evaluate your performance with different criteria than other employees.
Sure, it’s not a typical scenario, but if it happens to you, you’ll probably never be able to scoff at a comment like this again. You might never get over it.