I don't agree that you can build .ko's with g++

And yes, I'm a chip vendor. Anything I do is automatically blessed by myself.

I mostly chose responses where I could cower in the corner. Because I was worried that personality type was not well represented in people who would actually finish the survey. Pity the results aren't tabulated, but now it makes more sense now that you bring up it being Socratic questioning.

I'm an Android BSP developer, and I don't know what the hell you're talking about.

Easy for you to say, but tough for you to prove or defend.

Unless you've mastered C++, all you will accomplish is writing lots of difficult bugs. Really only gurus should be working on C++ projects. If I can't find enough gurus, then I would pick a different language for the project. (I worked on C projects most of my career because I'm not a C++ guru)

I assume powerful lobbyists will want to corporations to continue to profit. A handful of law firms in the business of litigation is hopefully not a powerful lobby compared to hundreds of billion dollar technology companies.

The patent trolls need to win until corporations break, only then will real change in patent laws occur in the legislature.

off-topic, but the site referred to in your sig has lots of buggy HTML that makes it impossible to accurately complete the extremely biased survey:

The main issue I have is several groups of unrelated radio buttons were marked as "x"
<INPUT NAME="x" TYPE=Radio>

I think Microsoft should be held liable for Word and Excel. These have been a major security problem for almost two decades now.

Two wrongs make a right.

Won't that slow down population growth? Isn't that desirable?

I have several personal drives in a storage shed, that end up there as secondary backups when I upgrade the drive in a system. It's always about 5 degrees warmer in the shed than it is outside, so 110F+ in the summer. I'm guessing that the ones that have been out there for 5 years, both SSD and spinning platter, are probably toast now.

Do taxis even have seatbelts? I don't recall ever having put one on in the back of one.

He's famous in pop culture because of the film, that's because most of us are uneducated knuckledraggers.

Glad you were able to upgrade the systems to Java8. It seems like the client didn't know that it matters and didn't have any strong opinions on the subject.

Clients often are unaware that they have relevant information, and don't seem to volunteer it easily.

If you haven't begun the work yet, and wish to see if your potential market can meet your software requirements, you need to do a bit of research. Engineering doesn't get to define what customers you can go after, that's the real job of a Marketing department and ideally begins long before Engineering has even thought about the problem. Engineering can certainly respond to Marketing with budgets and schedules.

I'm often forced into lame technical decisions so we can cast a wider net for compatibility with customer environments or to support a few obscure customer requirements because their business has been given a weight above what their initial orders might imply.

(note: I work in the silicon industry, it's tough to be agile there. Because some of our requirements get baked into hardware design about a year in advance of the SW work)