If executives are so benign, almost to the point of meaninglessness, why do we have them? On the contrary, it's the executives that make the "hard" decisions to fuck over safety concerns from engineers so the company can get a product out the door, regardless of safety, to meet quarterly profit goals. Track this door snafu back in an honest, objective manner, and I'll guarantee you'll find an MBA behind the decision.

Wasn't that pretty much what drove Elizabeth Holmes at Theranos? I'm pretty sure we've seen this before.

I'm pretty sure I won't have anything to do with this AR / VR tech since I can't afford the hardware with which to play around with this, anyway. It'll be easily ignored.

I can't help but think you're jealous. You're practically screaming it. Or, maybe this is what you *actually* do, but you don't want anyone to know. If so, you should come out of the closet. It might help alleviate that repressed anger.

"You fucked up! You trusted us!"

I'm guessing it's the same ignoramuses that said we didn't need to wear masks during the early phases of Covid.

"Boy, he really shit the tub, didn't he?"

Force them to carry insurance, like doctors, which can be revoked if they're shit at their jobs. No insurance, no job. Making cops pay for their own insurance would be best, but so long as an insurer can reject them if they're bad enough at their jobs should do the trick.

Eclipse is configurable, but configuring it isn't mandatory. Much like Perl is maligned for its "unreadability," that unreadability is probably down to the code authors, rather than the language, which, like anything else, can be abused. I use Eclipse as part of MCUXpresso, for NXP chip development, and mine is a pretty standard stock install. I think I have one perspective placed in one location, but otherwise, it's just like when I initially installed it. Your students are just shuffling the deck chairs.

Profit without restraint is unreasonable. If companies followed your logic, every last publicly traded company would be violating just about every law on the books to maximize profit. Shareholders ask companies to maximize profits within the confines of the law.

Sure, but barn stormers were in control of their aircraft. And wing walkers had actual pilots in the seats. What did this guy have? Nothing. He allowed his plane to become a ballistic missile hoping that it didn't hit anyone or cause any damage - for pathetic social media cred. If he felt he didn't do anything wrong, why did he lie about it to prosecutors?

But let's play a game: Lemme chuck rocks at your head in the hopes that I don't hit you. C'mon, don't be such a snowflake about it.

Rogue waves are bad, m'kay? But I'd like them to apply AI to look at past weather patterns to predict future weather patterns so I can avoid driving in snowy conditions. We have enough weather data over the last 20 years, at least, that meteorologists can "grep" what's coming up based on what happened the last few days. Maybe they do have this. In which case, (a) they should say so; and (b) it needs some tweaking, because they're still messing up forecasts for just the next day, let alone the next week.

Yep. We brought on board some guy to take over part of the stuff I was doing, so I was involved in the code reviews he held. He didn't even bother to remove the previous company's copyright from things. WTF? I wasn't a manager, but I knew that that was flat out wrong, and a liability, so I said something along the lines of, "We can't use stuff taken from your previous employer: it's their property." He got all pissy and copied it pretty much verbatim in a different language. His actual manager never said anything about the use of stolen material, though.

Eh. It depends on scale, I guess. When I worked for Siemens, I used Eclipse to manage a large code base, and it really helped, especially with the large, unorganized symbol table. Nowadays, I use MCUXpresso - based on Eclipse - to develop for NXP C platforms. It's not needed, since the projects are typically on the smaller side, but it's helpful. The integration with hardware debugging tools is really nice. I'm using Visual Studio Code to develop a project on Raspi Pico, but it's one source file, and the cmake system. I could definitely do this without Code, but why not? F7 is easier than tabbing to a shell and hitting arrow up a few times. To keep to my roots, I have a plugin for Code that makes it operate like Vim, which is kinda cool.

Your brush is too broad. The one time I saw this, personally, it was an America white dude. He was actually pretty sharp, but incredibly dumb at the same time. His git repo was one of a number of messes he created that the rest of the team had to clean up. And he wondered why I wouldn't give him access to our distributed file system, even if it meant otherwise they'd call me any time, 24/7, if something failed.