It's like that in the US. My spouse got all sorts of pressure to breast feed. However she was not producing enough milk and we ended up supplementing so our children can get enough nutrients. The amount of bullying in this area is approaching ridiculous levels.
I looked at the API calls on the CrowdStrike blog post and I have been using parts of these API's for calls in PowerShell for at least the past year for tracking down issues we have had in Office 365. I can understand how frustrating it can be if your competitors seem to have "secret knowledge". However that knowledge may have been gotten by calling up the very helpful people at MS support, laying out the problem and they send you a Powershell script in return.
I just finished re-reading A Wizard of Earthsea and The Tombs of Atuan last week. It was enjoyable because I picked up some of the themes that teenage me missed when reading the series all those years ago. A gifted writer RIP
As a thought exercise I wonder what would people's advice be if the author was in a same sex relationship and the pair was having disagreements over cleaning and relational priorities. I am guessing most of the advice would be about how to communicate better with your partner. Now that maybe slightly easier with a same sex partner but I think the point is still a valid one. Peal back some of the feminist rhetoric and you have a couple who need to work on their communication skills.
SV has had major problems sheltering people in leadership who have used their positions to sexually exploit their female subordinates. Yet a mid level engineer publicly questions some of the company's diversity policies and gets fired. Many of publicly stated reasons about women leaving tech is predatory behavior by people in leadership. How about initiatives about getting rid of individuals like that.
I don't buy this from VW for a second. I am not sure what the work environment is in Europe but in all the corporate places I have written code for in US if I pulled a stunt like this with no backing from managers the best I could hope for is getting yelled at. Most places would have fired me on the spot. The possibility of this being a rogue engineer is extremely remote. This screams management cover-up.
Sounds like a good way to teach programming :)
I would suggest that it's because you are putting the architecture in place. I work professionally in a code base that is hitting a Norris number and is suffering from little to no architectural direction in the past and some parts are very difficult to work in.
Out of curiosity, have you gotten any press inquires about your launch from major tech publications? I know that your company is outside of the VC funding publicity bubble but I am curious if anyone has reached out?
I have talked to people who are in property management companies who are worried about (possible) rising interest rates are going to do to their profitability. It may not be a concern in SV but elsewhere very much so.
His work at Mozilla is in the code base. Can you find anyplace where he has specifically weakened the crypto for his masters at the NSA? Or are you assuming that he has sprinkled evil magic fairy dust so the NSA can subvert any Mozilla code with a simple spell and unicorn blood?
I read through the discussion you listed. Maybe my NSA paranoia settings aren't set to ultra supermax high but most of the relevant discussion on that thread were about
the nitty gritty about how WebRTC works (that part was interesting BTW), not covering a black ops conspiracy for the NSA.
The world has way too much bland corporate/HR sanitized writing as it is. Besides when you are married to someone who is your equal and then some that is how some conversations go :)