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Nowadays, nobody gives credits anymore on someone’s Open Source work. Everyone boasts they did it all only by themselves when they copy someone’s work, or iterate on someone else’s idea on Github.

This got me thinking, should I still do open source on commercial products as people nowadays has no regards and moral values in terms of someone’s work.

Getting in a pointless PR argument is one of the soul crushing reality developers face everyday.

How do you say "There's no point of dragging a non-winnable argument with you, so if you want this feature to be approved this afternoon, I'll revert back my changes so that you can stop bitching on this issue already!"?

All the new passenger drones that are coming out have the propellers sticking out, which clearly is a design flaw, and have a serious safety hazard issues around people. Why don't they consider a passenger drone with the design similar like the Hover Camera Passport?

• Workhorse SureFly • Ehang 184 • Kittyhawk Flyer / Cora • Uber Elevate (CES Air Taxi) • Drone Hoverbikes

I have a new company that has a requirements very similar to a feature I developed in my previous companies? Is it morally wrong to reuse the piece of code again on my current project?

I have an agreement that states that when a working product is available, I'm entitled of shares as a co-founder, depending of how much investment we have.

However, due to my hopes of being compensated in the future upon creation of the product, my co-founder expects me to create the product for free for several months. Currently I have a good full-time job, a father and have a family to feed.

Can someone help me clear things out on my side and also that I can communicate to my co-founder.

It seems that Apple made it impossible for after sales Verizon iPhone 4S to be unlocked, while there are several sites that says they unlock Verizon IMEI (including mine), the reality is that all Verizon IMEI unlocking services is currently unavailable due to Apple closing all the third-party Verizon reseller accounts that allows Verizon phones to be unlocked in Apple's database, so currently everyone who paid the service is on the long waiting-list until such time that Apple enable the account for unlocking. So I have a handful of angry customers which have demanded a refund, which I did refunded.

AFAIK, there is no currently working Verizon IMEI unlocking service for iPhone 4S out there, iPhone 5 is not on the list because as you may know Verizon iPhone 5 is unlocked by default.

I was interviewed 2 days ago for a software engineer position and though I'm very confident of my technical skills, the main reason I was rejected is that I speak slow.

As far as I know, I was speaking at a reasonable pace, I was keen at answering all the questions and I elaborate my answers further so that I can express my message clearly. I wasn't trying to answer the questions without even thinking about it so I was careful and keen.

How do you find the interviewer's decision? even if I speak slowly do you think that it is justified for a company to reject their candidate based on how fast one can speak?

I have been fired as a co-founder of a now very successful startup company that I have spend all my energy and time building.

And after being fired, I took full-time programming jobs on 3 other companies that eventually fired me and leave a very bitter experience and now so reluctant to take new jobs because I'm afraid that it would turn out to be the same fate as my past 4 work.

And everytime I got fired, I gradually lost my heart on software development.

Now I'm not finding any work and would like to start my own software company, but I'm still carrying this heavy burden of loss and failure in my heart, and just want to do nothing and lazily lay in my bed.

Any advice?

Feel free to add your list of things a startup office should have.

Personally, here's a list of things I need to have to be fully productive and passionate on what I do.

Every startup office should have at least the following:

1. A bed

2. A shower

3. A masseur

4. BBQ

5. Fridge with Beer and Soda.

6. Addicting games. (ie. SC2, Dota)

7. Monthly vacation trips

8. Beach access

9. Alcohol

10. Outdoor office with a big patio umbrella and wifi

11. Best audiophile headphone on the market

What if we have a new software license that would protect Internet freedom and re-license all the software powering the Internet?