2001lodyssee

> I can see the totalitarian-minded mining this for a revenue opportunity to create an exciting new era of subscription-based power tools.

Think bigger. Power tools that phone home describing their use and location, all tied to an individual via credit-card checkout (or face recognition) and/or warranty sign-up.

It's probably best to think of the modern world as being constructed with the substrate of a Las Vegas casino.

I would also suspect that any filtering mechanism that cuts out the truly destructive people might well be either unacceptable or illegal at this point.

> Fire fast. Use that 90 day try out period. Contract-to-hire.

I've see that work before, but it was some time ago. The company also had a very large test department with separate management and kept to a strongly enforced waterfall-esque design routine.

Of course, it used to be a lot harder to ship out version 1.01 of the software.

I just assume it was a different world as this was in the days of US manufacturing, very limited set of software tools, high importance placed on domain knowledge as opposed to toolset, longer average stays at employer, lower wages for programmers. Probably not applicable to modern times.

In my long and storied career, well long at least, every single truly heinous, project-killin', crazy person actually interviewed pretty well.

Honestly, I don't have a good solution to the problem.