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The problem the above posters are referring is not that they feel life is about money or even that most people feel life is about money. The problem is reliabl
by enkid 5y ago
The problem the above posters are referring is not that they feel life is about money or even that most people feel life is about money. The problem is reliably telling the difference between people that feel that way from those that don't. There's no recruitment process that can possibly determine whether someone, when faced with the prospect of walking away with $300M or not would make the right choice. It's just too extreme to be able to simulate. And you have to get it right 100% of the time. If you have 100 employees and get it wrong 1% of the time, you still have a problem.
- fddhjjj 5y agoDoes the current evidence noted by fallat — the massive amount of extremely high impact open source projects that don't have malware embedded in them — suggest the error rate is much much lower that 1%?
- enkid 5y agoOpen source projects are not a good point of reference because by their very nature they invite external validation. If you are trying to steal $300M, you don't tell people before hand that you are going to do it. There also a difference between the money being right there, only one step away from being yours and infecting open source software with the possibility of maybe stealing something in some company that may or may not use your software in a way that would allow theft months or years after you submitted an update. Edit: After doing some research, it appears that claims that open source doesn't fall victim to this problem are factually incorrect. [0] [0] https://blog.sonatype.com/open-source-attacks-on-the-rise-top-8-malicious-packages-found-in-npm https://blog.sonatype.com/open-source-attacks-on-the-rise-to...
- fddhjjj 5y agoNo one made the claim that open source universally don’t fall victim to dishonesty. We were discussing the rate.