[dataflow]

> In the private sector, everyone is nice

This doesn't really square with the horror stories I see from the private sector.

[wolverine876]

I don't think they meant it literally, but more in the sense of different places on the trade-off continuum: E.g., academia is willing to tolerate more bad behavior but less lack-of-smarts.

[doliveira]

Everyone in the informal hyperbolic sense. Like 90%.

The remaining 10% are more than enough to account for the horror stories