[unsupp0rted]

He seems really worried about offending people and hurting his relationships with NASA execs.

I wonder if NASA people are more prickly, less, or the same in terms of taking negative feedback as compared to programmers and hackers.

I suspect since we spend all day with compilers telling us we made silly errors, we're a bit more inured to criticism than the general public.

[jtokoph]

People are way more willing to accept negative feedback and direction from a computer than a human. It’s one of the major benefits of code linters and CI. It’s not embarrassing to be told by a computer that you messed up.

[kelipso]

Really doubt coders are much better at taking negative criticism than the general population haha.

[IshKebab]

They definitely aren't. If anything I'd say worse. There are a couple of people I've had to work with who took any suggestion for changing anything as a personal attack.

[peyton]

I don’t know about NASA, but in my few encounters with stuff at the federal level the people involved seemed way more concerned with interagency battles than anything related to the mission. To the point where it the top priority was to fuck over Bob from the Department of Whatever by scuttling his project before the next Big Meeting. I guess fighting the same battles for forty+ years could lead to a form of org debt.