anticedent

Oh, come now. Whether he can or cannot know such a thing is however many angels, dancing on the head of a pin.

Do you honestly believe anything this terrible went through a rewrite? I sure don't.

This is being conflated as a Java thing, because of a sideways remark about Brazilian programmers.

Reading other comments, it's now clear that in this instance we are dealing with a Microsoft Server. [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14173595

Yeah, the proper response here is:

  NO U

Especially when the entity requesting the valuable resource (water they don't yet have permission to use), is the one prompting for the NDA.

Sorry, private corporation. Take your NDA elsewhere, and go swat at your lowly job applicants with it, as they grovel for permission to waste their youth away in your flourescent dungeons and air conditioned nightmares.

Which is great, because everybody should downvote anything because of a mild distinction, rather than the wildly off the mark question that prompted a reasonable response. Good job!