Argorak

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by Argorak 13y ago
They may own their servers, but you also entered a deal with them (as miniscule as it may be), which means that this applies: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_faith_(law) This (if it happened as described) would be a
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by Argorak 13y ago
The law in question is the Arbeitnehmererfindungsgesetz (Employee Invention law). Also, there are a few subtleties: a) You have to do that if you intend to charge money for the invention during the time of your contract. You can quit and th
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by Argorak 13y ago
Verbal agreements are also very hard to prove.
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by Argorak 13y ago
Never sign this unless you have a lawyer, money and breath to invalidate a clause you thought "does not hold up in court".
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by Argorak 13y ago
Thats wrong, Ruby is also used in a lot of devopsy stuff and I've seen quite a few uses of Ruby in other fields. Also, even the web community is rather fragmented now. Also don't ignore that Ruby has a _huge_ subcommunity in asia
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by Argorak 13y ago
Marketing. Some numbers to compare: Virtus raised 1000 Euros in a month. https://www.bountysource.com/fundraisers/329-virtus-1-0-0 While the lib is an interesting one, it is a fringe library in a fringe space (Ruby). S
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by Argorak 13y ago
Too little, too late, thats why. I like it and still use it daily, but if it had come 3 years earlier or so, it would have been a serious competitor to Sublime.
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by Argorak 13y ago
Sure, but thats a different problem you have to solve on another level and inherent in all such conversations.
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by Argorak 13y ago
Textmate 1 was in support for quite a while and I feel like it has ended up in a very good state. Textmate 1.0 was released in 2004, and the last release was in 2012 - I call that a solid support for a 50$ product. I certainly don't se
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by Argorak 13y ago
I struggle with this anti-pattern. I used to use it, but I know how bad it is. In bad moments, it still slips. My solution has been to be more proactive about it. If I see a topic coming up, I just ask "you know about (ABC)?", whi
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by Argorak 13y ago
We are very upfront with clients that they cannot book us 40h a week, because everything else means that I cannot shift the work of synchronizing with my colleagues, organizational stuff and the whole thing of "being a company" to
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by Argorak 13y ago
Given that Discourse is an Ember.js app at heart, I wouldn't bet on that anytime soon.
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by Argorak 13y ago
It would also add a lot of legal complexities to the buying process. For example, what happens when "Cover" is discontinued, but it got bought for the underlying technology? It needs to be open sourced because of that.
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by Argorak 13y ago
Java for example runs arbitrary code when a class is loaded (static {} blocks). Windows has DllMain, which lets you run code at load of a shared lib and similar things are possible on Linux, using the -init linker flag and friends. Finally,
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by Argorak 13y ago
Thats what I meant, everything is a function and can be expressed as one, even most syntax (the literal 1 => Num a -> a)
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by Argorak 13y ago
When in Africa, on a very slow connection, GMail actively suggested using this version, when the initial load took too long.
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by Argorak 13y ago
Hm, would you also agree that it is a flaw of Haskell that there is no difference between a value and function with no arguments in Haskell? The syntactical equality between a variable and a method call on self has the advantage to make thi
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by Argorak 13y ago
It also added gave a lot of rights to another group, which Prop 8 didn't.
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by Argorak 13y ago
Be aware that Prop 8 called for the removal of certain rights from people that they had gained before through a legal process, so "simply" isn't very clear cut. Prop 8 wasn't a mental exercise for those hit by it. This i
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by Argorak 13y ago
Well, people think they cannot miss out and need to do it - because their competitor does it. You'll see the same with world cup advertisement in a few months. Most of it is crap, rising above the crowd is hard. On the other hand, ther
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by Argorak 13y ago
Argh, was late yesterday night. "There is no law" would be correct ;).
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by Argorak 13y ago
This is really just internals for the ministry, in their role as an employer, yes.
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by Argorak 13y ago
There is now law. These are the house rules of a ministry in its role as an employer.
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by Argorak 13y ago
Yep, it is way beyond idiomatic time in germany ;). Thanks for the correction, you are right ;).
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by Argorak 13y ago
Be aware that the employers themselves are making those rules. The idea actually comes from car manufacturers in Germany. Also, all the jobs you mentioned have contractual clauses regulating that, like payment for emergency work and payment
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by Argorak 13y ago
Most larger companies have time tracking and pay extra hours in such cases. If that happens too often, controlling will definitely like to have a word with you. I worked for multiple larger corps as a freelancer and they are very strict abo
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by Argorak 13y ago
The usual implementation is that the email is not relayed during the night. You can still send. The idea behind these rules is to make it crystal-clear that no one can expect you to be reachable outside of office, which became somewhat a pr
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by Argorak 13y ago
Misleading title. The german labor ministry, not Germany as a whole, is doing that. Not even other ministries. They follow several major companies (VW was one of the first, AFAIK).
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by Argorak 13y ago
I don't care about the first amendment, as it doesn't cover me. Please don't assume that I am speaking about that.
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by Argorak 13y ago
> Those consequences shouldn't include "losing your job" or "being treated differently at work", else there's no freedom of speech. Yes, they can. Freedom of speech is a right that you have before the state,

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