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Ask HN: Advice on Amending Intellectual Property Clause of a Freelance Contract
1 points by Swinx43 9y ago|2 comments
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by Swinx43 9y ago
Yes that is true, I have never known anyone that was called out on this. However I am sure if an invention becomes popular and really valuable that some organisations, espcially big ones, would not hesitate to give it a try.
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by Swinx43 9y ago
That is fantastic to hear! I am also in the UK and every single contract I have signed was accompanied with clauses basically stating that the company owns anything I create while I am employed by them. This includes anything outside of wor
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by Swinx43 9y ago
No not at all. If you work as an IT contractor of his calibre you need to assume some personal responsibility for your own finances. If you cannot do that then you cannot cry foul when life throws you a curve ball. This has nothing to do wi
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by Swinx43 9y ago
While this really is a terrible situation I have the following questions: 1. You are clearly working as a contractor, this requires a lot of financial discipline, why do you not have enough runway saved up to deal with this? From personal e
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by Swinx43 9y ago
I have previously had a great experience with the LG G3. Its battery would last me at least 2 days with basic use and definitely an entire day even with quite considerable use. I have no idea what the G5 or G6 will be like.
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by Swinx43 10y ago
I think your approach definitely has value and can most certainly work. If you make enough from current contracts in 10 months it definitely is possible to set 2 months aside for learning new tech and not feel financial strain. Having no de
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by Swinx43 10y ago
This and the AWS in Plain English are both awesome. Is there an equivalent for Google Cloud Platform?
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by Swinx43 10y ago
Did you land the opportunity yourself or how did it come about? I see one of the biggest issues being that people always hire contractors for their area of expertise. It is thus difficult to convince people that you can do a new technology
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Ask HN: How have you transitioned into a new technology as a freelancer?
8 points by Swinx43 10y ago|5 comments
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by Swinx43 10y ago
The language point you touch on cannot be stressed enough. I have first hand experience with this as I travel to Germany on a regular basis and find Germans much more accommodating language wise than the French. I also have had first hand e
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by Swinx43 10y ago
I learned Pascal in school many years ago. I honestly did not know that Delphi was still kicking around. Very interesting to see this :)
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by Swinx43 10y ago
From what I could dig up online the CPU is a i7 Dual Core CPU, which makes this one VERY expensive dual core laptop at the i7 + 1TB SSD range ( http://pureinfotech.com/surface-book-laptop-technical-specif... ) Granted there i
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by Swinx43 10y ago
Totally agree. If Microsoft wants to made proper comparisons then they need to state what CPU it actually is. The amount of times I have heard people say that a particular notebook is "Way" cheaper than a MacBook Pro only to point
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by Swinx43 10y ago
I could not agree more. I make my living using Microsoft tech in the analytics space and I absolutely HATE powershell.
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by Swinx43 10y ago
This is a really good talk that will give some valuable insight into how Greece has been bullied. (YANIS VAROUFAKIS | NOAM CHOMSKY, NYPL, 26 April) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szIGZVrSAyc More than 90% of the bailout mo
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by Swinx43 10y ago
I am sorry but Yammer has been the single most atrocious thing that has been unleashed in organisations. It is normally touted as some form of magic where everyone needs to get involved and keep everyone up to date. It is simply a waste of
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by Swinx43 10y ago
Given the way the "enterprise" works I would guess that their clients caught on to the high level of BS and low level of value of previous "technologies". In true enterprise fashion they have now found a new shiny market
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by Swinx43 10y ago
According to the Reddit the payload was on the rocket. https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/50n5cl/rspacex_cape...
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by Swinx43 10y ago
This is very intriguing, I cannot help but wonder how this operation would have performed on something like Google Big Query. I know that it is highly unlikely that Facebook would ever load their data to the Google Cloud Platform, but it wo
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by Swinx43 10y ago
This is something that looks very interesting. I wonder if this would ever come to the UK. I know France is just across the channel but there surely is massive demand for this in the UK as well.
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by Swinx43 10y ago
I am interested to find out what volumes of data each of these solutions, Cubes and Bubbles, have been tested against? I work with enterprise tools to create ETL and OLAP solutions daily and really like what I see here but I am concerned wi
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by Swinx43 10y ago
I work in the BI space and Cubes is exactly ROLAP.
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by Swinx43 10y ago
I find this short piece released by a South West London estate agent rather appalling. Most disgusting is how the situation of not being able to afford anything in London is being framed as a shift in the attitude of consumers and you buyer
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Build to Rent – The new spin on the housing crisis in the UK(featherstoneleigh.briefyourmarket.com)
1 points by Swinx43 10y ago|1 comments
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by Swinx43 10y ago
Fantastic stuff! I cannot wait to read this. This has single handily become my Thursday obsession for the last few weeks.
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by Swinx43 10y ago
I am wondering that exact same thing. I did see that it is available through Google Books as well so not sure myself at the moment.
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by Swinx43 10y ago
Yes that definitely sounds about right. :)
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by Swinx43 10y ago
I completely agree, this type of snake oil entrepreneurship is really getting on my nerves. It seems that peddling pseudo science is a very lucrative business opportunity and as such there is no small amount of people willing to jump on it.
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by Swinx43 11y ago
This has been a fantastic series of articles! I absolutely love this. Evan Ratliff is simply a superb writer in long form journalism.

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