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by _odey 5y ago
Personally I don't have any hopes of such a feat at a big company but I can't stand to think it's not possible to have this anywhere . From past interviews I've seen smaller companies are willing to compromises and are
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by _odey 5y ago
I will, already received a good example here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29449353 (a sibling thread in this post).
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by _odey 5y ago
This is great, Thank You! "which relate to, or are reasonably capable of being used in, the business of the Company or any Group Company" sounds like a good phrasing to me, especially the "business" part of it as I inter
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by _odey 5y ago
Would you be willing to copy paste (redacted if needed) exactly what the "Intellectual Property Rights" section of your contract states right now? I would like to have it on hand to use as a "this is what others have and I wa
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by _odey 5y ago
I will talk to a lawyer as well... but I'm really interested to see something concrete too. I've asked many times but I've never actually received an example of what an actual contract had written on it.
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by _odey 5y ago
Would you, or somebody working, or who had worked for Red Hat be willing to copy paste that clause, or contract, redacted of course so we could use it as an example. Red Hat being who they are, their approach is extremely relevant to this s
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by _odey 5y ago
Was that agreement in writing, and signed? Could you share such a document, redacted if needed, with us?
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by _odey 5y ago
I've gotten OKs before, but they were verbal and not written, basically my manager at the time stating they will "close an eye" and let me do it. The problem was the other eye was wide open and they did enforce their "al
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by _odey 5y ago
OK, that's good to hear. But now I need suggestions and feedback... In a previous thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24220858 I've suggested the following: 13.8. $COMPANY and any Group Company will
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by _odey 5y ago
You mean this? California Labor Code Section 2870 provides as follows: Any provision in an employment agreement which provides that an employee shall assign, or offer to assign, any of his or her rights in an invention to his or
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by _odey 5y ago
So does that mean there is literally nothing I can do about it? Except becoming a contractor?
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by _odey 5y ago
I would like to see something that already exists and was used successfully first, so I don't go and talk to one empty handed... It's one thing to say: "I'd like to keep ownership of code I write on my free time" an
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by _odey 5y ago
Search for the words "or otherwise" in that block of text. I've had multiple discussions with the legal department at that employer and they refused to remove those words from the text. So it's not enough to just have th
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by _odey 5y ago
I've asked this before and never got a straight answer, but I'll ask again: what exact clauses do I need to modify in the employment contract, and what exactly must they say, in order to avoid this sort of situation? (relevant to
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by _odey 5y ago
Looks like dbm/gdbm were removed from the ruby repo, just not documented in the release notes: https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/4525 https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/4526
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by _odey 5y ago
I bought this one last year as I was nostalgic for a game I used to play when I was in middle school (Mu Online) and it looked similar enough in style :). Got the DLCs this last Steam Sale. Playing it on low settings on my AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 2
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by _odey 5y ago
Thank you for your reply! I've managed to dig up these (that's where https://ideas.mozilla.org redirects me): - https://mozilla.crowdicity.com/post/719914 - https://mozilla.crowdicity.c
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by _odey 5y ago
Quick question (and a bit of an aside): let's say I'm interested in a specific feature being implemented (profile switcher like in chrome, built in feature as in [1], not an add-on as in [2]). How do I go about getting more attent
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by _odey 5y ago
Q: Is it unprofessional to leave a new job where everything is a mess? A: No. Notes: personally I would have either abandoned it during the first month or at the end of the probation period, depending on severity, otherwise I'd force m