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by etjossem 9y ago
Agreed. It's all a negotiation, though, and from the perspective of the employee you're going to want to present the confidentiality agreement (and possibly a term-of-employment noncompete) as sufficient to ensure your loyalty. Yo
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by etjossem 9y ago
Generally this is covered under a confidentiality agreement, which forbids the disclosure of the company's intellectual property. The designs you mention in your example would be considered work-for-hire, and (depending on how specific
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by etjossem 9y ago
I had to do this in a place that wasn't California. Also, they generally don't track you down at a barbecue. They'll try to tell the company you are jumping ship to that your employment there would be illegal, as TSG Finishin
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by etjossem 9y ago
This suggestion is mainly directed at newcomers to the industry, who may not have the reputation or experience to be able to credibly push back on many points of their employment agreement. Once you're in a seller's market for you
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by etjossem 9y ago
Worth remembering, especially for those just entering the software field: by the time a potential employer gives you an employment agreement to sign, they've already decided they want you. At that point, it's on them to give you a
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by etjossem 9y ago
One of the major problems with sentiment analysis is that it doesn't pick up on irony or subtext very well. Relying on word choice alone, one such analysis pinned "Fitter Happier" as one of the happiest Radiohead songs. http
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by etjossem 9y ago
This kind of information is very useful to know - even if you firmly believe regulation of automatic firearms is a good idea. I'm not a gun enthusiast, but this summary helps shed some light on a debate many folks are badly informed on
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by etjossem 9y ago
Deceptive subscription of email addresses to a mailing list will lead to a larger percentage of emails reported as spam. This will in turn increase the chance that Gmail / etc. mailbox provider will take actions to prevent you from con
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by etjossem 9y ago
A small correction: these weren't city police. They were Chicago Department of Aviation Security personnel, who are allowed to wear jackets that say "police" on them but are essentially airport mall cops. Their leadership ans
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by etjossem 10y ago
I too have struggled with the term "ride share", since it obviously isn't being used in the sense of "sharing is caring" we were all taught in kindergarten. At some point I realized it means a share (in the economic
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by etjossem 10y ago
Convince me.
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> you just need to get used to it, then you can read and write the bytes in a hexdump as easily as you can English. In fact I'd prefer working with hexdumps to XML. But unfortunately there's now a whole generation of developers
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Rapid mocking and testing.
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"human readable JSON like format" "JSON style human semi-readable form" > accidentally mentions JSON twice in the list JSON is the most widely used serialization protocol in web application development tod
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by etjossem 10y ago
I'm just thinking from the point of view of each of these actors. Users do not care about content publisher finances until their favorite site goes under. What some of them do appear to care about - day by day - is whether they see adv
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by etjossem 10y ago
User: why don't I just run an open source adblocker that doesn't serve me ads? Publisher: you are extorting me into using your platform by blocking my partners' ads. Advertiser: you are extorting me into using your platform b
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by etjossem 10y ago
Actual altruism is very rare. The level at which it exists in the United States is nowhere near sufficient to solve this country's homelessness problem. By all means, write inspiring news stories about pure generosity when it appears,
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by etjossem 10y ago
There's nothing wrong with charitable work on the part of religious groups, but the fact that they are able to get something out of the situation is a symptom of a larger problem. Food, clean clothes, and a place to sleep are fundament
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by etjossem 10y ago
It's not Mr. Powers' fault, but it is our responsibility as sensible voters to fix a situation in which he appears to be the best option for getting your clothes washed. We have come to a point where some folks do not have enough
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by etjossem 10y ago
Acts of charity like this have always struck me as creating an uncomfortable power dynamic. When sticking around to hear a religious presentation is the price of admission, it's not a pure form of generosity; it's transactional. R
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by etjossem 10y ago
Yes, see the Geneva Conventions for a good example of an ethical code for war that signatory nations can formally agree to. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva_Conventions
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by etjossem 10y ago
The author may already be working on this. He "decided to expand the bot’s capabilities after DoNotPay began receiving messages about evictions and repossessions." [1] For now the evictions/homelessness feature seems to offer
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by etjossem 10y ago
You sound sensitive and principled. /s
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Bought way back in August 1929: Annual Total Return: 9.1% Annual Real Total Return: 5.9% Bought in January 1987, held for a realistic 30 years: Annual Total Return: 9.8% Annual Real Total Return: 7.0% There's always g
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by etjossem 10y ago
:)
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> Probably just help verify that the stock market is a random walk with a meager trend upwards that doesn't beat inflation + trading costs. That doesn't sound right. Let me clear that up for you. Since 1950: S&P 500 Ann
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by etjossem 10y ago
Nobody has forced designers to learn to code, but I for one am happy to see so many UX professionals taking an interest. It's the job of a designer to clearly communicate their vision to developers so that it can be implemented. Desi
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Agreed. Since it accepts Markdown for blocks of code, the default should not be monospace.
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I agree with you, but while the tip pool is sacred (employers shouldn't touch it), a "service fee" is not. Describing it as a service fee allows Instacart to keep a portion of it rather than distributing it all back to employ
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How apropos.

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