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Ask HN: Contract dispute, do I shut em' down?
10 points by josho 12y ago|24 comments
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by josho 12y ago
You just made the recruiter several thousand dollars for placing you. I suspect they want you in their office as a customer relationship tactic. Ie. Thank you for working with them, here's our coffee mug as a gift for working with us,
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by josho 12y ago
Yes, you are supposed to. But, do you know anyone/any organization that actually does this? I don't.
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by josho 12y ago
In all likelihood you'll be crossing paths with these folks again at some time. So, be professional. If you don't like the non-compete because it is too all encompassing then counter with something more narrow in scope. However, i
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by josho 12y ago
> However, Google controls a popular web server (Google search) and client (Google Chrome), so for web-things, they can create "widespread adoption" for whatever they standardize. Google's innovation is to make http faster
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by josho 12y ago
Google really gets how standardization works. They innovate and once the innovation has proven its value they offer the technology for standardization. I previously saw companies, like Sun, completely fail at this. Eg. The many Java specifi
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by josho 12y ago
Then your issue is with sites that host content on http, and the solution is to address the content hosts—not deprecate a protocol. Besides, If you can MITM http then you can probably do the same for DNS, so https doesn't really solve
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by josho 12y ago
What is the point? If you need a secure connection then use https, if there is no value securing the connection then use http. Why deprecate a working technology that continues to have many valid use cases? As an analogy this strikes me as
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by josho 12y ago
To expand on that, the primary network effect that I see are applications integrating into the dropbox storage system. Smart move by Dropbox. I wonder if Amazon can somehow leverage their own network effects into this product. e.g. Lots of
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by josho 12y ago
This is simply the risk you take being an early adopter. If you are uncomfortable with the risk then choose something from IBM/oracle/et al.
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by josho 12y ago
If you have a product (any product) in daily use by 30 staff, then switching costs (productivity hit) likely become the dominant factor in making a decision. I would be shocked that $500/mth comes into the picture when the salary expen
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by josho 12y ago
I'm surprised to find that I disagree with the EFF wrt moral rights. In Canada we have moral rights, so for example if as a contractor I wrote code for an application I can, in theory, use my moral rights to stop the use of my code whe
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by josho 12y ago
Yes, Canada is ahead. On the other hand that email money transfer incurs a transaction fee from most banks. What pisses me off is that we have a nearly ubiquitous way to send money in the physical world--a cheque. Yet, in the digital world
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by josho 12y ago
That certainly explains why the standardization process went nowhere. Ie. It was a UI feature largely specific to a single platform's native UI paradigm, and at that a platform with a minor marketshare. Regardless, this is a great exam
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by josho 12y ago
This is a good step. Things have to get bad enough to force any improvements. When monied interests feel the pain of overzealous copyright laws, only then will we see improvements.
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by josho 12y ago
What surprised me is that when scaling vertically they stuck with Intel. Have IBM/Oracle really become that irrelevant?
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by josho 12y ago
That's a good point. What I left unstated, and what I was wondering was if this individual was given guidance by the founders to exercise his options. Thereby effectively reducing his salary further, when he already stated that his sal
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by josho 12y ago
I'm hung up on the fact that you are exercising your options. Why? If the options are set to expire that quickly then something else is amiss as well. Generally you exercise options only when you intend to sell or leave the company and
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by josho 12y ago
The industry tends to swing from one extreme to the other. Long ago we had dumb terminals and all our work was done on a central server. Find a grey beard and they'll regale you with stories of VAX and other time share systems. Find so
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by josho 12y ago
Some governments today would view a protest like this as a possible terrorist action. For what it's worth this example more than any other, that I've heard, explains why privacy is important.
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by josho 12y ago
I think you are pretty close to getting it right. This spec is Dead on Arrival. This spec will never get traction in a large corporate environment. Primarily because the business has a need to monitor and archive employee emails. As a resul
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by josho 12y ago
Car manufacturers are moving in this direction. Not with DRM fuel, but with the specialized maintenance machines required to read/reset the diagnostic codes on your car's onboard computer.
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by josho 12y ago
I felt the same as you, until I read that Google is going to manage your keys or handle the cert. authority part (however that ends up). Then I realized their end game, which is to control end to end encryption adoption to keep another vend
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by josho 12y ago
Lol. So, FB comes out worse in comparison to drug dealers. I agree with you that it isn't surprising because it seems to be in FB's DNA to perform bait and switch like tactics (privacy policies come to mind as well). I wonder if t
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by josho 12y ago
What I see from startups are adding new premium features to pay for. I can't recall a successful startup that's done a bait and switch like FB. I'm genuinely interested in a few examples (I'm sure there are plenty, I jus
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by josho 12y ago
I absolutely agree with your points. Except I still agree with the parent as well. It is a scam because FB built a platform and marketed it to businesses as a way to build their fan base and communicate with them. FB then turned around and
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by josho 12y ago
I find it interesting to contrast FB with the early days of Microsoft--from a a developer perspective. FB is routinely hostile to its developers* killing off APIs and screwing around with the system. Microsoft, however, went through extreme
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by josho 12y ago
Yes, you are right. There is nothing wrong with climate change, it has happened before, it will happen again. The problem is the timescale of the change. In the past changes occurred over centuries, we are causing the change in decades. Tha
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by josho 12y ago
I don't appreciate your straw man attack. I honestly don't recall ever hearing anyone argue that we should abandon fossil fuels outright. Instead what I hear from most people is a desire to increase research into alternative energ
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by josho 12y ago
In the last few years many in north america we were introduced to a new phrase 'polar vortex' which has been unstable and resulted in colder winter storms, yet as I understand a milder winter overall. Read more here on it's r

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