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by mimixco 5y ago
Speaking only from my own experience, HSR stops take a lot longer than that. It takes the TGV five minutes to slow down and approach the station! The TGVs I've ridden also do not do fast turnaround at stations. They sit there, like a
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by mimixco 5y ago
Well, it's the only thing like it in the world! We are the only country that has a highway network (as in, multilane, graded, exits, safety areas, services, etc.) that runs "from sea to shining sea" and top-to-bottom as well.
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by mimixco 5y ago
It's coming! We will have the first true high speed rail in the US. It's Shinkansen hardware because the Japanese investors in the project insisted... and good for them and us that they did! It's also all new rail as Amtraks
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by mimixco 5y ago
The best explanation I've heard is that the interstate system killed the need for trains here. We're the only country in the world with anything like it. (Fun fact: It's the world's largest infrastructure project.) Becau
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by mimixco 5y ago
I suspect that you might not have worked in one of these positions. I assure you that it'll be in your contract.
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by mimixco 5y ago
Did you have a salaried job in programming where that was in your contract?
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by mimixco 5y ago
Juul isn't workin' out so good for old Philip Morris, so they'll try wine now.
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by mimixco 5y ago
Um, stop watching YouTube?
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by mimixco 5y ago
So a computer can type a sample from a coursebook into the editor for you, after much prompting, fiddling, and tabbing from you. Well, I guess it's marginally better than typing in printed listings from a computer magazine, like we did
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by mimixco 5y ago
Thank you. I was trying Medium for the first time to see if it got any more traction over our own page.
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by mimixco 5y ago
You will find that in professional work for a salary, they are not paying you for hours but for many aspects of the relationship they have with you. One of them is what you do while you're there. Another aspect is what you do while you
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by mimixco 5y ago
It's never wrong to leave if you disagree with the company's direction. We would have far less evil companies if more people did this! There's a great real world example in the HP 9110A, the world's first desktop compute
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by mimixco 5y ago
I agree. As long as you quit before you launch or sell something. One of the best ways to start your own business is to learn everything you can under someone else, then go work in that industry. As an employer myself, I encourage and seek
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by mimixco 5y ago
That's just not how salaried positions work. Shift positions, sure, but you won't find any kind of professional job where you're off the hook when you're off the clock. There are always expectations and rules about your
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by mimixco 5y ago
Actually, many famous food products, software products, cars, and other things were created by people who did work at their former competitors. It's been the subject of many lawsuits. Reese's were invented by a disgruntled employe
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by mimixco 5y ago
No, the limit is does your business create or use intellectual property that is also a line of business of the company. This is how its actually handled in contracts with people who perform this kind of work. A photographer who works in com
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by mimixco 5y ago
There aren't usually non competes for workers and I totally agree there shouldn't be... unless they're salaried workers who create intellectual property. You can't have your cake and eat it, too. If you want to sell soft
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by mimixco 5y ago
Folks doing shift work don't usually have intellectual property constraints, but someone working on software for pay (even if it isn't games) who makes software and tries to sell it while he is working at company in that same busi
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by mimixco 5y ago
I'm referring mainly to businesses that create intellectual property, but you are quite right... the problem is that Amazon is in so many businesses, which leads to poor treatment of employees, suppliers, and customers. You would only
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by mimixco 5y ago
This is incorrect both de facto and de jure. Anything you invent while employed at a university or a company like IBM or Microsoft will belong to them forever, without exception. The cardinal rule is that, if you do not want your invention
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by mimixco 5y ago
Would it be ok to work to develop a competing business and then quit to launch that business? That's unethical. There's an implied contract that when you work for someone you don't also work against them. In higher level jobs
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by mimixco 5y ago
This is certainly awful for anyone trying to develop a game outside of Amazon while they work at Amazon. But one has to stop and ask, is that really a thing? If you worked for Coca-Cola, would it be ok to develop a soda that's not thei
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by mimixco 5y ago
The answers are in this article but not explicitly stated that way. It's JS for grownups (Stanford just switched) and Scratch for kids. I think those are the right answers and I would propose MS MakeCode as a beautiful marriage of both
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So, You'd Like to Start a Software Scam(medium.com)
7 points by mimixco 5y ago|2 comments
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by mimixco 5y ago
Much love. Thank you.
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So, You'd Like to Start a Software Scam(mimix.io)
1 points by mimixco 5y ago|3 comments
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by mimixco 5y ago
Author here. This is a darkly humorous take on an industry exposé. 3,800 words. Your comments are welcomed and appreciated!
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by mimixco 5y ago
Yes, all these car companies have oddly interwoven histories now. Chrysler is, of course, American automobile royalty. Fiat bought it with Chrysler's own money. Peugeot and Citroën are storied French brands that survived with state ass
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by mimixco 5y ago
See also Stellantis EV story here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27773828
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by mimixco 5y ago
The name Stellantis is not well known in the US, even less so than the brands they own, several of which aren't even for sale here. But... researching electric cars out of my interest in the US market for them (and my interest in getti

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