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by sunchild 15y ago
This is a great comment, but one nitpick: "No fee-splitting or profit sharing is permitted with any person who is not licensed." I believe this is no longer the case the UK and some other places.
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by sunchild 15y ago
You sound like my kind of lawyer. We should be organizing like-minded lawyers and forcing changes on a bigger scale. Please get in touch with me. My firm's homepage should appear in my profile.
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by sunchild 15y ago
I typically represent customers in contract negotiations with their upstream suppliers. That means I do lots of deals with many of the same names on the other side of the table, again and again (Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, etc.) After over a d
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by sunchild 15y ago
Law School doesn't really teach what lawyers need to practice law. I've been tempted to do some videos on open source compliance, basics of contract negotiations, etc. but I just don't have enough time to do everything I want to! Maybe if
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by sunchild 15y ago
Yes, litigation and compliance tend to lead the way when it comes to extracting meaning from legal data pools. In my opinion, the single biggest obstacle to getting legal knowledge to play nice with software is the fact that it is all "sil
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by sunchild 15y ago
Exactly! What I've learned, though, is that there is always a need for a human being at the end of the process. That's where lawyers will always be needed: to exercise nuanced judgment that just cannot be systematized (yet). The trick is
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by sunchild 15y ago
Quality is very, very difficult to measure in this context. It's a bit like measuring the quality of a doctor or other professional whose advice you need to trust beyond a shadow of a doubt. In the end, law firms tend to trade on longstand
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by sunchild 15y ago
Based on your experience, I'd love to chat with you offline. My law firm (together with another firm in London) is building software for deal lawyers. If you're interested in meeting, you can reach me via the email address on my firm's pag
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by sunchild 15y ago
I live and breathe this topic. After 12 years at big law firms in NYC, myself and a collection of our best and brightest broke off and founded our own firms (mine in NYC, another in London). This is actually very relevant to the HN communi
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by sunchild 15y ago
I've been using it. I like it a lot, but I can't figure out how to "git add ." in it! I don't know why people are trashing this app. It's not exactly hard to use the command line if you don't like this app. Using a GUI on git is just a co
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by sunchild 15y ago
Apparently not! http://warpspire.com/posts/designing-github-mac/
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by sunchild 15y ago
Passwords are one of the safeguards (perhaps the most important) that protect personal/sensitive data.
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by sunchild 15y ago
Even though I don't like frivolous lawsuits, it's way too early to say there's no legal basis for the claim.
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by sunchild 15y ago
Not if those emails are from spammers harvesting the Groupon DB that is now available on Google .
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by sunchild 15y ago
And indexed by Google. That is terrible.
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by sunchild 15y ago
It's probably worth reading up on this topic: http://www.wipo.int/sme/en/documents/ip_photography.htm
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by sunchild 15y ago
Sounds like a fun business: hire tens of thousands of sales people, and then gradually lay them off.
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by sunchild 15y ago
I don't really think it's rude. It's sort of the opposite of Japan, where lots of people study English, but are too shy to speak it openly. I'm sure it's more complicated than that in both cases.
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by sunchild 15y ago
Yes, to the point that learning Dutch on the fly is hard because nobody will try to speak it with you when they are so good with English.
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by sunchild 15y ago
The horse is out of the barn. All of these users need to change their passwords everywhere – yesterday.
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by sunchild 15y ago
You should try 1password. It really like it. It syncs via wifi or dropbox.
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by sunchild 15y ago
I take your point, and it's definitely a fair one. Ideally, we would anticipate and iron out all disputes up front. In software development, that's exactly what we try to do! In contracts, though, there are cases where a company will live
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by sunchild 15y ago
A lot of the ambiguity in contracts today has to do with structure, and not so much content. This may seem counter-intuitive, but consider some examples: 1. Lawyers have a bad habit of using "inline definitions" in contracts. That means
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by sunchild 15y ago
Interestingly, Microsoft's BPOS standard terms include summaries above the salient sections. They are entirely non-binding, and quite well done.
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by sunchild 15y ago
Of course. I'll send you an email. Meanwhile, my firm's site is here: http://yusonirvine.com/
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by sunchild 15y ago
My firm is working on this, together with other like-minded law firms. Indeed, we are lawyers who write code (gasp!).
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by sunchild 15y ago
I draft contracts for a living (IAAL). The goal is always to draft a contract so that any reasonably competent judge or juror could understand the parties' intent. A lot of lawyers (most?) are terrible at this. They say things like "in t
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by sunchild 15y ago
My point was that the choice is sometimes not left in the user's direct control. If I thought I could choose an absurdly strong password (e.g., to overcome the shortcomings of the developer's choice of SHA1), I would always do that – excep
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by sunchild 15y ago
I never said the informants would be killed. If a gang reads that they've got an informant in their midst, they'll find someone and punish them – right or wrong. I'm not saying LulzSec is wrong to publish it; I'm just pointing out that it
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by sunchild 15y ago
"...describe the use of informants to infiltrate various gangs, cartels, motorcycle clubs, Nazi groups, and protest movements." FWIW, this probably means some people are going to die.

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