East Coast law firms don't care about California labor laws. I've worked under several such contracts in Silicon Valley. Whenever a push came to a shove, I politely informed my employer to review their contract with a California labor attorney. The last thing they needed was a wrongful termination lawsuit that has the judge declaring the contract null and void in the first five minutes.
Goldman Sach claimed ALL CODE as proprietary. That's not the same as copyright. The FBI was told that the programmer stole trade secrets that could undermine the financial system, which they were never capable of determining if the code was trade secrets or open source. It was gibberish to them. If the programmer changed a dozen lines to improve an open source network code, it belonged to Goldman Sach and no one else.
I take public transit from San Jose to Palo Alto because I don't have a car and, if I did, I don't want to drive through the 280/85 interchange. My commute is an hour each way. I start work at 7:00AM and go home at 3:30PM, bypassing much of the traffic nastiness. The commute into work is reliable. The commute home can be unpredictable at times due to traffic at the 280/85 interchange. The $140 per month on an express pass is well worth the money for me.
When people hear that I can program apps I often get hassled by someone who of course has the next multi million dollar idea.
Whenever someone finds out that I'm a writer, they ask why I haven't written a screenplay and make an easy $50,000 per screenplay. First, it's not that easy to write a screenplay. Second, I don't have connections with Hollywood because I don't live there. Third, I'm not interested in competing with every failed actor or actress who write screenplays when they're not working at the local dinner. No one is happy with that answer.
In the non-cyber world: would a car designer without automotive engineering get anywhere?
I had a roommate who studied automotive design on the West Coast because he loved cars. Four years of college and $25,000 in student debt later, his regular job was logistics in a warehouse. I'm surprised no one told him that an automotive designer was overqualified to work in a warehouse.
I once worked at a video game company that tried to impose a broad intellectual property agreement on the testers. If I want home to create a video game, write a novel or do anything creative, it would become company property. The attorneys wanted a list of any prior patents and/or copyrights to claim that as company property. That created an uproar and no one signed the new IP agreement. HR backed down and restored the previous generic IP agreement that covered ideas during business hours.
You need to read "Flash Boys" by Michael Lewis to get the full story. The programmer made routine backups of the modifications he made to open source files for release back into the community. Something that Goldman Sach wasn't doing because they were routinely stripping out the GPL license headers and claiming ALL CODE as proprietary. They called the FBI on this guy to prevent him from working for someone else.
It's easier to be a lazy bum in the Philippines than put up with the U.S. relatives who look down on him for being a lazy bum and expect him to get a job.
Sorry, the helping out relatives story is not in the interest of Greece.
Unless, of course, your wife loves the money you send back and doesn't want you to come home.
I had roommate's brother who came from the Philippines to do electronic assembly work in Silicon Valley. He hated the job but his wife didn't want him to come home. After a few years, he quit, returned home and got divorced. His wife spent every dime he ever made in the U.S.
When I had a $100 steak in Las Vegas, it melted like butter in my mouth. I don't think taking a circular saw to your kneecaps has the same pleasant experience.
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He died, went to hell and bought a basketball team. NBA rules prevent him from tossing chairs on to the court.
I can learn assembly language! On the web, no less!
Some clueless office jockey rolled his chair over the intertube to the Internet. Happens all the time.
East Coast law firms don't care about California labor laws. I've worked under several such contracts in Silicon Valley. Whenever a push came to a shove, I politely informed my employer to review their contract with a California labor attorney. The last thing they needed was a wrongful termination lawsuit that has the judge declaring the contract null and void in the first five minutes.
I was so looking forward to getting a Nokia Windows 10 phone for Christmas.
I had a Big Trak when I was kid too. My first introduction to programming.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Trak
Never mind that the modified open source code had absolutely nothing to do with trade secrets that Goldman Sachs called the FBI about.
Goldman Sach claimed ALL CODE as proprietary. That's not the same as copyright. The FBI was told that the programmer stole trade secrets that could undermine the financial system, which they were never capable of determining if the code was trade secrets or open source. It was gibberish to them. If the programmer changed a dozen lines to improve an open source network code, it belonged to Goldman Sach and no one else.
I take public transit from San Jose to Palo Alto because I don't have a car and, if I did, I don't want to drive through the 280/85 interchange. My commute is an hour each way. I start work at 7:00AM and go home at 3:30PM, bypassing much of the traffic nastiness. The commute into work is reliable. The commute home can be unpredictable at times due to traffic at the 280/85 interchange. The $140 per month on an express pass is well worth the money for me.
The girls in the seventh grade told me I came from a "poor" family because I had a Commodore VIC-20 and not an Apple II. That was 1983.
When people hear that I can program apps I often get hassled by someone who of course has the next multi million dollar idea.
Whenever someone finds out that I'm a writer, they ask why I haven't written a screenplay and make an easy $50,000 per screenplay. First, it's not that easy to write a screenplay. Second, I don't have connections with Hollywood because I don't live there. Third, I'm not interested in competing with every failed actor or actress who write screenplays when they're not working at the local dinner. No one is happy with that answer.
It seems the most important skill is being able to pay people while keeping most of the money for yourself.
If you ever own a business, you will understand how important that skill is.
In the non-cyber world: would a car designer without automotive engineering get anywhere?
I had a roommate who studied automotive design on the West Coast because he loved cars. Four years of college and $25,000 in student debt later, his regular job was logistics in a warehouse. I'm surprised no one told him that an automotive designer was overqualified to work in a warehouse.
I once worked at a video game company that tried to impose a broad intellectual property agreement on the testers. If I want home to create a video game, write a novel or do anything creative, it would become company property. The attorneys wanted a list of any prior patents and/or copyrights to claim that as company property. That created an uproar and no one signed the new IP agreement. HR backed down and restored the previous generic IP agreement that covered ideas during business hours.
The license was GOLDMAN SACH, where the GPL license headers were stripped from open source code and ALL CODE claimed as proprietary.
You need to read "Flash Boys" by Michael Lewis to get the full story. The programmer made routine backups of the modifications he made to open source files for release back into the community. Something that Goldman Sach wasn't doing because they were routinely stripping out the GPL license headers and claiming ALL CODE as proprietary. They called the FBI on this guy to prevent him from working for someone else.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_Boys
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With luck it will end the lunatic Euro-dream too.
World War II called and wants its lunatic Euro-dream back.
It's easier to be a lazy bum in the Philippines than put up with the U.S. relatives who look down on him for being a lazy bum and expect him to get a job.
Sorry, the helping out relatives story is not in the interest of Greece.
Unless, of course, your wife loves the money you send back and doesn't want you to come home.
I had roommate's brother who came from the Philippines to do electronic assembly work in Silicon Valley. He hated the job but his wife didn't want him to come home. After a few years, he quit, returned home and got divorced. His wife spent every dime he ever made in the U.S.
He was the last man standing.
You could always sign up.
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When I had a $100 steak in Las Vegas, it melted like butter in my mouth. I don't think taking a circular saw to your kneecaps has the same pleasant experience.
Strange... I didn't see anyone say, "I'M STEVE JOBS!"
I had a college roommate who kept his keyboard on the floor and typed out term papers with his long toes.