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So you don't know anything about US employment contracts but you're arguing anyway. I'm sure that's helpful to the OP.

OP: this is a pretty standard clause. A common phrasing in CA would be

Company owns right, title, and interest relating to any and all inventions
[...] during the term of my employment with Company to and only to the
fullest extent allowed by California Labor Code Section 2780.

2870: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=lab&gr...

I've signed very similar assignments for 5 different companies.

It is critical, however, to read your contract. I recently told a company (founded by ex-google, backed by tier 1 vc) to DIAF because they dropped in their 16 page (!!!) employment contract a few special terms:

if I conducted any company business on my cellphone or personal laptop they had the unlimited right to audit it.

I was like, well, if I take a miscellaneous call on my cellphone, that's conducting company business. So you now have the right to read my personal email on that same phone? Or if I answer a work email from my personal laptop, the same deal? Hells no.
Thanks. I'll probably end up creating an unprovisioned partition. It's frustrating, exactly because of the uncertainty re future performance. Especially given the price premium for pro/enterprise level hardware.
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And ultimately even if you come up with a compellingly eloquent reason why it shouldn't, gravity still sucks.

Even though I know we're saying the same ultimate thing, it's not a should/shouldn't issue. It's a does/doesn't issue.

We wish (maybe) we should block hate speech, but we can not effectively. So we need to counter it with ... love speech ... or something. But something we can do instead of wishes and nonsense.
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The hobbyists being the communication networks, tracing your phone location?

I guess this has been tried before:
http://www.zeit.de/datenschutz/malte-spitz-data-retention
> This suggests another problem they have is a huge constant, in addition to the algorithmic one --- "thousands" shouldn't be something a modern machine would choke on, if updating positions is a simple operation like increasing their offset by 1 after a character is inserted.

As I mentioned in the article, a big part of the cost was updating a different interval storage structure as the markers were updated since the absolute positions approach left us no way to defer it.
Bullets kill, which is unfair if you think about it. Why don't we organize a circle and come to a consensus that they really shouldn't because it's often used to silence valid discourse?

...

That's also why we shouldn't waste a lot of time on why we should block hate speech. We cannot. If you care to confront reality you must defeat it in other ways.
It appears that Wikipedia does keep an archive ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Viewing_and_restorin...

However ...

> A message by Wikipedia system administrator Brion Vibber from January 2007 warned that deleted revisions could theoretically be cleared without warning at any time, and a script exists to perform this function. However in practice they have only been cleared twice, both times due to technical issues – once on 3 December 2003, because the Wikipedia database was transferred to a new server, and once on 8 June 2004 due to a database crash.

This is, of course, different from the revision history for an article, which shows each edit and is available for public inspection, e.g., ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Deep_learning&off...
Thanks for the correction! It's been a couple years since I've actually done any calculus. I couldn't remember the exact function, so I had to google - I guess I read too quickly.
Talk to a lawyer. On top of that: the company being acquired does not technically (normally) force you to sign a new contract, they should honour the terms of your old one. But depending on where you're employed they might easily find some grounds to throw you out if you don't sign it so a lawyer should be your first stop. And not a lawyer in any way shape or form associated with the company, make sure they are really on your side (with very large companies especially in smaller towns it can be quite hard to find a lawyer that has not been in some way employed by the company before or that is not in a partnership that has dealings with the company).

The real question is how much do you need this job? What is the state of mind of your co-workers about this subject?

Good luck!
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I find your comment offensive and see it as hate speech. I demand it be taken down.
> GSM licensing is not

Couldn't you use GSM modules [1] in your product right-away?

[1]: http://www.u-blox.com/en/wireless-modules/umtshsdpa-modules/...
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So it's using the NaCl sandbox and interface without the bytecode parts?
Why was an electron microscope necessary? Surely at this scale a conventional light microscope would have done the job, wouldn't have needed all these workarounds, and could have recorded live footage of a needle actually playing a record?
Have a look at Gentoo, it's only been around for 13 years...
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>NaCl doesn't imply proprietary any more than a JavaScript engine does

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html
Nonetheless, this is a common strategy that's used by people with names that sound non-white. Not everyone is responsible for combatting larger structural injustice while they're just trying to get employed at a sustenance level.
This is pretty standard for I assume the USA. And I would avoid Uber for lawyers you need a real lawyer who specializes in labour law.

As my mate Patrick who is a senior Industrial relations specialist and a lawyer said you don't want the guy that did the papers for buying your house advising you.
Thats a nice variation of a joke about German. "I normally skip to the back of a novel to find out what happens at the end, but in German that doesn't work because the last few pages are just full of all the verbs".
They use these kinds of transponders for TCAS (traffic collision avoidance system), so yes, it should be plain text if you like planes not crashing in to each other...
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The dev scene in the UK is not as great as it is in the US, but it's good. Perhaps the second best after the US.

US is appealing because it's an english speaking country, has a good dev scene and is an interesting country to live in.
NO NO do NOT get a non specialist lawyer
That is probably worth what you pay for it. I'd be happy to let an Indian lawyer review documents under Indian law but for a situation in the US or in Europe I'd use a local lawyer specializing in the problem domain (in this case labour law).

'Generic legal language' is not your problem, specific legal language applicable to this specific case is the problem and if $20 is the differentiating factor then you might as well quit the job or sign the contract anyway.
When you say acquisition, I'm assuming you mean an asset acquisition rather than share purchase? I only say, because technically if it's the latter, the contracting entity won't have changed and depending on the State/country laws, there is no change in the employment relationship.

It's a different matter for an asset acquisition but generally, if you're performing the same role, in certain jurisdictions your existing contract terms have to be respected (this is the case in Europe at least, I would assume that in the US, the position is more flexible though).

You'd like to think your new employer is reasonable and would at least consider feedback/amendments from you in the first instance. At worst they can reject the proposed amendments and then you will have to decide to accept or look elsewhere, but at least you would have given it a go.

Contracts obviously seek to impose clarity on a relationship and so I have some sympathy with a company attempting to create a completely black and white position (if it's not carved out, it's ours). If you are concerned about this approach and want more flexibility then you could revise so any work in your private time unrelated to anything work-related is yours. This comes with its own pitfalls in some ways - it's difficult to nail down with clarity where the dividing line is, which in part explains the company's desire for a black and white approach.

In terms of ownership of previous IP, it would depend on the wording of the agreement, they might just be looking for an assignment of future IP developed whilst working for them, or they might want an assignment of past IP not expressly referenced in the agreement. The latter would be rather draconian but that's not to say the company wouldn't request it!

I'd be glad to give a read of the contract on an informal basis, if you want.
>Granted many are not as feature rich, but they'll still be HTML5 compliant.

This is a meaningless statement. HTML5 is a moving target. And on top of that, webpage design has deteriorated to the levels we saw around 2000 again: to be usable, your browser has to mirror the most popular engines well enough that sites work.
I had the pleasure of reading some comment of yours a few months back about your work on NIS+ at Sun. These are all perfectly sane ideas but surely when you were at Sun, you signed an AoI agreement _at least_ as restrictive as what the OP is talking about. Or was that not the case and/or did you involve lawyers?
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He uses 'with the right expertise' twice, merely uses the non-specialist lawyer as a way to get to one that is specialized.
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As will the UK and if the contract is silent custom and practice applies.
Sure, there are limits of acceptable speech and those are even far below what you and I would call hate speech.

But wasting too much (any) time of the issue of what we should ban misses the issue that ultimately we can't really ban much. If we want to block something, maybe we need to do the social-media equivalent of hands-across-american or something.

But regardless if it's a "good" idea, blocking anything effectively is just hopes and prayers. Your pony is in the mail. Next!
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Isn't position and velocity (and acceleration?) enough for TCAS? Why do you need full identity and flightplan for the aircrafts?
So sure, where someone puts their name on it go to their house, haul them to court, and threaten them with jail/compensation unless they remove/repent certain things.

But when there is no identity and you could never find one do you get stuck in an infinite loop of righteousness or do you move on?
I meant to go all "just use coreutils, there is shuf available already, no need for some third-party tool" but then I realised that jot is an integral part of BSD. Rock on! :)

For us Linuxers: shuf -i 1-1000000 -n 10
> If one had, shouldn't it have survived the test of time?

Yes ... eat less than your body burns.

>why dieting over the long term is actually impossible

Oh so I lost 10 kg over the last couple of years on accident? How fortunate! Guess my 'healthy' eating habits are just nonsense after all!

>nobody has willpower

This is bullshit. Everybody has willpower, maybe a finite amount of it but it's there.

Losing weight is 'simple', not easy. Eat less than your body burns. That's it. However, there are some caveats. This technique requires you to accurately 'guesstimate' how much your body burns but also your caloric food intake. Losing weight also doesn't necessarily mean 'looking better'.

The most important thing though are habits. Habits are powerful.
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Here's the problem I want solved:

1. I have lists of books and movies and TV shows and stuff that I want to watch, but I'm never 100% sure what I should start on next.

2. I have friends who have watched some of these shows and films and read some of these books. I'd like to have watched and read the same things, because then we'd have more to talk about.

Here's what I'd like to have:

I go to HelpMeChoose and it asks, "what is your name?"And I go, "visakanv".

"What books are you thinking of reading?" And I go, "The Box, Games People Play, Snow Crash, string, string, string"

Then it gives me a link, maybe helpmechoose.com/visakanv/books or just helpmechoose.com/visakanv, whatever.

I can then share this link with anybody, and they'll get to +1 to all of the things they think I should read.

It could potentially get a lot more complex from there, but that's the core MVP I'd like to see and use. You could pull in suggested reads and stuff like that, maybe have affiliate links to amazon, blah blah, but for the time being I'd really just like the basic functionality I described.

Does this exist anywhere? Or can you think of any simple/clever/quick workarounds?
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We are part of a similar subscription based system here in Belgium. Prices are somewhere between supermarket normal and organic. Mostly local, but some stuff is shipped in when the local crops really suck. Indeed forces you to learn to cook and enjoy whatever weird stuff happens to be growing well locally. This results in less effort deciding what to buy, but more effort figuring out what to do with whatever you received. I really don't think giving consumers ~more choice is going to help solve the problem of getting people to eat whatever is growing locally.
Yes? Did you have some special reason to italicize the word arteries?

First of all I am talking about the trans fats themself, and plaque is not made from the trans fats themself. Those fats will be burned for energy over time and vanish.

If you want to talk about the results of the trans fats, those too will reverse over time if the health of the person improves.
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Around here they would ask that you join (which is cheap) and they do have trained lawyers in this - it's one of the main areas where employer-employee conflicts come up (that shouldn't even be surprising).
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If they like you, this won't stop them from hiring you.

If they don't like you, this won't get them to hire you.

So non-issue, really. Enjoy yourself.
Presumably that person wants manufacturing "here" (wherever that is).
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I don't think offline or online is a criterium here for if this should be acceptable. Physical access security is just as important as online remote.

The concept of storing your sensitive data (Keepass and alike) in an app somebody else wrote specifically to store sensitive data, while not knowing anything about the quality (something getting addressed by the OP) of the actual product a very very weird idea.

Though not much different then storing your money at a bank, at least there somebody is sort of responsible and you can chase them down the street using a pitchfork and a torch in case something goes wrong with your deposited money.

The password managers to me, feel a bit like the lockers in a swimming pool, sure you'll put your wallet, car keys and cellphone in there. But everybody knows those lockers have the security of a cardboard box… yet we still all do it. And once your stuff is gone, the swimming pool management will point at the sign, not responsible for any theft.

As we all know here, nothing on a computer is safe, specially not when physical access is involved.
BTW there is a HUGE catch with that fixed rate system. It more or less prevents you from doing any work overseas (for a company that doesn't have a UK office).
The reason is that the work you do oversea would have to be invoiced as /zero rate VAT/ -- however you will still be liable to pay back 13.5 (or 14.5 after a year) VAT from what you invoiced.
This is cruel, but there is no way around it. The bottom line is that HRMC considers that you need to pay 13.5 for any VAT rate you charge, and 'zero rated' actually means you are 'charging' zero, but you are still technically charging!
I can tell you it was a pretty massive headbanger for me earlier this year, and luckily the company I worked for had an obscure UK office that allowed me to re-invoice everything with the 'proper' 20% VAT

So if you plan to sell work to an oversea company in the future, make sure to get off the simplified VAT scheme beforehand. I know I will, come november, the shackles aren't really worth the tiny little money you get in the end.
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That might be, but continuous personnel replacement would be hard for both the abusing company and its customers. Disney wouldn't be so keen to outsource if they knew all the people they train now will be gone in a few months. It would also dry up the pool of applicants faster at the other end, especially if linked with provisions forbidding reapplying for X years.
As I understand it, NaCl is a Pepper plugin, but Pepper does not rely on NaCl. Other Pepper plugins are not necessarily using NaCl.

https://code.google.com/p/nativeclient/wiki/Pepper
I don't understand why your country allows dogs to die in peace but does not grant humans the right to choose their own end. Here it is normal that someone says: "Ok, lets end it." And the morphine is increased slowly while you don't eat and drink. The fact that there is no evolutionary pressure to make death less painful does not mean your should experience the full effects of it. I mean your country does offer painless births (something my country is very hesitant in, I have no idea why, oh cultures...)
It's true that a SEM wasn't strictly necessary, but there are a few interesting features that make SEM images visually different, and perhaps more appealing, than light microscope images. The electron signal emitted by the surface of the objects in the chamber doesn't behave like light bouncing off an object's surface. Normally shadows are cast by photons traveling in straight lines, and our minds have become accustomed to this behavior. The electrons in the SEM can travel in curved paths, so the illumination in the SEM image can effectively go around corners, leading to surreal shadows and highlights.

The aperture size in the SEM is much smaller than that used in a camera or microscope, leading to much higher depth of field for a given geometry and working distance. A camera might be f/16, while this SEM is effectively f/200

The brightness of objects in the image is partially influenced by the material properties and local geometry, so an exposed protrusion or edge will tend to be very bright -- something that doesn't happen with macro photography.

Hey, it's fun to play with scanning electron microscopes.
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It's not a matter of whether or not the paperwork is standard, the problem is that an acquisition does not normally require existing employees to sign new contracts and 'harmonizing' the relationships the company has with its employees is something they would only do if they feel their own contracts give them a more solid position on something they care about.

So this is a non-negotiable reduction in the legal position of the employees at best.
I can build strawmen too:

- SmugCeeWeenie: I am so fast, look (oops, core dumped)

- SmugGoWeenie: abstractions are so nasty we should get rid of functions, so that everyhting is laid out clearly. Hopefully, I have copy/paste.

- SmugAdaWeenie: Functions are not procedures and records cannot store objects. Real engineers do not "prototype" code.

- SmugHaskellWeenie: Yeah, it compiles! Job done.

> In the space year 2015 people are still doing this.

About first class functions? citation needed.
I think the problem is that some of us aren't up to speed on the particulars. Is that what's being blocked (and proposed for encryption)? Just the "full identity and flightplan"?
Just because something is in an employment contract doesn't mean it is enforceable.
I disagree. You say so because you're used to Python. In Python you need to remember quite a few syntax rules. How many different symbols you need to write a relatively complex program? How many symbols/words are reserved? In LISPs there's much less syntax to remember.
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Is there any website listing or does anyone know of web development related conferences in Central and Eastern Europe between September-December ?

Thanks
That's a different issue; I was just disagreeing with that specific criticism. I don't support hate speech laws, hence "playing devil's advocate".
And if it is an asset acquisition then you're technically still employed by your old company and you'd need to formally apply for a job at the new one.

These kind of details are exactly why you should hire a labour lawyer. Also, your 100% that if it is a share purchase (even if only a majority stake) that the old contract is simply still valid.

Acquisitions of any kind don't magically invalidate all the contracts the company has entered in over its lifespan.
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Given the time of day, I suggest that the majority of people that will read these comments are in Europe. I have only tried to offer my opinion and be clear about my situation in response to a direct question. I can not offer appropriate personal and local legal advice on this forum (and nor can anyone else, as I was trying to make clear).

But "...to the fullest extent allowed by law" seems pretty much like what I'm talking about - a "standard" clause that benefits the employer maximally and with unlimited scope. It appears to automatically update with any changes to that law to ensure that it continues to benefit the employer maximally and with unlimited scope.

It's implicitly threatening language that is otherwise only seen with "Shoplifters will be prosecuted..."

I would be pretty concerned about that. The fact that you have accepted that as a standard, personally or culturally, doesn't make this any less of a concern for me.

Accepting clauses like this, as standard without question, is bad for everyone in the labor market.

OP should argue with such a clause if it doesn't suit them.
Racket (a Scheme descendant) might be a good fit. It has teaching languages, which are simplified, and a nice IDE (DrRacket), and books (HTDP/2e (free online), Realm of Racket, etc.)

Close match to the Python above:

(apply + (range 1 11))
Because the intention is to migrate air traffic control systems to the use of ADS-B data to replace or augment Secondary Surveillance Radar.
You probably wont be able to find a permanent job that pays as well as contract job, at the same skill levels.