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Re: Ask HN: Who is firing?

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Post by noescape »

JBlue42 wrote: post #398
noescape wrote: post #394

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This is a really good question. It seems a non-disparagement clause waives one's right to the first amendment. http://www.jaburgwilk.com/news-publications/what-is-a-non-di... Is this right?

Whenever I had to sign one after a lay-off I checked with lawyer friends first. They are not really enforceable.

Can you explain what you mean by "really enforceable"? Does it mean that they often don't get enforced, but are legally binding -- or does it mean they're illegal?

If they're legally binding then that's still bad.

Re: Ask HN: Who is firing?

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Post by debunn »

phrotoma wrote: post #406
debunn wrote: post #294

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Yes - we've discussed amongst ourselves (those affected) about what RBC did, and how they were lambasted in the media for abusing the visas. In our particular case, TCS seems to already have a number of local assets they're involving, with most of the work to be sourced by India based teams. I'm sure OTPP is trying to avoid similar negative press in regards to abusing visas, but I've been surprised how little coverag…

I worked at RBC during that time and can add a bit of context. Rumour was the CIO at the time (Morteza Mahjour) had staked his job on reducing operating costs of the tech services & operations division by bringing in an offshore firm called iGate. I wasn't laid off but plenty folks I know were and I left anyway. The cost savings plan turned out to be a bust, projects ran over budget or never got off the ground at all…

Yes - the Ontario Teachers Federation (the parent body that manages the different Ontario teachers' unions) was made aware of the outsourcing shortly after it was announced in July. They questioned Ron Mock (OTPP's CEO) shortly afterwards, and voted to have OTPP reverse the decision:

https://twitter.com/oectagovernor/status/768170531468095492

Sadly, this has resulted in no visible changes to the decision.

The OTPP fund is currently at $171.4 billion (all figures in Canadian dollars) as of December 2015, with $13.2 billion in surplus funding as of January 1, 2015. Makes you wonder why they'd go through this kind of cost cutting, doesn't it?

Re: Ask HN: Who is firing?

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Post by jakub_g »

Raed667 wrote: post #273
user5994461 wrote: post #219

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34kE for a new master's graduate is rather low in Paris. It's rather high for the rest of the country. See here for discussion about French salaries. http://www.developpez.net/forums/f597/emploi-etudes-informat... That's the main french forum for professional developers tips & tricks & career advice & salaries.

Thanks, and do you have an idea about Nice / Sophia Antipolis ?

Fresh graduate salaries in Sophia are ~€33k-€40k. Negotiate hard, as getting a raise later is tough.

Re: Ask HN: Who is firing?

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Post by daveloyall »

karmajunkie wrote: post #370
daveloyall wrote: post #316

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Do you know anybody who might be interested in wiring Apache Camel up to be a Rhapsody replacement? The NEDSS Base System has an expensive dependency on Rhapsody, but all it does is grab incoming HL7, do some transformations, and dump the result into a NBS table. (For the uninitiated: State Health Departments are generally the users of NEDSS Base System... Rhapsody is a graphical ETL tool.)

Just out of curiosity, any reason you're using Camel for that instead of Mirth? I've been out of the healthcare sector for a few years but at one time was doing essentially that same thing to build out the state biosurveillance network in TX. Mirth was a great fit for it at the time, I'd imagine it still is.

I haven't started yet. Just putting feelers out.

I haven't evaluated Mirth. It seems like a consumer oriented product. The marketing around it is so deep that I can't find a list of it what it's not good at...

Camel appears to be basically a library. As a programmer, I find that appealing.

Re: Ask HN: Who is firing?

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Post by daveloyall »

pjungwir wrote: post #371
daveloyall wrote: post #316

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Do you know anybody who might be interested in wiring Apache Camel up to be a Rhapsody replacement? The NEDSS Base System has an expensive dependency on Rhapsody, but all it does is grab incoming HL7, do some transformations, and dump the result into a NBS table. (For the uninitiated: State Health Departments are generally the users of NEDSS Base System... Rhapsody is a graphical ETL tool.)

I could do this. I'm not from Atlanta, but two other developers and myself have a small company, Columbia Ops, that has done a lot of HL7 work. Usually we use Mirth, but we could do it in Camel instead if you prefer something lighter. My email is in my profile.

Second plug in this thread for Mirth. Noted. And...

Re: Ask HN: Who is firing?

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Post by jbob2000 »

pathompong wrote: post #2

Thomson Reuters is. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-01/thomson-re...

Huh. Strange. They just opened an office in Toronto and posted all these dev job ads... I applied but got rejected, guess it was for the better.

Re: Ask HN: Who is firing?

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Post by jbob2000 »

dkns wrote: post #210
scarythoughts wrote: post #125

My friend and his entire data engineering department were laid off from Imgur.com in August. About 10 people of 70 out so.

I wonder if this has anything to do with reddit implementing their own image hosting service.

That, and they took an investment from Andreessen-Horowitz and their 2 years is up! I don't think they were able to make a go of it and the writing is on the wall.

Re: Ask HN: Who is firing?

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Post by [deleted] »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #348
hsod wrote: post #331

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Really? It sounds like you're describing a felony, and one that would probably not that hard to be traced back to the perpetrator.

You're naive if you think this doesn't happen more often than not. Some shops are very good about preventing this, most enterprises are not. Drop a bunch of USB sticks in the parking lot or other common areas, someone else ends up doing the work for you.

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Re: Ask HN: Who is firing?

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Post by phaus »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #348
hsod wrote: post #331

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Really? It sounds like you're describing a felony, and one that would probably not that hard to be traced back to the perpetrator.

You're naive if you think this doesn't happen more often than not. Some shops are very good about preventing this, most enterprises are not. Drop a bunch of USB sticks in the parking lot or other common areas, someone else ends up doing the work for you.

I do incident response for a living. Disgruntled employees/former employees do sabotage their companies' networks, but it is incredibly rare. Not because most organizations are well-defended against such attacks; its because most people aren't willing to destroy their lives simply because they were laid off. Especially in a rapidly growing industry where a talented person can generally find a better job than the one they had in a week or two.

Re: Ask HN: Who is firing?

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Post by [deleted] »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #348
hsod wrote: post #331

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Really? It sounds like you're describing a felony, and one that would probably not that hard to be traced back to the perpetrator.

You're naive if you think this doesn't happen more often than not. Some shops are very good about preventing this, most enterprises are not. Drop a bunch of USB sticks in the parking lot or other common areas, someone else ends up doing the work for you.

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