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> Because even if you "win", you now have all of those lovely legal bills that the lawyer sends you Oh come on, that's like saying when you involve engineers to build a bridge, the only people who wins are the engineers because you have to pay them.
Engineers don't get paid more when a project gets further delayed.
Update: I immediately took down my class project site after receiving yesterday’s ultimatum. I still don’t think the simple demo site violated the letter or spirit of the registration rules, but I took it down because I always want to operate in good faith. They followed up today to thank me for doing it, but also indicated that they were putting a hold on my account anyway. As a result, I am not going to be able to…
> I am not planning to get a lawyer involved as I have faith that UW leadership will make it right in the end. All evidence so far indicates they will not make it right, but instead they may make it even worse. Your faith is wildly misplaced. Seriously, talk to a lawyer. Keep in mind, just because you seek advice from a lawyer doesn't mean you need to take legal action against the school. Talking to a lawyer is not a…
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I didn't have it quite as bad as you, but I did go to war once with my alma mater regarding a particularly small lab director and part-time instructor who had a Napoleon complex going on. He was directly and obviously infringing on student's First Amendment rights, not to mention bullying the class as a whole and attempting to threaten people. Ironically, his heart was in the right place, but his execution was way of…
The First Amendement limits what the US Congress/government can do, not what a private person can do. > Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
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The one time I mentioned getting a lawyer over a grievance with a car dealership, the customer service people immediately stopped talking to me and said all further communication goes through their lawyers. Whoops
That’s the only reasonable thing to do in their position. Anything you say from there can and will be used against you. It’s also the best way for any customer service rep to eject from an unpleasant exchange. 100% done with you; lawyers problem now.
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Yes, with a completely clickbait intro (given he took the site down after the university warned him, which he said later in his post). To be fair he follows up the first post saying that the university is holding his future registration hostage unless he builds them a similar website: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jdkaim_github-jdkaimhuskyswap...
Note that in the LinkedIn post he exclusively talks in first person: I developed the project etc. In fact if you go on GitHub, their project presentation lists a 6 people team: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/117dGuEK98-TwAPGUBijf... . He was on the backend team, but still mentions angular in the LinkedIn post. Did the others not do anything? Or why is he not giving them credit in the LinkedIn post?
Update: I immediately took down my class project site after receiving yesterday’s ultimatum. I still don’t think the simple demo site violated the letter or spirit of the registration rules, but I took it down because I always want to operate in good faith. They followed up today to thank me for doing it, but also indicated that they were putting a hold on my account anyway. As a result, I am not going to be able to…
One half of me is sympathetic with you, the other wonders whether you're trying to get attention for a job (this is how the end of your LinkedIn post makes it sound). It's hard to judge from the outside as you haven't shared the actual writing from UW. I would probably cut this from the end of the LinkedIn post, this makes you look like you're possibly trying to blow this out of proportion for attention: > I'm schedu…
Why not both. I hire, and it crossed my mind to reach out to him when I read the ending. The project shows ambition and independent thought, two virtues in my book.
He's smart to leverage the attention. Might as well get some benefit out of the university's heavy-handed policing here.
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Note that in the LinkedIn post he exclusively talks in first person: I developed the project etc. In fact if you go on GitHub, their project presentation lists a 6 people team: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/117dGuEK98-TwAPGUBijf... . He was on the backend team, but still mentions angular in the LinkedIn post. Did the others not do anything? Or why is he not giving them credit in the LinkedIn post?
If you look at the commit history and contributors, it's mostly him.
By that metric, he did half the work. But it still means he completely disregards the other half.
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You write: "I'm scheduled to graduate in a few months" Is the UW CS Bachelor just 2 years? Your LinkedIn profile states that you started there mid-2023, so you've been there for just 1.5y. What am I missing?
You can definitely bang out all the major requirements in 2 years if you don't need any gen ed classes (e.g. community college or other transfer credits). ~18 class-quarters of requirements, 3 classes/quarter => 6 quarters. Possibly as short as 4-5 quarters if you can manage a higher courseload.
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One half of me is sympathetic with you, the other wonders whether you're trying to get attention for a job (this is how the end of your LinkedIn post makes it sound). It's hard to judge from the outside as you haven't shared the actual writing from UW. I would probably cut this from the end of the LinkedIn post, this makes you look like you're possibly trying to blow this out of proportion for attention: > I'm schedu…
> One half of me is sympathetic with you, the other wonders whether you're trying to get attention for a job (this is how the end of your LinkedIn post makes it sound). Why not both. I hire, and it crossed my mind to reach out to him when I read the ending. The project shows ambition and independent thought, two virtues in my book. He's smart to leverage the attention. Might as well get some benefit out of the univer…
There are a couple of other question marks:
- Says he'll graduate this year, but he's only started at UW 1.5y ago, his project team mates also started 1.5y ago, so the course does not seem to be super advanced
- Claims he did the project on his own in the LinkedIn post, when in fact it was coursework by a team of 6
- The docs promise stuff that are entirely unimplemented, I couldn't find anything related to talking to the UW API
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Yes, with a completely clickbait intro (given he took the site down after the university warned him, which he said later in his post). To be fair he follows up the first post saying that the university is holding his future registration hostage unless he builds them a similar website: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jdkaim_github-jdkaimhuskyswap...
Note that in the LinkedIn post he exclusively talks in first person: I developed the project etc. In fact if you go on GitHub, their project presentation lists a 6 people team: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/117dGuEK98-TwAPGUBijf... . He was on the backend team, but still mentions angular in the LinkedIn post. Did the others not do anything? Or why is he not giving them credit in the LinkedIn post?