I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it
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I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it
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Re: I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it
#2I get a strangely dystopian feeling from this article, like it's almost about a character in a black mirror episode
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#3Is it common to take code written for one employer and reuse it for another?
Re: I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it
#4"Nothing came of it, but I took the code and shoved it into my back pocket for a rainy day.
My idea was to take this code and spruce it up for Uber’s use case."
"My first reaction was to publish the code on Github."
I’m very surprised by this, isn’t the code property of Box, or Uber? The author does not mention their authorisation before releasing it under MIT license.
Re: I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it
#5That's a tremendous war story. I _love_ it! Doing a thing that's considered unreasonable. Knowing that total value is integral of instantaneous value over time (so short high-impact projects can easily outvalue long-lived projects).
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#6"Nothing came of it, but I took the code and shoved it into my back pocket for a rainy day. My idea was to take this code and spruce it up for Uber’s use case." "My first reaction was to publish the code on Github." I’m very surprised by this, isn’t the code property of Box, or Uber? The author does not mention their authorisation before releasing it under MIT license.
I believe this kind of story is the kind that gives most legal counsel nightmares.
Re: I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it
#7Is it common to take code written for one employer and reuse it for another?
Some of us will strategically write generic code on our own time and machines and import it to employers machines when needed and customize it. For instance, how many times do you really need to write a spring OAuth server that integrates with LDAP? Or the guts of a simple CRUD app?
Re: I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it
#8Is it common to take code written for one employer and reuse it for another?
Some of us will strategically write generic code on our own time and machines and import it to employers machines when needed and customize it. For instance, how many times do you really need to write a spring OAuth server that integrates with LDAP? Or the guts of a simple CRUD app?
> how many times do you really need to write a spring OAuth server that integrates with LDAP?
I would expect this to be a library somewhere.
> import it to employers machines
How would you prove that you write the code long before getting hired by them?
Re: I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it
#9Is it common to take code written for one employer and reuse it for another?
Some of us will strategically write generic code on our own time and machines and import it to employers machines when needed and customize it. For instance, how many times do you really need to write a spring OAuth server that integrates with LDAP? Or the guts of a simple CRUD app?
Of course those of us familiar with copyright law would probably not admit to doing so publicly, right?
Re: I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Some of us will strategically write generic code on our own time and machines and import it to employers machines when needed and customize it. For instance, how many times do you really need to write a spring OAuth server that integrates with LDAP? Or the guts of a simple CRUD app?
> how many times do you really need to write a spring OAuth server that integrates with LDAP? I would expect this to be a library somewhere. > import it to employers machines How would you prove that you write the code long before getting hired by them?
Someone wrote the library for a reason, right?
Many are made bc people needed it for their job.