I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it

Post by Dylan16807 » Sat, Sep 16, 2023, 4:19 AM UTC

dragonwriter wrote: post #298

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> OP specifically wrote the code to help Box with its business. That was the intent , but not what actually happened. Is intent to donate code enough to put it within your employment contract, when it's done outside work hours and would otherwise be outside the scope of employment?

> That was the intent, but not what actually happened. The intent is a fact of what actually happened: which appears to be that it was written by an employee within the scope of employment to solve a business problem. Possibly outside of usual working hours, but if it’s by a salaried employee where doing work at home outside of usual working hours is itself a normal if not consistent part of employment, is probably n…

Post by ncallaway » Sat, Sep 16, 2023, 4:25 AM UTC

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> neither I nor the law says core business That’s just factually false. You specifically wrote: > Even in California the "I wrote it on my own time" doesn't apply to software that relates to an employer's ***core*** business. You can’t complain about people being “wishful” or in “denial” when they are quoting you. Maybe California law is silent in the topic, but Aeolus wasn’t the person who introduced that specific p…

Oh that’s embarrassing. I did. Apologies. I was wrong to write “core” and wrong to complain when you did it.

Post by aurareturn » Sat, Sep 16, 2023, 4:34 AM UTC

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Best quote: "People working for Didi apply for intern jobs at Uber China and then exfiltrate our data. We can’t let them see the formulas or they’ll just copy what we do!” This is so true. People in the US just don't understand the level of economic and industrial espionage that happens in China on a daily basis. I was responding to an unrelated breach at an unnamed tech company back in mid-2000s time frame and had a…

And I was called a racist 25 years ago when I said, “like, our engineering school is, like, crawling with Chinese nationals.” We said like a lot on the 90s.

Post by crazygringo » Sat, Sep 16, 2023, 4:36 AM UTC

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You probably don't have the authority to allow your report to release "company code" on their personal Github account.

I think you might be surprised how easy this process is at some big tech companies. For me the bigger hurdle is getting past a privacy review, not the issue of the license.

Post by moonchrome » Sat, Sep 16, 2023, 4:39 AM UTC

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> My entire career is effectively to sit in meetings and tell young, passionate engineers not to build things. It’s a bit depressing, but it’s also vital. This was the single most impactful thing I learned in my early career. I was building out monitoring systems for an in-house service we hosted on site. My boss wanted to buy some small utility to keep tabs on some minor aspect of our environment. I was a bit offend…

> This tool will cost us $500 to buy. What's your hourly pay rate for 40 hours This argument makes sense, but I worry that it’s a bit short-sighted. There are a lot of metrics that are hard to quantify where it might end up better: for one thing, I’ve found that integration costs and maintenance of integration of third-party systems are routinely underestimated: I’ve implemented “buy” for various systems where the wo…