Patio11 AMA about Japan, Technology, Business and Startups
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Patio11 AMA about Japan, Technology, Business and Startups
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#2“My agreement with my employers mostly forecloses personal side projects”
Understandable that he doesn’t have time, but the agreement sounds a little unfair.
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#3“My agreement with my employers mostly forecloses personal side projects” Understandable that he doesn’t have time, but the agreement sounds a little unfair.
I'm satisfied with the agreement, which was the result of two relatively sophisticated parties negotiating spiritedly towards a mutually acceptable outcome.
Without talking about that negotiation, note generally that if a prospective employer says "BTW we want all of your attention on the day job so our policy is $FOO" that you have many, many options for your next sentence, of which "OK then, if that is your policy." is only one.
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#4Also from same author, on the emergence of AWS EC2 and S3:
https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=194921&cid=15971343
"... not going to set the world on fire."
But see (also on front page currently):
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-com-announces-fourth-q...
It seems like AWS is doing quite well.
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#5Also from same author, on the emergence of AWS EC2 and S3: https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=194921&cid=15971343 "... not going to set the world on fire." But see (also on front page currently): https://finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-com-announces-fourth-q... It seems like AWS is doing quite well.
i don't understand the point of this comment.
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#6“My agreement with my employers mostly forecloses personal side projects” Understandable that he doesn’t have time, but the agreement sounds a little unfair.
I'm satisfied with the agreement, which was the result of two relatively sophisticated parties negotiating spiritedly towards a mutually acceptable outcome. Without talking about that negotiation, note generally that if a prospective employer says "BTW we want all of your attention on the day job so our policy is $FOO" that you have many, many options for your next sentence, of which "OK then, if that is your policy.…
Yes, it’s understandable, particularly if side projects are not important to you at the moment. But it still reflects poorly on the company (from my standpoint).
As an aside (while it’s the de facto standard) my understanding was that it’s illegal in Japan to restrict your work outside of company time. If anyone has a good reference for this, it would be welcome.
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#7im so over patio11. I didnt know bingo cards made you an expert.
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#8Also from same author, on the emergence of AWS EC2 and S3: https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=194921&cid=15971343 "... not going to set the world on fire." But see (also on front page currently): https://finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-com-announces-fourth-q... It seems like AWS is doing quite well.
i don't understand the point of this comment.
I don't understand the point of the post.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm satisfied with the agreement, which was the result of two relatively sophisticated parties negotiating spiritedly towards a mutually acceptable outcome. Without talking about that negotiation, note generally that if a prospective employer says "BTW we want all of your attention on the day job so our policy is $FOO" that you have many, many options for your next sentence, of which "OK then, if that is your policy.…
Yes, it’s understandable, particularly if side projects are not important to you at the moment. But it still reflects poorly on the company (from my standpoint). As an aside (while it’s the de facto standard) my understanding was that it’s illegal in Japan to restrict your work outside of company time. If anyone has a good reference for this, it would be welcome.
It's more or less illegal in California for employers to restrict off-hours work as well, but it's not illegal for them to claim copyright for off-hours work that is related to their business.
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#10Also from same author, on the emergence of AWS EC2 and S3: https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=194921&cid=15971343 "... not going to set the world on fire." But see (also on front page currently): https://finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-com-announces-fourth-q... It seems like AWS is doing quite well.
To be fair, the slashdot description of it was a grid computing service, but VMs running on EC2 are not running on a grid in the traditional sense.