So, what should a early startup be doing with "ip assignment"? We hire people from places like elance and odesk - and a few irl people - is there something we should have been having them sign?
Consult a lawyer if this concerns anything important, but I know at least elance has standard terms that all IP belongs to the person who hired the contractor.
You would want to check they're not using code they don't own, of course. The agreements bans it without disclosure, but in practice I'm sure many elance contractors use GNU code without mentioning it.
How do you find these devs who star interesting repos?
Edit: after some thought and poking around, one way to find these devs is to just look at the profiles of devs who run projects you use. If they've starred a lot of repos, see if they star things you would be interested in. If so, follow them. Easy.
Your example is spot on. Additionally, I use twitter, authors of books, authors of research papers, see who these devs follow, and numerous other ways of traversing the GitHub social graph.
This is a jQuery plugin that makes it super simple to add random moments of zen from https://api.github.com/zen . We just added it to the navbar of our internal dashboard, and it's nice.
Beautiful design, and with the pricing change it is a great buy. One quick note -- when you click the eye buttons to see details, the old prices still show up.
I figured they would learn by getting called out like this. And since the post was anonymous, it doesn't really hurt them anyway. Free learning experience.
And also useful feedback for other YC companies that are queuing up job posts.
There have been previous discussions about the state of some YC job ads (though I can't find them right now), so this isn't the first time people have felt compelled to say something.
edit: Link to previous job post discussions (I know there are others but can't dig them up).
I agree with this (particularly since it's anonymous), but piling on seems kind of mean.
Another option would be to simply email the given address and state your complaints. For example that you may have been interested (if you were), but felt mislead by the posting.
The reason I publicly posted this is because it is an issue about community standards, not just a personal issue between me and the company.
It's interesting to think about my own motivations -- I wonder if I would have been gentler if their post hadn't been anonymous. If so, should I have been gentler even though their post was anonymous? Anyway, I apologize if this caused unnecessary hurt, I didn't mean to.
I didn't mean to imply that you were piling on, and I don't doubt your intentions one bit. . The problem is that once this is posted, you have little control over the outcome in the comment threads and piling on is inevitable. Again, not a criticism of you at all, my reply was aimed at the comments in the thread.
This would be fantastic if all it had was the instructions to see your own top commands. What a great way to discover opportunities for automation and time saving!
Marketplace as a Service? If that's what this is, and it sounds like it, that would be fantastic. For the last year or two we've thought that a marketplace would be a great potential fit for our app, but simply don't have the resources to build and maintain the infrastructure ourselves.
A relative of mine thought she had a gluten intolerance - turned out it was something in enriched white flour. She can eat any kind of wheat product if it's made with home-ground flour.
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