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Comment · 11 years ago
Comment · 11 years ago
Eric Raymond, "The Cathedral and the Bazaar." On face, it's largely about FOSS development; but, more so, it's about how one ought to go about thinking of solutions to technical problems. A phenomenal read.
Comment · 12 years ago
Might somebody be willing to explain the difference between the two versions?
> using HHVM from GitHub rather than our internal repository.
Comment · 12 years ago
> The contract was presented to me on paper and in Portuguese, 7 pages in total. The only thing I understood was the caption, 'Contrato de Trabalho'. At the time no one said anything about being able to break the contract without reasonable cause before 3 months had passed.
This is pretty appalling. I don't think the burden is on the offerer to explain the contract in full to you. I feel bad for you, but you kind of shot yourself in the foot on that one.
Comment · 12 years ago
I'd really just like to see what it looks like and how it feels.
Comment · 12 years ago
Wow. I hope that you and your family are all right.
I would doubt that there is a asylum process specific for developers, at least for asylum in the U.S. (in that I would doubt that the USFG discriminates between developer and non-developer applicants.) It does seem like, again, in the U.S., the process still faces some kinks [1].
However, I know that there is a plethora of nation-states which recognize the universal right of asylum. I would suggest that, should you or your family ever be in a position in which you feel that you will face prosecution (even persecution, maybe?), you should actively research the possibility of attaining asylum.
Comment · 12 years ago
start over; build it better than they are.
It's called a Vickrey Auction. It allows bidders to bid their true value (instead of trying to outbid all of the other bidders, as is what results from a first-price auction).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vickrey_auction