"Please put a valid address in the email field, or we won't be able to send you a new password if you forget yours. Your address is only visible to you and us. Crawlers and other users can't see it."
Welp, I'm taking my email out.
Readit Newsopendais commented on What an Uncensored Letter to M.L.K. Reveals nytimes.com/2014/11/16/ma... · Posted by u/rooster8
Well, I think what happens in an actual court case is, you check out the chain of custody if you suspect that anything is actually fishy, or if you can make the prosecution's case look weak. If there's nothing there that you can use in your defense, then it never comes up in court.
Could be. But imo, anything the FBI touched would be suspect.
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opendais commented on Why scraping and ecommerce are a perfect fit blog.twotap.com/post/1024... · Posted by u/sradu
What's your website?
It may also be that your customers are comparatively good at predicting their size/fit.
I prefer being publicly anonymous and if I answered your question there is literally only 1 person I could be. I suppose that makes me paranoid but I'd rather not create drama.
For the sake of example, Amazon.com would be sufficiently equivalent as we do sell products via Amazon. And the fact I complain about Amazon in places gives away that we do do that. :P
opendais commented on Letter to Amazon Board from Fired Ad Exec scribd.com/embeds/2455610... · Posted by u/kvargs
> They screwed up the promotion, to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars
It's really hard to say from the given context that this was definitely engineering's fault.
You'll note that the various plans for resolving the issue involve updating the Terms & Conditions of the offer. That makes me think that accurate code was implemented against incorrect Terms and Conditions, rather than incorrect code was implemented against accurate Terms and Conditions.
The latency issue is, I supposed I could have stated it better.
opendais commented on Letter to Amazon Board from Fired Ad Exec scribd.com/embeds/2455610... · Posted by u/kvargs
You are right. It isn't true for a lot of companies. Big places like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google won't care.
EDIT: do want to add a hostile work environment can wear down any mentally robust person.
Of course. Hostile work environment = GTFO ASAP :) I'm just saying the "blacklist" bit was overstated imo.
opendais commented on Letter to Amazon Board from Fired Ad Exec scribd.com/embeds/2455610... · Posted by u/kvargs
Using this opportunity to plug the book Corporate Confidential. It will save your career.
http://www.amazon.com/Corporate-Confidential-Secrets-Company...
A few takeaways.
1. Performance improvement plans are not for performance improvement. They are for firing employees. Management already formed an irreversible negative view. It is too late.
2. You cannot win a case against the company. Because a) companies have more resources and b) even if you do win then other companies will mark you as a troublemaker. Getting hired is going to get a lot harder.
3. If you insist on fighting then do document everything. Supposedly you need a few months of notes. In other words, being called a slur once or twice does not make a hostile work environment. If HR is unaware then the company is not liable, but if you share your notes then you won't win the case anyway. There are a few narrow forms of discrimination that are claimable but the best option is to keep your head down and find a new job.
4. Do not document anything on company software or networks. My friend got to learn what Data Loss prevention software really did.
5. HR has zero legal obligation to keep your secrets. Their job is to identify threats to the company. They literally get paid to share your secrets.
Bonus anectode: I went to HR and asked "Are you legally required to keep things I tell you confidential? For example, if I tell you I want to leave then will you tell my boss?"
Her answer to my second question was no, but guess what my boss and I talked about the next day!
> even if you do win then other companies will mark you as a troublemaker. Getting hired is going to get a lot harder.
This isn't really true. Most businesses don't do thorough background checks and the frequency of people claiming fake degrees w/o getting caught is proof of that.
I've known two people who successfully sued their employer. One had no trouble getting a job after that. It was the second suit that they lost that caused their issues (they looked like they were paranoid and had mental issues based on the company's successful defense). Even tho they are a friend of my parents, my parents and I both agree that they weren't acting all there at the time and that likely came across in interviews.
The other one only had trouble because the area was so small it was literally the only member of that industry within 300 miles. No one wanted to pay for relocation for non-management positions during a recession. Once they relocated with their own money, they had no issues.
I've never heard of an instance of someone being "blacklisted" outside of a failed lawsuit where they were shown to be deceptive and/or mentally unstable.
opendais commented on What an Uncensored Letter to M.L.K. Reveals nytimes.com/2014/11/16/ma... · Posted by u/rooster8
Chill out and pick different audience. Most people on HN are not just "scraping by" unless making >$100k first year after college is now called scraping by. I would say overall HN audience benefits much more from current political, economic and financial situation than suffer from it. It's probably not true for reddit so you can find more receptive audience there.
I don't think most people on HN are making over $100k unless they are in the Bay Area or NYC.
Many, many places that "starting salary" is more like $50-60k.
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In all seriousness though, we're really bummed this happened and wish it hadn't. We do code reviews and try our best to prevent this kind of thing from happening. That said, if you truly want your account here to be anonymous, you're right to remove all personally identifiable information. I'd also recommend using tor (and using it correctly).
Also, there was no mention they were handing the info over to a 3rd party. If you explicitly state something like that, you should follow it and/or change it when the situation changes.
I don't have that issue with git repos.
I'm kinda amused a yc employee went through the effort of downvoting it after pointing out this situation is caused by y'all not following what you actually have in your notices for things.