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  • As someone living outside the US, your whole comment and the surrounding ones are absolutely wild.

    Here in Germany, work without a contract is absolutely unthinkable. If anyone offered me a job without a contract, I would have to immediately report them to the authorities on the suspicion of tax fraud.

    Also, even without a single word about it in my contract, they would have needed to notify me way in advance if they wanted to let me go. The exact duration varies by how long you’ve been there but the minimum is four weeks. For me it would have been four months because I had been there for over ten years. Also, the requirement for an employee to quit can never be stricter than for them to be fired. If you’re interested in the details, I recommend you find a translation of § 622 BGB.

    And yes, these rules do get enforced reliably. The mere mention of the word “lawyer” usually gets even the most stubborn boss to comply in these cases because they know that every judge would rule against them within minutes.


  • I once did an even more extreme version of this. I showed up with a contract for a new job that would give me a 30% raise and an opportunity to work from home as much as I want. I told my boss to match that offer or I would sign it.

    He took a few days to decide and made me an offer that was significantly worse, so now I have a new job, more money and haven’t seen the inside of a corporate office in months. My old team has been completely dissolved because the old crew left faster than they could train replacements.









  • Looking back, I find every single aspect of the 2018 design more accessible than the current one. Releases are above the fold, the list of forks is reachable by clicking the number next to the fork button, the explore link is right there in the top navigation. Sure, having three levels of horizontal navigation doesn’t look very clean but there must be a better solution than hiding everything in hamburger menus and sidebars where you can only find them if you already know they exist.


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    If I remember correctly, they used to be in a tab in the top navigation, together with “Code”, “Issues”, “Pull requests”, etc. which was a lot easier to find for people who are not familiar with GitHub’s UI. Edit: it was a separate bar right above the file list, together with the number of commits and branches: https://web.archive.org/web/20180610234228/https://github.com/rails/rails

    Same problem with forks / network. In earlier revisions of GitHub’s UI, they were relatively easy to find. Now you have to know that you can click the “59.7k forks” sidebar text which is in no way styled like a link or button. You can just infer it from the fact that there are also “Readme” and “View license” in the same list.




  • Definitely not C#. Wrong syntax for main, wrong syntax for foreach (C# has foreach (var i in someCollection) and what even is this method call syntax with =?

    Edit: I dug around the website. It’s D. I’m still confused about the method call syntax though. Usually, D uses parentheses like most other C-style languages. Must be some weird syntax where you can call methods like property setters which was useful for this particular code golf challenge.




  • My question was specifically about “the general non-technical population”. Do you expect my mom to even remotely understand what different servers are and why talking to me is securely encrypted but talking to her friends group isn’t? The point about secure software is that it needs to be secure by default or else, entry level users will manage to accidentally send their stuff in plain text and not even notice.

    For nerds like us, I agree that Matrix is probably a good choice. For someone who needed to be told that “the internet” isn’t the blue “e” on their desktop… not so much. I’d rather send carrier pigeons than explain Matrix to my family.