Years ago, at an IBM in a sunshine state, far, far away, IBM laid off a whole bunch of software developers with a 2 year severance package. The following week, those same developers were hired back as contractors.

It depends.

Most of the time, when you are going through an agency, you are actually an employee of the agency and receive a W-2. You don't get the Schedule C for that money.

I heard of codebases with documentation, but I think that is just an urban legend.

When I was at Microsystems Software, the product had turned into spaghetti code, but it worked. There was even a comment from a programmer, that had left before I started that said, this code needs to be rewritten, but Dick wanted it done now, I will rework this code later.

Since we were doing a an NLM and Banyan Vines version, I wanted to redesign the code and fold that into the Windows, DOS, and Mac version. Instead, the code ended up being ported.

If it was Rearchitected, it would have reduced the code by at least 25% and save a lot of work.

Ah yeah. Ooh ahh. Thatâ(TM)s how it always starts. Then later thereâ(TM)s the running and the screaming..

Haven't they learned?

I am surprised that they don't move some of the manufacturing to the Philippines?

Lower costs, most people speak English, and is a democracy. Its about 1800 nautical miles closer to Los Angeles than India.

I wanted a bunch of Heathkits. First the TV, then the CPM system. One of my aunt's friends had one. She would bring it over occasionally.

When I was in high school, I wanted a trash-80. My aunt told me that personal computers was a passing fad and only rich people had them at home as toys.

The first computer I used was a PDP 11/34 with 128k of ram running RSTS/e for 16 users at the Mario Umana Harbor School of Science and Technology.

The first computer I owned was an Apple ][+ clone, Pinecom. I added a The PCPI Appli-Card with a 6Mhz z80b and 192K of ram. I also added an 80 column card, Mountain CPS card (clock, parallel, and serial), and a 6MB Amalyn disk pack.

We know that beans contribute to human methane production, we need to get rid of beans.

Most of the waste gas that come from humans come from politicians. Nothing useful comes from them either. Lets get rid of them.

Not so. There are many definitions of disability.

Disability in Social Security Disability means you can't do any work.

Disability for the ADA means that you can't do some of life activities without accommodation, ie. diabetes w/o taking insulin.

There are others, but these are the two majors.

While working at Microsystems Software as a software engineer, I was diagnosed with tendonitis on the job. The management there hey started building a file on me (including monitoring my home internet communications) to justifying terminating me when I took time of to get medical treatment recommended by multiple doctors. However, after litigation, I received a judgment of $125,000 when my salary was $44,000/year, when I was out of work for 7 months. (Under MGL 151b -- Mass. version of ADA, FMLA, fraud, breach of contract, and workers compensation law violations) . Now, if an future employer uses (or even looks at this) this information, could the future employer be half liable for retaliation, or discriminations for a perceived disability? This would open up a real can of worms and would ensure full employment for labor lawyers for the foreseeable future.

Later I worked for a psycho, Barry J. Lewis. He was actually convicted or harassing me after I stopped working for free (the check was in the mail, etc.) He was actually screaming at the court staff after he was charged., from what I heard, he would make a Karen seem level headed, understanding, helpful, and sweet. Would it be a good thing for potential employers to listen to nut cases like him without finding out what type of nutcase they are listening to?

Is Vice President Kamala Harris really unqualified? Just because her political view is stupid does not mean that she is unqualified.

Or it is that she got her job because of her race and sex?

I think she is qualified, but she did her job because of race and sex.

I believe this is a ruling on a preliminary injunction, not on a final judgement. To obtain a preliminary injunction you have to show that you are likely to win and the harm is irreparable.

In Facebook v. Power Ventures, 844 F.3d 1058 (9th Cir. 2016), the 9th circuit ruled illegal to bypass IP based blocks when scraping. The Linked Court didn't appear to address IP blocking which it did and which was also done in Facebook.

Its a cute idea, but it can (and hopefully) seriously backfire. Since the playing of music is not part of the police officer's job, the city would not have to defend them or pay any judgment for the resulting copyright violations.

The requirement for defense and indemnification by the employer is not subject to the qualified immunity standards. Copyright law is well established and the violation of such would not entitled the cop to qualified immunity.