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...in a van, down by the RIVER.
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so, er bitlaw, didn't think you named and shamed? http://www.bitlaw.com/forms/nda.html is clearly visible across the bottom of the page.
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Exactly the point. He's not naming and shaming BitLaw -- he's naming them, but more as a victim. What's happened here is that the authors of this particular WTF shamelessly plagiarized BitLaw, and were then stupid enough to even provide evidence of the fact in their cobbled together, redacted-by-copy-machine NDA.
BitLaw committed no WTF here.
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My wife and I are the same way. We were signing the lease on a new apartment where we read that if we had a pet the apartment complex required a picture of the animal. My wife told me to go get our cat. The apartment employee asked why and we pointed to the line on the lease. She replied, "I didn't even know that was there."
The president of my company once asked me to review the software contract that one of our suppliers was requiring us to use (it was their software). The software contract had the typical clause of "not responsible for problems created by failure of the software." Huh? again, this was THEIR software for doing work under their contract. I told my company president to gently ask, "So who is responsible?"
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Nah. It is more like:
"Those who don't want to get tangled in your office politics but still want get the their share from the corporate cash cow, Consult."
But I supposed that just doesn't have much of a ring to it.
-matthew
Captcha: so repetitive that I had the answer in my browser's form autocomplete.
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I'm surprised no one posted my idea yet:
I'd sign the NDA as "Freelancer". I doubt they'd notice - and if they did, point out that COMPANY, etc. isn't consistently used across the document either - but I could fix that for a fee, too...
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Why, it means: Capacity for alignment with organizational priorities A resonance with its vision, mission, and core values Ability to communcate effectively, orally and in writing, with persons from diverse backgrounds, and to catalyze change within accepted parameters
In brief, if you can't dazzle 'em with brilliance, baffle 'em bullshit.
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You should have sent this to alex .... pure wtf quality ... LMAO
I wonder what they want for a PS3 dev kit ?
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Probably your soul.
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Even in Eastern Europe, a day does not have 80 work hours, unless those crazy Eastern Europeans don't need more than -56 hours of sleep a day.
Even an Indian coder with any amount of talent will not typically work for less than $2 an hour, let alone one third of that ($50/80h = $0.625/h). The average salary for a software developer in Bangalore is $8250/a, even under the assumption that (s)he works on average 50 hours a week (with no vacation), this amounts to $3.30 an hour.
So the 80 work hours for $50 dollar is an exaggeration unless you really don't expect quality. $50 a day is much more plausible.
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I always like to put it Those who understand what they're doing, teach Those who don't but can do it, do Those who don't and can't, take their total and complete understanding and fluency in it for granted: Apart from your lawyers and insultants, I have a scientific WTF to share: Michael Crichton confused weather and climate, saying that climatology is just running weather-predicting programs ahead for millions of years, which is beyond WTFy: It was so out of touch with reality and language that I thought I was hallucinating when I read the transcript of that speech, after all, he could not have said that, it was completely bonkers. This is broadly analogous to saying that C++ is a case-insensitive markup language utilising rectilinear brackets (videlicit [ and ]) used only in creating network files to be parsed by web browsers and not actually a program language and ridiculing the notion that Windows was written in it.
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Great place to work if you want to leak some of their info. Good luck getting a court to make sense of that jumble, let alone enforce it.