About The Privacy Clause

The privacy clause

I had already heard about the privacy clause, this clause that tells you not to work for the competence for some time after you leave a company. And the author of the blog was really mad about it(I can understand, it really is a stupid tactic) but what he doesn´t say is that anyway you look at it, companies want to keep their models, their desicions, etc. to themselves, so is it really cool to do it? because there was a time when companies would hire people to go and work in other companies to get internal info. Overall I think the same as everyone, it´s bad for both sides

The solution

I´ve heard in some of my financial classes that what companies are doing now, instead of forcing people to not work somewhere else is that they´re putting a privacy clause, where you can be sued(very heavily sued) if you leak info. From what I understood, the way it works is that when the employee leaves the company, he has some time of vigilance where if they think he has leaked info(because the other company is doing something similar, or something along those lines) they can go to trial.

The thing to understand is that yes, companies care about the employees, but they also want to make money and leaked information may get their trum card overturned.


Just A Little Inner Thoughts On The Art Of Learning

This is not the usual post

No, today I want to share a thought that came up to me.

So today I didn´t have lot of homework so I took the time to slack and watch some Youtube videos, and I found this great video by Core-A Gaming called “Why Fighting Games Are Hard”(yeah, I´m a HUGE fighting games fan) if you haven´t seen it and are somewhat interested go here, it is really quite interesting.

But I watch fighting game videos a lot of the time. What struck me as interesting is that just yesterday professor Ken(Hi Ken) told us about learning, that it is not a thing of just memorization, but of understanding and knowing how to apply that memorization, and that it´s not easy and IT´S OKAY TO FAIL. And that´s exactly what the video is about(in it´s own terms, of course).

The thing to understand is that as Gerald(Core-A Gaming´s narrator) said “learning is about pushing forward despite the obstacles, ´cause you won´t be able to avoid them” but then, if learning is so hard why do we go through it? Well, that´s what I think fighting games are able to teach you.

I think that we as people are just curious by nature, curiosity has been a consequence of evolution, because when you learn something new, it´s not readilty noticable so I don´t think we do it for vanity. And not every knowledge is useful, that´s why trivia exist.But it is a natural desire to differentiate ourselves, and even more in this age where overpopulation is a real problem. Because when we know something we differentiate ourselves from someone who doesn´t, and really learning something is the easiest way to do it, you don´t require natural skill or features.

Isaac Asimov once said

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About A Book…What?!?!?!

So, recently I read about a book called “The Cathedral And The Bazaar” by Eric S. Raymond. Don´t let the name fool you, it´s not a story(or not the main focus), but about programming.

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Summary

It is mostly the author´s ideas about programming and a comparison between merchants in the past.

From what I could understand it compares owned programming with the cathedral, where everything is organized and largely comprehensible, with clear rules and owners. Whereas the bazaar is more unorganized, everyone can get there, they are all shouting, but since anyone can be there, it is usually richer in the products it offers, just like an open source.

It has a little bit of story in order for you to understand the comparisons, but not much.

My opinion

First, I want to say that you should take my opinion with a grain of salt, I´m not someone who enjoys reading a whole lot nor programming, which makes this kind of hard to find interesting. However I have spoken to some ISCs who really liked it, and thoght his explanations were easy to understand, and some of his conclusions very interesting.

Overall, I´d recommend to only read it if you are interested in programming, because if you are just a normal bibliophile, it will be hard and probably not worth it.