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Programmer for Hire
Personal blog · blog.jpl-consulting.com · on HN as jplarsoncareerbusiness
Programmer for Hire is a personal blog at blog.jpl-consulting.com about career and business. Since 2011, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “No I won't sign your NDA, here's why.”. The last post was in 2013, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's post arguing against signing NDAs for startup ideas, a position commenters cite when discussing NDAs and idea theft.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Essays and Explorations on the Art of Being a Great On-Demand Programmer
Most-linked posts?
- No I won't sign your NDA, here's why.7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2012-04-15
What Hacker News says?
This needs to be highlighted: Everyone who does anything at all in the realm of business or tech should basically never sign an NDA unless it is already positively guaranteed they are getting something out of it. You might be required to sign an NDA once you have been hired at a W-2 job if the company handles sensitive data. Or if you have already been offered a contract. Event then, make sure it is actually necessa…
Comment linking /2012/04/why-i-wont-sign-your-nda/
on “The side hustle from hell”Submitted No I won't sign your NDA, here's why. as a story · 220 points
HN discussionMost of the "ideas" that come to me in this way are not really ideas. It's more like "a blog network", "streaming audio" or, in a few cases, more like "a blog". If it's someone I know, I discuss with them and try to give them some advice on what a situation would look like where I might be interested. Usually, I try to give some tips on how to start small. Usually, they don't, but keep on trying to build a team, or…
Comment linking /2012/04/why-i-wont-sign-your-nda/
on “Dear Programmer, I have an idea”Submitted Why I Will Never Feel Threatened by Programmers in India as a story · 178 points
HN discussionThe article reminded me a lot of this blog explaining why he doesn't sign NDA's with start-ups. http://blog.jpl-consulting.com/2012/04/why-i-wont-sign-your-...
Comment linking /2012/04/why-i-wont-sign-your-nda/
on “So someone "stole" your idea”Submitted Re. No NDAs: What Should Idea People Do? as a story · 56 points
HN discussionPredecessor: http://blog.jpl-consulting.com/2012/04/why-i-wont-sign-your-... HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3844893
Comment linking /2012/04/why-i-wont-sign-your-nda/
on “Why I'm not going to sign an NDA”Submitted A team of one as a story · 3 points
HN discussionReminded me of http://blog.jpl-consulting.com/2012/04/why-i-wont-sign-your-... with previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3844893
Comment linking /2012/04/why-i-wont-sign-your-nda/
on “Why You Shouldn't Ask Us to Sign Your NDA”Submitted Personal Projects as a Programmer for Hire as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI like many others in the HN community don't have a lot of respect for patents, at least in the software world (my take on this can be found here: http://blog.jpl-consulting.com/2010/11/a-nerds-perspective-o... ). But even setting aside ideologies, I think the patent route would be a WAY tougher route (from a resource perspective) than what one savvy commenter on the article suggested: "Cold. Hard. Cash." To file an…
Comment linking /2010/11/a-nerds-perspective-on-software-patents/
on “Re. No NDAs: What Should Idea People Do?”Submitted Advice to a CS Grad: Ego vs. Pride in Programming as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI think this blog pretty much sums up my feelings on the subject. http://blog.jpl-consulting.com/2012/04/why-i-wont-sign-your-...
Comment linking /2012/04/why-i-wont-sign-your-nda/
on “Ask HN: Would you sign an NDA?”Submitted The (Sometimes Instant) Good Karma of Open Source Contribution as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis is a great article that I identify with: http://blog.jpl-consulting.com/2012/04/why-i-wont-sign-your-...
Comment linking /2012/04/why-i-wont-sign-your-nda/
on “Ask HN: Do you sign NDAs up front?”Submitted Whole Site Design From A Single, Monochrome Graphic as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted If I Say No to Your Project as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Solo contractors: saying "we" when you mean "I" is a fool's errand. as a story · 1 points
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