I basically did whistle my way out the door because of this.

I worked as a contractor for a very large defense company. After a year, they offered me full time employment. I specifically asked if there was a "we own everything you make" clause in the employment agreement, but I was assured there was not. I went through about five digital form contracts, and when I got to the last one, it had the clause in there. I told the woman that I wanted to amend the contract and she huffed and told me they don't do that. I replied that I was promised that I would not have to agree to such a clause, and she told me that it was mandatory, so I could take it or leave it. I asked if there was anyone in HR I could talk to about this, and was told no. So I stood up and said "please escort me out the door, starting immediately I am resigning. At the gate, I would like the security guard to search my things." (it was a secured facility, and I didn't want anyone to claim I was stealing anything later.) She asked me if I was serious, and I said yes. I was berated for how much time and money was wasted on getting me ready for employment, and I replied I was promised repeatedly that I would not have to sign away my rights, and this was absolutely a deal breaker and I didn't appreciate being told repeatedly this would be honored until the very last minute. So really, my time was being wasted too. This really, really didn't go over well. My heart was beating like crazy the entire time. My former boss was furious, the HR person was furious. The security guard was cool about it though.

DevOps isn't amount making Developers be Ops guys. It's about the fact that automation eats everything, and a significant part of 'ops' is now coding.

A DevOps person isn't someone who develops, and who does Ops. It's someone who does only Ops, but through Development.

It's not about start ups vs Enterprise, it's about 1 person writing programs or 5 people doing things by hand.

This piece is very perceptive in portraying Prop 13 property-tax caps and rent-control as sibling policies, each feeding destructive "I've got mine" politics. They both bribe incumbent owners/renters/voters with an economically valuable seniority privilege, at the expense of the future and flexibility. Children and young adults suffer the most: they move the most, and none have the benefit of paying frozen base rates established 20-30 years ago.

I wonder if both rent-control and prop-tax-caps could be knocked down in an equal-protection lawsuit. Why does the person who moved in yesterday, perhaps far needier than the longer-term resident/owner (and just as deserving of basic civic services) have to pay so much more? Is duration-of-residence a legitimate basis for such strong civic discrimination rooted in law?