OK, so the policy isn't actually absurd at Google, just other places that try to copy them? The parent didn't mention anything about other companies. You said Google was absurd and you wouldn't work there, Parent said…
Yea but writing code that is unrelated to your industry is not an issue, like writing a book unrelated to your industry is not an issue. I don't see where the problem is here, you learn to code in language X and make an…
Great so you are both posting worthless junk
> Google's policy was, "because someone somewhere in our company is working on something similar, we own it." I think that's also an unethical overreach. If I'm hired to work on A, I don't think I should need to care…
OK, so the policy isn't actually absurd at Google, just other places that try to copy them? The parent didn't mention anything about other companies. You said Google was absurd and you wouldn't work there, Parent said…
Yea but writing code that is unrelated to your industry is not an issue, like writing a book unrelated to your industry is not an issue. I don't see where the problem is here, you learn to code in language X and make an…
Great so you are both posting worthless junk
> Google's policy was, "because someone somewhere in our company is working on something similar, we own it." I think that's also an unethical overreach. If I'm hired to work on A, I don't think I should need to care…