Oct 4, 2024 03:08
I guess one thing they might do is deny entry based on a drug test and send you back home. But not sue you. But you're sure your brother wasn't tested for a disease like covid.
Oct 4, 2024 03:08
I was never drug tested in my life and flew to a lot of these countries. But I was checked for trafficking drugs a lot of times. In most of these countries taking drugs isn't illegal just possession and dealing. So what would a drug test accomplish and on what legal grounds would you do it. You're not operating machinery or driving. Even if taking drugs in itself is illegal the act of taking the drugs occurred in an other country, so the law of this country would apply.
 
Sep 26, 2023 13:46
The thing is people usually know they have certain speech issues. But knowing doesn't mean you can change these habits easily. I know I tend to swallow syllables which makes me often hard to understand but it's very difficult to get rid off. What do you try to accomplish here?
 
Sep 17, 2023 22:21
@FrankHopkins the point is just because it is a Linux workstation doesn't mean it's safe. As a company you need to set consistent security standards. Yes you can absolutely do that with Linux, but it means you need to have people that will do that. If you already have windows workstations in your company that means you have to effectively double the administrative work. There is a good reason for companies to not want to do that. I'm not at all against Linux per se I'm just saying it's often not a practical option for companies to support Linux notebooks.
Sep 17, 2023 22:21
@FrankHopkins Linux is not inherently safer than modern Windows. The only reason Linux desktops experience less malware is because they are usually not an interesting target for malware authors due to the low market share on desktops. But that changes, there is a lot of modern attacks to Linux machines that target servers and also there are attacks on browsers etc. that will run platform independent. Also most Linux users are more tech savvy and therefore more careful. But as a company you need to ensure that you can have a consistent security concept across all workstations.
Sep 17, 2023 22:21
Banning Linux Laptops can make sense. When all your company notebooks are Windows or Macs it makes sense. They may not want to maintain different OSes. They have to ensure that updates are rolled out, that you can use mandatory software etc. Also these days you can do pretty much everything with WSL in windows that you used to need a VM or a linux distro for. You need to be practical about these things and not ideological.
 
Sep 17, 2023 13:27
@JanusBahsJacquet these kind of things happen a lot. No need to get on a high horse and insult OP. It can be very difficult to make the right decisions when there is being put a lot of pressure by higher ups on you and/or if your livelihood depends on it. OP is already clearly in a moral dilemma and how he got there is very understandable. The question is what is the right thing to do now.
 
Jul 22, 2023 17:24
@BrtH your name is also protected information under the GDPR. Yet it's clearly ok and normal to put it into an email address. The GDPR doesn't disallow to use private information it just requires consent and it expects you not to use this information outside of the scopes agreed to.
Jul 22, 2023 17:24
@Bernhard Döbler if you have consent by employees you can certainly do it.
Jul 22, 2023 17:24
I would use the year of birth before using a random number. That way it's easier to tell who is who if you have john.doe70 and john.doe90. But off course you can still have collisions that way at some point you got to use random/incremented numbers. And some people may take offense in having their age revealed. Alternatively you could use the year of entrance into the firm
 
Jul 1, 2021 17:27
@another-dave He's just really an Umberto Eco fan. It's his hobby. He does some text analysis on the books and asked me to write some special text analysis tools for that. He also wants to have the program analyzed, especially he wants to know if contains any easter eggs (which it doesn't) and about the coding style. But I mean there is only so much one can deduct from 15 lines of code. I guess line 100 is the most interesting thing about it. It's not the usual sort of jobs I do, but it was a fun change. Also I really enjoyed learning all these details about the history of home computing here.
Jul 1, 2021 17:27
@Squd yeah it is not about writing a story tough. It's an existing story and my client just wanted me to analyze the program for him among other more modern programming jobs. I was just trying to understand if this sort of optimization in BASIC would be normal. He is not trying to write a story himself. Would be good plot development tough. It's from Umberto Ecos Foucault's Pendulum by the way. Tough I haven't read the book, so I can't judge if it is any good. I only read the chapter with the program.
Jul 1, 2021 17:27
@another-dave yeah the line 100 was the one that tripped me off for the most part. And to me it looked like the kind of "clever" thing a novice programmer would write, instead of using the boring but easy to understand and maintainable option. I admit having the if statements outside of the loop if I just think of the code as indented wouldn't irritate me at all.
 
May 13, 2021 00:06
@ThorbjørnRavnAndersen it's very common to give bad employees good reference in German to prevent legal issues and bad blood. You are obligated to only include nice stuff in the final letter of reference, so companies use a complicated code to disguise the real meaning. But even that is usually not enough if the employee takes an attorney they can usually force the employer to improve the reference. Also labor laws a really strict in Germany compared to the US so companies want to avoid employees to get layered up at all costs. It's easier to just write a nice letter in the first place.