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As you said reaction is based on my personal experience in the US. However at times the US does pickup ideas and concepts from the EU, specifically California.

He's got many other examples of emails he gets from people. They find his name or whatever in some apps attribution.

It doesn't matter if there's legal grounds or not. Someone and some lawyer will make your life hell. They don't understand software nor do they care. It will be horrifically stressful and potentially very expensive for someone.

Maybe it's better in the EU but the second the lawyers or the insurance companies get involved it will make everything awful.

Hypothetical:

I write a nifty alarm clock app. To cover some costs I charge a nominal fee. Some unknown condition occurs a user misses a flight and loses their job.

According to your position I should be sued.

Why should I be held liable?

Daniel Stenberg has a blog post somewhere about all the hate mail he gets over the fact that curl is bundled in some software. You don't think some litigious person won't attempt to go after him over it?

My family has personally impacted by a dumb lawyer trying to subpoena information incorrectly. Dealing with this was 7k in lawyer fees, covered by an insurance policy. Technically he could legally held for this terrible usage of the courts but it would have been an even bigger mess.

Cool, don't use my code if you're in Europe or within Europe.

We will need amended licensing for denying use within Europe.

What will happen the opensource world once you're held liable for some moron who uses some software I wrote for myself? or incorrectly uses it?

do you really believe the curl should be held liable because some POST failed and a user lost something over it?

what about my old backup scripts? I need to remove them from my repos?

In addition when/if I have time I'll further debug and attempt at PRs and issues to help.

edit: clarify I don't have ALL Boynton books.

* Look through the menu_router table for suspicious looking entries. * Look at users & user roles, anything new? * Look for scripts and executibles in your public and private upload files directory.

If you really don't know drupal and it's a new project, start from scratch (New Database but you're code should be safe assuming your repo isn't stored on the same server and there's no write to repo access on server)

My background is highly similar to yours. I started life as a Mechanical Engineering student and quickly grew to dislike the degree. I discovered that I did enjoy running projects and my school offered a degree in Engineering Management. It's one of the few schools that has that degree AND is an ABET accredited program, its mostly a manufacturing based degree, my specialty was Industrial Engineering.

I digress...

My initial job out of school was operations for tin rolling mill, I quit before my first day. I switched to aerospace avionics/comms. I guess I was really lucky in the fact that my department was really meant for gray beard engineers, and I did do a lot of grunt work. I was, and still am, a hybrid part business and part engineer. I've since moved through a couple of different positions but I've landed at a web agency as a technical project manager. In the beginning it was a lot a harder to find positions. Why? Not many companies are interested in Junior Project Managers. Despite the belief, being a good project manager isn't easy and requires experience that's not easily gained by hacking at some software in your undies (that's my weekend hobby). Particularly dealing with clients, there's no substitute for experience.

I'm a bit older than you, and I know that you feel fucked at 25, I did too. Ever job posting wants more experience than you have. Do the very best you can now to pick up those key responsibilities and accomplishments of a project manager. Make sure you resume resonates the level of responsibility. I ran a $300k project 2 yrs out of school, which was a lot of money for my company. I made sure that was on my resume.

I'm currently looking to relocate to the Austin, TX area and for the first time, I'm telling companies that I'm not interested in them. Here's why I'm now successful:

1. In small companies devs & design tend to dislike PMs, there's a lot of bad ones out there, and a lot that have no clue. I'm pretty good with Linux and I can write some basic Django & Python scripts, but I've also managed some very nasty clients. 2. It's experience, I run about 4-5 projects at at time now. 3. Just stick with it.

To give you an idea, I'm approaching about 6 yrs of work experience now. It's been an uphill battle but nothing easy is worth having.

My suggestion to you is look for opportunities to grow your BA & PM skills, while your technical skills are important as well the focus for you should be the former. The technical skills are easier to pick up on your own.

Personally, I don't like the idea of browser plugins and I'm perfectly happy using copy and paste.

[1]https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.android.ke...

Here are some areas that I find irritating;

- Finding companies that I want to work for, other than well known companies. Indeed sucks, I don't trust it.

-Terrible job descriptions i.e. this recent one I saw for a technical project manager: "Expert in python, php, ruby on rails, and Java Spring. 10 yrs exper required and we will pay up to 55K"

-Getting resumes to speak to the position, keyword loading, properly listing skills, achievements, etc,

-Disorganized contact with recruitment teams. ie. I had an amazing phone conversation with a hiring manager, at the end he asked which of his two positions I was interested in. A week later recruiter turns me down for one the positions.

-Complete lack of knowledge from recruiters: ie. We use a framework you haven't used before, I'm not sure you can make that switch.

-Location - I'm looking to leave my current location and have targeted a city, I'm getting turned down because I don't live there.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/technology/askjack/2012/feb/23/as...

If you have any plans to apply to any job besides your open position, they need to be in a word document for all of the shitty ATS. Don't be that guy who makes someone take an extra step just to apply to your open positions. I don't disagree with the premise at all, I'd rather send PDF docs over word but the geniuses in HRT decided against that.