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New comment by dooberdeats in "Show HN: Countries where you can leave your MacBook at a random coffee shop"

dooberdeats — Sun, 10 May 2026 04:11:24 +0000

Yes, it's very difficult to make an accurate statement about an entire country that applies and an individual experiential level. You don't experience the average crime statistics of a country at a corner coffee shop.

New comment by dooberdeats in "Ask HN: How to expose a coworker that is outsourcing his work?"

dooberdeats — Sat, 12 Jun 2021 16:46:10 +0000

Initial suspicions arose from the general tenor of how he talked about his past work -- the way someone speaks when they're making things up.

Non-native english speaking grammar and mistakes in Github comments. There are certain types of mistakes native English speakers make -- I make -- and the type non-native English speakers make. These are of the latter class.

His code has different styles project to project.

Logins to 3rd party tools through a VPN at every hour of the night and day -- the preempted warning that this might happen from him.

His tendency to take specific questions about his code and answer them with generalities, or more often having to think about the answer and get back to us later.

What I'm missing is hard forensic evidence.

New comment by dooberdeats in "Ask HN: How to expose a coworker that is outsourcing his work?"

dooberdeats — Sat, 12 Jun 2021 16:22:12 +0000

I want to reap what I sow.

Misrepresenting someone else's work as your own is morally wrong at best.

New comment by dooberdeats in "Ask HN: How to expose a coworker that is outsourcing his work?"

dooberdeats — Sat, 12 Jun 2021 15:40:12 +0000

Good advice.

New comment by dooberdeats in "Ask HN: How to expose a coworker that is outsourcing his work?"

dooberdeats — Sat, 12 Jun 2021 03:26:22 +0000

I've considered this, however: -it's a contractual violation -the work is shoddy -it's immoral -this presents security issues -it would make a good hacker news story

Ask HN: How to expose a coworker that is outsourcing his work?

dooberdeats — Sat, 12 Jun 2021 03:23:05 +0000

We have a recent remote hire that seems to be outsourcing his work. We'd like to either prove or disprove this.

We believe he's given others control of his Github and other account logins. It does seem like he's taking precautions with a VPN.

How would you go about exposing this? Ideally in a brilliant and clever way.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27481213

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