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by drawkbox 8y ago
Yeah like I mentioned, the argument about "best and brightest" isn't really a problem, it is a common point about H-1B but there is always a way in with the O (outstanding) visa. H-1B is for the pretty good developer or when
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Google 2018 == Microsoft 2005 The product people, innovators and engineers are no longer in charge. It appears Google may be entering their Ballmer era where it was marketing/metrics first over value creation. I hope some internal fact
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> America is the most powerful nation in the world today not because it has the most number of people, but because it has the best and the brightest, gathered from around the world. I agree, there is a non-quota limited O visa for tempor
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> Top tier software companies might claim the H-1B program allows them to hire the best and brightest from around the world, but that's not how everyone else uses the program. I am fine with immigration as it is a feature of a goo
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> Firefox was top dog when chrome came out - it had unseated IE already for many users fed up with XP-era crapware. Maybe in mindshare for devs but Chrome officially unseated IE browser saturation in 2012. Firefox didn't pass IE u
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> I really just don't understand the obsession with Chrome, especially in hacker communities. Chrome used to be very lightweight, fast and basically unseated IE as the top browser. It got that love because at the time Firefox was b
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by drawkbox 8y ago
Python SQLAlchemy/Alembic and Django has db/schema migrations. .NET has db/schema migrations in Entity Framework. Node/javascript has sequelize/umzug, node-db-migrate and others for db/schema migrations. Migrat
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> Should middle class wages keep increasing relative to everyone else forever? Yes if you want to keep a middle class. In a consumer economy that requires growth, demand has to be there for investment. One way to achieve demand is people
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New business idea for transportation: HeliHelp. HeliHelp flies in low skilled workers via helicopter, quicker than commutes and allows you to keep paying "market wages" that don't allow employees for retail/restaurants&#
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It might have been better if he said he was coding professionally since 18-22ish and officially coding since he was 11. I made my first BASIC game on an Apple IIe in the 4th grade at 8 years old. I didn't start professionally coding u
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Inequality is a big problem. In the meantime, retail and restaurants are going to have to come up with a transportation system for their workers. Time to helicopter in the help... then shuttle to where they need to go. Until there are robo
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Possibly at the high end of consumption, also possibly, your parents had a glass of wine or a dash of alcohol just before your conception.
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Taking that further, it has also probably had a considerable effect on population numbers. Alcohol probably adds to the birth rate.
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Some solutions to education and teacher/parent/difficulty: - Teacher rotation or a couple teachers + tutors rotating to help as more of a team effort, could be larger classes to offset costs but it would help take pressure off the
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by drawkbox 8y ago
Larry Ellison thought the cloud was a "fashion driven" software buzzword fad in 2008 [1][2], a miss as big as Ballmer with the iPhone. The cloud will ultimately probably kill off Oracle. > The Oracle chief executive told share
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by drawkbox 8y ago
When "too big to fail" goes to the head and gets too boisterous and risky. Goldman Sachs did have to pay 5.1B for the Great Recession scams [1]. As long as GS can keep the "financial innovation" in Malaysia they will pro
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by drawkbox 8y ago
Sanctions today are like someone committing a crime in your city and then you invoke martial law until that person gives themselves up without going after that person specifically, making everyone in the city suffer who are simply trying to
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by drawkbox 8y ago
Sanctions and embargos are getting out of hand. Blanket, rather than targeted individual sanctions/actions, truly only harm the people of a country that have little to no say in what their government or country does. As seen here, sanc
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by drawkbox 8y ago
Yeah it was irrational and nonsensical to keep hemp out of markets for so long in the war on plants, but the upside to that is there are many market uses for it and will provide explosive growth in lots of sectors and jobs in the economy. H
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Hemp farming is a win aside from just the CBD product possibilities. Hemp can be more lucrative for farmers [1] making feed instead of alfalfa/others. Hemp also uses less water than other crops [2], it can help with water usage in agri
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It is more about modern sharecropper capitalism I agree but WorryFree is the endgame of the sharing/gig economy, basically people fed up with hustling in the gig economy or sharecropper systems can become slaves and have their worries
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by drawkbox 8y ago
The movie Sorry to Bother You has a satirical look at the sharing economy gone awry. In the movie a controversial company called WorryFree exists that promises lifelong security where people willingly become slaves to live in dorms and
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> I'd rather work with someone who has maintained one live project, rather than with someone who has shipped 5. I agree, I coupled shipping with maintaining as I see that as one. Just getting it out in the world isn't enough
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If using Firefox, you can now browse the web and search it with some animals, the Fox and the Duck .
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Shipped games both on teams/companies and individually are game development gold. You will be in if you have shipped titles especially individually or with a small team that is a decent game. If you have no shipped titles, the second b
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> doesn't rise above experience, this shows experience. Experience is highly valuable but concrete examples of that which are done individually or completely self propelled, that is the way to be. Creating/shipping/proje
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In addition to development, any creative field is this way including movies, writing, gaming, design etc. It is also true of vocational skills and probably even legal/accounting/executive and other corporate fields.
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Companies want people that can come in and hit the ground running and are self-starters. It is always better to go into the interview, meeting, pitch with projects that are shipped or working to demonstrate. For instance, if you want to get
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Non-competes, the most anti-innovation, anti-skilled worker, anti-free market, anti-business and anti-American thing in working today. Non-competes are protectionism for larger businesses over small/medium businesses and try to own emp
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Humans are a differentiation machine, they follow along known branches until they break into something new. There they can create a new branch where they might be first or one of a few new minds in that area, in that case, 'winging it&

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