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by edderly 14y ago
> Most H1-Bs return back to India within a year and a new person will be sent to fill in the same position next year. That sounds wrong. The period of the H1-B visa stay is three years.
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by edderly 14y ago
By definition any increase in supply of labor will lower wages somewhat. However, as I'm currently on an H1-B and being paid a pretty hefty wedge I suspect your assertion is wrong. In this market the only good engineers I see having problem
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by edderly 14y ago
Yes, PDAs existed and you could see an evolution of phone to smartphone which included PDA like features. However, in the early 00s the money was in dumbphones simply because the BOM cost of the RAM/ROM, AP and modem was pretty high. The re
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by edderly 14y ago
And as long as the poorest in the US are richer than someone in the world that is somehow satisfactory? I'm fairly content to talk about happiness, it's fairly fundamental. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life,_liberty_and_the_pursuit_o...
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by edderly 14y ago
The paper you cite really only talks in terms of access to/possession of goods. So yes, in the US you may be more likely to possess a car than someone in Bhutan. But whether that is better is debatable. By comparison it's interesting to loo
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by edderly 14y ago
This is fairly illusory as a comparison. I don't believe the PDA market ever amounted to more than 12 million devices a year. Whilst by the year 2000 the entire mobile phone market was around 700 million. Plus it didn't help that MS were tr
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by edderly 14y ago
I think it's an interesting and reasonable question but I'm not sure the basis of the question is correct. First, the 2000+ years of capitalism assertion is fairly flawed, consider feudalism, but for the sake of argument lets say capitalism
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by edderly 14y ago
It feels easy to blame planning. If I take your interpretation, plans are checklist tasks or milestones for management to measure developer progress. At worst a plan can be something you create for someone else to flog you with it. These so
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by edderly 14y ago
I agree that traditional businesses often have too many managers. However, my perspective is that well functioning teams do not require day to day involvement with the manager. Consequently the manager may appear to add less value. It is a
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by edderly 14y ago
I think I'd disagree back :). It is not a new or recent issue that the cost of development for mobile was notoriously expensive on hardware, there was a residual hope that emulators would suffice. Simultaneously there has been constant dema
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by edderly 14y ago
The success of the Pi is really a textbook example of why you want good marketing, product management and strategic pricing plus a bit of timing/luck. TI have had the Beagleboard since 2008 with a Cortex-A8, ARMv7 vs the PI's ARMv6 ARM11.
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by edderly 14y ago
It's very well covered in the previously linked article by Orin Kerr http://www.volokh.com/2013/01/16/the-criminal-charges-agains... > Why are you hearing that Swartz faced 35 or 50 years if it was not true? First, government press re
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by edderly 14y ago
Reading between the lines it sounds like the author is just struggling with the amoral nature of most businesses. Superficially company mission statements and slogans may appear to contradict this assertion, but they are best guidelines rat
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by edderly 14y ago
So who receives the insurance claim? If I shoot my mother in law, does my wife as an only child get a check?
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by edderly 14y ago
What are you buying for your insurance? With car insurance you're buying protection for yourself against a risk that either you cause an accident or someone else causes an accident that you are involved in.
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by edderly 14y ago
Having seen Samsung engineering practices at first hand this doesn't surprise me. I'd put money on this not being an issue on the Nexus 10, where the Google Android team would have been involved with the product.
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by edderly 14y ago
I've worked extensively with proprietary drivers in Linux and other OS environments. If you take a pure technical point A to B view of the world, there is little doubt that you should be able to develop better drivers in an open source envi
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by edderly 14y ago
It is sad that degrees have become 'character classes'. I think people lose perspective that a degree is at worst a piece of paper describing what you may have been studying for a very brief part of your life. It cuts both ways too. It's la
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The Myth of American Meritocracy(theamericanconservative.com)
122 points by edderly 14y ago|129 comments
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by edderly 14y ago
Their future hardware IP design work is effective(ly) dead. Embedded on OMAP has always been a derivative of the R&D invested for the mobile market. You can also look at the Sitara products which are respins of OMAP IPs with a few needs
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by edderly 14y ago
No, more accurately a corporation is an autonomous legal 'person'. http://hbr.org/2010/04/the-myth-of-shareholder-capitalism/ar... "Shareholders do not own the corporation, which is an autonomous legal person. What’s more, when directors
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by edderly 14y ago
I'd like to see this voted up for discussion. Simply because I think this doesn't sound right. Always questions abound in this situation: Why do you have a remote team in the first place? Who is the remote team, those who are remote to you
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by edderly 14y ago
The approach Broadcom have taken also makes it really easy for them to support different OSs too.
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by edderly 14y ago
Interesting, maybe it's because I'm English, it felt like the right expression. "The British Oxford English Dictionary flags jibe in the sense of “to agree with” as “chiefly U.S.” Unlike Merriam-Webster, however, the OED includes this defin
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by edderly 14y ago
It jives extremely well with a lot of traditional business management especially in hardware and telecoms oriented companies. It's a top down approach which satisfies the needs of the business development people first. Nokia grew up in a wo
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by edderly 14y ago
Strange, I ordered a Paperwhite on Thursday and they charged extra for 'without special offers' (which I opted for). I'd assume that they would do a similar thing with the Fire.
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by edderly 14y ago
I completely agree, I don't even think it is limited to a stereotypical introvert. In an environment where the management is very hands off I have worked with unhappy people who are paranoid enough to worry that if they ask or challenge the
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by edderly 14y ago
It's always difficult to know for sure but the calculated BOM cost is $143. http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4230653/TechInsights...
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by edderly 14y ago
On the contrary this is the smartest thing they could have done. GPU h/w acceleration on mobile devices isn't optional any more and rather than getting mired in the 'real soon now' world of Linux graphics they can get on with the job of pr
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by edderly 14y ago
It would be a shame to interpret the blog in that way. I believe the author (Tomi Ahonen) gives a window into how most businesses product management and marketing work for good or for bad. Companies start with a technology base for a produc

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