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H1-B visas snapped up despite recession(businessweek.com)
13 points by gamble 17y ago|15 comments
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by gamble 17y ago
The reaction has less to do with the Crunchpad, and a lot more to do with Arrington's peculiar ability to enrage the startup crowd. He has his issues, but the real bone of contention seems to be the amount of power some people feel he wield
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by gamble 17y ago
"Also, I'm surprised they missed CRTs. That's a pretty big change that's affected huge numbers of people." Amen. It always amazed me how many people ran their CRT at 60 Hz. Even today's cheapest LCD is an ergonomic achievement compared to w
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by gamble 17y ago
Many community college classes are taught by grad students or post-docs who haven't landed a tenure-track position yet. A friend of mine taught English and composition classes at CC for a few years; judging from her experience, there was pl
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by gamble 17y ago
I believe the main reason they offer passenger service is that there are some shipments that need a human handler. (Horses, for example) There's definitely demand for passenger berths, albeit not for tourists.
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by gamble 17y ago
Not to mention that Warrent Buffet rarely buys common stock on the open market, much less mutual funds.
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by gamble 17y ago
Very clever hack. Still, they're in the minor leagues compared to the civil engineer who racked up 1.25 million frequent flyer miles ten years ago by purchasing over 12,000 pudding cups: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,996
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by gamble 17y ago
"My greatest weakness is [plausible yet trivial issue]. It was a minor problem on [studly project X], but I took the bull by the horns and tackled it with [a suspiciously detailed action plan]. Now my coworkers see me as [some sort of Greek
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by gamble 17y ago
I doubt Palm will disappear as a brand, but I'm waiting for the acquisition. It seems inevitable at this point, but I wonder if potential suitors are just waiting to see how low Palm will go.
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by gamble 17y ago
My husband works for a well-known game developer with offices in Quebec. Thanks to the subsidies, Montreal is the only city in the world where a programmer costs less to hire than in Shanghai. As a result, they have a virtual hiring freeze
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When Startups Don't Create Jobs(businessweek.com)
1 points by gamble 17y ago|0 comments
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by gamble 17y ago
This is why I feel so little sympathy for the newspaper industry's problems. If every paper started charging for access to their website tomorrow, the only ones worth bothering with would be AP/Reuters, NYT, WaPo, the Economist, and WSJ. A
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by gamble 17y ago
My first reaction on reading this article was wondering whether it came from The Onion...
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by gamble 17y ago
I think you have to see acquisitions like an organ transplant. It takes a lot of effort to keep the host from killing the transplant and even the best efforts can fail. It's the rare success that should be surprising, not the failures.
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by gamble 17y ago
I don't really understand the argument that Google is profiting off news sites. Google is driving traffic to sites that wouldn't otherwise have it, and as far as I've seen they don't even place ads on Google News. Google should be charging
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by gamble 17y ago
Not that I necessarily disagree with your point, but it should be mentioned that Hitler and the Nazi party as a whole were not atheists. I don't know where the idea that they were atheists comes from.
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by gamble 17y ago
In a sense, you're not buying an education so much as the prestige of the institution that grants your degree, so it makes perfect sense that higher-priced universities are perceived as a superior 'product'. I'm sure most university preside
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by gamble 17y ago
The solution is to improve sleep mode, not make it faster to boot up. We're past the point now when anyone should turn their computer off in daily use, any more than they manually power down their cell phone or MP3 player.
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by gamble 17y ago
> Or, what about my son who is in high school. By the time Chrome OS comes along in big numbers he’ll be in college. Why take a $1,000 computer to class? Couldn’t he do everything he needs to do on a low-cost computer that’s lightweigh
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by gamble 17y ago
700 kcals is on the extreme high end for an hour of cycling. You'd have to be fairly heavy already and pushing it as hard as you can go. A normal person putting in average effect is probably more like 250-300 kcal.
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by gamble 17y ago
Good advice, though I think he overemphasizes the gym. The point of exercise is to emphasize how much overeating costs you. It's harder to justify that candy bar when it equates to an hour of hard exercise.
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by gamble 17y ago
Corporate IT today is a microcosm for the way established corporations become sclerotic and fail to compete with new businesses. When you're building from scratch on a green field, it's easy to buy the most modern and efficient technology.
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by gamble 17y ago
My suggestion for a better title: "The lament of the business journalist"
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by gamble 17y ago
They're willing to pay ... all of $35 for the Leopard->Snow Leopard upgrade disks. Psystar wouldn't even shell out the full $150.
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by gamble 17y ago
The average man living a sedentary lifestyle needs about 2000-2500 calories a day to maintain his weight. Another man, doing 8-12 hours of hard physical labor per day, needs about 3500-4000 calories. The truth is that what most people think
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by gamble 17y ago
Unfortunately, most people don't like the idea that the only way to lose weight is to control your diet. They would much rather believe that an hour or two of exercise per week, or eating 'good' foods, will let them eat as much as they wan
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by gamble 17y ago
There will always be a 'labor shortage' if your definition of a shortage is being unable to find staff at the price you like. It's refreshing to see at least one attempt to swim against the tide of propaganda produced by industry.
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by gamble 17y ago
I used to work at a company that sold a software product to provincial/municipal governments in Canada, and the RFPs were often rigged. Sometimes in our favor, sometimes for a competitor. There were cases when the RFP was written in concert
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by gamble 17y ago
It's interesting to see app makers rediscover the lessons learned by mobile gaming developers years ago. Handheld games have been a brutal business going back to the Gameboy. The keys to success seem to be: 1) licensed properties and 2) amo
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by gamble 17y ago
They'll be differentiated by the disappearance of their job overseas... People who fashion themselves into interchangeable parts shouldn't be surprised if they're swapped for cheaper substitutes.

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