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by geebee 10y ago
There are two things to consider - the legislation itself, and the legislative history. If you read the legislative history, that is, the testimony and claims of lobbyists, the floor debate, the PR releases, the statements made by congressi
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by geebee 10y ago
100k is still too low, but it is better than nothing. A family of four in San Francisco with an income of 100k a year qualifies for housing assistance. Yes, I know, most families are two income now, but it doesn't speak well to this s
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by geebee 10y ago
Great point. MS degrees may have changed somewhat since 1990, though. One problem is that MS degrees don't really cover the general curriculum. They're often, even when rigorous, used to allow students to focus on a topic or pro
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by geebee 10y ago
On principle, I'm generally opposed to any arrangement where the employer controls the employee's right to live and work in the US. That includes bestowing the right in the first place, but it's especially pernicious when th
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by geebee 10y ago
Here's the thing - if a corporation's "competitiveness" is dependent on a deeply coercive ability to control their employee's right to live and work in the US, with severely limited mobility rights for the worker, I
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by geebee 10y ago
I'm not sure that I'm sympathetic to employers who want to pay less. Keep in mind, the US takes in well over a million immigrants a year, and has a huge internal workforce. The H1B was created to help employers find critical and
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by geebee 10y ago
I agree with your corrections, to an extent. However, it is also important to note that an H1B holder is limited in the kind of jobs he or she can take. An H1B holder would have a very difficult time changing fields or entering a very dif
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by geebee 10y ago
I'm not sure I can agree with your characterization of this transaction. It sounds like you're holding the use of a specialized work visa to replace US citizens who work for a partially state supported institution as equivalent
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by geebee 10y ago
Oh, I don't doubt that at all. Are those standard "senior dev" salaries, though? What's interesting to me about the startup-tradeoffs article (top link of this thread), though, is that you don't need to enter strat
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by geebee 10y ago
This has been linked to a few times on HN. http://danluu.com/startup-tradeoffs/ A quick summary: pay has gone up enough at top bigcos that simply working and accumulating money can exceed even very good outcomes at sta
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by geebee 10y ago
That's interesting. I didn't learn SQL until taking a course on it in grad school. I had some programming background, mainly from math classes and a bit of CS. the concept of a query really seemed odd, it took some mental adjust
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by geebee 10y ago
I love sql myself. I'm not sure why I love it so much and other people hate it. Sometimes I think that coming up with reasons is just after the fact justification (do I really like it because it has a solid mathematical foundation
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by geebee 10y ago
SQL. If I had to pick a language that I'll use my entire career that's the one. It has been overused and underused, but always relevant.
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by geebee 10y ago
For point one, it seems like increasing access would still help. It takes a lot of skill to read a mathematical proof and know if it is relevant to an open theorem, but making math publication public and searchable is still useful. Im bumm
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by geebee 10y ago
That's a really complicated topic, of course. CS is in an interesting spot, in terms of how people perceive it and what students expect from it. On one extreme, people see CS as a kind of trade school housed in a research university,
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by geebee 10y ago
Yes, I read the article. Under the section "Master’s degree & years of experience", the author writes: "No surprises here. I’ve ranted quite a bit about the disutility of master’s degrees, so I won’t belabor the point.&q
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by geebee 10y ago
That could be useful. The article mentioned rhat there was no distinction made between CS masters degrees and Info Systems degrees. My guess is that pure MS would correlate positively from CS programs that require a background in more adva
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by geebee 10y ago
Nothing! The author explicitely states that the data and analysis was not granular enough tp make distinction between the different kinds of MS degrees. This leaves open the possibility rhat some categories of MS degrees might correlate pos
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by geebee 10y ago
Interesting bit on the MS degree. I followed the link, and I'm not quite as surprised that the correlation is poor, or even negative, given the way the data was collected and analyzed. Absolutely agree that some MS degrees are pretty
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by geebee 10y ago
That's an interesting observation. I'm an amateur violin player, but as I've started looking at middle tier instruments, I've already noticed that more expensive doesn't necessarily mean "better." Here&#
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by geebee 10y ago
Does anyone know if the researchers have made an effort to quantify the acoustics they are trying to recreate or explain? The NYTimes article summarizes it this way: "For hundreds of years, the best violin players have almost unanimous
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by geebee 10y ago
I already live in SF, but yeah I agree it should be a consideration.
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by geebee 10y ago
Great write-up, thank you to the OP for putting this on the web! I have a few thoughts on it. First, I'm not all that surprised someone would study for 8 months for an interview at Google. I interviewed there (no hire) and gave mysel
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by geebee 10y ago
Gotta ask you, though. How indignant are you about the recording studios using the term "sound engineer?" Or a hollywood post-production studio employing a "special effects engineer"? I personally would like to retire
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by geebee 10y ago
You're absolutely right about fears of lawsuits and litigation. Here's the problem - "I guess that's you're problem" isn't an acceptable answer for the applications, many of whom were at least reasonably g
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by geebee 10y ago
It's amazing, isn't it? This was one of the best parts of math class. It's so natural, too. Numbers, you count, 1, 2, 3, 4... it makes so much sense. And of course, rational numbers aren't too hard to grasp within tha
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by geebee 10y ago
Yeah, I hear you. This is something people outside tech have trouble grokking. In many tech companies, you really have to pass technical exams that we call "interviews". I think the term interview creates an ambiguity that leads
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by geebee 10y ago
I've interviewed at a few big tech companies, including google. If you have a relevant degree from a decent university, you're likely to get an interview at some point. I was a no hire. But for google, all I can really say is st
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by geebee 10y ago
Interesting bit about the law, there... the thing is, they can essentially use universities as a proxy while maintaining plausible deniability, right? I don't think it even needs to be quite that insidious, it can have that effect even
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by geebee 10y ago
I suppose this explains why some companies simply use universities to do their filtering for them. It's been a while since I took the GRE and LSAT, which I tutored for a while, but they have questions much like the ones listed here. S

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