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by gregw2 10y ago
Interesting. David Dobkin is the Dean of Faculty at Princeton University who used to be a Computer Science professor there for a very long time before being Dean; his specialty was 3D geometry (not a 3D shader guy, kinda a bit more math-y t
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by gregw2 10y ago
Could be. My coworker's experience with that was a while back.
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by gregw2 10y ago
Yes, this is an issue. On h1b your (non-citizen) wife cant legally work without getting her own working h1b or other visa which can be tricky.
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by gregw2 10y ago
Exec orders might be coming. https://news.google.com/news/amp?caurl=http%3A%2F%2Famp.usat...
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by gregw2 10y ago
Yes, Indian body shops have charged high fees >80k while not even remitting even close to the 60k back to the employee. I have witnessed this. I have also witnessed employers rescuing people from such body shops by hiring them for 60k on
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by gregw2 10y ago
The system has been good for you and I don't begrudge that. I'm happy for you. But besides its successes, the current system has fomented a fair bit of abuse of h1bs and suppressed American citizens wages... at least based on wh
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by gregw2 10y ago
Chrome similarly used to honor the /etc/hosts file, first by default, then via setting. Now it always uses Google's DNS, no workarounds. I cant create localhost aliases for dev VMs nor can I block distracting sites. I've
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by gregw2 10y ago
It was tied to another index according to the article.
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by gregw2 10y ago
Thank you. Good points. Is anybody working on a better bill?
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by gregw2 10y ago
I think the existing system foments a covert lie-rewarding fear-inducing form of indentured servitude and depresses native nonmanagerial salaries of actual programmers. I was told early in my career by at least two CEOs that I shouldn'
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by gregw2 10y ago
Read the article. It is indexed to 35% above the median wage for a computer worker according to some of existing Department of Labor category. That median wage presumably will indirectly rise with inflation, so it's better than the pre