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by hiram112 9y ago
I got the low-end Kindle Fire around Xmas. While I don't mind the hooks into all the Amazon bloat, the browser is atrocious on any site that isn't about as lite as HN. It just can't handle the typical 200 trackers and ads of
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by hiram112 9y ago
BlackBerry prices come down pretty quickly, and there are always deals to be had. The retail price is really for corporate customers. The Priv had a higher initial price, but it is now often on sale for $300.
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by hiram112 9y ago
I've been using the clip for years, also. It's basically a much improved Shuffle which doesn't need iTunes, has a minimal screen, good battery life, and does what it needs to do well. Unfortunately, the manufacturing seems to
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by hiram112 9y ago
Maven takes a long time on every new build because it downloads all the dependencies to cache. If you aren't a regular Java developer, and you pull a simple GitHub project and build it, it might need download the dependencies, source c
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by hiram112 9y ago
While agree with you - it was always noted in the fine print that there would be losers in the globalization game - it just wasn't stated that 95% of us would lose, while .1% would win bigly.
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by hiram112 10y ago
As someone who's learned (and forgotten) a few foreign languages, including German, the requirement for a C1 level in German would be pretty damn high, especially since Germans are rather strict on grammar (im not going there... ;) In
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by hiram112 10y ago
Blue collar Democrat states? Lol. Democrats looked at the demographics and made an explicit decision to toss out blue collar (and now even white collar a la H1b) workers in favor of immigrants and corporations. The only difference between t
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by hiram112 10y ago
Agreed. I must be getting old and grumpy, but I really am tired of learning 'new' frameworks and ideas unless they actually provide some sort of benefit. For example, I started using Docker here and there. There's a bit of a
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by hiram112 10y ago
The randomness factor is a huge problem for Google and similar SV companies. I'd be happy to take a chance on a Google interview. What I'm not going to do is take 3 or 4 days of my very limited vacation time to jump through Google
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by hiram112 10y ago
What's an 'American' company these days? US companies like Oracle, MS, Google, etc. have offices all over the world. They also tend to use various visas to import 10% of their own US based staff (probably a much higher ratio
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by hiram112 10y ago
You don't know what you're talking about. It's 85000 per year at 3 year visas x 2 renewals. Then they are able to apply for a green card. The current estimate is that over a million H1bs (not counting those who've gotten
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by hiram112 10y ago
So what's the salary you're offering for this unfillable position, and what's the average price of a home there?
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by hiram112 10y ago
So what? You'll have to compete? You've gotten so used to your cheap labor, indentured workforce,that you can't even contemplate employees participating in a free market ?
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by hiram112 10y ago
Too bad for these companies. They gamed with basic supply and demand. Lot of industries which don't abuse foreign labor as much have a steady pipeline of candidates because these grads saw your company - shitty wages, awful working con
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by hiram112 10y ago
What you don't seem to understand is that the visa system destroys the whole concept of supply and demand. If your business can't hire workers, you will have to raise salaries. If you can't afford the higher salaries, you don
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by hiram112 10y ago
> Guess who benefits then? Not the US. If demand at US universities goes down, they might just have to reduce prices. Yeah that would certainly suck for the millions of recent college grads working gig jobs, indebted with tens of thousan
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by hiram112 10y ago
I hear this argument all the time. If the companies could offshore everything, they would have already done it. If they can't, they can afford to hire Americans for the few onsite employees they've got left. Otherwise, they should
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by hiram112 10y ago
There has always been an O-1 visa for super-specialized and talented PHDs.
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by hiram112 10y ago
I would love this because I still want a 'real' shell when dealing with Java - things like emacs, grep, find, etc. Cygwin and using shared VM directories has too many glitches with things like npm, links, file system endings, etc.
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by hiram112 10y ago
No it's more like we've got a 2 month journey on the Hindenburg.
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by hiram112 10y ago
I don't think so anymore, though I would have said yes even a few years ago. I see most of the companies I work with moving towards AWS or Azure with all the scaling support and APIs that really make web apps easier to work with. Inste
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by hiram112 10y ago
We used Microservices at my last job, and initially, everyone used the same Maven archetype to create a basic Java application of similar structure: property files, environment variables, filters, etc. It wasn't as sexy as, say, Scala
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by hiram112 10y ago
Could you comment a bit more on your light therapy?
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by hiram112 10y ago
Maybe you're unable to find employees because you aren't willing to pay the market price. What's a software engineer worth? Well I guess, like every other industry, it's the amount that starts getting a lot of interest i
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by hiram112 10y ago
No the issue is that ALL the plans are now 'bare bones'. Big Fortune 500 companies that used to offer 'PPO' plans (i.e. you paid your rate and then had $10-$20 copays) now only offer catastrophic plans. So we are paying
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by hiram112 10y ago
>Why? It's all about the pre-existing conditions. Yes this is what both sides of the aisles won't admit. You can't have 20% of the people use 80% of the services and make things fair without forcing the users to eat the
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by hiram112 10y ago
Here's my anecdote: Before ACA, as a full-time worker at decent companies I paid maybe $50 a month for my insurance, my employer picked up the rest. When I went to the doctor, filled a prescription, or anything else routine, it was $10
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by hiram112 10y ago
A lot of Americans don't understand why messengers like WhatsApp are so popular around the world. The reason is that most carriers still extort users by charging text message fees. In the US, everyone texts (or think they are using tex
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by hiram112 10y ago
I wouldn't trust anything owned by Facebook. Period.
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by hiram112 10y ago
Indians have a stigma for a very good reason: the 5% top engineers are drowned out by the 95% posers used by body shops (Infy, TCS, etc.) that have literally taken over numerous industries in the US tech market. I worked in India for one of

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