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by seibelj 11y ago
This isn't a man who is beating his wife. The employee doesn't have the social pressure to stay with someone they married rather than face the shame of divorce. The employee doesn't have a part of them that is literally in lo
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by seibelj 11y ago
That is the same situation at any company with H1B's, and I didn't see anything in the article that mentioned abuse of those workers specifically.
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by seibelj 11y ago
I've been reading various comments about this around the internet and many people are saying they will stop ordering from Amazon because of it. These white collar workers are highly paid, and not forced to be there. Most of them could
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by seibelj 11y ago
If you have a monopoly, you charge excess rents and stop innovating. People accept this easily as a fact of private enterprise, which is why we have the state intervene to break monopolies. Why people can't take this obvious fact and a
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by seibelj 11y ago
That's one theory that is easy to believe, but it's not true and is a gross simplification of how the European welfare system came about.
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by seibelj 11y ago
I'm in Boston, the salaries here are high but not SF levels. I'd rather not say which boot camp to preserve relationships and not malign their organization. They were very helpful, I just simply think hiring straight from boot cam
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by seibelj 11y ago
We made a conscious decision to try and hire someone from these camps as an experiment. I went to their demo day and winnowed the graduating class of 40 down to 6. Of the 6 we interviewed we decided to give 6 month internships to 3 of them,
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by seibelj 11y ago
The problem is that "market price" is extremely malleable, and it's easy enough to tweak the job title slightly in order to change what the person is being paid. As I said, there are exceptions, but in general H1B is a mechan
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by seibelj 11y ago
I will make a slight derail into H1B's. Anytime that you allow a company to have significant control over an employee's life, such as putting a significant risk of deportation on the employee, you are putting the employee at sever
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by seibelj 11y ago
This is perfect, thank you very much, I appreciate you taking the time to write this out. Do you have any recommendations on books to learn about finding exploits in general? My specific skills are in deep and nuanced areas of the Android k
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by seibelj 11y ago
On the contrary, I'm considered a 'good' developer by the normal standards (education / company / title / projects / etc.) and I would consider moonlighting. I usually work another 40-50 hours a week outsi
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Ask HN: What is the best way to get paid for discovering zero day exploits?
17 points by seibelj 11y ago|18 comments
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by seibelj 11y ago
That is the point - the term 'Real Programmer' is meaningless and is merely used to disparage languages / tools / platforms and boost egos. You can look at Mel, a 'Real Programmer', and realize that you can&#x2
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by seibelj 11y ago
Some people quit their jobs and throw everything into a new, risky venture. This is pretty dangerous, especially for those without wealth. More realistic people work 40-50 hours a week at work and another 40 on their own passions. The smart
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The Story of Mel Explained(jamesseibel.com)
68 points by seibelj 11y ago|25 comments
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by seibelj 11y ago
7% assumed return is the most ridiculous part of it all. I remember when NYC tried to reduce their assumed rate from 8.5 to 7.5 and people threw a fit ( http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2010-08-20/new-yor
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by seibelj 11y ago
Is the only innovation in how customizable the UI is? I guess it's way too hard to write a new rendering engine. With the existing ecosystem of chrome / Firefox / safari extensions it will be difficult to gain traction.