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by shimon_e 9y ago
for extra in fun do watch -t -n 1 "factor \$(date +%s)" done
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by shimon_e 9y ago
Even better, HN should hide the real title until hover to reduce the number of clicks clickbait articles get.
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by shimon_e 9y ago
I saw a secretary in an hospital still using Windows 98
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by shimon_e 9y ago
Run wine inside an emulator... oh wait
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by shimon_e 9y ago
The Government can hire developers to do it themselves.
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by shimon_e 9y ago
Now is the time to write a virus that uses the same exploit and automatically patches the vulnerable before a new version of the ransomware is released.
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by shimon_e 9y ago
I've seen multiple open source projects get such government funding. Does anyone know the process that they go through to get such grants?
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by shimon_e 9y ago
It's what happens when you write your content for search engines instead of humans.
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by shimon_e 9y ago
Yes
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by shimon_e 9y ago
I know a lot of entrepreneurs who travel to a cheaper country to work on their startup. They still pay their taxes to uncle sam.
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by shimon_e 9y ago
They are up to shenanigans to make sure they own the market. IBM for example is trying to hire up all available cheap talent in India so their competitors can't hire enough people to fill their contracts.
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by shimon_e 9y ago
Its not just low pay. A friend of mine employed a developer who was a senior at WiPro earning over 1 lakh per month. He was employed for my friend at a junior developer salary simply because he was sick and tired of writing random throw awa
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by shimon_e 9y ago
I've got an office in Bangalore. The only thing I have found such candidates good for are non-development roles. e.g. documentation, transcribing.
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by shimon_e 9y ago
As long as the outsourcing companies bill by the hour, they have all the incentive to minimise wages, and maximise billable hours.
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by shimon_e 9y ago
There are plenty of good developers in India who only want to be developers. They never work for outsourcing companies. They only apply for product based companies they are interested in.
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by shimon_e 9y ago
They are about half the size of the rest. Accenture should really be on the list. They have almost as many people as Tata.
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by shimon_e 9y ago
I've got an office in Bangalore. I have not interviewed a single person from the big outsourcing agencies who had real talent. Bangalore is packed with talent but they all cost at least 3* more what the outsourcing agencies are paying.
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by shimon_e 9y ago
You can unfollow such friends.
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by shimon_e 9y ago
In India, Uber helps drivers get loans to buy the cars. I've seen drivers who utilise their cars 24/7 (i.e. their brother drives at night) say they are making more than their previous office jobs. While regular drivers who aren&#x
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by shimon_e 9y ago
After reading the entire article everyone but one person declined comment. That person remained unnamed.
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by shimon_e 9y ago
Its not just the US government using Drupal. The Australian Government loves it and pays its contractors very well.
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by shimon_e 9y ago
Hiring freeze was lifted on April 12, 2017.
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by shimon_e 9y ago
The bars in Bangalore are filled with medical students. There are always a handful of Americans studying with them. I have a few friends who graduated recently and are now back in America doing their residency.
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by shimon_e 9y ago
Syria
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by shimon_e 9y ago
There are a ton of Americans studying medicine in India. Simply because its cheaper. So it goes both ways. I'm pretty sure these Americans plan on working in America after residency.
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by shimon_e 10y ago
hmmm... if anyone has any connections to Jared Kushner maybe we could recommend to him to create a blockchain for government budgets under his office of american innovation.
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by shimon_e 10y ago
The article you link to says it was last week. This was the selective publication of White House visitor logs online. Those logs still need to be submitted to the national archive. You can freely object to such changes. But the second peopl
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by shimon_e 10y ago
No, you listen to the reason he refuses to deboard. If it seems like a good reason to the flight crew. e.g. he is a doctor, etc. then you let him stay.
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by shimon_e 10y ago
Apparently he wasn't at the time. News reports I read at the time said he applied for ESTA but was found to be in violation of ESTA terms at the boarder.
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by shimon_e 10y ago
They also don't have connections. Or aircraft with different numbers of seats.

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