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by skylan_q 13y ago
This keeps coming up and I have to keep asking, what is a shortage? If we double the amount of IT workers available, do we still have a shortage? How do we determine what a shortage is? I think it's all perspective. From the manager&#x
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by skylan_q 13y ago
And as far as I'm concerned, there's an oversupply as long as I'm competing for any job with anyone.
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by skylan_q 13y ago
I can't repeat myself enough. TRAMP mode: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/TrampMode I do plenty of work over ssh, and this saves me the headache of dealing with screens and multiple terminals.
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I don't understand what a "shortage" entails.
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the laws that eliminated the homeschooling option literally date back to the Hitler regime. It goes further back. The Prussian regime was basically the founder of our current institutionalized public education system in the west as we kno
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There is nothing in the article that suggests that accents lead to innovation. That's besides the point. The point is that this is a fluff piece upvoted by people with white guilt in order to alleviate that guilt. :D
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I've studied plenty of economics and have been around the world and back. Bringing in more labor increases the supply of it and there's also the added effect of immigrants willing to work for less than the local population. To den
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Immigration also increases the size of the labor pool, driving down wages.
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by skylan_q 13y ago
You've performed a miracle, yourself. A good joke in the comments section of an HN post! :p
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Not the much more important problem of a government that betrayed the trust of the people. We've built a system that makes sure liars and demagogues get into office. Until people are on board with putting an end to such a system of e
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Honest question... what is he purpose of such a rally?
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People belive politics consists of picketing and elections. That's not it, as those don't deal with actual issues that effect society. Politics is about the organization of society and the systematic control over violence and powe
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The most surefire way isn't in trusting those who betrayed the trust. It's in making their efforts to spy on us futile.
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What a bunch of establishment hacks... technological workarounds to political problems is politics. The current regime put this here, they're not going to remove it because we ask politely. That's a childish hope.
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Where have all the grown-ups gone?
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This is a problem with social media. We've given away our privacy willingly. This also opens us up to the peanut gallery.
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It's true, but none of this matters. People prefer equally terrible health care for all as opposed to great health care for some and excellent health care for others. Soon enough, plastic surgery will be socialized to combat bullying b
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Personally, I don't advance solely because of the money. My main motivation is facing and overcoming new challenges. I've worked for a couple startups and another small company. In my experience I face challenges at the start and
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Even if it get majorities in both houses and signed by the president it wouldn't matter. When was the last time that the executive branch was beholden to congress in matters of national intelligence and security?
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How is a layman to interpret this science? Read it until 1) you reach a part with a reference and follow and read the reference or 2) if no reference, google the part that confuses you. No one ever follows the references. It's a sham
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Some disclosure: I've been born and raised in Canada and my parents are immigrants from the former Yugoslavia. I've taken many extended trips back home and I have to say that "working efficiently for only half of their eight-
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Excellent, actually. I was just speaking with someone yesterday about how McDonald's is executing a long-term strategy very effectively. They appeal to children without offending adults. The population in the region places a high empha
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I've spoken with several start-up founders in Canada who have looked for investment. Many have moved to the US because they find that most investors here are only going to invest in something already making money. They are scared of ma
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We're too busy importing people with "masters degrees" from Indian and Chinese "universities". I'm pretty sure this is worth more points than having a degree from even an ivy league school.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tax_rates Taking into consideration only corporate tax rates, it really is kind of an oddity. (sort the chart by corporate tax rate)
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All they've done for me (in my experience) is slowed down development and saved me from nothing. The only downside I see to not using them is not being able to use FK's in indexing.
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I wouldn't bother arguing some people are in the Microsoft camp as a matter of religion. I work in a Microsoft shop and it's depressing how awful the offerings are and how helpless you become when you depend on something that&#x27
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Lowering the minimum wage isn't going to make an unskilled and lazy teenager useful. Correct. They'll just be cheaper. If value > cost, then it's worth it for a business to pursue. If something is only slightly useful, t
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The reason a summer at KFC could pay for a year of UW med school in 1981 isn’t that we were so hardworking and industrious. It’s that taxpayers back then picked up 90 percent of the tab. We weren’t Horatio Algers. We were socialists. Sour
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I don't think it will ever get more than a 2% share in the software world, but I think it can get the right 2 percent. There will always be detractors. But then again, you can't teach a dog math. I spent a tiny amount of time ge

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