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uglysexy
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uglysexy
11y ago
Microsoft trying to be relevant/interesting. This is worse than Zune. I just might short MSFT tomorrow morning. > you have a bunch of people somewhere, say, the US, and a bunch of other people somewhere else, say, China > If you
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11y ago
True. The wage metric to use in the hiring of an H1B worker should be the top end of the salary range of that job description for the city or area PLUS a 10-20% premium. This ensures that the company really needs to bring someone in and rai
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11y ago
willing to work for a reasonable salary Reasonable salary to you is different from reasonable salary to a highly qualified CEO. Also, you should revisit your idea of qualifications. There are many VP/SVP level folks who are fully qua
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uglysexy
11y ago
"PERM Fake Job Ads defraud Americans to secure green cards" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCbFEgFajGU
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uglysexy
11y ago
+1 I'm a proponent of public benefit corporations. I think Kickstarter became one last year. There's also Just Capital, a nonprofit organization created by Paul Tudor Jones II with Deepak Chopra. They have a metric to measure and
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11y ago
H1Bs won't like this answer, but it should be retroactive to all visa holders. Six years is six years too long to wait to fix things and get the situation to turn around.
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11y ago
Global open borders would create chaos. Imagine if homes didn't have fences or doors and anyone can just walk in & out of your home. The argument of open borders as "the best way to reduce global inequality" is pure myth.
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11y ago
Nice list! Has some similarities to mine.
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Global open borders would create chaos. Imagine if homes didn't have fences or doors and anyone can just walk in & out of your home.
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uglysexy
11y ago
Not sure if these are within the scope of what you guys do (a couple are 'out there') but here's some: - digital currency that doesn't need network connectivity nor blockchain to do a transaction (just device to device)
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uglysexy
11y ago
Check out EPM Live http://epmlive.com/products/work-management/ http://epmlive.com/products/work-management/project-manageme... It is a work & project management SaaS tool. it has a
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11y ago
> Yahoo and AOL aren't hiring these days If I may ask..how do you know this? And can you provide some detail? Bottom line is - hiring (or lack of) is a leading indicator of a company's financial health. A company that doesn
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11y ago
Tech giants do have funding in the form of CapEx. Like Apple throwing money into their 'Apple Car' project or Twitter doing the same into building new features. These tech giants have these semi-independent projects that have that
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11y ago
It's a natural/normal reaction to have negative feelings towards the H1B worker. However, the people to blame are American companies (Big Business/Corporate America), U.S. universities & colleges (who charge foreign stude
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Hiring is definitely a good indicator of the bubble bursting because hiring indicates that startups are getting funding and they turn around and hire people. When the funding dries up, these same startups tighten the belt, the hiring drops
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11y ago
I think a good indication of a bubble is measuring the IT job market using Craiglist and Dice job postings. I'd like to ask you all about what you've experienced & seen on Craiglist and Dice that would give you an idea on how
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Both American & Indian companies, and American politicians bought by these companies, are spewing a lot of BS - such as 'each H1B worker creates 2.6 new jobs'. I was watching Bloomberg West and their Indian station reporter wa
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11y ago
Depends on what content the page has and how the layout is in HTML. I have 3 ways of saving: 1. as a web page - HTML only 2. as a complete web page - HTML and assets (images, etc) 3. a copy & paste into Word or a memo program a lot of
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True. 10X is productivity in the context of business value. Clyde will take six months before he can deliver something of value while Alice will have solved ten more business problems with within that same time period. The key differentiati
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A lot of companies aren't in the business of building software. An accounting firm will not think their custom CRM software is their core business.
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11y ago
Technical Consultants and Solution Architects make more than Coders or Programmers. The main value of Alice's approach & solution is time - the quick turnaround in providing the right solution.