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Given as fact that H1-Bs are dominated by the 3 or 4 large outsourcing body shops from India (Tata, TCS, Cognizant, et al) which simply flood the system with tons of names into a glorified lottery, I don't see how the charade that they are all the handpicked highest of the high, unique and rare technical specialist all, can be believed.

Sure there may very well be some Optical Physics Software specialist brought in by MagicLeap on an H1-B or some AI wunderkind by Google or Facebook. Far and away the H1-Bs stockpiled by the outsourcing body shops are bread and butter general skilled folk capable of filling basic roles, Linux admins, Oracle DBAs, Java Webdevs, HTML/CSS/JS, IBM MQ admins, backup operators, IT support staff and what have you. Most of it is coding camp stuff, or basic training on particular appliances that could be done in a few weeks. The diversity in IT camp should be going crazy that these sort of basic entry level opportunities are not being offered to folks that really really need it. C'mon Jesse Jackson get a clue here.

There are many, many, many Disney situations happening everywhere. e.g. Google "Southern California Edison outsource". In S. Fla an ex-fortune 500 corp outsourced many IT positions with same "train your replacement approach" and replaced with H1-Bs and they are not alone. It is rampant in the industry. You don't hear about many of these cases because of non-disparagement clauses in the layoff packages. Amazingly Disney's lawyers (should have outsourced the Corporate Lawyer Department to TCS there Big Mouse) neglected to add this standard clause to muzzle the displaced (fired) employees.

A huge proportion if H1-Bs are used to directly display existent IT workers. Period. Far more the rule than the exception.
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Plus a lot of stuff that's probably not very interesting.
Speaking as a backend dev who generally avoids writing client-side code, the biggest problem that I've had is figuring out the "right" way to build the fucking thing. The JS fatigue is real.
Downsides of Credentialism and Regulation
I think it's safe to say that if Petraeus had done what Hillary apparently did, he would be incarcerated.

If conversations in social settings with former colleagues in the IC / DoD are indicative of sentiment throughout these communities, there will be a tremendous amount of discontent if she is not prosecuted for her decision to conduct official communications as one of the most senior members of the USG over an unsecured personal email server starting in 2009.
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People have a hard time with MVC because frameworks that use the phrase MVC are always more complex than necessary.

There's a simple set of separations that you need to pay attention to for your code to be what I like to call "not stupid".

1. Separate your code from your data. You shouldn't be kicking out HTML with your code, like this guy does in figure 1. When you combine HTML or any display information with code that means your designer is your coder and your coder is your designer. Designers suck at code. Coders suck at design. Keep that shit separate.

2. Separate your logic code from your code that changes your data. You shouldn't be running updates/saves/inserts from 30 different locations in your code. Define your interface, expect that interface to work. When you need to shift from Oracle to Redis to RDS, you shouldn't have to refactor 80% of your application. You refactor your data update code and leave everything else that works alone.

There you have it. Model, View, Controller. You have a data model that can be displayed in any number of ways, and you control CRUD on that Model via the controller. It's not a religion. Just make sure there's a logical separation within your code so you can delegate as your team and application grows.

Architect things logically and call it whatever you want.
I figured she just drafted that email while sitting in her hotel room after a particularly trying day, or on the flight home.

It's easy for me to get into a flow when I've got an uninterrupted stretch of time. Maybe she's the same way.
Cleverly designed ad for several different writers?
Cleverly designed ad?
Einstein being the ultimate example
I used AIM big time on my T-Mobile sidekick. It's something Danger did very well.
Go American democracy! What a joke...
>The best code I write is when I have it all figured out ahead of time

I come up with ideas and debug when I step away from the computer. Ass in chair is not a good measure of productivity.
Lowly wage-earners actually think they can buy their own house. Reminds me of the last depression, where a quarter of the food in America was destroyed, and people kept buying food no matter how much it cost. It was terrible for economic indicators, really stopped the important lines from going up and to the right.
People like to save stuff. But it ought to be securely encrypted stuff. That's a little iffy on flash storage. But hey.
Might be related to your current venture, but I'd use an app whereby neighbours notified each other of any spare bin space they had that week. I could often use extra recycling or green waste space, but hate being the guy roaming the street at night trying to stuff garbage in random bins.
I prefer "recreationally fragile."
I think that's exactly what this does: https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditSimulator/
It goes both ways. I never expected that Mithril would inspire new projects, and I've come to really appreciate the great insights that come from these projects. At the end of day, we all want better software, and having more hands on deck (even if each person is doing their own thing) is a net positive in my opinion. JS fatigue critics can say all they want, but this is how innovation happens :)
Qihoo offers CDN and managed DNS services[1]. The choice is odd on StartSSL's part but may not be necessarily insidious.

What more, not using their services does not enhance or harm your security in many meaningful way as long as they remain a trusted CA who can sign any domain they want to. If nation-state espionage is really a concern for you, take a few minutes of your time and purge the list of trust anchors installed on your OS[2].

[1]:https://cdn.cloud.360.cn/

[2]:https://github.com/chengr28/RevokeChinaCerts
Take a look at this boilerplate project (https://github.com/erikras/react-redux-universal-hot-example)... I think Redux with the multireducer lib removes that coupling you speak of.
How does mental barriers have stopped you from giving 100% to the task at hand?
Except that most of the people communicating directly with Secretary Clinton would have been political appointees who would have joined the organization from the outside.

Don't get me wrong, it's still a hierarchical, traditional organization.
Did they develop it themselves, or did a tech company make it for them?
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You’ll never look at poverty and the Third World the same again. — Michael Moore, Filmmaker

Moving. I confess there were parts where I cried. — Russ Roberts, EconTalk

You made me so proud to be an African woman.  Thank you for the brutal but necessary and empowering truth. — Dany Masado, Health Professional | Cameroon
Interesting perspective. Personally, I would find effusive praise of that kind profoundly weird, and uncomfortable, because it doesn't fit into the framework of mostly male-male communication I'm used to(relatively traditional, tinged with some ex-military vibes). In large part, the sign of doing a good job is the absence of criticism. Since you could almost always improve on your performance, there tends to always be some level of criticism.

Maybe I'm weird, but external validation doesn't really push any of my buttons. If you think I really did a great job, give me a bonus, or an extra day or two of vacation. Otherwise, I've got work to do.
only mean to point out sycophancy and groupthink - no disrespect towards HRC intended
What do you mean? The use in this context is the definition of variance:

Var(X) = E[(X - E[X])^2]
Exactly! Like that scene in Doctor Strangelove when the President calls the Prime Minister of Russia to deliver the bad news that a errant US bomber with a nuke is heading towards Russia and the Russian Prime Minister complains that he only calls them when he has bad news.
ICQ get a mention in passing, but the story seems to begin with MSN Messenger.

Not surprised, as i think MS was quite aggressive in pushing it. After all, the early version came bundled with Windows XP, iirc. And you were greeted with a signup/login dialog on first boot.

This is not that different from how MS pushed IE back in the day, or grabbed the office network out from under Novell's nose back in the day.

And btw, i feel to some degree MSN Messenger ruined the net. Before then there was thriving local IRC channels for the smallest of places. But come MSNM people started exchanging contact info for it, and the net turned "clique-y".
I suspect that Alan is schizophrenic and his statements are just a reflection of his grandiose delusions. Anecdotally, his tall claims are similar to other schizophrenic people I have come across.
Yes, the same happens in Australia. Typically councils have "hard refuse" opportunities for disposal of larger items.

I'm in South Australia. In my home area, I can call for one pick-up per financial year, totalling 2 cubic metres. In my office area, there's a period once per quarter where you can put items out for collection.

There are people who drive around with a cage trailer grabbing recyclable items, some for personal use, some for resale.

Besides these "official" options, a few people use Freecycle (mailing list, bit annoying) and others use Gumtree (like Craigslist).
Yes, I will keep checking in periodically
With all due respect, you are not answering the question that the parent poster asked. If someone created a hostile fork of QuassalDroid, and made decisions that you disagreed with, I doubt you would be OK with them using the same name for the project. The right to fork is fundamental in open source, but there is no right to present someone else's work as your own, or to confuse the general public about which version of a software package they are downloading. People should be able to decide for themselves which software to download, not be fooled by someone passing off something different as the same thing. That's why trademarks exist. Enforcing trademarks is not bad or wrong.
There's really not much reason to use StartSSL now that Let's Encrypt, AWS Certificate Manager and others offer free certs with vastly better support, tooling and interfaces.
Why Pay Employees to Exercise When You Can Threaten Them?
I haven't thought about this in a long time, but Google also successfully wooed a lot of AIM users around the mid-2000s by integrating AIM sign-in into Google Talk.

You could talk to your old AIM friends right from your Gmail tab, and your new friends probably had your Gmail address anyway, so you'd gradually stop giving out your AIM info at all...
I am not really happy with "Women in Tech" movement in general, I think that it should be broader and more focused on diversity.

So, I would like to see events that are more focused on bringing people together.
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It was quite 'over-written', if that's even a term. The sentences were very dense with long compound sentences. Maybe I'm just stupid, but I feel like it's a failure on her part to drown the reader in text with a low readability score that isn't even jargon.
Which works when you're the President and can have a custom device made. But what about when you're Secretary of State? Or even, god forbid, some poor functionary down at the bottom end of State? Or the Department of Indian Affairs?

I absolutely agree that protecting classified information by whatever rules are in place is of primary importance.

However, we've all seen dysfunctional organizations. So I'm also sympathetic to someone trying to get work done and ignoring soft guidelines in favor of an institutionally accepted interpretation that's conducive to accomplishing the job. And unsympathetic to telling someone at the time "we really should do that, but everyone does this" and than raking them over the coals from a future armchair that we were shocked (!) that they didn't following all guidelines.

Show me a successful, highly-productive individual's records and I'll show you somewhere they forgot to cross a t.
Danny, you mentioned loop and SLP vectorization. One thing that bothered me while watching the development of the SLP and Loop vectorizers over the last two years was that developers who cared about SPEC added functionality that increased compile time. I remember one change that added a second phase that scans the entire IR in the SLP vectorizer to get a 1.4% win in one of the SPEC programs. I hoped the FTL project would be able to enable the vectorizers, but to my disappointment the vectorizers are too slow to justify the boost on javascript workloads.
Strongly disagree. Petraeus was far worse; he intentionally and knowingly gave classified information to someone not authorized to see it. He pled guilty.

It's unclear (IMHO unlikely) that Hillary did anything illegal. She has not been charged with a crime. She has not, so far as we know, been investigated for any crime. And there's no evidence any classified information was leaked, intentionally or not.
Another speculation: Some software identified Windows 95/98 using some equivalent of osName.startsWith("Windows 9"). Naming the OS "Windows 9" would mess with that.
I can't shake the feeling that this was all part of the plan.

We all learn of the true value and humanity of The Hillary by reading her true, uncensored, selfless self. Now we know who She Really Is(TM).

Plans within plans within plans ...
APIs should be designed such that the total effort to build both sides of the equation is minimised. APIs are, after all, designed for consumption - you can return data in any number of formats - eg a proprietary binary format, or whatever, but if your consumers find it hard to use, then the API sucks. End of story.
As opposed to right now when many people are only able to get low income part time jobs
The different email addresses seem to contain interesting classification. HRC16, HDR22 and HRC17 are some that jumped out. HRC1 & HRC2 must of been some particularly lofty circles.
Yep. I guess they're counting on that being so rare that it's worth paying the price in occasionally having to rewrite (and uglify) large chunks of code, in exchange for having a simpler language.
Using JavaScript to write client/server unit tests and Selenium integration tests
Any influence granted through parental connections rather than one forged on your own are undue.
Maybe you just needed to leave the Nest?
I think it was in part technical.

Those networks were built when you were either online or offline.

but with the phones you were kinda both.

Note that the likes of Whatsapp only really happened after Apple introduced their push notification service. Thus allowing apps to behave comparably with SMS.

Before that you basically had to keep the data connection going 24/7 for the likes of AIM to make sense on mobile.
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If you are on basic income the last thing you need is a loan
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Broadwell had a TS clearance and was a reserve military intelligence officer, so....no.
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Maemo / MeeGo had what you talk about: a store built on top of apt. If I remember correctly, they managed it by adding (on package install through the store gui) package-specific repositories that required authentication. So you could keep using apt-get in the normal way from free repos, receive updates etc.
Holy flying fuck. I bought several domains using leandomain search. It is the best. I bought them during hackathons, and earned a prize for both.

You were shooting bad guys, I was typing code for hackathons. Guess we both won?
One-click deployment of open source Parse on ContainerShip
the history of emoji coming from japanese culture is pertinent..

i am unable to speak for middle eastern or cyrillic languages due to a shameful unfamiliarity, but as for western and a majority eastern languages, the core of the japanese language is substantially, yet casually, more capable

japanese is comprised of three alphabets:

kanji : an enormous, complex, and ancient chinese character set
katakana and hiragana: syllabic runes that bridge japanese phonemes to its own complex characters or even other languages

the japanese even created a phoneme set using latin characters called romaji

the japanese have a japanese numeral system but also use arabic numerals

what's more is these elements of the language can all appear on the same poster one walks by while walking down the street

and yet still more, those elements can all be meant to be read in different directions

japanese texts are written horizontally and vertically

japansese books can be printed and read either page flipped right to left, or similarly to the west, left to right

one may argue a dislike for or refuse the use of emojis but it could be said that one of the most literate cultures in the world looked at their tools of communication and felt them wanting
Can you at least tell your opponent that they have played double plus ungood?
I tried searching for middle-east-related keywords, and got tons of hits. Then I tried searching for Central American and South American topics, and got very little.

It's a shame that the Mexican drug cartels, the murders in Central America, and the economic rise of Brazil/Argentina are not given more priority by our government. These are both the greatest threats to and the largest opportunities for the US.
Should have gone full @Nero, and started tearing them new ones. They can't win against a well spoken gay person who chooses to not give a damn.
Ask HN: Why are programmers so unfriendly?
I've noticed several times that the programmers are unfriendly, grumpy and with a lot of attitude. If you ask them something related to programming in a community, all they will do is fight with other programmers on frameworks, programming languages, skills etc etc I'm not including the whole programming community as if every programmer on earth is like that, Of course I have seen some good programmers as well. But why most of the programmers are so unfriendly towards new coders?
They gave a few hundred people $42 a month, and deducted $1.40 for every day they didn't reach 7,000 steps. That's hardly threatening.
Thank you, so much, for taking the time to post this reply...

I read the Wikipedia article you linked... very nice work...and congratulations on choosing to so freely share the knowledge you earned...I look forward to learning more...

Well done, my friend..!
The content seems very banal and will only serve to humanize her in the coming primaries. Super Tuesday is March 1st.

The timing is uncanny.
The data does show that women led companies do better- but the fact that there are so few women who have to fight to make it to the top could mean that the women who get there are better- not that women in general do better.
It doesn't work that well. You can think about a problem for like 20 minutes, but then you're going to hit a wall. For most endeavors, you actually need to be sitting there with the relevant tools of thinking / recording to get anywhere.

Source: I used to work in a factory.
Wow. Referring to Nassim Taleb just by his last name? Has he really attained that level of status? He doesn't deserve it IMO, especially around here, with his fearmongering about GMOs and his debate style on twitter.
I think you just described Florida (for retirees).

On the margin, basic income should make it easier to move, rather than getting stuck in one place because you're out of funds. I'd guess that applies to children too (when they grow up).
It is good to see a company find a use for 3D printing and revive an old toy brand in the process.

Making 3D Printing so it is safe for children to use. Doing it in the style of Creepy Crawlers, and going beyond that to use software to design your own toys and things. Then pricing it at $300 and maybe selling toy designs they can buy and use. I think it will make Mattel a lot of money.
Insufficient contrast; didn't read.
No, apparently a gcc developer agreed that there was a regression and it wasn't working as intended. They've just fixed a reduced test case [1], although according to the original reporter, there remains an additional problem to be fixed.

[1] https://gcc.gnu.org/viewcvs/gcc?view=revision&revision=23341...
In fairness to her, her preamble explicitly stated that it was written hastily and without revision, and she did explicitly ask that, if it was to be shared, her name not be attached to it.
But not in AOL servers, or yahoo. Private servers can be set up pretty freaking well for security. Not sure how hers were setup though.
Only if you signed a contract saying that all the code you write is their property. Even then, in theory it's a potential problem, in practice how would they ever know?

The code I write for my employer, I could re-engineer any of the pieces within a week or so if I needed to. If they told me to stop using it, I could satisfy the demands and not even lose steam.

But it's never going to happen because my employer doesn't think of code as valuable in and of itself except as a vehicle to solve the business problems.
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Not a single word about lacking interoperability and encryption? What a crappy article.
Frankly both MS and Nokia was doing things with WCE/Mobile/Phone and Symbian that people are raving about doing today with iOS and Android.

For example, i recall a video from a Symbian convention where Nokia was showing off a phone. It was hooked up to a TV, and had a keyboard and mouse paired. You could navigate the phone UI as if it was a computer, but also operate it as a phone at the same time.

This was at a time when Android could barely do video out, and that would black out the built in screen for the duration.

Similarly, MS were looking into selling WCE PDAs as cheap computers for the rural poor at one point. This by proving a way to hook up inputs and an analog video out (NTSC/PAL) so they could use an available TV as screen.

Frankly to this day i am flabbergasted that iPhone got the attention it got. At launch there was no app store etc. The nearest thing you had to apps were special web sites that could leave a button in the phone's launcher. And they didn't even get a special instance of the browser, firing up one would clobber whatever you were browsing at the time.

Instead the Jobs sales pitch was visual voice mail, anyone remember that one?

I must really applaud whoever it was that managed to talk Jobs into not going sue happy on the jailbreakers, and instead co-opt their burgeoning apps ecosystem as Apple's own.
I don't disagree, but here are some links

https://www.trillian.im/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabber
Except there are lots of other "power user" things that are built in. Where do you draw the line?

It's more likely that they just consider package management out of scope for their part of development-- something that benefits too few people to be worth the cost. Seems to have paid off, too-- package management has been well-handled on OSX for a long time, both through semi-sanctioned projects like MacPorts (which is community-developed but is hosted by Apple) and through community projects like Fink and Homebrew.
There will still be immigrants without H1b - but H1b specifically targets tech employees with the fallacy that there are not enough tech workers
hmmm. no hits for "Lewinski."
When I can use Let's Encrypt to get a certificate in production without running anything on my production web server, I'll consider it. Right now, StartSSL validates my domain via email and I only have to touch it once a year, not once every 3 months like Let's Encrypt.
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