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The tone of tech companies does not resonate with the electorate. The Bay Area basically says to America: We have foreigners here who founded some companies and got rich, so we don't want your visa restrictions.

How do tech executives motivate the average American to support this stance? Taxes? IT companies and their owners enjoy a very friendly tax treatment. Jobs? The largest IT companies employ only 20-60k people each (for comparison, Walmart employs 2mn). Product? Software is a tradeable good, so Americans can buy it from anywhere. Pumping GDP numbers? The industry is flat for the last 10+ years.

Tech companies must put something on the table to get better immigration laws.
The minimum salary could be industry based. For example, 150% of the average wage for that field. If the point of these visas is to bring in talent that America doesn't have, that shouldn't be a problem. These people should be paid above average salaries if they are truly a scarce resource.
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Thanks, Justin
Sounds like an old railroad town that became a suburb. When was your city founded?
I'm not sure whether you'd count me: I went from 0 to 10 people in about 5 years (hardly massive growth), there was no secret, just a process of being conservative, slowly growing each year, attempting to full utilize all resources we have, and trying to bring in contracts which will support us both now and in the future.
I mean, around me the made a law that you can't be within 3 feet of a cyclist. After that passed there was a group of cyclists going around with yardsticks trying to smack cars while riding.

Pretending that there aren't extremely toxic cyclists doesn't help the problem.
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In Israel, form 102 is exactly this exemption. You pay stock-market tax (25%) and not income tax (up to 25%) and you only pay the tax after you convert the options to stocks. (So, when you vest or as late as you'd like if you don't leave the company).
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> study hard while working part time

F-1 visa students are not allowed to work at all, except in a part-time position at their current school.
Why would that be absurd? A highly specialized skill in an area that we can infer is generally less desirable to live should command a higher than average wage. Much higher if the situation is so desperate that a foreign worker has to be sought.

Also: the majority (by far) of H1-B visas are for technology work. It may not technically be "tech only" but in practice it may as well be.
What is the importance of a CS education?

I honestly don't feel like my exposure to CS has changed my life in any way outside of my career. If I imagine some future where I am retired, it is not obvious to me where I will use anything I have learned or how it will shape me into being a better person.

It certainly has been useful to me in finding gainful employment, but if that is the only thing it brings to the table, one could argue that Google is only doing this in their self-serving interests. It is clear to see what benefits they would gain in having a larger labour pool available.
As someone who considered this, there are a few other factors where cities are preferable.

Work. If you're not running your own online business and need a skilled/tech job, you don't have much choice.

Schools. Cities often have better school options for your kids.

Politics. Rural areas across the world generally lean conservative, and sometimes downright way too conservative.
I was so freaked out at the news, I normally have local backups of my projects but I just happened to be in the middle of a migration where my code was just on Gitlab, and then they went down... Luckily it all turned out OK.

\0 is very useful but I really wish for an updated POSIX sh standard with first-class \0 support.

On your code, why do you replace \0's with newlines? egrep has the -z flag which makes it accept \0-separated input. A potential downside to it is that it automatically also enables the -Z flag (output with \0 separator).

I solved the "caller might use messy newline-separated data"-problem by having an off-by-default flag that makes all input and output \0-separated; this is handled with a function called 'arguments_or_stdin' (which does conversion to the internal \0-separated streams) and 'output_list' (which outputs a list either \0- or \n-separated depending on the flag).
Sending out coupons, kidding. For a niche API platform like ours (https://voucherify.io) getting SEO right seems to be the best "growth hack". Other than that, top-notch customer service does wonders.
Gotcha. If they're breaking the site-wide rules, then I guess the ban is warranted. My main concern is the trend of selectively enforcing rules just on those you disagree with, and being lenient with those you agree. That could be seen as a form of “soft” censorship
it didn't work for me on phone, the popup close button was off-screen, and site was not properly zoomable. On PC i could read the article.
Any top tips to get going in the right direction?
1) Remade website to be more professional looking, faster, more focused towards SEO, mobile friendly. I could write many pages on this :) but following online guides will get you in the ballpark

2) Started writing interesting content. Truly good content is a PITA and you need to be a decent writer to make something compelling, but our first good article got us more traffic than the entire site with over 100 content pages.

3) New tools. everything linked together to see where our sales were coming from. Phone system, website, live chat, in person. All of our leads funneled into one system. We could see what was getting people and what wasn't

4) Online advertising. Locally first, expand AD reach as campaign becomes more nationally competitive. Make sure all the tools you setup continue to track where all these leads are coming from

5) Better "convincing" of clients that we're legit. Company T-Shirts and swag. Hotel-type exaggerated pictures of our team and office. Meet the team page. Professional website like I mentioned earlier. FB, google maps, yellowpages, wherever we could get a free listing. Automated scheduling systems for client meetings, phone tree for calls, tons of previous work repurposed as marketing material for clients to see. Listing our bigger clients on our website. 800 phone #. All the hallmarks of a big successful business even though we weren't exactly gave clients a much bigger confidence in our abilities and enabled us to charge more.

6) Marketing toward high value targets-- we needed to get the ear of C level and VP's. Concentrating on the fact that we were a US company without outsourcing. Marketing to wealthy areas "doctorville" we called it. Targeted marketing to business corridors. We went deep, going as far as checking the AS of your IP address and whether any services were running on it. A surprising amount of the time would could link an IP back to a company, so we could quietly market to your company just from you visiting our site.

7) competitive research. Found our biggest local competitors. Quietly outbid them on all their ad keywords. Even more quietly made sure we had all the backlinks they did on search. Got a list of their clients one way or another, marketed directly to their clients already knowing their weaknesses from our clients who previously worked with those competitors. One competitor hosted their own servers, so I figured out who owned the IP and tracked ownership of the company through their email server. Another put their email address at the bottom of all public sites they wrote, a simple targeted google search returned all/most of their clients' sites. Another had a "client login" page setup on all of their sites that had a redirect to their main page. Searching for backlinks using SEO tools revealed most of these client sites.

Lots more. It took a lot of creative thinking and some failures :)
If I get a job, stay in it for 3 months, and still can't succeed in it, then I would consider that a fair chance no matter what the person really thought of me. Not being given the job at all (and, if they hire like most companies I know, not being given a reason why) would make me feel more like I haven't been given a chance.
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What is a good thing is keeping on top of updates for WordPress Core, plugins and themes.

You could decide to not upgrade when a new major version comes out, like 4.8.0, but wait till there is a 4.8.1. Often there is a rush to pack new features in a new release, and the first update often has quite a few security fixes.

Also, be picky about which plugins and themes you use. And if you notice that one becomes unmaintained (no updates anymore), make a plan to switch to something else. /edit: Commercial themes are often overloaded with lots of functionality that you don't need. If you care about security, avoid them.

There are also plugins like WordFence, which might be a good idea (I don't really know). Most things that are in there should really be handled serverside, like mod_security rules and firewall rules. This topic is about WAF rules, which are serverside done afaik.

If you just use shared hosting and have no control over the server, using WordFence might be a good idea.
Meta-virtue signalling: signalling that you are smarter and better informed by everyone else by dismissing anything anybody else does, however well intentioned, as mere virtue signalling.
char is 1 byte exactly.
Please do not equate the current legal system with a justice system. The system has to be based on law, and not justice, because everyone may have a different opinion on what is just and fair.

The courts system may seek out justice whenever it is possible to do so, but in my anecdotal experience, and in my exposure from [likely biased] sources, it declines to make the attempt, and seeks out simple expedience instead.

In cases where a jury may be employed to decide the outcome, the public opinion on how justice should work is relevant. If you are ever offered a potentially abusive contract, by all means consult a lawyer if you intend to proceed with it. But if you're ever on a jury hearing a contract dispute case, for the love of justice, please refuse to enforce a fundamentally unfair contract, where the party that drafted it refused to negotiate--or even explain--any of its terms.
Keep it updated, and don't use 3rd party plugins.
MonoDevelop seems quite nice. I have only used it for F# but just the fact that its F# interactive has intellisense and syntax highlighting gives me good vibes.
Or they will engineer even less secure password-hiding fields.
At least it breaks password managers.
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>I will admit that after that I simply disabled SELinux and never looked back. The benefits didn't seem worth the hassle to me.

YUP, this right here. SELinux needs to be way more user friendly if you want to see wider adoption.
i chose postgres over mysql at my current job because there was an easy to use backup scripts (wal-e) available at the time and i didn't see anything comparable for mysql. so we have a hot slave and also streaming backups constantly to s3 and a full base backup every week and this with very minimal work. [https://github.com/wal-e/wal-e]

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I am as tired of hearing "curated" as I am of "artisanal".

Both are effectively becoming meaningless and set my pretentiousness detector on high alert.
Unfortunately that's just an article on the changes in the new version.
It would make a little more sense if you think of this going back a few years.
I've lived all my life without ever visiting China.
They have a very obvious contrarian tone. It has nothing to do with being liberal or conservative. Having read Zero Hedge for years now the "doom and gloom" assessment is not incorrect nor is it a partisan observation.
This I don't understand. Why run WP where the server has ownership and write access to the code? With the frequency that WP sites get attacked, leaving a system in place where an attacker that gets access and can write files that will be executed is just asking for problems.

If you want an auto-update, why not do this with an automatic CI/CD type pipeline that's triggered on new WP versions?
Well you're missing crucial information.

First of all, under paga you simply file to the lwda the grievances of the employer and they decide if they want to do the work of investigation or just hire you, at 25% when any lawyer will charge you 33-40%, to investigate for them.

Of course the defense would call it the 'sue your boss' law because it is only used when your boss breaks the law and you are forced to sue them in order to utilise the legal system to ensure compliance of the legal code.

This is a labor dispute, the entire relationship between the parties is based on money, if an employer has been stealing income of course money is going to be attached to the concept of justice.

> better solutions

Better solutions to what? Employers breaking the laws? What can you suggest? Asking that question is what created the labor code.

> the damage they do is not visible till later where it is already huge.

Can you elaborate on what you meant by this?
1 - malnourished: "The children's age and state of nourishment were also factors."

2 - religious practices: I don't say that this was said in the article. I'm conjecturing that "religious practices" could arise, in the past, when people could relate, for example, that children eating those fruits could fall ill, and then could create some religious practice about it.
The fact that it's a port makes me approach it from the other side.

Since the original code was designed to run on NES, I wonder if these were hacks to work around issues with NES code running on GBA rather than a deliberate consideration to stop people from porting your port.
ZeroHedge used to be interesting but has long since gone over the cliff. Their front page isn't even mostly financial news, it's full of Trump boosterism and things like the Milo protest (which of course they take the side of Milo).
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Have you been through rural Alabama? I suspect the point is less that it's undesirable to live there, than that a high salary for an interpreter simply isn't going to fit in the budget.

Why should Facebook's ad tech needs trump the needs of a poor refugee community? Budget size should not be the only virtue signal.
You right, of course. Thanks for noting it! Too late to edit.
I think one of the Dem senators had proposed a plan that had the floor relative to the location and the job, so in this case you'd have to offer 150-200% of what an Ethiopian translator in Alabama would recieve, before you'd be allowed to hire someone via a Visa. That general principal seems reasonable to me, and less Silicon Valley centric than just a flat floor at whatever they think is reasonable for a software dev.

Though obviously a single number is less work.
I can vouch for Kelly, she's busy but she will set aside time and energy for you and isn't just sitting there resume farming
>driving 25,000 km a year

What matters is someone's ability to reach places they want to go, not how far they are able to drive.

> eating takeout 2x a day

This is easily possible for a middle class person in Europe (although I think most would consider it inadvisable).
No. Supply has a geographic component. They may be very rare in the US, but very common overseas. For example, there may not be many people currently in the United States who are fluent in Northern Kurdish, but there are millions of capable applicants available in Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran. Supply will have an impact on the salary, of course. But in the absence of regulation, it will only be what the native Kurdish speaker would typically earn in their home country plus a some amount for the travel requirement.

Edit: This is how H1Bs should operate according to their stated purpose. edge17's link to http://www.myvisajobs.com/Reports/2017-H1B-Visa-Category.asp... shows that it's not being used in this way at all.
Department of Homeland Security is equivalent to Carabinieri.
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A historic example: when the Romans' olive groves were burned down by invaders, the Roman Empire was good as gone. Olives were a major source of revenue for the empire and they only produce fruit after several years. That didn't destroy the empire immediately but they never recovered.

We won't lose the next Uber or Snapchat. We will lose the next Apple or Microsoft.
If you'd post the actual errors, I'm sure we could help you with that.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/nuclear-world-free/id1141419...
Discrimination isn't just an idea, it's a material reality. Women are systematically disadvantaged on every level of tech, from the assumption that 'nerds' are boys, which seems to go back to IT marketing from the 1980s[1], to their being prevented from holding senior offices in the biggest tech corporations. They are discriminated against by a male-dominated industry and culture. Only when the systemic, material conditions of patriarchy are no longer in force will it make sense to no longer 'discriminate'.

Also, care to name one thinker from history who doesn't advocate discrimination of some sort? Seriously. Who is your model?

[1] http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when-...
I would recommend using a wholly hosted solution, such as wpengine or wordpress.com. WP has a history of serious vulnerabilities and running a few instances yourself is not worth the operational costs.
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Changing the meaning of a decades old command is the problem - du / can take hours to run on some systems, and randomly bouncing shit in prod is the type of cowboy shit that happens in a panic (see gitlab live doc).

Docs and checklists are fine, but at 2am when the jr is on call, you're asking for problems by making rm == mv
If this sort of thing tickles your fancy, you might also want to read about Duff's Device.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duff's_device