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Here in Japan where I live there are a couple of very decent Patisseries with Japanese staff trained in France (at least the Chef) and they are quite good. The only problem is that they lack butter in Japan and therefore they reduce the butter amount for stuff like Pain au chocolat or Croissant and it does not taste the same as the real french thing anymore. Japan should really import butter, but JA (Japan Agriculture) is probably organizing the boycott of all imports so that they can sell a ridiculous piece of butter for like 5 dollars while the same would cost 10 times less in France.
The best routes and best pay are on the long haul, wide body flights. These planes are in the 100s of millions of dollar range. I think it's completely logical an airline would trust their most expensive high revenue flights to the pilots that have seen some shit and negotiated it successfully.

The real reason of the pilot shortage is because the FAA now requires commercial pilots to have 1500 hours of flight time before they can work for an airline. Flight schools will give you 300-400 hours and the rest you have to make up some how. Just like every job these days, everyone wants experienced, entry level candidates.
I'm honestly surprised there are people on Hacker News who hadn't yet gotten the message about trans fats. Trans fats are really, really bad. Far worse than the saturated fats they're attempting to replace.
It would be really great if you can add an option to use a custom sync provider e.g. Dropbox, drive. onedrive etc. alongside the default chrome sync. The default chrome sync tend to create huge amounts of duplicate bookmarks when used across multiple devices and sorting through them is not fun...
Ron Hira is a charming fellow associated with the EPI.
Check out what VivekW says about him
http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/28/840005/

(wile VivekW is not exactly an "Unbiased" commentator).

So as not to keep this ad-homoniem the data comparison is silly

Avg & Median wages On one side vs Specific SoCal wages on the other?

That said some of the criticisms are valid: TCS, Infosys, Wipro & Cognizant are terrible at taking care of their US employees. They very rarely get a chance at a greencard among other exploitative practices.

Unfortunately Ron is sabotaging his own argument by using flaky data & being a tool.
I'm not sure what your downvotes are for. While it doesn't lessen the value of the Nimoy article, I also found the juxtaposition a bit ironic.
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conflating ugliness with being counterculture lol
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If non-technical pretty-people pass your technical interview, you've failed.
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> Whenever I can, I try to convince companies here to hire Americans or Europeans remotely or relocate them.

Where do I sign up?
It's funny, this article seems to be rather full of irony. At the beginning of the article, I started miss when a lot of the tech scene was a little more grass roots, but maybe that's just rose colored glasses. Obviously, things have gotten more sophisticated since the days of simple computers like the TRS-80 and while it's not possible to totally grep everything in a modern OS, I do miss some of the hacker ethos that may have waned when the web went big. That being said, I find it a rather perverse juxtaposition to take about governments and Wall Street abusing the tech industry and then hold up he examples of Uber and bitcoin as movements counter to this. While there may have been some inefficiency in the Taxi medallion system, Uber seems to thrive on skirting labor laws and relying on the perhaps misplaced hype surround the "gig economy." Bitcoin is also not a terribly appropriate choice; while the idea of the blockchain is novel, the technology is kind of wasteful (all of energy required to move the blockchain along, probably coming from non-renewables), it's built on arguably shaky financial grounds (nothing like a sovereign to back it, it's often theorized to be a Ponzi scheme), and Wall Street is getting into it big time. Both of these seem to be part of the "pop tech" the author is rallying against.

I would rather see kids encouraged to hack all things (not just web sites and walled garden mobile app) to keep the old school tech culture alive, and I certainly feel the need to make sure things like GNU continue, as it, amongst other things, have provided the means to rally against big corporations controlling access to the interesting bits of technology (like being priced out) back in the day. I personally feel as though copyleft is important from this perspective, though this is probably a somewhat controversial opinion. One thing the author doesn't mention as something we should focus on, is if we want to keep the tech industry from locking us out of technology as we know it, I think we should also work to make sure tech giants and other corporations don't strong arm standards organizations and force development into walled non-free gardens, especially like with Google and Apple's threatening moves with regards to the internet (i.e. iOS locking out competing browsers, Google trying to completely lock out others from gTLDs like .dev).

EDIT: Just to be clear, I also find the equating of "pretty people" and the use of "nerd" around a lot of the culture surrounding technology both click-baity and ad hominem.
Oh so that's why things like butter and cheese cost ridiculous amounts of money there! (used to live and work in Japan)
This is America. Pensions have been dead for at least twenty years.
Yeah, that's what I mean by resource allocation. I've downloaded the latest builds, but in my gut it doesn't feel like it's enough.
Well, there are a lot of interesting things in the paper. To me, the biggest one is that they could only find this effect in female pumas. Apparently male pumas roam a range approximately 3 times as large as female pumas, and therefore must be much more mobile to maintain their territory - average lingering time at a kill site was estimated to 7 hours shorter (2.86 vs 2.56 days) for males than females in areas with minimal human presence. The suggestion from the authors is that the since males are already under pressure to be mobile, that they were already spending close to the minimal amount of time required at a kill site to extract sufficient energy.

Other things of interest is that we can actually see variance in behavoir increasing as human density increases. The error bars (standard deviation) on time spent at kill sites (or really doing anything) open right up the moment housing appears.
I'm in Fiji. There are American pilots flying for great wages here. Fijian pilots get the shaft though, and only barely get by on their wages.

The Fijians then take jobs in places the americans find harder to stomach (Papua New Guinea, the middle east, etc) and make more than the American expat pilots in Fiji do.
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I don't actually hold this opinion, because I don't know the truth of it, but I remember reading a comment about women in tech that entertained the idea of why there isn't many women in tech. The opinion was that women are more socially aware than men. CS/tech with its mainstream stereotypes of nerds wasn't something that most women wanted to be associated with. If I entertained the thought put forth by this TC article, I can perhaps predict an influx of women in CS/tech due to it becoming more "socially acceptable", because of the changing stereotypes.

An oversimplification, but entertaining nonetheless.
I strongly disagree with the sibling comment. Your website _does_ matter. At least in so far as it represents how you are positioning yourself to your clients.

Your website is all about what kind of software you can build. Your clients don't care about that. They want to know what kind of business value you can deliver. What kind of results can you achieve?

As a business owner, I don't want to see example websites, I want to see a case study about how you increased revenue by 20% with a new user onboarding process. I want to see how you saved 100 hrs per month in staff time (i.e. expenses) with the new set of automation features you developed.

If you don't have this data from past projects, then start collecting it. Start framing all of your conversations this way from now on. If a client is working toward a business objective, help them achieve it and make sure you put mechanisms in place to measure success and assign a real dollar value to what you helped them achieve.
It really is funny. And it's the same dogs in the new article, but noticeably older.
One of the best things I learned during my time consulting was an acute sense for the value of my time.

Spending a half hour goofing off or taking a longer lunch translated directly into a lower paycheck. Realizing that altered the way I work and how I focus on what needs to get done. It made me more productive.
Come on. The complaints are about the inegalitarian way market competition is used to drive down wages in specific sectors where workers are politically marginalized (tech rather than law, finance, medicine). People who suffer from this discrimination are not wrong to object to the selective commodification of their labour.

Additionally, the market-based alternative to H1-B is higher wages for domestic staff and expanded (and higher paying) contracting work abroad.
Yeah, it's (mafia-style) organized rarity :)
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I'm not sure what techcrunch truly brings us, but I'm not worried about the "pretty people" crowding out the computer science, engineer, math and science majors. There are too many qualities that can't be faked and no amount of hair gel will compensate. It will always be easy to find someone who has paid the price over someone who just bought the clothes.
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The headline didn't match the rant.

My first thought, reading that, was of Shai Agassi, the founder of Better Place, the battery-swap electric car company. Years ago I went to a meeting in SF where he spoke, and saw that that he was very good looking, spoke very well, and had a business plan that was total bullshit. Several heads of state and many investors were convinced by him. In the end, he burned through about $800 million and only put about a few hundred cars, built by Renault, on the road, before the bankruptcy.

That's what I was thinking when I read the title.
> try solving the challenge using Rust, Ruby, Scala, Elixir, JS, Pascal, asm

Java is strangely absent from that list :)
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Fair enough. I wonder when they added this, it definitely didn't used to be able to do that.
I've been developing software professionally for 25 years and it's always been a business. The suits have been exploiting the nerds for a long time. Welcome to capitalism!
When dealing with a lot of sensitive government data a lot of things can happen. It makes so much sense to ban widely used email services where appropriate. Indian media houses just try to make an issue out of nothing just to grab attention instead of concentrating on things that matter. These days media houses like times of India are becoming bad examples of responsible journalism. It's a shame.
I wrote a PHP repl back in the 5.2 days as I wanted one that could auto-complete, use readline, and survive fatal errors. My solution (really an experiment) was to write all the commands in a temp file and run that file out-of-band. This worked, but caused problems with having to pass global state around, and it didn't allow you to preserve local vars pointing to resources and such.

I dug into his code to see how he accomplished this:

* EvalWorker is responsible for evaluating PHP expressions in forked processes *

Which is a pretty cool setup. The whole thing is nicely architected and I'm looking forward to being able to use it!
My solution to the plug-in problem (not Thunderbird specific) is to not install Flash/Java RE/Silverlight on my machine at all. Not that that helps you here, but I do wonder why more people don't just remove such software.
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Unfortunately most companies/managers don't want to try it. I'm structuring my own company never to have a physical presence beyond the Hong Kong legal offices, but we are a big exception.

Judging by your other comments you're a fan of Thailand so maybe try Lazada, they are hiring a ridiculous number of engineers at the moment, salaries are very high for Bangkok, but the codebase (and politics, just from the size) might be a little painful, and a lot of the development is actually happening in Vietnam, which might be another barrier.

If you want loads of money for boring work, the best way is still to come to Singapore/HK, get any job to get a visa, and gradually contact every recruiter you can. Experienced "leadership capable" developers being rare they'll have plenty of spots, but none of them are going up on websites. The speed at which the market move is staggering, in one occasion I had an offer 2 hours after meeting the company person, and visas take about a week in Singapore.
There isn't one stereotype from that era for good reason. There are a bunch of disparate ones. There were and are cyber-hippies in large very progressive groups. They are the ones being talked to here.

Some of them are the reason that these tech culture problems are recognized as important problems.

So yes, the stereotype acts as a stereotype: taking on only the set of features needed to support an argument.

So don't use or think in terms of "nerds", as that's too coarse to be useful or to tell you anything. Tech is an industry with various subcultures. The OP didn't use the stereotype anyway.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBPh8oVuNdg&feature=youtu.be POC have been published....
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Reminds me of something I heard Buffet say once in an interview with (I think it was) Maria Bartiromo: On Wall St we get the innovators then the imitators and then the swarming incompetents.

I think it's really this applied to the Valley - and I think what you're seeing is people who don't have tech chops, but they've seen what tech success brings and they want that, so they have to sell something else and in this case it's charm, good looks or good taste in shoes.
I'm very impressed and happy for the continued support for non-Linux systems. It's very heartening that when necessary, they are coding backends for other systems, instead of buying in to the Linux-only systemd lock-in.

I was also very surprised to see how decent the UI looks even under GTK+ 3. I was afraid they would get sucked into the horrible catastrophe that has befallen Gnome with things like client-side decorations.

Gedit, for instance, went from this: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/df/Gedit226... ... to this: http://cdn.xfce.org/about/tour/4.12/xfwm4-csd.png ... the horror.

Has anyone given this a try yet? I would like to know if the common dialogs (eg file open, file save) use proper window decorations, or if they too now look like the Gnome 3 CSD garbage.

Also, it's still possible to use Clearlooks-Phenix, right? They're just saying they discontinued the Xfce-* themes, right? Adwaita is such a dull theme.
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It isn't a zero sum game. People looking to make a quick buck don't stop misfits from playing with computers.

As if one must be a social misfit or physically misshapen to be involved with computers in the first place, which is itself a ridiculous premise.
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Apropos this article, today I received a box of "vintage" hardware and software manuals. It's a hobby, ok? But amongst them was an original photocopy of this article from psychology today, circa 1980:

http://www.textfiles.com/news/hackpape.hac

In which the LOTS user "gandalf" bemoans the isolation and singlemindedness of the typical Stanford hacker, and the rebuttals from those he describes. It was an interesting bit of the social story that underlies the "weird" folk tradition.
Java is totally fine, just not a language I expect the fancy HN crowd to pick for a programming challenge (Note that I also didn't mention Python, C# and plenty other good languages).
>what's the intellectual argument against bringing back Jim Crow?

Mostly that blacks have equal rights and are people too, so they should be paid the same. You know, like those Indians employers bring in so that can pay them less than American developers...

If they are all for equality and against "arbitrary lines", they can start by paying those immigrant workers the same...

>* Look at those greedy employers lowering wages by hiring black people!*

Only if one believed that black are somehow inferior would that be a logical conclusion.

In any other case, and assuming you're not racist, the problem is "paying less", not "paying black people", just in the case of Indian developers the problem is paying them less than Americans for work they do in the US.

And yeah, back in the day those Jim Crow employers also thought themselves very generous for giving those blacks a job. After all, like those "poor Indian developers", they would starve without it, so they would better appreciate it, even if it's smaller than what they'd pay whites...
Discriminatory behavior (sexist, racist, etc.) often persists, in my experience, because the perpetrators don't realize what they are doing. It's not that they think, 'I want to exclude women from tech jobs'; they blindly follow old patterns of hiring and other behavior. Humans naturally are very egocentric and have to work to see things from others' perspectives. When they do, they change; most people don't want to be sexist.

So of course many think it's meritocratic; they don't see the obstacles because they never experienced them. And of course some think they are victims of persecution; they don't see what they are perpetrating.

Here's an intellectual way to approach the problem: Stepping back from our society, if a system is truly meritocratic then why would 38% of a population[1] produce 90%[2] of the winners? And is it coincidence that the 38% group has controlled power, wealth, and privelege for hundreds of years, and still does in most other situations (governnment, non-tech business, etc.)?

[1] U.S. population is 77% white, so I estimate 38% white male. http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/00000.html

[2] Wild guess at the % of SV tech workers that are white male.

EDIT: Minor rewording for emphasis
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The power dynamic being discussed isn't about people being crowded out. It's about their autonomy and profit sharing being reduced. The same people will still do the work, that's half the point.

You are taking "pretty people" too literally.
>Can someone explain to me why H1Bs are problematic?

Did you read the article? Here are the subtitles from the article and the first line of the referenced article:
- Lower wages
- H-1B is not a bridge to permanent immigration
- H-1B is not about skills or skills gap

"Information technology workers at Southern California Edison (SCE) are being laid off and replaced by workers from India."
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On the flip side, wearing hair gel doesn't mean a person can't program a computer.
There are a lot of problems with this article, but I want to focus on this paragraph:

> What’s more, there has never been a better time to try to found a genuinely subversive company than right now. Consider Y Combinator’s new openness to not-for-profit startups. Consider the remarkable recipient list of Reddit Donate. [http://www.redditblog.com/2015/02/announcing-winners-of-redd...] It seems to me that there is a hunger for real change out there. A huge audience. You might even call it a market.

I'm not sure that I trust Jon Evans' -- or any one person's -- assessment of subversion. The whole point of subversion is to overturn ("vertere") the status quo from below ("sub"), while this article seems content to maintain the current systems of marginalized nerd-dom (which has always been a suspect category) and capitalism (which is interesting and because as a system it preferences what's mainstream and marketable -- Evans has contradicted himself again).

When Evans writes, "Consider the remarkable recipient list of Reddit Donate," in support of his call for subversion, he glosses over the fact that the list includes some of the most mainstream nonprofits in the world (plus two well-known psychoactive research organizations). I'm not saying that these charities aren't doing good things -- I think it's fair to assume that they are -- I'm saying that supporting them can't be viewed as an act of subversion, and that assuming limited resources, support for them means lost support for other _actually subversive_ organizations that mean to do just as much good in the world.

"It seems to me that there is a hunger for real change out there." But change doesn't mean patching what exists; change -- subversive change -- means offering a replacement.
I'm still not sure what the title has to do with the actual contents of the article, but the basic premise contained therein isn't exactly ground breaking - people want to make money from tech, regardless of how much they care about culture or product.

The last few paragraphs are a bit more interesting. Understandably, lots of people are now seeing that you can gain things from your work or financial input into something that aren't just financial. For some people, non profits will provide greater rewards than for profits.
I think having the articles come to your inbox on a regular basis is a more interesting, novel approach than me having to scan them myself. Feels more personal.
The sort that makes it hard to have an honest discussion about stuff like diversity from either side.

I have no desire to prevent an intellectual discussion. Quite the opposite - as one of the nerds, I strongly favor a fact based argument over the status competition that this topic usually drives.
Always good to see more relatively small C compilers, even if not in the extremely small size class.

That said, I get a feeling this one has many more files than necessary, as a lot of them only have a few functions in them that could be consolidated into one "utilities" file.
If I remember correctly, Facebook was submitting PHP patches for a long time, especially when they concerned security.

And once there's 100% parity between HHVM and Zend's interpreter, why would I, as a user, care whether the competitors are working on the same product?

Honestly, by creating a spec and a new implementation from scratch, Facebook has done far more (in far less time) for PHP than Zend has in the last 5+ years.
Is there any kind of Stack facility for complaining about the quality of moderation? Because the moderation here is so clearly wrong that I'm not sure the people who made that call should have posting privileges on the site, let alone moderation.
US companies bring in these consultants tens or hundreds at a time to a single office. If they hired locally for all these positions, they'd have to pay a lot higher than 20% premium. And if they flew in consultants from around the US, they'd be paying a fortune per hour (how many good USA developers seriously consider 100% travel jobs unless they pay ridiculously well?).
Yes, I understand that. But that can be said about any immigrant workforce. Immigrants increase the pool of locally available workers, but, it appears, people welcome the benefits of immigration till the benefits (cheaper products and services) take away (threaten income) from them.

In other words, would we care if Bangladeshis or Siberian Russians displaced Walmart, or farm workers? Probably not. We'd say, yay, more and cheaper products... but as soon as that workforce threatens tech --uh-oh, no, we can't have that. Immigration bad.