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No, actually, it's called "the source is generally credible".

The paper cited is published by the Linux Foundation, which manages overall development of the Linux kernel, and employs the two lead devs, Linus Torvalds and Greg Kroah-Hartman, directly.

Greg's responsible for much of the device support himself.

I also noted that the claim isn't specifically referenced, but I'm generally inclined to believe it's factual.

Confirmation bias would be seeking out specific information to confirm a belief.

The claim dates back to at least 2008, where Greg KH states it was independently verified by Microsoft:

http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2008/10/how-linux-supports-more...

I've seen quotes from you and I've even heard from you in person that you believe Linux, the kernel, supports more devices than any other operating system ever.

I can back it up by that's true, and it's been independently verified by somebody from Microsoft.

Greg's a developer, not a marketing type given to inflated statistics.

That said, I've asked if anyone's got sources.
I see what you're saying. Agreed, there are barriers to entry and the market is competitive.

I think one place we haven't been clear yet is what wealthbot.io does. He doesn't actually generate recommendations on position allocations. He is a platform for advisors to set up their own risk questionnaire and tie that risk questionnaire to a portfolio of the advisors creation.

Questionnaire shows risk rating = 20?
Assign portfolio with risk rating = 20

It's up to the advisor to create a risk profile questionnaire and the portfolios.

Otherwise, I think we're on the same page. This is a tough regulatory market and there are a lot of (confusing) options out there for advisors.
I assume this is only employment green cards. Most Mexican Americans probably come in on family based green cards, or just got citizenship by birth in the US.
It's funny I come to hn for stuff like this. Thanks for the video. Here is a nice one for Debussy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kziF6whWW8)
> If someone offered me $10K to take the trash out and clean the company kitchen for 2 weeks, I would gladly do it without blinking, even if it's a little humbling. I don't know about you.

You mean 90 days, because that's the requirement in their agreement. And its not "taking out the trash", its directly training your lower-wage foreign replacement.
Can't you just redirect any response to /dev/null? At least that way you have given the candidate an ack and they can move on.
Not really, but since the app requires WebSQL support, support is already limited to Chrome and Safari. You need prefixes for Safari. I love flexbox.
This is the same freemarket that enables mass exploitation of third world countries & ensures that the same work effort is rewarded in currencies of different values. Its unbelievable that anyone who has enjoyed the benefits of such an unfair system for so long could cry foul the moment its not in their favour.
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Yes, this is the really big deal that everyone focused on fork and mmap semantics and other details is overlooking. Having midipix as the means of producing Windows versions of cross-platform software like Firefox should make it possible to remove a lot of ugly #ifdeffery and/or whole "portability layers" that are avoiding the standard functions like fopen because of a lack of Unicode support on Windows.
Maybe you might feel differently if you were being fired at the end of those two weeks?
Not always. Sometimes renting might be a better deal than buying.

There are several factors which need to be taken into account, such as mortgage interest payments, opportunity cost of downpayment, property tax, tax deductions, property appreciation, etc. Khan Academy has an interesting video on this topic: https://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/core-fi...

PS: Sure, if your property appreciates by a lot you'll make a large return. But what if it deprecates? People being overly optimistic about property appreciations were part of the reason/most affected by the housing bubble.
Apple collects far less personal data than Google/etc. In this stupid analogy, Apple don't even have an IR camera.
I like Apple Pay. I use it every time I can. I can't stand receipts and signing.

What I think the reporter isn't covering adequately is why many small merchants are cash only. I suspect they are doing this to avoid taxes. These merchants know that once the txn is in a computer, there is easy visibility on their cash flow.
We are hiring right now for a new bookkeeper, actually they start Monday, so we just finalized the hiring.

We regularly post ads for designers, developers and content writers too. Probably every other month I am reviewing resumes, so I have a bit of experience in responding to applicants.

Typically any given job posting gets around 50 to 100 resumes depending on the category. It takes time to read through everything. We use a mix of Craiglist, Indeed, various job boards, LinkedIn and our own website postings. It has worked well for awhile now.

Due to the nature of various job boards, some responses are often automated by clicking a few buttons so it is too easy to apply. With that you get candidates off topic (i.e. wrong skill set) and not putting in any effort (i.e. skipping a cover letter that we want to read). Other times, the cover letter and resume are comically sad in mistakes and grammar, so they do not warrant full attention.

Our biggest gripe is that at least 50% of the applicants never follow our instructions on how to apply correctly. We put very specific steps on how to apply and want it followed (i.e. subject line, cover letter, links to portfolio, PDF resume).

My take on this is if the applicant is not going to take the time to respond correctly, then we are not going to take the time to respond back. Sounds harsh, but kicking out 50 canned replies is tedious work for those who are wasting our time to review. Perhaps we could automate it somehow with scanning emails addresses in the "no" folder and sending out a batch bcc, but it is still extra work.

However, before everyone jumps on us. We do respond to every applicant we interview (phone or in-person). Often we respond with a personal note that helps them out and lets them know where they stand. Sometimes we even try them out on freelance projects in the future.

For every applicant that correctly fills out our application process, or at least made an effort, then we also reach out to them with a more automated message via email. I consider that the least we can do, but we do keep in short and sweet.

Finally, in the future, I am going to probably put our entire application process on our website. This will automate a lot of what we do and require the applicant to fill out set fields that we need answered. Then we could send batch emails back to everyone as needed.
The letter of law is enforced based on actions, not ethics.
I guess this is a joke, but all the comments so far seem to take this seriously. So let me say what is obvious to me- there are many legitimate reasons why you may have not heard back in a manner that seems timely to you. There are also bad reasons, such as disorganization and poor communication skills. But what message does an email like this send? "If you hire me, be prepared to deal with complaints about my professional behavior!" Seriously, poor communication is an everyday workplace occurrence, so if this is how you respond...

And then there is general networking stuff- which is even mentioned in the email! He acknowledges he may one day be a client or partner, and yet still thinks sending this type of "cathartic" email is a good idea.
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The point is there are people all over the world who are willing to work for less money than Americans doing the same job.

If the goal of the H1B visa program was 'import enough migrants to bring down the standard US salary' it probably wouldn't be legal because no politician would get behind it publicly.

So this is really about calling a spade a spade...
To me, this doesn't look as horrible as the article makes it out to be.

I get a ~90 day notice that my job is ending, during which time I continue to work the same hours and have time to apply to other positions inside and outside of Disney.

After that, if I don't have a job w/in Disney and separation occurs I get 10% of my annual salary. That's 5.2 weeks severance.

Am I missing something in the numbers?

There is certainly an emotional aspect to "training your replacements", but it does seem like Disney is trying to do right by employees and shareholders at the same time. Better balancing act than I've seen at most places.
The truth is that the demand for technologists across all industries is so high right now that an increase in H1B visa quota brought very little impact to the overall supply demand in the current job market. Look around, is it any easier to high developers now?

What's sad about it though, is that, given the reputation of these out-sourcing companies such as Infosys, I am not too confident in the qualification of the tech people they imported. Worse, these companies are so good taking advantage of the loopholes in the H1B application process that they actually hurt the chance of people with really qualifications.
Interest + Condo Fees + Home Repairs + Property Taxes + Property Transfer Taxes + Realtor Commissions are throwing cash away every bit as much as Rent.

Mortgage payments are likely to go up the same way that rent does, or even more so. Interest reflects inflationary costs, so the same upwards pressures on rents would result in higher interest rates. Except with interest rates at record lows, just a small increase in interest can wipe out an owner's equity while a small increase in rent (which is also controlled in many markets) isn't going to impact a renter nearly as much. Also, rent generally reflects incomes more specifically than inflation in general, and incomes have been increasing at a much slower rate than inflation for decades.

Debt leveraging is debt leveraging. Doing it on housing isn't automagically safer than doing it on financial investments. Yes, variance on an individual stock can be higher than real estate (also depends on the particular stock), but a sufficiently diversified portfolio can reduce the variance to be in line with real estate or to possibly be even more risk adverse. Not sure why people think debt leveraging is automagically safer with housing; it simply is not.
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It's called out sourcing, So it is 100% not dependent of the employee performance it is based on the ability to out source to save money 100% of the time.

This is why Labor Unions are good :) BUT most people these days look at them negatively sadly.
>> I'm sympathetic to people who want to develop portable GUI apps across Linux/Windows/OS X.

I am too, but I wonder whether it is even a relevant goal anymore. It's one of those things that has always been a topic of conversation, and has never really happened in a way that a mass of end users has adopted. Everyone who ever ran a java desktop app on Windows back in the day probably has some theory of why, but I think it was mostly because there was never really a strong need on the user side, despite the idea being so attractive to devs.

Now... I don't even know what the world of work is going to look like in ten years... Android? Windows? Linux? Mac? Tablet? Phone? Laptop? All of the above and more, I assume, and the whole interface portability thing seems to be heading down the exact same road that it headed down on the desktop, i.e. either write native or accept some lesser solution.
For me the big takeaway is this:

Refactoring across the call stack is orders of magnitude easier than refactoring across a socket.

Sacrificial or not, you can still write the Monolith as "Service Oriented", just that boundary is the call stack. Especially if you're comfortable with IoC and DI.

Building on the latter I've had success with that. Stubbing out hardcoded concepts that I know will come from a as-yet-unwritten service in the future. Then you start pushing those hardcoded things "down and out"; e.g. it was hardcoded in App A, but now App A requests it from App B, but App B just has the hardcoded thing.
Detached houses could end up costing far more in maintenance. From experience.
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One reason is because you would gain cents of fees but only in exchange for adding many many kilobytes of unsolicited commercial adverting to the chain. This material must then be processed by all nodes and maintained for all time, and in doing so burning the tolerance of others to participate in the system.

It's like asking why you don't litter when doing so would save you the few moments it takes to put something in the trash. The health of the system is more important to many than extracting a few cents more in fees.
In a similar vein, quite often I've seen manager asking people to train higher paid newcomers, while performing as fast as usual with no added bonuses.
You know, I disagree with that. I think the reason this is a big story is that the H1B was sold to congress, and the American people, as a solution to a severe crisis in the supply of software developers and other tech workers.

For instance, Netflix fires people all the time. They also hire H1B workers, at (you can see the data) a very high rate. Now, there are still arguments to be made about worker freedom and mobility, suppressing salaries at the high end, an excessive tolerance of false negatives in hiring… but ultimately, using H1B workers for $250K+ jobs isn't going to get your average American riled up.

Using these visas to specifically fire and replace US Citizens, and withholding a small severance unless the US citizens train their replacements, goes deeply against the way this visa was sold, which is a way to bring in more high level talent that is essentially unavailable in the US (ie., purely additive with synergies with existing workforce, not at all a replacement).
I take issue with the assumptions of the second chart. If we allow the author to assume 6-8% growth in the stock market over the 25 year period shown in chart two, surely assuming 0 change in value of one's condo over the same period is nonsense.

Perhaps, I might allow for 0 change in "real" prices, but since the author is not making adjustments for inflation in his calculations, his assumptions suggest Toronto condos will be worth 40% less in inflation adjusted dollars 25 years from now.

While this is one possible future, it seems incredibly unlikely given the optimistic outlook for his equities growth.
10% is around a months wages. I'd tell them to get lost if that's all they offered to train my replacement (plus regular salary), I could find a new job in less than a month. I'd need a few months severance to go through that level of embarrassment, and not contingent on me finding a new job.
This has been going on since the dot com bust. My friend had to train his offshore replacement at his company. He did things like train them saying one thing in the morning, and then say the exact opposite thing in the afternoon. The replacement workers would mention the conflict that but he would insist they were wrong. This went on for a month or so until the training period was over.
But the market's largest participants already know what's going into the negotiations. They're privy to the draft texts of the deal and are the executive's primary 'consultants'. They know as much as, if not more than, our actual elected Representatives.

So I'm not sure what you mean by 'imagine the effect on the markets' or 'the effect of the markets on negotiations'. The market's most powerful players are already guiding the legislation. The only people that seemingly aren't allowed to directly guide the agreement are a country's citizens and its smaller market players, neither of whom are allowed a seat at the table.

The pessimist/realist in me suspects the final text will directly reflect this lopsided representation, such that the most powerful will become even more powerful and the least powerful will continue their decline.
>> If these companies are breaking the law so badly (and they probably are, the top 7 or so companies using H1B are Infosys and other outsourcing firms) -- why don't employees go ahead and sue them?

Lawsuits are extremely expensive and when you are butting heads with some of the largest corporations in the world, your odds of prevailing are pretty much nil. The only hope of overcoming those kinds of odds is for the government to get involved.
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True, but this is just a service, you're going to have to write code to integrate with it anyway, why not just call ImageMagick (or whatever) directly?
The missing part here is that they may not be able to find an equivalent job in the same area where they already live.
Just curious, but what ATS are you using that makes sending 50 canned replies tedious?
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Severance packages can be equally about financial extortion, liability mitigation and goodwill. You need to sign something to get the severance package and it probably says that you aren't going to the press to complain about being fired. You aren't going to a competitor. You aren't going to sue because you were wrongly fired (disability, protected class)...
I for one won't be taking the family to Disney after reading this article, brutal. How do you measure how happy people are in your theme parks if they're on the street? Voice your concerns with your wallets and with local politicians. This is wrong on so many levels.
Which aspects of midipix, if any, will be under the GPL? If you plan to release any of the runtime components under the GPL, will you also offer a commercial license?
I hope the GPU arms race continues for as long as possible. Without it there would be no GPGPU and modern deep learning wouldn't be feasible.
Probably because they were technically convicts from governments point of view, instead of outright slaves or someones property.

I'm a bit surprised by 1954 as the date, since it's pretty far from the original purges in the 30s, but not at all surprised by the find. The disappearances and summary judgements, resulting in either executions or the slow rot of the labor camps, are well documented.

A person I know from that same town found a German gun folded in oiled cloth in his parents' ceiling when he was renovating. The building was built by German POWs.
Because they were prisoners?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_labor_in_the_United_State...
> To me, this doesn't look as horrible as the article makes it out to be.
> Am I missing something in the numbers?

Whether it's horrible or not, the point of the article is that Disney (via it's subcontractor) is violating the H1B program by using it to directly replace workers at a lower wage.
Speaking of the application process, are H1Bs ever denied by the government? Does the current process put the burden of proof on the government to show that yes, there are in fact US workers who could do this job?
Not yet; I'm travelling at the moment but should have time this weekend. My email is jonathan AT jeskew DOT net if you'd be interested in collaborating.
If you want a classic case study on this. Just look into the history of linux.
Isn't their being skilled at all in question?
Not really. they were still entitled to severance, but their severance would be 10% higher if they trained their replacement. Also, they would have a job for 3 months while looking for another job.
> everyone seeing the same results for the same search terms is inherently not a "bubble"

Sure it is; the difference is its a search-provider-specific bubble, rather than a user-specific bubble. Both isolate you from information which exists and potentially distort your view of reality.

Its analogous to the difference provided by the information bubbles provided from the (highly-selective, often-biased-in-the-same-way, rather homogenous) mainstream media in the pre-internet era and those provided by the much more heterogenous, audience-specific online media outlets from which people increasingly get news today.
I don't think it's unprofessional and I wouldn't want to work with anyone who did, so if that's the effect it has for some people, then it's self-fulfilling!
> and rifle ammunition you can't make at home

You can absolutely make rifle ammunition at home.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handloading
It is the closest he can get to saying America does this too, without looking like a total jackass.
The article seems to refer to them as "prisoners" more often than "slaves", so this may be why (and the article is more sensational using "slaves" in the title vs. "prisoners").
I understand that it can be subjective and will assume the writers audience might find the context sensitive. In this case it seems to fit well in my opinion.
Good point. What is the bare minimum to qualify for "good performance?" What training information is classified as critical and necessary? Some specifics could be easily omitted, I expect. There could be a tinge of satisfaction in crippling your replacement.
I use both sites extensively, and have investigated activity and engagement on both. I'm the source of a fair bit of the G+ ghost-town press coverage. That said, there's more to a community than simple size (take HN as an example).

I also disagree with many of Ello's styling decisions (and G+'s for that matter). My Ello CSS revise: http://stylebot.me/styles/9519

(That only works on logged-in sessions, unauthenticated still uses the earlier Ello v1 style.)
The severance is only one month's pay, though, and they had to train their replacements for 3 months to get it. Not to mention that at the end of those 3 months the market will be flooded with all your ex-coworkers. Doesn't seem worth it to me.