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  1. Author of this article is a moron. on C# Memory Leak Torpedoed Princeton's DARPA Chances · · Score: 1

    That is not a C# memory leak: "Though we thought we had cleared all references to old entries in the list, because the objects were still registered as subscribers to an event, they were never getting deleted."
    That was just some bad programming and debugging.

  2. Re:Yes... on US Senators Question Indian Firms Over H-1Bs · · Score: 1

    You can not offer an argument so you just spew stupid shit. It is rare to see a person as stupid as you are. What a jerk.

  3. Re:Why this years visas were filled in one day on US Senators Question Indian Firms Over H-1Bs · · Score: 1
    Source please?

    Had you been banned on Google?

    This is public data. I can bother to paste the URL if you sign in.

  4. Re:Why this years visas were filled in one day on US Senators Question Indian Firms Over H-1Bs · · Score: 1
    Now there are 4 Indians sitting across from me, in the same cubes, working on the same computers, and doing the same work that the

    1. I have nothing but the worst to say about Infosys. Had business with them once - never again.

    2. If your boss hired a single decent guy, say from eastern europe, on H1B to sit in that cube and work full time with you - you would have a different opinion about the relative merits of temporary work visas.

  5. Re:Save the kittens! on US Senators Question Indian Firms Over H-1Bs · · Score: 1
    No, every time an H1B visa is issued, another US graduate leaves the market. Seriously, when did you enter the industry?

    1. BS. All the good ones stay.

    2. Well before you.

  6. Save the kittens! on US Senators Question Indian Firms Over H-1Bs · · Score: 1
    Every time I've seen a company get a H-1B worker, someone else got the pink slip

    No, every time an H1B visa is issued, God kills a kitten.

  7. Re:Why this years visas were filled in one day on US Senators Question Indian Firms Over H-1Bs · · Score: 3, Informative
    There were 190,000 visas issued in each of the years 2001, 2002, 2003, before the limit went back down to 65,000. THIS is the single reason why all of the H1-B visas were used up in one single day.

    Actually it was 130,700 in 2001, 79,100 in 2002 and 105,314 in 2003. But do not let poor facts get in the way of a good argument.

    More interesting fact is that 50% goes to Indians, and 30+% to the Indian body shops. Put a nationality limit of 7% per country, and outlaw contracting on H1B, and most of the problems will be solved.

  8. Re:The US is the big loser in this abuse on US Senators Question Indian Firms Over H-1Bs · · Score: 1
    /sarcasm/ So they would never hire an H1B over an american just to save a few bucks. ~/sarcasm/

    Maybe some will. Around here (big company) salary is one of the less important considerations when hiring an engineer.

  9. Re:Yes... on US Senators Question Indian Firms Over H-1Bs · · Score: 1
    No you aren't if you aren't getting any qualified applicants

    No, we do. Do not judge who are qualified by yourself.

  10. Re:Yes... on US Senators Question Indian Firms Over H-1Bs · · Score: 1
    Bullshit! You hire a foreigner who'll work cheaper and put up with more shit than an American will.

    If you worked in Europe, you would not believe how much shit Americans put up with.

    H1Bs in normal companies, not the Indian bodyshops in question, can change jobs without much trouble - including going back. They are NOT cheaper.

    So cut the crap. The problem is outsourcing and consultants - not H1B.

  11. Re:Yes... on US Senators Question Indian Firms Over H-1Bs · · Score: 1
    I think you miss how the whole deal works and why the parent makes such a bold claim. If you're willing to pay people what they are worth finding good people is not hard to do

    That when anybody who is actually doing hiring gets up and screams "Bullshit".

    Believe me, we are paying just fine.

  12. Re:Yes... on US Senators Question Indian Firms Over H-1Bs · · Score: 1, Interesting
    Yep, I can find talent in the US anywhere for pretty much anything.

    You lie. You will not be able to easily find a substitute - for any money, for any of our H1B (we have just a few).

    I am talking about top level talent. If you say it is easy to find it - you either lie, or do not know what you are talking about.

    I am not defending Indian sweat shops by the way. I think contracting H1B workers out shuld be prohibited. It will stop most abuses.

  13. Re:Yes... on US Senators Question Indian Firms Over H-1Bs · · Score: 5, Insightful
    The same can be said about outsourced project - both domestic and overseas.

    Legitimate H1B - not from the contractor sweat shops are not taking any jobs aways. Tried hiring anybody decent recently?

  14. It does not go far enough. on Congress May Outlaw 'Attempted Piracy' · · Score: 1
    I think we should restore public executions!

    Seriously, how much longer could our society tolerate those criminals?

  15. Re:Hilarious PR on Lawsuit Invokes DMCA to Force DRM Adoption · · Score: 1
    Most likely, the DMCA would be thrown out for violating fair use laws if it ever made it to the Supreme Court.

    The only fair use that supreme court cares about is the fiar use of your money by corporations. It will never touch DMCA.

  16. Re:Grand theft auto vs. circles on The Death Of CS In Education? · · Score: 1
    His response was basically: "Why cant we make something like 'Grand theft auto'; This is boring"

    Plenty of games include some fairly sofisticated scripting languages and development kits to create new levels and new mods. Try that with him.

  17. Re:Market forces on The Death Of CS In Education? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Then why it is so hard to find somebody half decent for a very competitive salary?

  18. Re:Computer science is a branch of mathematics. on The Death Of CS In Education? · · Score: 1
    Exactly. You are getting a fundamental education to apply it to some buzzword compliant field.

    Quite a difference from learning some buzzwords, and then trying to figure out the next great thing.

  19. Why "web engineering" is not a degree. on The Death Of CS In Education? · · Score: 1
    Nothing that is 15 years old is mature enough to be a university specialization. It is barely good enough for a couple courses.

    Nothing that is that immature a full of bad practices consistutes a solid foundation for your education. One will pick up enough crap during actual work. College is the time to put some order into your brain.

  20. Re:If their CS programs are like ours... on The Death Of CS In Education? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The best preparation for the real world is an ability to learn and ability to think. Any actual trade skills learned in college will not be useful for too long. That is why experimental physics education is one of the best ones you can get for a very large variety of jobs. You learn how to learn.

  21. That's quite a rant.. on The Death Of CS In Education? · · Score: 2, Insightful
    ..It sounds all nice and pink, but in reality the best performing companies are frequently those that invest heavily in people, and where best engineers want to work. Turnover of employees is very expensive, and hits in the bottom line.

    It is the sales and marketing drones who nobody cares about - but they do make out like bandits anyway, so nobody should care about them anyway.

  22. Re:Marvin will get angry on NASA May Have Killed The Martians · · Score: 5, Funny
    ..not Martians - Sea-men

    Kyle: Wow! That's a lot of seamen, Cartman.
    Cartman: Yeah, I bought all that I could at this bank, and then I got the rest from this guy Ralph in an alley.
    Stan: That's cool.
    Cartman: Yeah, and the sweet thing is, the stupid asshole didn't even charge me money for it. He just made me close my eyes and suck on a hose.

  23. Re:Completely and 100% untrue on IE7 Compatibility a Developer Nightmare · · Score: 1

    I have you both beat.

  24. Re:Completely and 100% untrue on IE7 Compatibility a Developer Nightmare · · Score: 1
    Human editors mean human mistakes.

    And some humans make superhuman mistakes.

    Yeah, Slashdot was always like that. Check out my UID. :)

  25. Re:Microsoft does suck on IE7 Compatibility a Developer Nightmare · · Score: 1
    This brilliant trick has been ignored by the standards people even though every browser implements it, and I can't help but think this is because it was M$'s idea and not theirs.

    Brilliant tricks are not always a good standard. Standard has to worry about inner consistency that is appropriate for many more systems then the few leading browsers.