Other experts. It takes just a few to validate each other. It works.
In the wiki case - you may establish a rating system, so you may edit other articles if your works got enough good ratings. People may also vote for invited experts. I suggest they lose anonymity for authors, and split reviews and suggestions from main articles. Not sure how it could be automated though.
Isn't the project predicated on the belief that more eyeballs make an article better, not worse?
What we see is an example that this belief is nothing more then wishful thinking.
In the area of expert knowledge "elitism", (or, rather, professionalism) is a good thing. The fact is, there are less people who actually know about something, then those who think they know something.
Yeah, and you are also supposed to pay taxes on frequent flyer miles rewards you got for business travel. And a whole lot of other stuff. Go ahead, knock yourself out..
Besides forking out the sales tax for the full amount, so that your state can provide public services to even more illegal aliens, you are also volunteering a whole lot of personal information to the companies. And you allow them to book revenues for the full amount, loan your money - and process rebates as a different item in their accounting - and a quarter late.
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I wonder how many college nerds will provoke their roommates to actually try this after reading this article.
And of course you can tip a cow. This article is garbage pseudo-science. Blatant and ignorant misuse of perfectly good physics. Damn canadians.
The United States L1 visa is a non-immigrant visa which allows companies operating both in the US and abroad to transfer certain classes of employee from its foreign operations to the USA operations for up to seven years. The employee must have worked for a subsidiary, parent, affiliate or branch office of your US company outside of the US for at least one year out of the last three years.
News flash: not every company has a subsidiary, parent, affiliate or branch office outside of U.S.
Google too tough for you? Can you look up the part about requirement that an L1 visa holder is actually employed in your overseas office for a year?
You are not just an uneducated moron - an arrogant uneducated moron.
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You sound like a sore loser.
Xenophobia and protectionism will get us nowhere. The harder it is to bring a talented engineer here - the easier is to make a decision to outsource the whole project outright.
H1B and L1 abuse from large consulting firms here are not a reason to stop professional immigration. Do not allow them to hire H1B out to clients, and set a reasonble minimum salary for H1B in six figure range.
We interview people constantly - and I do not see droves of talented developers coming in - for very, very competitive compensations. Our H1Bs are among the highest paid in the group. For IT drones - maybe, but I could not care less for them.
then *GASP*.NET is better than Java for everything except cross-platform deployments!
Real development means using a lot of other products and libraries. It is not about a little toy you cooked up. There are many more usefull libraries and products and packages for Java to develop your business applications.
And.NET does not run circles around Java. Try using JRockit JVM.
Developed by a bunch of russian geeks from St.Petersburg. Good job, I would say.
Looks like they are planning to expand into more languages. That would be nice. They currently do Java, JSP and some xml stuff..
I would love to have them do a C++ IDE. Eclipse CDT on Cygwin is rather sucky.
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Yep. The discrepancy comes from large sweatshop like HPS, Infosys, WIPRO Patni, TATA etc, who hire folks who can not make it on their own and pay them peanuts. There is NO discrepancy for H1B holders in normal companies.
I think the best way to fix H1B here is to prohibit H1B holders to work as consultants. For real companies (like the one I work for) H1B should be made easier to obtain (and quota may be lowered, once Indian sweatshops are forced out) to bring in real top talent. They should also set up some reasonable cutoff salary, say $100K/year.
What I am afraid of, is that when battling abusing they will fold to xenophobic tendencies and just encourage outsourcing instead of promoting competitiveness.
The L1 visa expressly provides for people with specialized knowledge.
It does not. You just proved again you do not know what you are talking about. L1 is intra company transfer: you would need to have an office overseas and employ that person there for at least a year.
And, or, BTW, L1 is abused even worse then H1B - if you look at top H1B users (http://www.h1b.info/lca_reports_top_100_by_worker .php) abusers are the consulting companies, they switch to L1 easily, while those companies that actually make good use of H1B program, would not be able to do that.
You are a certified, and quite uneducated xenophobe. End of story.
Yes there are plenty of links to these facts if you bother to keep yourself up to date and educated: you have proven to be unaware of some basic issues at question.
Why do you think that "them" are more talented than the people already here?
Because not all talented people where born in U.S.
Since you are obviously flat out against professional immigration, I guess there is nothing to talk about indeed. But in your patriotic zeal - look back on who actually made this country great. U.S. will quickly lose its technological leadership if talented foreigners can not work here, and that's a fact.
by the IT industry that was so desperately in need of these folks.
Would not you think that that would be limited by the amount of eligible folks? They "snapped up" everybody who graduated and wanted to stay. They used up about 15000 for this year so far, as far as I know. Looks like somebody coming up with the number actually did his homework for a change.
There is no shortage of IT labor
H1B is not about IT only.
So you are suggesting that their should be NO way to bring a useful talented specialist from another country? What are "normal immigration channels" you are talking about? Name one and tell me how long it will take. L1? Not for companies without international presense. Exceptional abilities or National interest? Not for techies.
There is no other useful way of bringing talented people in, and if you think we will be better off sending them packing, you do not know what you are talking about. I would not be able to replace H1B folks in my department, for any money, with anybody. And given their pay and headache involved with our lawers - if we could do that, we would.
I would agree that abuse should be fixed - but taking away easy and legal immigration would only make it worse. Current wave of outsourcing - mandated from our BoD here - shows what will happen. That H1B guy is not taking your job - he is allowing us to create one for you here.
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If you have had a shred of brain, you would have understood the errors in the article. I am not going to waste my time on you any further.
For starters: the bulk of the actual rocket scientists have a southern or western accent.
The bulk of the actual rocket scientists had a German accent. And a whole bunch of them have a Russian accent. You know - those folks who make engine that Lockheed buys after beeing unable to develop their own.
I guess if it was up to you, Von Braun should have been allowed to enter this country, right?
Incorrect, most of them had been used. They made a resonable and generous maximum quota, what is wrong with that? Would you prefer those guys who got an excellent education in U.S., usually for free, as they do get scholarships, to go back overeas to compete against us?
That's the whole idea - do not fight H1B, fight misuse of H1B for low level folks.
The problem I do observe is that our immigration laws and the whole system is so terrible in U.S. that some of the true "best and brightest" just do not care to bother - they can find a good job elsewhere. It should be made simpler, not harder for them to get in and stay in and work their asses and brains off.
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Compared to IntelliJ, Eclipse is a pile of stinking poo.
Other experts. It takes just a few to validate each other. It works.
In the wiki case - you may establish a rating system, so you may edit other articles if your works got enough good ratings. People may also vote for invited experts. I suggest they lose anonymity for authors, and split reviews and suggestions from main articles. Not sure how it could be automated though.
And for each one of them, there will be ten loafers around waiting to correct their grammar errors.
What we see is an example that this belief is nothing more then wishful thinking.
In the area of expert knowledge "elitism", (or, rather, professionalism) is a good thing. The fact is, there are less people who actually know about something, then those who think they know something.
From investors point of view, higher revenue with higher delayed costs looks nicer at times then lower revenue.
Yeah, and you are also supposed to pay taxes on frequent flyer miles rewards you got for business travel. And a whole lot of other stuff. Go ahead, knock yourself out..
Besides forking out the sales tax for the full amount, so that your state can provide public services to even more illegal aliens, you are also volunteering a whole lot of personal information to the companies. And you allow them to book revenues for the full amount, loan your money - and process rebates as a different item in their accounting - and a quarter late.
And of course you can tip a cow. This article is garbage pseudo-science. Blatant and ignorant misuse of perfectly good physics. Damn canadians.
News flash: not every company has a subsidiary, parent, affiliate or branch office outside of U.S.
Google too tough for you? Can you look up the part about requirement that an L1 visa holder is actually employed in your overseas office for a year?
You are not just an uneducated moron - an arrogant uneducated moron.
Xenophobia and protectionism will get us nowhere. The harder it is to bring a talented engineer here - the easier is to make a decision to outsource the whole project outright.
H1B and L1 abuse from large consulting firms here are not a reason to stop professional immigration. Do not allow them to hire H1B out to clients, and set a reasonble minimum salary for H1B in six figure range.
We interview people constantly - and I do not see droves of talented developers coming in - for very, very competitive compensations. Our H1Bs are among the highest paid in the group. For IT drones - maybe, but I could not care less for them.
Real development means using a lot of other products and libraries. It is not about a little toy you cooked up. There are many more usefull libraries and products and packages for Java to develop your business applications.
And .NET does not run circles around Java. Try using JRockit JVM.
That's your answer, right in your question.
Developed by a bunch of russian geeks from St.Petersburg. Good job, I would say.
Looks like they are planning to expand into more languages. That would be nice. They currently do Java, JSP and some xml stuff..
I would love to have them do a C++ IDE. Eclipse CDT on Cygwin is rather sucky.
Yep. The discrepancy comes from large sweatshop like HPS, Infosys, WIPRO Patni, TATA etc, who hire folks who can not make it on their own and pay them peanuts. There is NO discrepancy for H1B holders in normal companies.
I think the best way to fix H1B here is to prohibit H1B holders to work as consultants. For real companies (like the one I work for) H1B should be made easier to obtain (and quota may be lowered, once Indian sweatshops are forced out) to bring in real top talent. They should also set up some reasonable cutoff salary, say $100K/year.
What I am afraid of, is that when battling abusing they will fold to xenophobic tendencies and just encourage outsourcing instead of promoting competitiveness.
It does not. You just proved again you do not know what you are talking about. L1 is intra company transfer: you would need to have an office overseas and employ that person there for at least a year.
And, or, BTW, L1 is abused even worse then H1B - if you look at top H1B users (http://www.h1b.info/lca_reports_top_100_by_worker .php) abusers are the consulting companies, they switch to L1 easily, while those companies that actually make good use of H1B program, would not be able to do that.
Uneducated xenophobe.
Yes there are plenty of links to these facts if you bother to keep yourself up to date and educated: you have proven to be unaware of some basic issues at question.
Because not all talented people where born in U.S.
Since you are obviously flat out against professional immigration, I guess there is nothing to talk about indeed. But in your patriotic zeal - look back on who actually made this country great. U.S. will quickly lose its technological leadership if talented foreigners can not work here, and that's a fact.
It does not. You just proved you do not know what you are talking about.
Would not you think that that would be limited by the amount of eligible folks? They "snapped up" everybody who graduated and wanted to stay. They used up about 15000 for this year so far, as far as I know. Looks like somebody coming up with the number actually did his homework for a change.
There is no shortage of IT labor
H1B is not about IT only.
So you are suggesting that their should be NO way to bring a useful talented specialist from another country? What are "normal immigration channels" you are talking about? Name one and tell me how long it will take. L1? Not for companies without international presense. Exceptional abilities or National interest? Not for techies.
There is no other useful way of bringing talented people in, and if you think we will be better off sending them packing, you do not know what you are talking about. I would not be able to replace H1B folks in my department, for any money, with anybody. And given their pay and headache involved with our lawers - if we could do that, we would.
I would agree that abuse should be fixed - but taking away easy and legal immigration would only make it worse. Current wave of outsourcing - mandated from our BoD here - shows what will happen. That H1B guy is not taking your job - he is allowing us to create one for you here.
If you have had a shred of brain, you would have understood the errors in the article. I am not going to waste my time on you any further.
What he said.
The bulk of the actual rocket scientists had a German accent. And a whole bunch of them have a Russian accent. You know - those folks who make engine that Lockheed buys after beeing unable to develop their own.
I guess if it was up to you, Von Braun should have been allowed to enter this country, right?
Incorrect, most of them had been used. They made a resonable and generous maximum quota, what is wrong with that? Would you prefer those guys who got an excellent education in U.S., usually for free, as they do get scholarships, to go back overeas to compete against us?
That's the whole idea - do not fight H1B, fight misuse of H1B for low level folks.
The problem I do observe is that our immigration laws and the whole system is so terrible in U.S. that some of the true "best and brightest" just do not care to bother - they can find a good job elsewhere. It should be made simpler, not harder for them to get in and stay in and work their asses and brains off.
You are a dangerous lunatic then. Quite the typical gun control advocate - somebody who would trust himself with a weapon.