I don't understand why people don't just move to Seattle. It's more expensive but there are jobs. My tiny software startup wants to hire maybe a couple dozen people. We just hired someone who moved here on his own to Michigan. And this wasn't a super highly skilled can do everything, he's basically a ui js implementer.
Microsoft laid off 15 or 20k people, and that didn't satisfy the demand. Maybe a few of them were not great, but mostly they seem to have random layoffs these days, Amazon can only hire so many of them.
yes, its more expensive. If you are a dev you'll be able to find a job for the next 20 years. Yes there is traffic. yes the public schools are really good and there are lots of liberal people here. On second thought, please don't move here so that my job prospects remain ridiculously good.
Microsoft fired 20k people over 18 months, but hired a number of them back, then amazon hired a bunch of them, and still that wasn't enough people to fill the huge job demand in seattle. if you are a dev and want a job, come to seattle. yes we have a higher cost of life, but its a tradeoff for more money.
I can't move to most towns in the south and get a job working on programming language optimizations, I have to be where the jobs are in that area.
Re tax dodges.
All the big companies do this and yes it's bad. You can do a smaller tax dodge in the US. Microsoft has almost all their development in Seattle, a small amount elsewhere. They license their stuff from the "home office", but it's not in Milwaukee, it's in Nevada.
Freebeacon.com doesn't look like a legitimate news org. it looks like the kind of place where they pass around cartoons of black people drawn to look like monkeys.
it may be that russians are paying us green groups but you need real journalists to report it. greenpeace sure has been hasseling russian oil companies and getting arrested for it.
how about an article from the ap or something? I searched but didn't find anything.
What does this have to do with today's right? John C Calhoun was part of the same party that Obama is now part of. And no, the parties didn't switch spectrum, rather all of them have changed their stances on certain subjects. Remember it was still the Democrats that were largely opposed to civil rights during the 50's and 60's (for example, it was a Democrat governor who called in the national guard to keep black students out of Central High School in Arkansas.)
Those people in the 50s who were democratic racists are all be republicans today. The parties switched on racism. It's stupid to pretend that is not the case. Southerners avoided voting republican for 100 years because that was the party of lincoln, that destroyed the south in the civil war. I'm from arkansas, you are wrong.
You can't take anyone seriously whose only supporting details about their comments are "the french don't even like it". The goal of negotiating with Iran is to prevent them from making Nukes. If we don't make any agreements with them, I don't see how they stops them more. If we have permission to view their nuclear enrichment and development areas, then we will have some insight into their activities. We can always attack them later, put new sanctions on them.
Try again without saying attacking Obama, the French, muslims, with non sequiturs.
I'm also from Arkansas. I lived in Little Rock, went to LRSD and then on to the U of Arkansas and got a CS degree there. That actually turned out to be very good education. I thought it was great prep to be a software engineer. However, there weren't many jobs in Arkansas and many or most of my fellow grads ended up out of state. Inside Arkansas, Walmart has a giant computing infrastructure. There are a few other companies there that come to mind, especially Acxiom and Dillard's and the usual terrible boring IT support for a hospital or something. I ended up going out of state and ended up at Microsoft.
But that was a long time ago. What does the employment situation look like there now?
There is a shortage of devs in Seattle. And its not some trick to get h1b hiring. It's not for IT, the jobs are for real devs. It is hard to believe these stories about people who can't find jobs in some places in the us but it must be happening outside of the tech hubs because there are so many reports. In Seattle, interns are paid, pro rated, at an annual rate of 60-70k. New grads make 80k+.
Move to SF, or Seattle, or Denver or Austin or one of 10 other cities.
It depends on where your job is located. Come to Seattle. There are tons of job openings and no one to fill them. Almost every evening some big company has an open house, looking for devs. My little company wants to hire 30 people, tripling our size. We cannot even get people to interview. The big companies here like Amazon, Microsoft, even the local Google office all have thousands of people. They have some h1bs but thats just because there aren't enough americans.
If you suck, maybe you can't find a job, but generally you just get tried of recruiters bugging you and talking to you via linked in. And I'm almost 50 years old. If you can code, you can find a job. Yes, I have experience working at some large companies, but I only have degrees from non-famous schools.
Actually they are "trade dress", not a trademark. Trade dress is a nice compromise between stupid design patents and companies cloning each other's products. Essentially Fuke DMM trade dress is grey plastic with a particular shade of yellow jacket, and buttons arranged in a grid.
Unfortunately that design existed long before the iPhone did, so even if such design patents were not fundamentally stupid that one should be invalidated by prior art.
Interesting, I had not heard of the concept of "trade dress". I do believe that based on limited number of colors, one should not be able to trademark or block merely the color. Just like the red soled shoes from someone (Louboutin was it?) that has blocked other companies from using that same color on their soles. Geeze. The obvious problem with this is you just trade dress/trademark all the common colors, and then sue anyone who uses an in between for infringement.
So without this change, PUDs are not allowed to do telecommunications? I live in Washington state in the Seattle area, I'm probably dreaming to think that it will ever get better. If you don't happen to live in a Verizon neighborhood where you can get their fiber service, you're probably stuck with cable.
What other costs would there be? That would be pretty cheap. I guess you'd have to get an ip subnet. For my comcast account that costs $60 a month, with theoretically 40 gigabytes, that's 0.15 cents per kB. Vs. your amount above of 0.02 cents per or about 7 times cheaper.
If I could pay 2k today to get a fiber internet connection to my house that wasn't limited by comcast, I'd do it in a second.
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I don't understand why people don't just move to Seattle. It's more expensive but there are jobs. My tiny software startup wants to hire maybe a couple dozen people. We just hired someone who moved here on his own to Michigan. And this wasn't a super highly skilled can do everything, he's basically a ui js implementer. Microsoft laid off 15 or 20k people, and that didn't satisfy the demand. Maybe a few of them were not great, but mostly they seem to have random layoffs these days, Amazon can only hire so many of them. yes, its more expensive. If you are a dev you'll be able to find a job for the next 20 years. Yes there is traffic. yes the public schools are really good and there are lots of liberal people here. On second thought, please don't move here so that my job prospects remain ridiculously good.
Microsoft fired 20k people over 18 months, but hired a number of them back, then amazon hired a bunch of them, and still that wasn't enough people to fill the huge job demand in seattle. if you are a dev and want a job, come to seattle. yes we have a higher cost of life, but its a tradeoff for more money. I can't move to most towns in the south and get a job working on programming language optimizations, I have to be where the jobs are in that area.
Re tax dodges. All the big companies do this and yes it's bad. You can do a smaller tax dodge in the US. Microsoft has almost all their development in Seattle, a small amount elsewhere. They license their stuff from the "home office", but it's not in Milwaukee, it's in Nevada.
The laffer curve turned out not to hold in practice. Do you dispute that?
Freebeacon.com doesn't look like a legitimate news org. it looks like the kind of place where they pass around cartoons of black people drawn to look like monkeys. it may be that russians are paying us green groups but you need real journalists to report it. greenpeace sure has been hasseling russian oil companies and getting arrested for it. how about an article from the ap or something? I searched but didn't find anything.
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What does this have to do with today's right? John C Calhoun was part of the same party that Obama is now part of. And no, the parties didn't switch spectrum, rather all of them have changed their stances on certain subjects. Remember it was still the Democrats that were largely opposed to civil rights during the 50's and 60's (for example, it was a Democrat governor who called in the national guard to keep black students out of Central High School in Arkansas.)
Those people in the 50s who were democratic racists are all be republicans today. The parties switched on racism. It's stupid to pretend that is not the case. Southerners avoided voting republican for 100 years because that was the party of lincoln, that destroyed the south in the civil war. I'm from arkansas, you are wrong.
You can't take anyone seriously whose only supporting details about their comments are "the french don't even like it". The goal of negotiating with Iran is to prevent them from making Nukes. If we don't make any agreements with them, I don't see how they stops them more. If we have permission to view their nuclear enrichment and development areas, then we will have some insight into their activities. We can always attack them later, put new sanctions on them. Try again without saying attacking Obama, the French, muslims, with non sequiturs.
I'm also from Arkansas. I lived in Little Rock, went to LRSD and then on to the U of Arkansas and got a CS degree there. That actually turned out to be very good education. I thought it was great prep to be a software engineer. However, there weren't many jobs in Arkansas and many or most of my fellow grads ended up out of state. Inside Arkansas, Walmart has a giant computing infrastructure. There are a few other companies there that come to mind, especially Acxiom and Dillard's and the usual terrible boring IT support for a hospital or something. I ended up going out of state and ended up at Microsoft. But that was a long time ago. What does the employment situation look like there now?
There is a shortage of devs in Seattle. And its not some trick to get h1b hiring. It's not for IT, the jobs are for real devs. It is hard to believe these stories about people who can't find jobs in some places in the us but it must be happening outside of the tech hubs because there are so many reports. In Seattle, interns are paid, pro rated, at an annual rate of 60-70k. New grads make 80k+. Move to SF, or Seattle, or Denver or Austin or one of 10 other cities.
It depends on where your job is located. Come to Seattle. There are tons of job openings and no one to fill them. Almost every evening some big company has an open house, looking for devs. My little company wants to hire 30 people, tripling our size. We cannot even get people to interview. The big companies here like Amazon, Microsoft, even the local Google office all have thousands of people. They have some h1bs but thats just because there aren't enough americans. If you suck, maybe you can't find a job, but generally you just get tried of recruiters bugging you and talking to you via linked in. And I'm almost 50 years old. If you can code, you can find a job. Yes, I have experience working at some large companies, but I only have degrees from non-famous schools.
The yellow-jacketed-DMMs are a Fluke TRADEMARK.
Actually they are "trade dress", not a trademark. Trade dress is a nice compromise between stupid design patents and companies cloning each other's products. Essentially Fuke DMM trade dress is grey plastic with a particular shade of yellow jacket, and buttons arranged in a grid.
Unfortunately that design existed long before the iPhone did, so even if such design patents were not fundamentally stupid that one should be invalidated by prior art.
Interesting, I had not heard of the concept of "trade dress". I do believe that based on limited number of colors, one should not be able to trademark or block merely the color. Just like the red soled shoes from someone (Louboutin was it?) that has blocked other companies from using that same color on their soles. Geeze. The obvious problem with this is you just trade dress/trademark all the common colors, and then sue anyone who uses an in between for infringement.
So without this change, PUDs are not allowed to do telecommunications? I live in Washington state in the Seattle area, I'm probably dreaming to think that it will ever get better. If you don't happen to live in a Verizon neighborhood where you can get their fiber service, you're probably stuck with cable.
What other costs would there be? That would be pretty cheap. I guess you'd have to get an ip subnet. For my comcast account that costs $60 a month, with theoretically 40 gigabytes, that's 0.15 cents per kB. Vs. your amount above of 0.02 cents per or about 7 times cheaper. If I could pay 2k today to get a fiber internet connection to my house that wasn't limited by comcast, I'd do it in a second.