Most Chinese students are actually on student visas. They usually get a 1yr extension for work, and from there they go to H1B if hired somewhere, and Green Card if they really want to stay, but that costs a lot to a company so it must be really worth it.
The question is, do most of the Chinese students stay in the US? or do they go back to China and work there?
If this means something: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/mar/28/china-us-publisher-scientific-papers , I don't think most are staying.
And who cares about that?, we are stillt talking about Open Source. if this helps make development faster by reusing more code It's certainly welcome. If *BSD users want this functionality, they can write a compatibility layer, the same way they did with ALSA, then they have the source code for Wayland available.
Otherwise, they are giving Wayand devs the burden of mantaining all the ports and even their own video drivers (like in X11)
It's not any more that economies in recession are cheap, most of South America are not in recession and even have a similar living costs to the US, yet are heavy outsourcers with a flawless track record (look at Globant).
The actual reason why outsourced companies are cheaper is that in US the skill-cost curve is exponential, while in most of the rest of the world is linear. Add to that that high level education in many countries (such Argentina) is completely free and as a result you have very cheap skilled teams.
Vostu is a Brazilian company, but the main workforce is in Argentina. Zynga came to the country first by spreading rumours that they were going to acquire a company. Zynga was, then, in the typical process of expanding it's assets and workforce to raise the value of their IPO or whole company value (The same way Playdom did before being sold to Disney, for example).
Vostu is very strong in South America, the strongest social game company here, so it was naturally the best target of aquisition by Zynga. However, Vostu execs asked for a much higher price than Zynga was willing to pay. In consequence, Zynga sued Vostu to attempt to drive their price down.
But in the end, the lawsuit carried for too long, and Zynga decided to go public anyway. Having no more reason to acquire Vostu, the lawsuit was settle briefly before the IPO.
So, not really pot calling the kettle black, just corporate bussiness as usual.
Americans are too egocentric. There's nothing that makes you "the best" at programming software, and there's good and bad experiences with software teams anywhere in the world. As a foreigner, I led and completed several outsourced projects for clients in your country successfully. Doing your job well, so our clients trust us and recommend us to other american companies is the same here as well as everyone else, otherwise software industry here wouldn't thrive as much as it does, and we are not even as cheap as India.
Add to that, that high qualty education here is either free or unexpensive, so there is a great amount of supply in highly skilled programmers.
Try not being so short-sighted.
Many projects can't be done well, or can't be done at all if you don't include someone with a lot of experience and in a team. In the US (unlike other parts of the world), the really experienced guys, with a great track record, are either extremely expensive to hire or only available as consultants. If you can't get these people (because they are either too expensive or short in supply), then your project is a no-go, and your whole team (which will consist mainly of americans) misses a chance to do it, or worse because the whole project will then be outsourced. This is true for several fields in science, and even in software, like enterprise software, databases, or even videogames. So, yeah, highly skilled people on H1B, when used properly, are great because they will definitely create employment.
With their constant refusal to keep up to the usability, performance, security, and innovation of other browsers it seemed to me that Firefox developers didn't care much about getting new users (they lost quite a lot in fact).
Now, it seems they don't need developers either, because how many will be willing to learn and get proficient in a new, complex programming language just to contribute to a project?
It IS a plugin, it uses the PPAPI specification, which is a much improved plugin API.
Firefox and Opera will probably never want to implement it, though.
When I've been to the Arab market in Jerusalem, the shop owners guessed the country I came from (in South America), my religion and the fact I'm a musican, as well as how much I was willing to pay for each item. Guess a simple algorithm is nothing compared to thousands of years of tradition as shopkeepers..
Mozilla people have this strange vision that they can replace everything (OSs, Desktop, Apps, Cellphone and tablet UIs, etc) with HTML5, JavaScript and nothing else. While Im sure that many developers like JavaScript and that HTML5 brings several great features to the open web, most of us programmers definitely DONT want to use it to write all sorts of applications and games. JS+HTML5 are not a silver bullet or general purpose enough. The recent resurgence of native applications is proof of this.
Netbooks are extremely popular in the Third World.
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Here in South America, netbooks outsell notebooks by a wide margin. They are much more capable than cheap tablets of the same price and much cheaper than actual fully featured computers. They are also used a lot by business people who don't really want to carry around a full computer.
The term you are looking for is "usability designers", something that is becoming more and more trendy nowadays.
The problem is, there is no solid ground on that kind of theory.. only a few "gurus" here and there and a lot of decisions that seemed to have worked by pure luck. There are a lot of them making a big buck working as consultants for websites and it was only a matter of time until open source desktops were struck by this trend.
It's simple, someone comes and determines that the way you have been doing things, that worked perfect for you and everyone you know up to this point is not optimal and must be done differently. Then, they throw away something that works for everyone and replace it by something that maybe works better for most, only for a few or for no one. It's hit or miss, really, pulled by people with a gigantic ego. Gnome 3 doesn't have access to the large amount of user test groups that Apple, Google or Microsoft do, and even the later companies don't do changes as radical as in Gnome Shell.
So, yeah, Gnome 3 is just people with large egos forcing their unproven beliefs upon us, the community.
Native Client is like a plugin that makes all other plugins obsolete.
-It can do everything you can do with Flash, Unity, Silverlight, etc.
-You can use any language to develop for it, C, C++, ObjC, Python, C#, you name it.
-Can access everything JS can (using the Pepper plugin API).
-It's from a trusted vendor (Google), so most people will not be afraid to install it.
-Will come pre-installed in the soon to be most popular web browser.
-It's open source
-It's much more secure than existing plugins due to sandboxing.
And, yes, I can understand HTML5 purists, but the truth is that:
1) Not everything can be made into a web application using HTML5+JS.
2) There's way too much code and applications written in other languages..
3) Cross-Platform web deployment is very attractive. Compile for x86 and ARM and 99.999% of the devices on the planet can be supported.
So, disable it if you don't want it, but this is a very attractive idea with a lot of potential for us developers, and even Adobe is trying somehting similar with Alchemy on Flash. It's a much more realistic way to bring actual real applications to the web than the dream that HTML5+JavaScript is.
Just like in Firefox, each time API version changes, extensions will break and will not work for a while. That is not cool.
This is just an excuse from the Gnome developers for not fixing what users complain is broken..
The highly skilled people take jobs Americans want regardless of where in the world they are located. This can't be avoided and is called outsourcing.
I live in South America, and pretty much anyone I know here on the tech industry is taking jobs from American companies.
If America lets the highly skilled people in, at least their money will be spent inside the country, and this will end up generating more jobs in the long run.
My experience programming Kinect is not very good..
It fails to detect a very large range of scenarios and poses and goes crazy with objects around the studio thinking it's persons. Put your arms together, show your side or move fast enough and it will get confused.
It's really easy to make it show broken poses and seems only designed for tracking people front-facing it directly with arms stretched outwards..
Even the unofficial opensource SDK does much better at keeping track of you than the real thing. Not to mention the enormous input lag.
So, is it me or has Kinect been hyped enormously for its rather lacking technical capabilities?
How can Microsoft be threatening giant corporations with such incredibly ridiculously simple, obvious, irrelevant and pre-existing patents? How can they even call them "inventions"? How can so many companies be SO afraid of Microsoft to pay them large sums of money for this? Are they that much afraid that the patent system is so broken that they will have massive losses if they litigate?
Something is not right with the world!!
- I got used to the vertical launcher, but still feeld kind of awkward. I still wish i could make it horizontal at the bottom.
- I could definitely not get used to the global menubar. It's annoying. I figured how to remove it, though.
- I really miss docklets. CPU load or Net load.. really really miss this.
- I never ever use Dash, I just do alt-f2 and try to find wathever i need. Dash is just confusing so i don't bother with it.
- I used Windows 7 and OSX on the same 16:9 monitor, I still don't feel having a little more vertical space made a difference.
So that's about it, I can use it, but I don't love it. I absolutely couldn't get used to Gnome 3, the two weeks i tried using it was pure pain.
All I can think of is why do they insist on removing customization? I think customization is like this: Implement none and users are unhappy, implement a bit of it and most users are happy, implement too much and users are confused.
It may get lost in the woods, fall from a cliff, eaten by an elephant or stolen by some poor kids when visiting a third world country.. It obviously needs a GPS too.
RTFA and the links to Dart website, Google intends to submit it to become an open standard. Also you ignored the patetns and very permissive implementation points.
The main problem of Java and C# is that they are controlled by Oracle and Microsoft respectively, both of which have repeatedly shown to not play nice with the open source developer community, have used patents aggressively and care very little for open standards.
Even mono is not open enough to allow usage in many embedded devices (read: game consoles) without paying royalties, due to the GPL license.
A replacement for those that is portable, can be used everywhere, is easy to migrate to and is distributed by the very permissive licenses Google always utilizes sounds extremely good in my view, so I think the negative tone of the summary is misplaced..
Only in the US you can patent duct taping long filenames into a crappy filesystem by sticking many short filenames together and using a special character not allowed in the original filesystem as delimiter. There is nothing innovative about it and the only reason there isn't much prior art is because any other sane company would simply just replace the filesystem for a better one that supports long filenames natively. On top of that, Microsoft used it's monopoly power (for which they were convicted) to make it a standard by forcing everyone to use it. So, yes, this is legal extortion thanks to a very flawed US legal system.
I've used consistently pretty much every popular Desktop OS or environment, Windows 3.x, Windows 95, 98, etc up to Windows 7. Also used Gnome since 1.0, and survived the troubled transition to 2.0. Used also KDE 3.x when i had to, and of course i have a mac mini too. I always felt pride in the fact i use anything presented at me with the default settings, and never bother too much to customize anything. I'm always good with the default, and learned to adapt to every new Gnome, KDE, Windows and Mac OS version. I even adapted fine to Ubuntu Unity.
But Gnome 3 was too much, and after trying fedora 15 for a few days, i quit and deleted the partition. I seriously don't understand it, i don't see why do I need to pay so much attention to task switching, to the point i have to switch screens and then identify the window I want to switch to.
I can't even tell which apps are open without going to that second screen! and for someone who works with many apps at the same time, moving/editing files, having to go check what is currently open to another screen feels very annoying.
Even if there are people who actually like Gnome 3 (as evidenced in some forum posts), why imposing and insisting on a new desktop metaphor that so many other extremely dislike? Where are the studies, research, proof that justify that gnome shell is actually an improvement? how did we users even allow this to happen?
That is exactly the problem. As things stand, the day 6K programmers become 30K is the day the US stops being the largest economic power, either because other countries became richer, or because the US became poorer, or both, otherwise it makes no sense, because there will always be plenty of people ready to work for less in underdeveloped countries. Even if oursourcing costs in india would rise, there would still be more appealing places to outsource..
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US is not immigration friendly, not even relatively:
http://usvisa-info.com/en-MX/selfservice/us_immigrant_visas
Most Chinese students are actually on student visas. They usually get a 1yr extension for work, and from there they go to H1B if hired somewhere, and Green Card if they really want to stay, but that costs a lot to a company so it must be really worth it.
The question is, do most of the Chinese students stay in the US? or do they go back to China and work there?
If this means something: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/mar/28/china-us-publisher-scientific-papers , I don't think most are staying.
And who cares about that?, we are stillt talking about Open Source. if this helps make development faster by reusing more code It's certainly welcome. If *BSD users want this functionality, they can write a compatibility layer, the same way they did with ALSA, then they have the source code for Wayland available.
Otherwise, they are giving Wayand devs the burden of mantaining all the ports and even their own video drivers (like in X11)
It's not any more that economies in recession are cheap, most of South America are not in recession and even have a similar living costs to the US, yet are heavy outsourcers with a flawless track record (look at Globant). The actual reason why outsourced companies are cheaper is that in US the skill-cost curve is exponential, while in most of the rest of the world is linear. Add to that that high level education in many countries (such Argentina) is completely free and as a result you have very cheap skilled teams.
Vostu is a Brazilian company, but the main workforce is in Argentina. Zynga came to the country first by spreading rumours that they were going to acquire a company. Zynga was, then, in the typical process of expanding it's assets and workforce to raise the value of their IPO or whole company value (The same way Playdom did before being sold to Disney, for example).
Vostu is very strong in South America, the strongest social game company here, so it was naturally the best target of aquisition by Zynga. However, Vostu execs asked for a much higher price than Zynga was willing to pay. In consequence, Zynga sued Vostu to attempt to drive their price down.
But in the end, the lawsuit carried for too long, and Zynga decided to go public anyway. Having no more reason to acquire Vostu, the lawsuit was settle briefly before the IPO.
So, not really pot calling the kettle black, just corporate bussiness as usual.
Americans are too egocentric. There's nothing that makes you "the best" at programming software, and there's good and bad experiences with software teams anywhere in the world. As a foreigner, I led and completed several outsourced projects for clients in your country successfully. Doing your job well, so our clients trust us and recommend us to other american companies is the same here as well as everyone else, otherwise software industry here wouldn't thrive as much as it does, and we are not even as cheap as India. Add to that, that high qualty education here is either free or unexpensive, so there is a great amount of supply in highly skilled programmers.
Try not being so short-sighted. Many projects can't be done well, or can't be done at all if you don't include someone with a lot of experience and in a team. In the US (unlike other parts of the world), the really experienced guys, with a great track record, are either extremely expensive to hire or only available as consultants. If you can't get these people (because they are either too expensive or short in supply), then your project is a no-go, and your whole team (which will consist mainly of americans) misses a chance to do it, or worse because the whole project will then be outsourced. This is true for several fields in science, and even in software, like enterprise software, databases, or even videogames. So, yeah, highly skilled people on H1B, when used properly, are great because they will definitely create employment.
With their constant refusal to keep up to the usability, performance, security, and innovation of other browsers it seemed to me that Firefox developers didn't care much about getting new users (they lost quite a lot in fact). Now, it seems they don't need developers either, because how many will be willing to learn and get proficient in a new, complex programming language just to contribute to a project?
It IS a plugin, it uses the PPAPI specification, which is a much improved plugin API. Firefox and Opera will probably never want to implement it, though.
When I've been to the Arab market in Jerusalem, the shop owners guessed the country I came from (in South America), my religion and the fact I'm a musican, as well as how much I was willing to pay for each item. Guess a simple algorithm is nothing compared to thousands of years of tradition as shopkeepers..
Mozilla people have this strange vision that they can replace everything (OSs, Desktop, Apps, Cellphone and tablet UIs, etc) with HTML5, JavaScript and nothing else. While Im sure that many developers like JavaScript and that HTML5 brings several great features to the open web, most of us programmers definitely DONT want to use it to write all sorts of applications and games. JS+HTML5 are not a silver bullet or general purpose enough. The recent resurgence of native applications is proof of this.
Here in South America, netbooks outsell notebooks by a wide margin. They are much more capable than cheap tablets of the same price and much cheaper than actual fully featured computers. They are also used a lot by business people who don't really want to carry around a full computer.
And lose the ease of deployment that web based apps have and the multiplatform goodness of Native Client? No thanks.
The term you are looking for is "usability designers", something that is becoming more and more trendy nowadays. The problem is, there is no solid ground on that kind of theory.. only a few "gurus" here and there and a lot of decisions that seemed to have worked by pure luck. There are a lot of them making a big buck working as consultants for websites and it was only a matter of time until open source desktops were struck by this trend.
It's simple, someone comes and determines that the way you have been doing things, that worked perfect for you and everyone you know up to this point is not optimal and must be done differently. Then, they throw away something that works for everyone and replace it by something that maybe works better for most, only for a few or for no one.
It's hit or miss, really, pulled by people with a gigantic ego. Gnome 3 doesn't have access to the large amount of user test groups that Apple, Google or Microsoft do, and even the later companies don't do changes as radical as in Gnome Shell.
So, yeah, Gnome 3 is just people with large egos forcing their unproven beliefs upon us, the community.
Native Client is like a plugin that makes all other plugins obsolete.
-It can do everything you can do with Flash, Unity, Silverlight, etc.
-You can use any language to develop for it, C, C++, ObjC, Python, C#, you name it.
-Can access everything JS can (using the Pepper plugin API).
-It's from a trusted vendor (Google), so most people will not be afraid to install it.
-Will come pre-installed in the soon to be most popular web browser.
-It's open source
-It's much more secure than existing plugins due to sandboxing.
And, yes, I can understand HTML5 purists, but the truth is that:
1) Not everything can be made into a web application using HTML5+JS.
2) There's way too much code and applications written in other languages..
3) Cross-Platform web deployment is very attractive. Compile for x86 and ARM and 99.999% of the devices on the planet can be supported.
So, disable it if you don't want it, but this is a very attractive idea with a lot of potential for us developers, and even Adobe is trying somehting similar with Alchemy on Flash. It's a much more realistic way to bring actual real applications to the web than the dream that HTML5+JavaScript is.
Just like in Firefox, each time API version changes, extensions will break and will not work for a while. That is not cool. This is just an excuse from the Gnome developers for not fixing what users complain is broken..
The highly skilled people take jobs Americans want regardless of where in the world they are located. This can't be avoided and is called outsourcing.
I live in South America, and pretty much anyone I know here on the tech industry is taking jobs from American companies.
If America lets the highly skilled people in, at least their money will be spent inside the country, and this will end up generating more jobs in the long run.
My experience programming Kinect is not very good..
It fails to detect a very large range of scenarios and poses and goes crazy with objects around the studio thinking it's persons. Put your arms together, show your side or move fast enough and it will get confused.
It's really easy to make it show broken poses and seems only designed for tracking people front-facing it directly with arms stretched outwards..
Even the unofficial opensource SDK does much better at keeping track of you than the real thing. Not to mention the enormous input lag.
So, is it me or has Kinect been hyped enormously for its rather lacking technical capabilities?
How can Microsoft be threatening giant corporations with such incredibly ridiculously simple, obvious, irrelevant and pre-existing patents? How can they even call them "inventions"? How can so many companies be SO afraid of Microsoft to pay them large sums of money for this? Are they that much afraid that the patent system is so broken that they will have massive losses if they litigate? Something is not right with the world!!
- I got used to the vertical launcher, but still feeld kind of awkward. I still wish i could make it horizontal at the bottom.
- I could definitely not get used to the global menubar. It's annoying. I figured how to remove it, though.
- I really miss docklets. CPU load or Net load.. really really miss this.
- I never ever use Dash, I just do alt-f2 and try to find wathever i need. Dash is just confusing so i don't bother with it.
- I used Windows 7 and OSX on the same 16:9 monitor, I still don't feel having a little more vertical space made a difference.
So that's about it, I can use it, but I don't love it. I absolutely couldn't get used to Gnome 3, the two weeks i tried using it was pure pain.
All I can think of is why do they insist on removing customization? I think customization is like this: Implement none and users are unhappy, implement a bit of it and most users are happy, implement too much and users are confused.
It may get lost in the woods, fall from a cliff, eaten by an elephant or stolen by some poor kids when visiting a third world country.. It obviously needs a GPS too.
RTFA and the links to Dart website, Google intends to submit it to become an open standard. Also you ignored the patetns and very permissive implementation points.
The main problem of Java and C# is that they are controlled by Oracle and Microsoft respectively, both of which have repeatedly shown to not play nice with the open source developer community, have used patents aggressively and care very little for open standards.
Even mono is not open enough to allow usage in many embedded devices (read: game consoles) without paying royalties, due to the GPL license.
A replacement for those that is portable, can be used everywhere, is easy to migrate to and is distributed by the very permissive licenses Google always utilizes sounds extremely good in my view, so I think the negative tone of the summary is misplaced..
Only in the US you can patent duct taping long filenames into a crappy filesystem by sticking many short filenames together and using a special character not allowed in the original filesystem as delimiter. There is nothing innovative about it and the only reason there isn't much prior art is because any other sane company would simply just replace the filesystem for a better one that supports long filenames natively. On top of that, Microsoft used it's monopoly power (for which they were convicted) to make it a standard by forcing everyone to use it.
So, yes, this is legal extortion thanks to a very flawed US legal system.
I've used consistently pretty much every popular Desktop OS or environment, Windows 3.x, Windows 95, 98, etc up to Windows 7. Also used Gnome since 1.0, and survived the troubled transition to 2.0. Used also KDE 3.x when i had to, and of course i have a mac mini too. I always felt pride in the fact i use anything presented at me with the default settings, and never bother too much to customize anything. I'm always good with the default, and learned to adapt to every new Gnome, KDE, Windows and Mac OS version. I even adapted fine to Ubuntu Unity.
But Gnome 3 was too much, and after trying fedora 15 for a few days, i quit and deleted the partition. I seriously don't understand it, i don't see why do I need to pay so much attention to task switching, to the point i have to switch screens and then identify the window I want to switch to.
I can't even tell which apps are open without going to that second screen! and for someone who works with many apps at the same time, moving/editing files, having to go check what is currently open to another screen feels very annoying. Even if there are people who actually like Gnome 3 (as evidenced in some forum posts), why imposing and insisting on a new desktop metaphor that so many other extremely dislike? Where are the studies, research, proof that justify that gnome shell is actually an improvement? how did we users even allow this to happen?
That is exactly the problem. As things stand, the day 6K programmers become 30K is the day the US stops being the largest economic power, either because other countries became richer, or because the US became poorer, or both, otherwise it makes no sense, because there will always be plenty of people ready to work for less in underdeveloped countries. Even if oursourcing costs in india would rise, there would still be more appealing places to outsource..