Quick, name one non-US based tech company started in the past 10 years with at least 500 employees.
Can you think of one? I can't.
Now let's try US tech companies. Since 2001 right off the top of my head there are Facebook and Twitter. I think Youtube was also in that timeframe, but they're kind of gray area since Google bought them before they got really massive.
Microsoft still has something like 50k employees in the States, if they could get better technical staff by outsourcing to India why would they care about H1Bs? Why not just open an India office?
Face it, the best place in the world to be in high tech is still Silicon Valley. Close runners up are still Seattle and New York. You would have to look pretty hard to see any indication that America isn't the place to be for high tech.
Automate or offshore. And the things that are offshored will be automated once the offshore workers cost more than the robots. It's only a matter of time. China doesn't build iPhones, they assemble them from parts that are made in largely automated factories mostly in other parts of Asia. Same with a lot of the other 'made in China' stuff. Final assembly is often still manual, so it gets done where manual processes are cheaper than figuring out a way to automate.
Who modded this crap up? China manipulates its currency by buying US debt. Why do you think China buys so much of something they can't control? Printing money has very little effect on the difference in prices between a good in two countries, the inflation will keep up with the currency difference. Buy buying US debt China both increases their money supply on the international market, and decreases the US money supply. This inbalance forces the US dollar to be more expensive (less supply available) and pushes the value of China's currency down (increased supply). It's a dangerous game, and one that could backfire on China pretty badly, but it allows them to keep their currency low for the time being without causing massive inflation. It will be interesting to see what their exit strategy is, as they can't keep buying US debt forever.
Pretty much any remote packaged with a TV can control a DVD player and vice versa. It takes some configuration, and for people to RTFM, but I have yet to buy a TV or DVD player without a remote that could be configured to work for multiple devices.
Traffic stations have had helicopters and small planes at low altitudes for decades, if you are scared of people seeing you in a bathing suit then cover your pool.
Even greater than that is your ISP, since they know anything you send that isn't encrypted, and for encrypted stuff they still know who you've been communicating with and how much data you transfer when, etc. Clearly the solution is for everyone to get off the internet and move to a cabin in the mountains where no one will track anything they do.
That's not the worst crash ever, the worst crash ever was a collision between 2 747s on a single runway at a small airport in foggy conditions. Nearly 600 people died.
In an electric going downhill you shouldn't be using any fuel of any sort. Most gas engines will still need to burn some fuel to idle the engine if you're coasting. You aren't burning much fuel, but so long as the engine is still running you're burning some.
In the past those large idle populations have had problems getting food on the table - we can now provide for people who don't work (whether or not that happens depends on where you are). If people are well-fed and can find shelter without having a job will we see the same levels of discontent?
Ever bought a car? You probably paid a different price than the next person who bought an identical car to yours. The idea that everyone pays the sticker price for most items is a relatively recent phenomenon, and not a global one. There's nothing wrong with merchants trying to charge some people more than others, just like there's nothing wrong with haggling over price or going elsewhere if the merchant won't hit a price you want.
HR shouldn't be interviewing for technical positions beyond a basic initial interview to ensure that the candidate actually exists and wants to work for the company.
The 5 years question is really just asking if you intend to move up the management or technical ladder. If I'm looking for someone who may eventually become a software architect and a candidate tells me they want to be a VP in 5 years I may think twice before hiring them.
Dry ice is generally around -78C before sublimating, while liquid nitrogen is something like -200C when it evaporates. I don't think we yet have superconductors that can get hot enough for dry ice to be sufficient cooling. Thankfully we've moved from liquid helium (gas at -270C) to nitrogen, which saves a bunch of energy, so maybe one day we'll get there, but not yet.
Have you seen the number of people arguing that something with high demand should cost less than something with low demand if supply is essentially unlimited? I don't think this crowd passed business 101...
Don't most profs do that? Isn't that the whole point of having PhDs doing both research and teaching? I know most of my 4th year profs talked about what they were working on in class...
Which isn't an issue so long as the magnets are well connected to something too big to swallow. If your kid's toys break into pieces small enough to put in their mouth it's time to throw them out.
This is a really great method. I've worked in software for several fields and everyone needs developers that know software + the field we're working in. Almost never happens, so you hire software people and train them in the specific field. If you want to move into software from another field find someone making software for the field you already work in and convince them it would be worthwhile to hire you for your domain knowledge and train you on the development side (assuming you have some technical ability of course, I doubt you'll find an employer willing to train from scratch).
They're going to use translucent floors to get sunlight to the bottom? Great idea. Domain squatters, now would probably be the time to grab pyramidupskirt.com.
We had something in the middle - xray the carry-on luggage and do a metal check on the passengers. As a bonus we don't even need any expensive new equipment or training, which is why it's so hard to convince the right people to go back.
Wow apples-to-orages much? a couple thousand gallons of gas will not fuel 1000 cars, so why compare the storage space to batteries for 1000 cars? Also every time you're swapping a battery, so each station only needs enough batteries that it has time to recharge before that battery is needed again. Unlike a gas station where you need to have massive trucks trying to get through tiny downtown streets to refuel all the stations.
If everyone switched to electric tomorrow then yes, infrastructure would be an issue. Amount of energy would not be (what do you think we're going to do with all the gas if we aren't using it in the cars? Just stop buying oil because we like brown-outs?) You're being scared by numbers that we already have, just calculate the potential energy in the fuel in all the gas stations in the country. Then stop fear-mongering.
If you're getting more than a 3% discount it's probably because they aren't planning on paying taxes on your purchase, not because they can skip the CC fee. Visa and MasterCard are in the 2.5-3% range mostly, Amex is a fair bit higher. Plus deposit fees plus the time you have to pay employees to balance the cash in tills aren't free.
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Quick, name one non-US based tech company started in the past 10 years with at least 500 employees.
Can you think of one? I can't.
Now let's try US tech companies. Since 2001 right off the top of my head there are Facebook and Twitter. I think Youtube was also in that timeframe, but they're kind of gray area since Google bought them before they got really massive.
Microsoft still has something like 50k employees in the States, if they could get better technical staff by outsourcing to India why would they care about H1Bs? Why not just open an India office?
Face it, the best place in the world to be in high tech is still Silicon Valley. Close runners up are still Seattle and New York. You would have to look pretty hard to see any indication that America isn't the place to be for high tech.
Automate or offshore. And the things that are offshored will be automated once the offshore workers cost more than the robots. It's only a matter of time. China doesn't build iPhones, they assemble them from parts that are made in largely automated factories mostly in other parts of Asia. Same with a lot of the other 'made in China' stuff. Final assembly is often still manual, so it gets done where manual processes are cheaper than figuring out a way to automate.
Who modded this crap up? China manipulates its currency by buying US debt. Why do you think China buys so much of something they can't control? Printing money has very little effect on the difference in prices between a good in two countries, the inflation will keep up with the currency difference. Buy buying US debt China both increases their money supply on the international market, and decreases the US money supply. This inbalance forces the US dollar to be more expensive (less supply available) and pushes the value of China's currency down (increased supply). It's a dangerous game, and one that could backfire on China pretty badly, but it allows them to keep their currency low for the time being without causing massive inflation. It will be interesting to see what their exit strategy is, as they can't keep buying US debt forever.
It's up to 4 now. Mods, wtf?
Are roadable airplanes close enough?
Pretty much any remote packaged with a TV can control a DVD player and vice versa. It takes some configuration, and for people to RTFM, but I have yet to buy a TV or DVD player without a remote that could be configured to work for multiple devices.
Oh won't someone think of the children!
Traffic stations have had helicopters and small planes at low altitudes for decades, if you are scared of people seeing you in a bathing suit then cover your pool.
Even greater than that is your ISP, since they know anything you send that isn't encrypted, and for encrypted stuff they still know who you've been communicating with and how much data you transfer when, etc. Clearly the solution is for everyone to get off the internet and move to a cabin in the mountains where no one will track anything they do.
He has a position there, and he's visited once, but it's not something that required him to move to Canada.
That's not the worst crash ever, the worst crash ever was a collision between 2 747s on a single runway at a small airport in foggy conditions. Nearly 600 people died.
In an electric going downhill you shouldn't be using any fuel of any sort. Most gas engines will still need to burn some fuel to idle the engine if you're coasting. You aren't burning much fuel, but so long as the engine is still running you're burning some.
In the past those large idle populations have had problems getting food on the table - we can now provide for people who don't work (whether or not that happens depends on where you are). If people are well-fed and can find shelter without having a job will we see the same levels of discontent?
Ever bought a car? You probably paid a different price than the next person who bought an identical car to yours. The idea that everyone pays the sticker price for most items is a relatively recent phenomenon, and not a global one. There's nothing wrong with merchants trying to charge some people more than others, just like there's nothing wrong with haggling over price or going elsewhere if the merchant won't hit a price you want.
HR shouldn't be interviewing for technical positions beyond a basic initial interview to ensure that the candidate actually exists and wants to work for the company.
The 5 years question is really just asking if you intend to move up the management or technical ladder. If I'm looking for someone who may eventually become a software architect and a candidate tells me they want to be a VP in 5 years I may think twice before hiring them.
Dry ice is generally around -78C before sublimating, while liquid nitrogen is something like -200C when it evaporates. I don't think we yet have superconductors that can get hot enough for dry ice to be sufficient cooling. Thankfully we've moved from liquid helium (gas at -270C) to nitrogen, which saves a bunch of energy, so maybe one day we'll get there, but not yet.
Have you seen the number of people arguing that something with high demand should cost less than something with low demand if supply is essentially unlimited? I don't think this crowd passed business 101...
Why not?
Don't most profs do that? Isn't that the whole point of having PhDs doing both research and teaching? I know most of my 4th year profs talked about what they were working on in class...
Which isn't an issue so long as the magnets are well connected to something too big to swallow. If your kid's toys break into pieces small enough to put in their mouth it's time to throw them out.
This is a really great method. I've worked in software for several fields and everyone needs developers that know software + the field we're working in. Almost never happens, so you hire software people and train them in the specific field. If you want to move into software from another field find someone making software for the field you already work in and convince them it would be worthwhile to hire you for your domain knowledge and train you on the development side (assuming you have some technical ability of course, I doubt you'll find an employer willing to train from scratch).
They're going to use translucent floors to get sunlight to the bottom? Great idea. Domain squatters, now would probably be the time to grab pyramidupskirt.com.
We had something in the middle - xray the carry-on luggage and do a metal check on the passengers. As a bonus we don't even need any expensive new equipment or training, which is why it's so hard to convince the right people to go back.
Wow apples-to-orages much? a couple thousand gallons of gas will not fuel 1000 cars, so why compare the storage space to batteries for 1000 cars? Also every time you're swapping a battery, so each station only needs enough batteries that it has time to recharge before that battery is needed again. Unlike a gas station where you need to have massive trucks trying to get through tiny downtown streets to refuel all the stations.
If everyone switched to electric tomorrow then yes, infrastructure would be an issue. Amount of energy would not be (what do you think we're going to do with all the gas if we aren't using it in the cars? Just stop buying oil because we like brown-outs?) You're being scared by numbers that we already have, just calculate the potential energy in the fuel in all the gas stations in the country. Then stop fear-mongering.
If you're getting more than a 3% discount it's probably because they aren't planning on paying taxes on your purchase, not because they can skip the CC fee. Visa and MasterCard are in the 2.5-3% range mostly, Amex is a fair bit higher. Plus deposit fees plus the time you have to pay employees to balance the cash in tills aren't free.