So, after a lifetime of watching older members of the science and engineering community get outsourced, downsized, run ragged, and generally mistreated by their employers, young people don't want to sign up for the same thing?
Good for them. Maybe the kids today are smarter than we thought.
--saint
Perhaps, but it's a good gig if you can get one: how many other professions pay upwards of US$100k a year for someone not in management?
Further, if you have the skills, you will keep the job: you really don't want to outsource the "tricksy" bits. Disaster befalls those that do. The really GOOD foreign engineers come here, leaving the dregs to become code jockeys at home.
Now, that $100k doesn't just compensate you for the great job you are doing: it ALSO compensates you for the risk you are taking of becoming irrlevant in an industry where skills become useless with a half-life of three to five years.
I don't think that three minutes really makes that much of a difference between first and fifth place, when it represents less than one percent of the mean of those two points.
More surprising is that they think programmers get anywhere near 7 hours sleep a night: I average 5 Sunday to Friday, and 10 each on Friday and Saturday, for an average of 6h26m. In my youth, I got a LOT less (working 100 hour weeks was not unusual).
Odd, I once commented, with some indignation, that I was annoyed that a police cruiser was parked in a supermarket lot, with no one inside, and the engine running. I think I said, (of the non-present cop), "What an idiot! Leaving the car running like that!". It was an opinion.
Well, said "idiot" appeared, and asked me if there was a problem. I responded (politely) that I found it annoying that one would leave a car, with its engine running, like that. He informed me "It's the law". I didn't know if such police protocol was actually dictated by statute or not, so chose not to disagree. I STILL think it is idiocy, whether required by statute, or not. Officer "idiot" was in the way of my path, so I asked him, "Am I under arrest?" He replied, "No." I then asked "Am I free to go?" I was THEN told "No," and detained in the back of the running crusier while he conferred with his partner to determine if I should be arrested. I was warned that "next time", I'd be arrested for "disorderly conduct", and released.
So, now expressing an opinion in public is "disorderly conduct". I was not in "anyone's face", blocking anyone's path, or following anyone to express my opinion to them: I looked, spoke my mind, and kept on my way.
He's not displaying pornographic material. He's viewing it. No one is forced into the library, and once there, tradition holds that all sorts of material is available for selection, not all of it appealing to everyone.
I would expect young children to either go to a children's library or the children's section of a general library.
You can make the argument that certain material is best viewed out of the sight of children, but that is not an argument for it not to be viewed by adults.
Yeah, I'm aware of those effects, as well as atmospheric extent expansion and contraction. That WILL affect satellites in the long run, but I can't see a major solar flare or CME causing it to rain debris all of a sudden.
HAH! Drinking Bawls Exxtra DOES get you frosty pissy firsty posty goodness reflexes.
There's a product endorsement in there somewhere but I'll be damned if I pull it out and put it together.... Oooh! build finished, time to work some more...
An H1B is a temporary visa to fill a temporary need. It requires an LCA which establishes that there is a local labor shortage and the alien will be paid at least 95% of the prevailing wage.
A labor-based Green Card requires an LC as the first step, which requires the employer demonstrate that a national attempt has been made to hire the [b]least qualified[/b] American, before settling on the foreigner. This is a FAR more stringent requirement.
An H1B may cost an employer $3k to $5k in immigration attorney expenses and filing fees but a Green Card costs between $15k and $30k depending on the case.
The H1B is not a "dual intent" visa. Rather, the doctrine of dual intent is recognized for people on that visa: they may be here with temporary intent for one job, but have permanent intent with regard to another one IF they obtain lawful permanent resident status. In other words, their having permanent intent is NOT a visa violation (as it would be, with, say, a TN1 visa.)
Further, just because they may apply for permanent residence does not mean it will be easy for them to get it: it is far more than just a formality.
H1Bs have to pay FICA, and can't collect until they have paid into it for ten years. They may be able to collect in their own countries when they return home, from that country's equivalent plan if there is a reciprocity treaty with the U.S. (Canada and the U.S. have one: you can collect SSI or OAS, but not both).
But, H1Bs are only renewable once for a total of six years (this can be extended year over year in the case of a green card application that is pending the last step). After that, you have to be out of the U.S. for a year before you can return on another H1B visa (though NAFTA visas might be available, but as those require temporary intent, getting one after an H1B just ends without leaving the U.S. first could be hard).
So, H1Bs do have to pay FICA, and are unlikely to collect benefits unless they immigrate to the U.S. or have other unusual circumstances.
As a former H1B holder, and now lawful permanent resident, I find this fair: one does not waltz into a place without paying some sort of dues.
Perhaps one in ten reviews of my code have managed to find a bug. The rest usually fall into the following category:
1) Bona-fide bugs were not found. This is the vast majority.
2) Someone complains about style... where style is either ill-defined, or has the guide has changed since that block of code was written. This is particularly bad when modifying GPL code that does not adhere to internal style.
3) Someone doesn't understand the programming language and complains about a bug that isn't.
4) Someone doesn't like the implementation but can't offer a valid reason for rejecting it (performance, etc.)
5) There are no bugs, well none that weren't found yet.
Code reviews are useful, but you require good reviewers of two different types: 1) those who don't know the semantics of the components and pick out syntactical errors that are valid language constructs. and 2) those that do know the semantics and can pick out logical errors.
Yeah, the mechanics are low tech, and the controls medium tech, but I would submit that a Fresnel lens is high-tech, and possibly also the composition of the sand.
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+5 LOL :-)
Pon farr not Pom'Far.
No! In the cases that were prosecuted the individuals were prosecuted as adults photographing themselves as children.
"Prosecuted as an adult" as nothing to do with age and everything to do with the severity of the crime and degree of understanding of the child.
So, after a lifetime of watching older members of the science and engineering community get outsourced, downsized, run ragged, and generally mistreated by their employers, young people don't want to sign up for the same thing?
Good for them. Maybe the kids today are smarter than we thought.
--saint
Perhaps, but it's a good gig if you can get one: how many other professions pay upwards of US$100k a year for someone not in management?
Further, if you have the skills, you will keep the job: you really don't want to outsource the "tricksy" bits. Disaster befalls those that do. The really GOOD foreign engineers come here, leaving the dregs to become code jockeys at home.
Now, that $100k doesn't just compensate you for the great job you are doing: it ALSO compensates you for the risk you are taking of becoming irrlevant in an industry where skills become useless with a half-life of three to five years.
Er, six minutes, and less rthan 2%. My bad.
I don't think that three minutes really makes that much of a difference between first and fifth place, when it represents less than one percent of the mean of those two points.
More surprising is that they think programmers get anywhere near 7 hours sleep a night: I average 5 Sunday to Friday, and 10 each on Friday and Saturday, for an average of 6h26m. In my youth, I got a LOT less (working 100 hour weeks was not unusual).
Odd, I once commented, with some indignation, that I was annoyed that a police cruiser was parked in a supermarket lot, with no one inside, and the engine running. I think I said, (of the non-present cop), "What an idiot! Leaving the car running like that!". It was an opinion.
Well, said "idiot" appeared, and asked me if there was a problem. I responded (politely) that I found it annoying that one would leave a car, with its engine running, like that. He informed me "It's the law". I didn't know if such police protocol was actually dictated by statute or not, so chose not to disagree. I STILL think it is idiocy, whether required by statute, or not. Officer "idiot" was in the way of my path, so I asked him, "Am I under arrest?" He replied, "No." I then asked "Am I free to go?" I was THEN told "No," and detained in the back of the running crusier while he conferred with his partner to determine if I should be arrested. I was warned that "next time", I'd be arrested for "disorderly conduct", and released.
So, now expressing an opinion in public is "disorderly conduct". I was not in "anyone's face", blocking anyone's path, or following anyone to express my opinion to them: I looked, spoke my mind, and kept on my way.
What I fear is that we'll wind up having to chose our poisons.
Because it looks like there's no way in hell that it will be left in the hands of those who built it, maintain it and understand it.
Then, when attacked, perhaps they should declare war on those that didn't.
Unless you are willing to die to protect your freedoms, you don't have any. What? You though freedom was cheap?
You can damn well shout "Fire!" in a crouded theater... as long as there is actually a fire there.
The reason you can't if there isn't is a matter of causing a panic without cause, and has nothing to do with free speech.
He's not displaying pornographic material. He's viewing it. No one is forced into the library, and once there, tradition holds that all sorts of material is available for selection, not all of it appealing to everyone.
No, fool. In libraries people use their eyes which does not disturb others, or their ears with headphones.
I would expect young children to either go to a children's library or the children's section of a general library.
You can make the argument that certain material is best viewed out of the sight of children, but that is not an argument for it not to be viewed by adults.
There is a differnce between restricting behavior and restricting content.
And, before you go arguing that viewing certain content is restrictable behavior, I'll ask you to check your sophistry at the door.
Why couldn't the prudish Ms. Howe move to another computer?
"... and underwater off the coast that would zip electricity around..."
Hmm.
Electricity.
Under water.
Under salty water.
What could possibly go wrong and why am I reminded of the old proposal for liquid sodium cooled nuclear reactors in submarines?
Yeah, I'm aware of those effects, as well as atmospheric extent expansion and contraction. That WILL affect satellites in the long run, but I can't see a major solar flare or CME causing it to rain debris all of a sudden.
Really?
How?
HAH! Drinking Bawls Exxtra DOES get you frosty pissy firsty posty goodness reflexes.
There's a product endorsement in there somewhere but I'll be damned if I pull it out and put it together.... Oooh! build finished, time to work some more...
Ruh Roh!
An H1B is a temporary visa to fill a temporary need. It requires an LCA which establishes that there is a local labor shortage and the alien will be paid at least 95% of the prevailing wage.
A labor-based Green Card requires an LC as the first step, which requires the employer demonstrate that a national attempt has been made to hire the [b]least qualified[/b] American, before settling on the foreigner. This is a FAR more stringent requirement.
An H1B may cost an employer $3k to $5k in immigration attorney expenses and filing fees but a Green Card costs between $15k and $30k depending on the case.
The H1B is not a "dual intent" visa. Rather, the doctrine of dual intent is recognized for people on that visa: they may be here with temporary intent for one job, but have permanent intent with regard to another one IF they obtain lawful permanent resident status. In other words, their having permanent intent is NOT a visa violation (as it would be, with, say, a TN1 visa.)
Further, just because they may apply for permanent residence does not mean it will be easy for them to get it: it is far more than just a formality.
H1Bs have to pay FICA, and can't collect until they have paid into it for ten years. They may be able to collect in their own countries when they return home, from that country's equivalent plan if there is a reciprocity treaty with the U.S. (Canada and the U.S. have one: you can collect SSI or OAS, but not both).
But, H1Bs are only renewable once for a total of six years (this can be extended year over year in the case of a green card application that is pending the last step). After that, you have to be out of the U.S. for a year before you can return on another H1B visa (though NAFTA visas might be available, but as those require temporary intent, getting one after an H1B just ends without leaving the U.S. first could be hard).
So, H1Bs do have to pay FICA, and are unlikely to collect benefits unless they immigrate to the U.S. or have other unusual circumstances.
As a former H1B holder, and now lawful permanent resident, I find this fair: one does not waltz into a place without paying some sort of dues.
I was going to say, "Yeah but latency would S.....U.....C.....K."
Perhaps one in ten reviews of my code have managed to find a bug. The rest usually fall into the following category:
1) Bona-fide bugs were not found. This is the vast majority.
2) Someone complains about style... where style is either ill-defined, or has the guide has changed since that block of code was written. This is particularly bad when modifying GPL code that does not adhere to internal style.
3) Someone doesn't understand the programming language and complains about a bug that isn't.
4) Someone doesn't like the implementation but can't offer a valid reason for rejecting it (performance, etc.)
5) There are no bugs, well none that weren't found yet.
Code reviews are useful, but you require good reviewers of two different types: 1) those who don't know the semantics of the components and pick out syntactical errors that are valid language constructs. and 2) those that do know the semantics and can pick out logical errors.
Yeah, the mechanics are low tech, and the controls medium tech, but I would submit that a Fresnel lens is high-tech, and possibly also the composition of the sand.