Comey said: "110 e-mails in 52 e-mail chains have been determined by the owning agency to contain classified information at the time they were sent or received". These servers were administered by people WITHOUT security clearances. Meaning that Clinton GAVE access to classified information to the people managing those servers. Not to mention the fact that the email server was connected to the internet and an easy target for Chinese/Russian/Korean hacking. What Clinton did was FAR FAR worse than Petraeus.
That explains why the main choices for President will be Trump and Clinton. Neither of these people would be elected dog catcher in a society that was actually paying attention and applying critical thought.
Sure, it's easy to say they would take the tech workers. But would Canada gladly take the 10 million illegal immigrants who may not be as skilled? Those are the ones who really want to flee Trump.
Exactly. I would be much more willing to adopt paperless statements if companies made them more convenient than paper statements.
My bank only gives me 6 months of history. 6 months!!! I can't even look back over the entire year to do an annual budget or research something older at tax prep time. As cheap as digital storage is, banks should be providing at least 5 years of history.
What's the point of encouraging Americans to go into Computer Science when the government will just allow companies to replace them with cheap H1-B visa later? Teach Americans to be project managers, sorry "scrum masters", so that they can spend their time bossing around the H1-B visa labor and then trying to explain to middle management why the super cheap labor can't produce quality software.
There is a very simple solution to this problem: have the federal government charge companies $50k per year for each H1B visa. Companies will only use H1B visa when they REALLY need it (which was the original intent) and the federal government gets more funds. No more using H1Bs just to get cheap labor.
They need Americans to translate the requirements for the H1Bs, fill out the TPS reports, and try to get the offshore devs to sling out code that isn't a total bug-ridden mess.
I agree with the Subversion recommendation. I've been forced into using git because its the next "great" thing in source control. Subversion met all our needs and worked well without much fuss. git is a pain to use, with cryptic commands and plenty of ways to screw yourself.
"Racial bias has to be operating, inequities are rampant."
There must be MASSIVE racial bias in the NBA. Those are extremely well-paying jobs and African Americans make up 76% of the NBA even though they are only 10% of the population. This MUST be proof that the NBA has set up a massive racial bias operation.
I wonder if they teach "Correlation does not imply causation" in the Houston gifted program. I wonder if they teach it at Vanderbilt University.
the problem with "pay more" is that there's often a huge discrepancy between what a company can afford and what experienced people think they're worth.That's the whole reason why so many companies jump on the visa workers thing. Just like it happened in the auto industry, workers got used to high wages and are unwilling to consider the actual value of their contribution in a world where programming is now a commodity, so they end up replaced by cheap labor from a developing country. Same thing that happened to helpdesk, then sysadmins.
Of course it's easier to blame everything on pure greed from those evil companies, but see how much good this did in Detroit.
This has nothing whatsoever to do with the "actual value" of their contribution. Programmers are the most important resource for many of these companies, but compare the average programmer salary vs the average marketing/sales team salary. If every job has to compete with 3rd world country labor prices, then we will ALL end up being paid 3rd world labor rates. That's the end game here. We are all on a massive race to the bottom, where the only decent jobs left in America will be in the service industry and health industry. Everything else will be off-shored.
Our government could help to reduce this problem simply by cracking down on guest visa and H1B violations, but that is highly unlikely. They could also close all the tax loopholes that support companies who send jobs overseas, but we know that won't happen either.
Will they punish a Secretary of State who had Top Secret info on a private email server that was running out of a bathroom? That's right, laws are only for the little guy and those "evil" corporations.
I'm trying to understand why people have any expectations whatsoever for something they paid 0.99 for. Most people tip a waitress more than that just for bringing food to their table.
I've never seen a successful software project where the entire application was written overseas. It's not easy to gather detailed requirements from US workers and throw it overseas and have foreign workers completely build it. The only way the offshore model works is to have American developers gather the requirements, plan out the work, give detailed tasks to foreign developers and then monitor the progress daily to clear any impediments / misunderstands and make sure the quality is acceptable. Then you have the problem of who is going to maintain the software for the next decade? To maintain software, you either need excellent documentation (which foreign workers suck at) or you need the same offshore developers to stick with the application through it's lifetime (good luck with that). At some point you lose that application knowledge and end up having to pay new people to learn it from scratch.
By the time you factor in the oversight overhead, the language barrier, the time lost in misunderstands, the quality gap, and the cost of having to pay new developers to maintain the application, I personally don't think the offshore model saves any money. But trying to convince the beancounters that is a waste of breath. All they see is that they can pay offshore developers half as much per hour.
Building software isn't like building an iPhone. An iPhone has detailed specs that foreign workers just need to reproduce over and over again. Each software application is a unique product that needs to be designed, built, and maintained from the ground up. That fact makes it much hard to just throw specs over the wall and have offshore workers execute it.
If the Democrats weren't going to put these assurances into the law then Obama shouldn't have repeated the promise dozens of times in dozens of speeches. They could have put grandfather clauses into the law so that people could keep their doctor/plan, but refused to do so.
The Democrats crafted this law in back rooms. They forced votes on it without giving anyone time to read the massive law. When Ted Kennedy died and they lost their supermajority in the Senate, they pushed this massive law through a reconciliation process instead of going through the standard vote process. Not a single Republican voted for this law. The Democrats had to make deals with centrist Democrats (the LA purchase, Cornhusker kickback) just to get enough votes to scrape it by. After it went into effect and the lies were noticed ("if you like your dr you can keep your dr"), Senate majority leader Harry Reid (D) could have amended the law to fix it but he refused to do so. Yet somehow it is the Republican's fault???
I don't see Taylor Swift hurting for cash either. In my opinion, "popular" musicians have been overpaid relative to what value they add to society for quite some time. I won't shed a tear because Taylor Swift doesn't get paid millions for her latest "music".
Can you imagine the ramifications if the American people actually got fed up enough with both parties to elect a 3rd party candidate as the President? The Democrats and Republicans would suddenly be falling on themselves to appease "the people" again. All it would take is one presidential election to change the game for decades. If only enough Americans would get the balls to do it.
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Comey said: "110 e-mails in 52 e-mail chains have been determined by the owning agency to contain classified information at the time they were sent or received". These servers were administered by people WITHOUT security clearances. Meaning that Clinton GAVE access to classified information to the people managing those servers. Not to mention the fact that the email server was connected to the internet and an easy target for Chinese/Russian/Korean hacking. What Clinton did was FAR FAR worse than Petraeus.
That explains why the main choices for President will be Trump and Clinton. Neither of these people would be elected dog catcher in a society that was actually paying attention and applying critical thought.
Creativity is about a lot more than just being an artist.
Who needs the scientific method when we have CONSENSUS? Let's just call it a day and go home now.
Sure, it's easy to say they would take the tech workers. But would Canada gladly take the 10 million illegal immigrants who may not be as skilled? Those are the ones who really want to flee Trump.
"Business success requires a skilled workforce, not uneducated unready workers"
I can tell you haven't worked with many H1B visas.
"Are you seriously planning to hire anyone [ from this country or is this just a necessary step before you bring in cheap H1B visa labor ]?"
It helps to be as accurate as possible in your interview questioning.
virtually everyone?? All 7 billion people on earth? Frankly, I think "one person" is closer to reality than "virtually everyone"
I don't play any racing or flight sims and have zero interest in paying > $400 for VR.
Exactly. I would be much more willing to adopt paperless statements if companies made them more convenient than paper statements.
My bank only gives me 6 months of history. 6 months!!! I can't even look back over the entire year to do an annual budget or research something older at tax prep time. As cheap as digital storage is, banks should be providing at least 5 years of history.
The DoD editions still "phone home". They are just calling themselves anyway.
What's the point of encouraging Americans to go into Computer Science when the government will just allow companies to replace them with cheap H1-B visa later? Teach Americans to be project managers, sorry "scrum masters", so that they can spend their time bossing around the H1-B visa labor and then trying to explain to middle management why the super cheap labor can't produce quality software.
There is a very simple solution to this problem: have the federal government charge companies $50k per year for each H1B visa. Companies will only use H1B visa when they REALLY need it (which was the original intent) and the federal government gets more funds. No more using H1Bs just to get cheap labor.
They need Americans to translate the requirements for the H1Bs, fill out the TPS reports, and try to get the offshore devs to sling out code that isn't a total bug-ridden mess.
I agree with the Subversion recommendation. I've been forced into using git because its the next "great" thing in source control. Subversion met all our needs and worked well without much fuss. git is a pain to use, with cryptic commands and plenty of ways to screw yourself.
"Racial bias has to be operating, inequities are rampant."
There must be MASSIVE racial bias in the NBA. Those are extremely well-paying jobs and African Americans make up 76% of the NBA even though they are only 10% of the population. This MUST be proof that the NBA has set up a massive racial bias operation.
I wonder if they teach "Correlation does not imply causation" in the Houston gifted program. I wonder if they teach it at Vanderbilt University.
the problem with "pay more" is that there's often a huge discrepancy between what a company can afford and what experienced people think they're worth.That's the whole reason why so many companies jump on the visa workers thing. Just like it happened in the auto industry, workers got used to high wages and are unwilling to consider the actual value of their contribution in a world where programming is now a commodity, so they end up replaced by cheap labor from a developing country. Same thing that happened to helpdesk, then sysadmins.
Of course it's easier to blame everything on pure greed from those evil companies, but see how much good this did in Detroit.
This has nothing whatsoever to do with the "actual value" of their contribution. Programmers are the most important resource for many of these companies, but compare the average programmer salary vs the average marketing/sales team salary. If every job has to compete with 3rd world country labor prices, then we will ALL end up being paid 3rd world labor rates. That's the end game here. We are all on a massive race to the bottom, where the only decent jobs left in America will be in the service industry and health industry. Everything else will be off-shored.
Our government could help to reduce this problem simply by cracking down on guest visa and H1B violations, but that is highly unlikely. They could also close all the tax loopholes that support companies who send jobs overseas, but we know that won't happen either.
Will they punish a Secretary of State who had Top Secret info on a private email server that was running out of a bathroom? That's right, laws are only for the little guy and those "evil" corporations.
I'm trying to understand why people have any expectations whatsoever for something they paid 0.99 for. Most people tip a waitress more than that just for bringing food to their table.
They are giving away Windows 10 just like that "free phone" AT&T will give you.
I've never seen a successful software project where the entire application was written overseas. It's not easy to gather detailed requirements from US workers and throw it overseas and have foreign workers completely build it. The only way the offshore model works is to have American developers gather the requirements, plan out the work, give detailed tasks to foreign developers and then monitor the progress daily to clear any impediments / misunderstands and make sure the quality is acceptable. Then you have the problem of who is going to maintain the software for the next decade? To maintain software, you either need excellent documentation (which foreign workers suck at) or you need the same offshore developers to stick with the application through it's lifetime (good luck with that). At some point you lose that application knowledge and end up having to pay new people to learn it from scratch.
By the time you factor in the oversight overhead, the language barrier, the time lost in misunderstands, the quality gap, and the cost of having to pay new developers to maintain the application, I personally don't think the offshore model saves any money. But trying to convince the beancounters that is a waste of breath. All they see is that they can pay offshore developers half as much per hour.
Building software isn't like building an iPhone. An iPhone has detailed specs that foreign workers just need to reproduce over and over again. Each software application is a unique product that needs to be designed, built, and maintained from the ground up. That fact makes it much hard to just throw specs over the wall and have offshore workers execute it.
If the Democrats weren't going to put these assurances into the law then Obama shouldn't have repeated the promise dozens of times in dozens of speeches. They could have put grandfather clauses into the law so that people could keep their doctor/plan, but refused to do so.
The Democrats crafted this law in back rooms. They forced votes on it without giving anyone time to read the massive law. When Ted Kennedy died and they lost their supermajority in the Senate, they pushed this massive law through a reconciliation process instead of going through the standard vote process. Not a single Republican voted for this law. The Democrats had to make deals with centrist Democrats (the LA purchase, Cornhusker kickback) just to get enough votes to scrape it by. After it went into effect and the lies were noticed ("if you like your dr you can keep your dr"), Senate majority leader Harry Reid (D) could have amended the law to fix it but he refused to do so. Yet somehow it is the Republican's fault???
I don't see Taylor Swift hurting for cash either. In my opinion, "popular" musicians have been overpaid relative to what value they add to society for quite some time. I won't shed a tear because Taylor Swift doesn't get paid millions for her latest "music".
Can you imagine the ramifications if the American people actually got fed up enough with both parties to elect a 3rd party candidate as the President? The Democrats and Republicans would suddenly be falling on themselves to appease "the people" again. All it would take is one presidential election to change the game for decades. If only enough Americans would get the balls to do it.
Not sure who is really the "boss" in that situation.