Yes, I've seen this repeatedly in several different companies.
At Boeing, the Indian developers I worked with didn't have the required security clearance(s) to work on the project they had been hired for...so they sat in a separate room and played solitaire at $65 an hours. For months.
At Microsoft they could barely communicate, didn't understand the goals of the project (!!) and were nearly incapable of coding; anything that required the slightest bit of innovative thought or initiative was beyond them. Problem solving? Forget it, they just had no idea how to even begin to disassemble a problem and work the steps necessary to get through it.
At AT&T they turned in code that wouldn't compile, and they did this over and over and over and over and over and over and over. They "coded" stuff with no error checking, no bounds checking, no type checking, no sanity tests, no sanitization of incoming data, etc etc etc.
But remember, there are NO people in the entire USA that have the skills these guys were hired to do. Apparently not even me, the guy who was fixing most of their mistakes.
...the H1-B system is totally broken and is being used to help decimate the American middle class.
It's utterly fucked. The idea that there is NO ONE in the entire United States with the skills they claim to be in such dire need of is pure horseshit.
330 million people in this country and NONE of them have this skill set? BULL. FUCKING. SHIT.
One of the disadvantages of modern education is that the whole subject of Rhetoric is a closed book to most people.
Agreed. Most people have only heard of the word "rhetoric" in terms of something like "political rhetoric" and then mistakenly think it means lying or being deceptive, or being solely the province of demagogues.
The art of argument and debate is quickly becoming a lost art, because most "debates" these days start and end with comments about who or what one's mother has copulated with.
We may have some outlandish ideas from time to time
Yes, yes you do. And yes, most of you seem harmless, but that's mainly because your ideas haven't been implemented.
Libertarianism conflicts strongly with reality, which is why there has never been a society, country, or government based on libertarian ideas. It just doesn't work in the real world.
Most of the libertarians I've met have been genuinely nice people, but they've also never dug down deeply into their ideas, at least not deeply enough to see why the ideas are, at their most basic levels, impossible to implement in the real world.
I'm not saying this to make you angry or to start a fight, I'm saying it because I have dug down pretty deeply into those foundational ideas, and while they're great on paper, they fall apart when put into practice.
Agreed..although sometimes I think that if voting changed anything, it would be illegal.;) lol
Seriously though, I couldn't agree more. Get out there and vote. You may or may not get what you want, but not voting certainly isn't going to get you what you want.
That's really amazing especially when considering that ENIAC, which is regarded as the first digital computer, wasn't introduced until after VE day.
Ummm, IBM itself admits to providing the Germans with "computing and record keeping" devices.
No matter whether you want to class their equipment as a "computer" or not, the fact is they did aid and abet the Germans in their war efforts, of that there is no doubt. Just like Volkswagen did.
Except that Rand Paul lives in his libertarian fantasy land, favors his "smaller government" policing women's bodies, and he says that if a state wanted to reinstate slavery, he'd be okay with it because, you know, "states rights".
He's also fine with Kim Davis not issuing marriage licenses to anyone she doesn't personally approve of.
Sorry, but all those things are a FAIL in my book. Sometimes he makes sense...but the rest of the time he's a loon, just like his crackpot daddy.
>If his vote was needed, he would have answered the call.
And you know this how, exactly?
If there's one thing Sanders has been for the last ~30 years, it's consistent. I won't twist his doing the right thing into something that goes against his entire public record. But I like the way you can take his opposition to the war and the Patriot Act and spin it as proof that he'd do the exact opposite of what he actually did. Neat trick.
You probably don't molest children and never have, but no doubt you would if the opportunity arose, right? See how that works?
Clinton voted for the war and the Patriot Act, that much is clear. Her record, such as it is, speaks to exactly what she is: a fascist and a war monger. She's a Republican in all but name.
Well there's a ringing endorsement for our new dictator, err, I mean "president".
I'm sure she's keen to do all she can to protect my privacy and limit the data collection powers of all these 3-letter agencies that are scooping up our info wholesale.
Exactly, Adblocking for the most part isn't about trying to stop advertising that helps pay for the operation of the website, but to stop abusive add companies
Bingo. I'd be happy seeing a reasonable number of non-intrusive ads on a page, but that's not the problem here.
I run AdBlock specifically to try and avoid the malware-laden ads and auto-playing ads with sounds. I have no problem with text ads whatsoever, but when ads cross the line and infect my PC or blare sound unrequested, that's it.
The advertisers have really brought this on themselves for the most part. Not 100% of the blame, but ~95% of the blame is on them.
I say 95% because I realize it's hard to vet every ad, especially those with flash, but that's not my problem- it's their problem and if they can't get a grip on it then they completely lose my eyeballs.
Really, I don't mind a reasonable number of benign ads, but infecting my PC isn't something I'm willing to agree to.
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2. The Indian developers never get up to speed.
Yes, I've seen this repeatedly in several different companies.
At Boeing, the Indian developers I worked with didn't have the required security clearance(s) to work on the project they had been hired for...so they sat in a separate room and played solitaire at $65 an hours. For months.
At Microsoft they could barely communicate, didn't understand the goals of the project (!!) and were nearly incapable of coding; anything that required the slightest bit of innovative thought or initiative was beyond them. Problem solving? Forget it, they just had no idea how to even begin to disassemble a problem and work the steps necessary to get through it.
At AT&T they turned in code that wouldn't compile, and they did this over and over and over and over and over and over and over. They "coded" stuff with no error checking, no bounds checking, no type checking, no sanity tests, no sanitization of incoming data, etc etc etc.
But remember, there are NO people in the entire USA that have the skills these guys were hired to do. Apparently not even me, the guy who was fixing most of their mistakes.
I'm sure his change to the Terms Of Service will be enormously effective at reducing the immigration problem. *cough*
Yes excellent analogy, the Nazis just did it all for dick pics. They really need to teach the controversy in school.
Godwin's law strikes again.
Guys, I think it's trying to communicate.
"Dick pics"? "Controversy"? What are you babbling about?
I support Bernie Sanders.
Supporting Trump is just idiotic.
Same here, I'm voting for Bernie.
Trump is an imbecile, a rich imbecile, but an imbecile nonetheless. He's utterly unfit to be president at every level.
Donald Trump 2016, not just to make America great again, but to save it from impending disaster.
LOL!! Good one, execthis. You made me laugh out loud, and that doesn't happen very often these days.
...the H1-B system is totally broken and is being used to help decimate the American middle class.
It's utterly fucked. The idea that there is NO ONE in the entire United States with the skills they claim to be in such dire need of is pure horseshit.
330 million people in this country and NONE of them have this skill set? BULL. FUCKING. SHIT.
One of the disadvantages of modern education is that the whole subject of Rhetoric is a closed book to most people.
Agreed. Most people have only heard of the word "rhetoric" in terms of something like "political rhetoric" and then mistakenly think it means lying or being deceptive, or being solely the province of demagogues.
The art of argument and debate is quickly becoming a lost art, because most "debates" these days start and end with comments about who or what one's mother has copulated with.
We may have some outlandish ideas from time to time
Yes, yes you do. And yes, most of you seem harmless, but that's mainly because your ideas haven't been implemented.
Libertarianism conflicts strongly with reality, which is why there has never been a society, country, or government based on libertarian ideas. It just doesn't work in the real world.
Most of the libertarians I've met have been genuinely nice people, but they've also never dug down deeply into their ideas, at least not deeply enough to see why the ideas are, at their most basic levels, impossible to implement in the real world.
I'm not saying this to make you angry or to start a fight, I'm saying it because I have dug down pretty deeply into those foundational ideas, and while they're great on paper, they fall apart when put into practice.
I sure as shit don't care what you do in your bedroom (with consenting individuals).
Whew, I was worried there for a moment. ;)
Seriously though, this was all I needed to know about Ron Paul:
Ron Paul gets the answer wrong.
(The question was, "If a 5-year old child of illegal immigrants shows up at an emergency room, does he get medical care?")
That is unhinged. .... (snip) How did you end up so morally confused?
Ever hear of "hyperbole" or "sarcasm" or "exaggeration"? I thought not.
VOTE ALREADY YOU DUMB ASSHOLES
Agreed..although sometimes I think that if voting changed anything, it would be illegal. ;) lol
Seriously though, I couldn't agree more. Get out there and vote. You may or may not get what you want, but not voting certainly isn't going to get you what you want.
Tabulating machines were not computers. Nor were comptometers.
And those M1 rifles weren't guns, they were merely "lead pellet acceleration devices".
That's really amazing especially when considering that ENIAC, which is regarded as the first digital computer, wasn't introduced until after VE day.
Ummm, IBM itself admits to providing the Germans with "computing and record keeping" devices.
No matter whether you want to class their equipment as a "computer" or not, the fact is they did aid and abet the Germans in their war efforts, of that there is no doubt. Just like Volkswagen did.
Or IBM providing the computers for the Nazis to run the death camps (which did happen)
Exactly...it's not something that one should be bragging about.
She should be ashamed of it, and it should disqualify her from any serious consideration for the presidency.
Rand Paul ALREADY gave them a BUNCH of pushback.
Except that Rand Paul lives in his libertarian fantasy land, favors his "smaller government" policing women's bodies, and he says that if a state wanted to reinstate slavery, he'd be okay with it because, you know, "states rights".
He's also fine with Kim Davis not issuing marriage licenses to anyone she doesn't personally approve of.
Sorry, but all those things are a FAIL in my book. Sometimes he makes sense...but the rest of the time he's a loon, just like his crackpot daddy.
>If his vote was needed, he would have answered the call.
And you know this how, exactly?
If there's one thing Sanders has been for the last ~30 years, it's consistent. I won't twist his doing the right thing into something that goes against his entire public record. But I like the way you can take his opposition to the war and the Patriot Act and spin it as proof that he'd do the exact opposite of what he actually did. Neat trick.
You probably don't molest children and never have, but no doubt you would if the opportunity arose, right? See how that works?
Clinton voted for the war and the Patriot Act, that much is clear. Her record, such as it is, speaks to exactly what she is: a fascist and a war monger. She's a Republican in all but name.
can you imagine a president sanders?
I'm voting for him, he's the only acceptable candidate as far as I'm concerned.
It used to be that person would ask themselves, "Why should I run for President?"
Now they ask themselves, "Why shouldn't I run for President?"
I would care so much more about Carly here if I believed that any of the candidates won't cooperate fully with the NSA.
Sanders is the only one that I think would give them any pushback.
He voted against both the Patriot Act and the Iraq war, and in my book that counts for something.
It's like she's bragging that she supplied the gas chambers at Auschwitz, and for a very reasonable fee.
Well there's a ringing endorsement for our new dictator, err, I mean "president".
I'm sure she's keen to do all she can to protect my privacy and limit the data collection powers of all these 3-letter agencies that are scooping up our info wholesale.
Exactly, Adblocking for the most part isn't about trying to stop advertising that helps pay for the operation of the website, but to stop abusive add companies
Bingo. I'd be happy seeing a reasonable number of non-intrusive ads on a page, but that's not the problem here.
I run AdBlock specifically to try and avoid the malware-laden ads and auto-playing ads with sounds. I have no problem with text ads whatsoever, but when ads cross the line and infect my PC or blare sound unrequested, that's it.
The advertisers have really brought this on themselves for the most part. Not 100% of the blame, but ~95% of the blame is on them.
I say 95% because I realize it's hard to vet every ad, especially those with flash, but that's not my problem- it's their problem and if they can't get a grip on it then they completely lose my eyeballs.
Really, I don't mind a reasonable number of benign ads, but infecting my PC isn't something I'm willing to agree to.
What about the split part later on? ;)
"You see, honey...daddy caught mommy hugging another comet, and so mommy and daddy are each going to live apart from now on..."
"Hey Bubba, watch me do this!"
I forgot the old standby, "Hold my beer...."
Famous Last Words....
"Don't worry, it's unloaded..."
"Relax, we have the right-of-way..."
"It's okay, I'm sure this rope will hold our weight..."
"Don't worry, rogue biohacking is not a problem..."