Hello, city police? Yes, I'd like to make a complaint. My name is CNN - yes, that's right, I'm a corporation, a non-corporeal immortal person.
Anyways, I fear for my life. Some kid on the internet suggested Donald Trump - yes, that's right, the president - is going to bust out his pro-wrestling moves and kick my ass. The threat was made in the form of a goofy animated gif, so I know it's serious.
Please help! I'm so afraid, can you send someone... Hello? Hello? Anyone there, hello?
I bet it's really fucking easy to hire an experienced Java developer in Seattle. If you pay an actual middle class - i.e. enough to afford a decent house - salary and abstain from the abusive labor practices for which that city is notorious.
Pocoo is a team that develops several popular Python libraries, so you wouldn't learn Pocoo per se. The use case for the Click library, linked above, is when you need a good quality CLI for a Python program. Usually that's going to be adding CLI functionality to existing code, or replacing an old home-rolled CLI with something that sucks less.
But as for your question - the answer depends where you are in life. Unfortunately there are very steeply diminishing monetary returns for learning new languages if you're an experienced programmer. Otoh, 2 languages isn't much, so feel free to learn a few more before you get burnt out. Kotlin would be at the top of my list today, and for a person already in the JVM ecosystem background it's an obvious choice.
Early in the cold war there were a lot of wild scientific experiments with nuclear technology, including quite a few above-ground detonations. These were definitely serious hardcore science. Way way more rigorous than your typical Chicken Little climate modeling exercise.
Apparently those experiments did not bring about the end of our species. QED those experiments were 100% totally safe! People who claim they ravished the environment with life-destroying pollution are just redneck anti-vaxxer shitlords.
I think those experiments were pretty cool and sciency, so we should start them again! So how 'bout it, sport - can we start doing some old-skool cold war style nuclear experiments in *your* backyard? It's SCIENCE! What could possibly go wrong?
Also, if you object to my plans you're a moronic subhuman Luddite who doesn't deserve to have a job or live indoors. So whadda you say, sport, ready to volunteer?
So much truth, my brother. It's a shame Slashdot's management is so unworthy its userbase.
But my brother I fear you are still mired in the left/right, red/blue, Demopublican/Republicrat false dichotomy. On both sides of this contrived divide there are good men who work to advance the interests of the people, and there are wicked men who work to keep the many in chains for the profit of the few. Let us not be distracted by the color of a man's tie, from the color of his heart.
The American Court system is a mad dog, drunk on power, and crazed with bloodlust. The juridicial oligarchy must be brought back under control of civil society or the republic is doomed.
Americans very much do want those jobs. Get out of your little elitist bubble and ask some real working class people. They're easy to find, as they're the overwhelming majority of the population. But you will have to venture outside San Franshitsco and New Jack City.
The typical American political "lefty" is at best a running dog reformist, more often a bootlicker of capital who demands only the acceptance his social degeneracy as the price for selling out his countrymen.
The "lefty" is not any sort of socialist, and sure as flying fuck not a communist.
Our immigration laws suck and make it insanely hard for people to immigrate legally.
Agreed. The virtuous position is to allow open immigration. My ancestors came to America in the 1800s under a fairly open regime, and I believe today's immigrants deserve the same. Fuck H1B indentured servant programs, end them all now. But if you want to give up your old citizenship and become an American - well then, my brothers and sisters, welcome to America.
I can already hear both the kick-the-poor crowd bawling - "but what about the safety net??!? We can't afford to allow all these lazy immigrants into our welfare paradise!!" Well I'm just going to call bullshit on this one now. I've had the ever so enlightening personal experience of being destitute in America. There is NO safety net. Sure, there are long-term welfare dependency programs. Which have very fucking few public supporters. But no safety net. At all. First-hand experience. So I reject out of hand that argument and anyone foolish/insincere enough to advance it.
Emperor Trump, if you're listening, make America great again: bring back open immigration.
It takes me several hours of research and a few pages of dissertation to work out how moving imports to American manufacture affects America, and it's always three parts: it makes all Americans poorer, no matter what we pay the factory workers; it might create jobs if we pay the Americans as little as possible, and will net-reduce American total jobs faster and faster as we increase the American wage for these factory jobs; and the job change doesn't matter anyway because population and labor force rapidly expand and contract to move toward a stable unemployment level.
Only three pages of dissertation to prove an obvious falsehood? Good job, my brother! Keep up the boot licking!
But they are - literally! - holding a gun to your head when they require you to pay for food and land rent. Don't believe me? Try eating some food, then sleeping somewhere, without paying. =)
Where I live - outside the US - a "low paid" foreign worker costs about 400% as much as a skilled local worker. That means a) jobs are only done by foreigners that really truly cannot be done by locals. And b) the local population aren't particularly resentful of the (very tiny) population of foreigners, since we surely are not taking their jobs or dragging down wages.
So how about a 300% tax on foreign guest workers? It won't even slightly deter companies who are genuinely using H1B to employ one-in-a-million geniuses. But it would instantly make >99% of H1B work uneconomic.
Nope. The Italians, Irish, and Germans you mention were all new citizens. Back when America had a virtuous policy of more-or-less open immigration. Poem on the Statue of Liberty & all that.
Nowadays we have "guest workers" instead of new citizens. Indentured servants who will go the fuck back home after they've done their work of suppressing wages for Americans. With this change there's an entirely different set of economic incentives on both sides.
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Hello, city police? Yes, I'd like to make a complaint. My name is CNN - yes, that's right, I'm a corporation, a non-corporeal immortal person.
Anyways, I fear for my life. Some kid on the internet suggested Donald Trump - yes, that's right, the president - is going to bust out his pro-wrestling moves and kick my ass. The threat was made in the form of a goofy animated gif, so I know it's serious.
Please help! I'm so afraid, can you send someone... Hello? Hello? Anyone there, hello?
What kind of drugs are you on? Apparently they're some good shit.
There are two kinds of company: those who know their servers have been compromised, and those who don't know.
(We used to say this in the security group at a big company in New York that almost certainly has better security than your company.)
I bet it's really fucking easy to hire an experienced Java developer in Seattle. If you pay an actual middle class - i.e. enough to afford a decent house - salary and abstain from the abusive labor practices for which that city is notorious.
Pocoo is a team that develops several popular Python libraries, so you wouldn't learn Pocoo per se. The use case for the Click library, linked above, is when you need a good quality CLI for a Python program. Usually that's going to be adding CLI functionality to existing code, or replacing an old home-rolled CLI with something that sucks less.
But as for your question - the answer depends where you are in life. Unfortunately there are very steeply diminishing monetary returns for learning new languages if you're an experienced programmer. Otoh, 2 languages isn't much, so feel free to learn a few more before you get burnt out. Kotlin would be at the top of my list today, and for a person already in the JVM ecosystem background it's an obvious choice.
http://click.pocoo.org/
Not at their current valuation - hell no!
Congratulations! You, personally, are evil!
This guy got a 1 year sentence but faced up to 90 years and a $3 million fine.
Mad dog court system, drunk on power, crazed with bloodlust.
Let's try it on *your* neighborhood next. =)
Early in the cold war there were a lot of wild scientific experiments with nuclear technology, including quite a few above-ground detonations. These were definitely serious hardcore science. Way way more rigorous than your typical Chicken Little climate modeling exercise.
Apparently those experiments did not bring about the end of our species. QED those experiments were 100% totally safe! People who claim they ravished the environment with life-destroying pollution are just redneck anti-vaxxer shitlords.
I think those experiments were pretty cool and sciency, so we should start them again! So how 'bout it, sport - can we start doing some old-skool cold war style nuclear experiments in *your* backyard? It's SCIENCE! What could possibly go wrong?
Also, if you object to my plans you're a moronic subhuman Luddite who doesn't deserve to have a job or live indoors. So whadda you say, sport, ready to volunteer?
So much truth, my brother. It's a shame Slashdot's management is so unworthy its userbase.
But my brother I fear you are still mired in the left/right, red/blue, Demopublican/Republicrat false dichotomy. On both sides of this contrived divide there are good men who work to advance the interests of the people, and there are wicked men who work to keep the many in chains for the profit of the few. Let us not be distracted by the color of a man's tie, from the color of his heart.
The American Court system is a mad dog, drunk on power, and crazed with bloodlust. The juridicial oligarchy must be brought back under control of civil society or the republic is doomed.
"Inane quotes are the last resort of one who has lost an argument, and is too dull-witted to call his opponent names." -- Wilford Brimley
Message from duh New York District Kangaroo Court: Fuck science - proles don't deserve knowledge!
It's DUH LAW.
Bullshit, richboy broham.
Americans very much do want those jobs. Get out of your little elitist bubble and ask some real working class people. They're easy to find, as they're the overwhelming majority of the population. But you will have to venture outside San Franshitsco and New Jack City.
The typical American political "lefty" is at best a running dog reformist, more often a bootlicker of capital who demands only the acceptance his social degeneracy as the price for selling out his countrymen.
The "lefty" is not any sort of socialist, and sure as flying fuck not a communist.
C'mon, admit it, the Demopublican party hates commoners even more than the Republicrat party hates us.
Sounds like a pretty typical tech company...
Our immigration laws suck and make it insanely hard for people to immigrate legally.
Agreed. The virtuous position is to allow open immigration. My ancestors came to America in the 1800s under a fairly open regime, and I believe today's immigrants deserve the same. Fuck H1B indentured servant programs, end them all now. But if you want to give up your old citizenship and become an American - well then, my brothers and sisters, welcome to America.
I can already hear both the kick-the-poor crowd bawling - "but what about the safety net??!? We can't afford to allow all these lazy immigrants into our welfare paradise!!" Well I'm just going to call bullshit on this one now. I've had the ever so enlightening personal experience of being destitute in America. There is NO safety net. Sure, there are long-term welfare dependency programs. Which have very fucking few public supporters. But no safety net. At all. First-hand experience. So I reject out of hand that argument and anyone foolish/insincere enough to advance it.
Emperor Trump, if you're listening, make America great again: bring back open immigration.
It takes me several hours of research and a few pages of dissertation to work out how moving imports to American manufacture affects America, and it's always three parts: it makes all Americans poorer, no matter what we pay the factory workers; it might create jobs if we pay the Americans as little as possible, and will net-reduce American total jobs faster and faster as we increase the American wage for these factory jobs; and the job change doesn't matter anyway because population and labor force rapidly expand and contract to move toward a stable unemployment level.
Only three pages of dissertation to prove an obvious falsehood? Good job, my brother! Keep up the boot licking!
But they are - literally! - holding a gun to your head when they require you to pay for food and land rent. Don't believe me? Try eating some food, then sleeping somewhere, without paying. =)
Why only 20%?
Where I live - outside the US - a "low paid" foreign worker costs about 400% as much as a skilled local worker. That means a) jobs are only done by foreigners that really truly cannot be done by locals. And b) the local population aren't particularly resentful of the (very tiny) population of foreigners, since we surely are not taking their jobs or dragging down wages.
So how about a 300% tax on foreign guest workers? It won't even slightly deter companies who are genuinely using H1B to employ one-in-a-million geniuses. But it would instantly make >99% of H1B work uneconomic.
But it's DUH LAW, and we got a show trial to prove it!
Nope. The Italians, Irish, and Germans you mention were all new citizens. Back when America had a virtuous policy of more-or-less open immigration. Poem on the Statue of Liberty & all that.
Nowadays we have "guest workers" instead of new citizens. Indentured servants who will go the fuck back home after they've done their work of suppressing wages for Americans. With this change there's an entirely different set of economic incentives on both sides.