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  1. Re:Now he'll have a job. on Wall Street IT Engineer Hacks Employer To See If He'll Be Fired (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 3

    And more productive than anything Wall Street does.

  2. Re:It has its uses on Ask Slashdot: Do You Like Functional Programming? (slashdot.org) · · Score: 2

    *2) People are realising that inheritance is not the be-all and end-all of modelling code that the OOP world would have you believe*

    In the GoF book they flat out state that they prefer aggregation to inheritance. There is a reason you cannot do diamond inheritance in Java. Am I the only one who got the memo?

  3. Re:Becaue you aren't offering to do the work. on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Explain 'Don't Improve My Software Syndrome' Or DIMSS? · · Score: 1

    Just FYI, "Static Friction"== inertia

  4. Banks don't lend much anymore. They make their money gambling with other people's money on the stock market.

  5. Good question, but if you took all the tech jobs in Boston, Seattle, and Silly Valley they would probably be outnumbered by tech jobs in all the other locations.

  6. Re: The irony.... on Computer Programmers May No Longer Be Eligible For H-1B Visas [Update] (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    To you and all others who feel like that, naturalize. You need to have only one allegiance.

  7. It's the low or middle skill jobs where new workers often develop their skills. I have met a number of senior IT or developers who started out on the help desk. On of whom worked the evening shift while taking course work during the day.

    And for those with less ambition and/or capability to learn it gives them a steady paycheck.

  8. Re:So I will earn $20,000 more a year now right... on Computer Programmers May No Longer Be Eligible For H-1B Visas [Update] (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    So when I worked with over seas teams it was always the US team members who were working evenings and weekends due to making phn calls across time zones. This annoyed me so I asked my boss. She said that beyond the cultural factors there was no infrastructure like in the US. They had no internet in their apartments, and the company busses took them at 5:15 every evening (it was either that or they commute long distances on dangerous streets). So productivity was hampered.

    Heck there is even an article on CIO.com about onshore outsourcing, even without debates over H1Bs and protecting American workers, due to hidden costs associated with offshoring. See: http://www.cio.com/article/318...

    There are other such articles on the site as well.

    But scroll down below the H1B discussion.

  9. Re:So I will earn $20,000 more a year now right... on Computer Programmers May No Longer Be Eligible For H-1B Visas [Update] (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    They have perfected the art of the "ghost interview". That term was one used by an actual competent Indian programmer. She told me that after I described the situation we were having with incompetent contractors to her.

  10. Re:Depends on which on Computer Programmers May No Longer Be Eligible For H-1B Visas [Update] (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    And even those last two must meet minimum requirements. Unlike the street corner tech schools in India.

  11. Re:And you don't think they will make up stuff on Computer Programmers May No Longer Be Eligible For H-1B Visas [Update] (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Germany made a mistake? They import almost all of their food and natural resources, have some of the highest labor costs on the planet, a strict environmental regulation regime, and a high tax rate. And yet they have the 3rd largest economy in the world. It is in fact keeping Europe afloat to the extent I often joke the Euro should be renamed "Die Deutsche Mark".

    If that is failure then send some of it to the US.

  12. What about medical privacy? on Two Activists Who Secretly Recorded Planned Parenthood Face 15 Felony Charges (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    If you are filming in a medical facility are you not violating medical privacy laws? Intruding on the rights of health care workers and possibly other patients?

  13. Re:Some privacy is more equal than other on Two Activists Who Secretly Recorded Planned Parenthood Face 15 Felony Charges (npr.org) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There is no barrier between government and society. Government is deeply ingrained into society, no know human society does not have some form of government even it is only on the scale as a council of elders or patron of a family. And society is very much a part of and influence on government. They are inseparable.

  14. than using bit of metal as currency.

  15. Why would I want to move to TX? Any state that slaughters its own citizens is a horrible place to live.

  16. but employers often give you discounts or money for an HSA if you do the program

  17. Re:Priorities on Pennsylvania Sues IBM Over Jobless Claims System Upgrade (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    That's like the recipe for blue whale soup. Step 1, catch and clean one blue whale...

  18. Re:I probably need to see the specs on Pennsylvania Sues IBM Over Jobless Claims System Upgrade (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Here are a few basic rules I know of which can come into play *in my jurisdiction* (the rules vary by state)
    1) you get unemployment. But not if you quit. Or you get injured, workman's comp and medicare usually cover that unless under special circumstances. You must be registered and actively looking for work.

    2) You cannot file for unemployment until two weeks after you get laid off. If you get severance pay you have to wait to use all that up first then you can file. Though you can register for training course work, job search help, resume writing classes etc. Except under special circumstances. Ditto if you get cashed out by a WARN action.

    3)You can work and 50% of what you earn is reduced from your unemployment (A person who does even spot labor has a better chance of getting a job plus it helps the person's morale). Until you exceed your unemployment pay out, then you are considered re-employed though still registered in case the temp employment drops off in a few weeks.

    4) Everyone start with 26 weeks of unemployment.

    5) If you spot work as in #3 then for every dollar you return to the state it goes to into your 26 week maximum payout pool. So you could have unemployment beyond 26 weeks.

    6) The rules can vary by industry as well

    7) Victims of natural disaster and terrorist attacks get special coverage and exemptions. If their employers goes out of business they often have longer periods of time to find work.

    8) These rules can change by an act of congress or the stroke of a governors pen at anytime.

  19. Re:Milestone Payments on Pennsylvania Sues IBM Over Jobless Claims System Upgrade (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Mines fine. The only time I had a problem was a couple of summers ago when he went on vacation. His fill in mad a few errors.

  20. Re:Milestone Payments on Pennsylvania Sues IBM Over Jobless Claims System Upgrade (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    1) probably the Governor as part of his streamline the government "do more with less" philosophy. (Ignoring the fact that that is a violation of the laws of Thermodynamics)

    2) Because they realized they got screwed.

    3) Hard to tell. Or just following the legislation directing the project to be done.

    4) Probably brushed up their resumes and left if they were smart. Or possibly became consultants helping to keep the crap going with bubble gum and bailing wire.

  21. Re:The state of Penn should blame themselves on Pennsylvania Sues IBM Over Jobless Claims System Upgrade (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    They also got stabbed in the back by MS.

  22. Re:No surprise here on Pennsylvania Sues IBM Over Jobless Claims System Upgrade (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    HPE and HP Inc. are right behind them

  23. Re:Outdated?? What!? on Pennsylvania Sues IBM Over Jobless Claims System Upgrade (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    you could have set up a simulator. a vm you know

  24. Re:Outdated?? What!? on Pennsylvania Sues IBM Over Jobless Claims System Upgrade (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    you're. no one deserves unemployment. they are deserved a job.

  25. How depressingly dreary