If this is true, why don't these entrepreneurial and brilliant technologists build world-class companies and products in their home countries?
Probably because their home country lacks a middle class to bridge the gap between the poor and the rich. Without a middle class there are no consumers to buy advance products.
Something tells me these H1B visa holders are neither entrepreneurial nor brilliant.
You're wrong about that. It takes a lot of determination to rise up against societal norms, get an education and leave their home country. Those workers who come to the United States are more likely to be the ones who starts new companies in their home country.
After the dot com bust, I read a study that predicted that the IT industry will have 1M+ job openings by 2030 because baby boomers will have retired by then and foreign workers will stay home to pursue a middle class lifestyle. That prompted me to go back to school to learn computer programming on a $3,000 tax credit that George W. signed into law after 9/11. People thought I was crazy to go into computers when health care became the new money major. Fast forward 16 years later... I'm enjoying my career in IT support, making more money and paying more in taxes. Looking forward to making more money and paying more in taxes as the baby boomers retire and foreign workers stay home in the next 13+ years.
Consider the increasingly crappy user experience that is Windows, combined with the chances that Microsoft are almost certainly violating your privacy in every way they can think of.
I went back to school to learn computer programming after the dot com bust. The computer labs in the CIS department had Visual Studio 6 installed. I had Visual Studio.NET 2002 or.NET 2003 installed at home. The school eventually upgraded to Visual Studio 2005.
I'm *really* hoping you're not so misinformed as to think it "went away".
I work in IT support. A month doesn't go by without a.NET patch failing to install properly on multiple systems.
"Local cloud" finds buy-in with Gov IT monkey. No surprise here.
I'm not an H1B contractor.
Hay dood, if I dump a shit in the street, do you know the guy who cleans it up? Oh and I don't pay taxes either. Shit's crowning, it'll be a fucking big one. Thanks!
If you want to avoid being locked into a particular platform, store your data in transferrable formats. When my 2006 MacBook (black, of course) died in 2014, I was able to use my data on Windows because the format wasn't tied to a particular OS. If I ever get a new MacBook that's a worthy successor to my vintage MacBook, I'll be able to switch over in a heartbeat.
None of the Fortune 500 companies I've worked for in 20+ years has ever asked for my salary info or W2's from previous jobs. As an IT support contractor, I typically get a 40% salary increase when starting new contracts.
Whenever recruiters from a particular agency calls me for an "interview," I told them to get lost. On the three occasions that I interviewed with them, they were more interested in the recruiters I've talked to before them and never offered the position that they had. If I'm doing an active job search where I'm talking to 30+ recruiters per day, I don't have time to spend half a day preparing to interview for a non-existent job position.
I need to do that the next time I work in the private sector. Since I work in government IT, everyone outside of government thinks I'm being overpaid anyway.
You want identical in size and performance, but not identical drives if you can help it.
When I replaced the hard drives in my home file server, I bought four locally over a six month period when they were on sale and the store had to restock each time. Two from Newegg about nine months apart. All the serial numbers are quite different.
From a drive has failed until a hotspare has been fully populated and tested, you're the most vulnerable.
Not with a RAID-6 configuration (a second hard drive would have to fail). I also have a full backup on a separate hard drive.
That might be fine for single drives. For a RAID configuration, you want identical drives under warranty. Popping open an external drive probably voids the warranty.
I typically replace my home file server hard drives every five years or so. More out of necessity because the hard drives start failing like dominos. I buy whatever hard drives I can get for $50 each. Last year I replaced Seagate 320GB hard drives with Western Digital Red 1TB hard drives. Maybe four years from now I'll get 16TB hard drives — or 1TB+ SSDs — for $50 each.
While I'm not sold on a 20k DJIA, either, you might retain more wealth by sticking your money in a mattress than buying investment-grade bonds essentially yielding 0% or less until maturity.
interest rates are kept artificially low worldwide and inflation is also overdue, when this corrects itself and interes rates go up, your bonds will lose value.
The bonds I'm investing in have already lost value. Not because of the recent interest rate hike but from investors overselling bonds to put money into the stock market. I doubt Trump will deliver on the 3% to 4% growth rate he promised. Without higher growth, inflation won't rise and interest rates will stay low.
Just don't put everything in one basket.
I'm waiting for the stock market to crash to buy more shares on the way down.
Replacing an aging narcissist who has the attention span of gnat with a Bible thumping anti-science blob of Republican platitudes is not much of step forward.
Pence knows how the government works. He's not going to sit around signing symbolic executive orders that have no basis in law. Trump is in for a rude awakening when he finds out that he's not a dictator.
We're overdue for a recession. If Trump's first week in office is an example of what to expect for the next two months (as Alec Baldwin predicted on SNL when Pence will become president), the recession will happen sooner than later. While people bid up the stock market to 20K+, I'm putting my money into bonds.
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If this is true, why don't these entrepreneurial and brilliant technologists build world-class companies and products in their home countries?
Probably because their home country lacks a middle class to bridge the gap between the poor and the rich. Without a middle class there are no consumers to buy advance products.
Something tells me these H1B visa holders are neither entrepreneurial nor brilliant.
You're wrong about that. It takes a lot of determination to rise up against societal norms, get an education and leave their home country. Those workers who come to the United States are more likely to be the ones who starts new companies in their home country.
According to Alec Baldwin on Saturday Night Live, Pence will be president in two months. So far... right on schedule.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_Gf0mGJfP8
After the dot com bust, I read a study that predicted that the IT industry will have 1M+ job openings by 2030 because baby boomers will have retired by then and foreign workers will stay home to pursue a middle class lifestyle. That prompted me to go back to school to learn computer programming on a $3,000 tax credit that George W. signed into law after 9/11. People thought I was crazy to go into computers when health care became the new money major. Fast forward 16 years later... I'm enjoying my career in IT support, making more money and paying more in taxes. Looking forward to making more money and paying more in taxes as the baby boomers retire and foreign workers stay home in the next 13+ years.
Consider the increasingly crappy user experience that is Windows, combined with the chances that Microsoft are almost certainly violating your privacy in every way they can think of.
Don't use Metro, turn off Cortana.
Not sure what you mean by "a few years".
I went back to school to learn computer programming after the dot com bust. The computer labs in the CIS department had Visual Studio 6 installed. I had Visual Studio .NET 2002 or .NET 2003 installed at home. The school eventually upgraded to Visual Studio 2005.
I'm *really* hoping you're not so misinformed as to think it "went away".
I work in IT support. A month doesn't go by without a .NET patch failing to install properly on multiple systems.
Windows Command Line Home Edition 10.2 now featuring CMD, PowerShell and BASH for all your kiddie scripting needs!
"Local cloud" finds buy-in with Gov IT monkey. No surprise here.
I'm not an H1B contractor.
Hay dood, if I dump a shit in the street, do you know the guy who cleans it up? Oh and I don't pay taxes either. Shit's crowning, it'll be a fucking big one. Thanks!
Is that you, Mr. Trump?
If you want to avoid being locked into a particular platform, store your data in transferrable formats. When my 2006 MacBook (black, of course) died in 2014, I was able to use my data on Windows because the format wasn't tied to a particular OS. If I ever get a new MacBook that's a worthy successor to my vintage MacBook, I'll be able to switch over in a heartbeat.
Because Windows XP will always outnumber Windows Trump.
Meatballs?
My local cloud is a FreeNAS file server. Stores my data just fine. It even works with the Adobe apps I paid for ten years ago.
Just like .NET back in the day. Took a few years for that one to go away.
None of the Fortune 500 companies I've worked for in 20+ years has ever asked for my salary info or W2's from previous jobs. As an IT support contractor, I typically get a 40% salary increase when starting new contracts.
Whenever recruiters from a particular agency calls me for an "interview," I told them to get lost. On the three occasions that I interviewed with them, they were more interested in the recruiters I've talked to before them and never offered the position that they had. If I'm doing an active job search where I'm talking to 30+ recruiters per day, I don't have time to spend half a day preparing to interview for a non-existent job position.
I need to do that the next time I work in the private sector. Since I work in government IT, everyone outside of government thinks I'm being overpaid anyway.
Got a spare flux capacitor?
I got bunch of 16MHz time crystals in my electronic parts box.
You want identical in size and performance, but not identical drives if you can help it.
When I replaced the hard drives in my home file server, I bought four locally over a six month period when they were on sale and the store had to restock each time. Two from Newegg about nine months apart. All the serial numbers are quite different.
From a drive has failed until a hotspare has been fully populated and tested, you're the most vulnerable.
Not with a RAID-6 configuration (a second hard drive would have to fail). I also have a full backup on a separate hard drive.
You'll be lucky if even 3TB drives hit the $50 mark in the next 3 years.
1TB+ SSDs will probably be more affordable in the next few years.
They are externals, but easy to disassemble.
That might be fine for single drives. For a RAID configuration, you want identical drives under warranty. Popping open an external drive probably voids the warranty.
I typically replace my home file server hard drives every five years or so. More out of necessity because the hard drives start failing like dominos. I buy whatever hard drives I can get for $50 each. Last year I replaced Seagate 320GB hard drives with Western Digital Red 1TB hard drives. Maybe four years from now I'll get 16TB hard drives — or 1TB+ SSDs — for $50 each.
While I'm not sold on a 20k DJIA, either, you might retain more wealth by sticking your money in a mattress than buying investment-grade bonds essentially yielding 0% or less until maturity.
Only an idiot would buy bonds at 0% or less.
interest rates are kept artificially low worldwide and inflation is also overdue, when this corrects itself and interes rates go up, your bonds will lose value.
The bonds I'm investing in have already lost value. Not because of the recent interest rate hike but from investors overselling bonds to put money into the stock market. I doubt Trump will deliver on the 3% to 4% growth rate he promised. Without higher growth, inflation won't rise and interest rates will stay low.
Just don't put everything in one basket.
I'm waiting for the stock market to crash to buy more shares on the way down.
Replacing an aging narcissist who has the attention span of gnat with a Bible thumping anti-science blob of Republican platitudes is not much of step forward.
Pence knows how the government works. He's not going to sit around signing symbolic executive orders that have no basis in law. Trump is in for a rude awakening when he finds out that he's not a dictator.
We're overdue for a recession. If Trump's first week in office is an example of what to expect for the next two months (as Alec Baldwin predicted on SNL when Pence will become president), the recession will happen sooner than later. While people bid up the stock market to 20K+, I'm putting my money into bonds.