First, roofing contractors do not use H1B. H1B is for advanced degree holders, not tradesmen.
Second, for me as a U.S. citizen via H1B track the visa was a way to pay for a chance to join U.S. When I got the contract I had post-grad degree an less than a grand in cache. So I paid with my work over the course of three years and every one was happy. Since then I've paid more in taxes to U.S. and state than probably 99% of U.S. native born citizens ever will. I'm sure this story is not an exception but rather common.
Third, there is going wide spread abuse of H1B program which subverts it original purpose. That is bulk-filing of tens of thousand of application by like 4 big indian-based consultancies, which prevents small enterpreneurs from getting people they want, people who already in U.S., like former interns. This is what extension is about - giving folks who already spent years in U.S. and like it a chance to stay.
"Once management starts treating all programmers as interchangeable is the day that all things start going to hell." - I second that, saw it happened and not once. Usually morale goes right to the crapper. The only thing worse for it is hiring "managment consultants" to "streamline" the process.
After some number of features implemented most time is spent on maintaining those compatibility layers and not implementing core logic. Code monkeys breed, creative people become bored and leave.
I programmed more or less exclusively for Windows platform in C/C++/JS etc. for more than 10 years, starting from early Win 3.1 days (and made a killing doing that.) Ditched it like 5 years ago for cross-platform toolkits and cannot be happier since then.
One of the most bothersome thing about Win platform is that every 3-5 years MSFT announced next best-thing-since-sliced-bred API and let the previous 'best' incarnation rot. Which forces everyone caught in this to spend a lot of time learning new ways to do old tricks. Take for example DDE-OLE-COM-ActiveX-.NET thingy.
I personally just found that this is insane drag on my productivity, since time spent on learning 'new' API is time not spent on solving domain problems, which is really bring food on the table.
Recall this when MSFT will start smearing.NET.
Have you ever tried to adjust AK after it's being in regular use for 5 years? If not, then shut up and talk only about the stuff you have a clue about.
PS Fsking paper warriors
I contend that building cars (or any reasonably sophisticated machinery for that matter) is a direct manifestation of general technological ability of a nation. Think of this: for one graduate going to work on space programs there are going to be 5 if not 10 that had to pick up something simpler, like building cars, locomotives, airplanes, TV sets, you name it. After all, we are talking about "top talent" here? So where is those wonderful products produced by those 5 individuals that do not work for military/space programs? So, maybe those 5 individuals are not so bright after all? Should not that lead to conclusion that 'cream of the crop' we are talking about is more like a wash?
Talent does not grow in vacuum, it has to have nutrients in form of mundane programs providing funding to the labs, majority of which do not have anything to do with space. Ask any professor or post-doc researcher. But all to be seen so far is just self-aggrandizing rhetoric (nanotech KGB way:) and no recent substantial advancements.
I strongly recommend anyone who wants to develop opinion on technological abilities of the Russians to travel to labs in Moscow, Chernogolovka, Zhukovski, Novosibirsk and see the state those facilities for themselves.
"First class" talent from Russia is already 10 years busy working for defence contractors around DC beltway an staffing trading rooms on Wall street. That is if not collecting disability/medicare/social security payments (older generation, the one that developed all that 30+ year old tech that you are so proud of.) Ah, well, may be you are talking about "first class" modern Russian kind, but let's not kid ourselves - it does not have anything to do with first world class. Here is an exercise - find reference to Russia on the list of 100 top world schools http://www.webometrics.info/Top_100_by_Country.html
(hint - there is NONE)
As for experience, not to pump the chest, but does 10 years of study/research on space-related programs in soviet institutions count for first hand?
As someone who knows it firsthand, technological prowess of Soviets/Russians are _greatly_ overstated. How about building a car that does not utterly suck first?
Many people in USofA may not realize it but modern Russian state is build upon premise of alleged supremacy over decadent West/third world East (don't laugh) and hot air like this press release is only internal propaganda tool not inteded for external consumption.
Besides, it's published on Lenta.ru (jokingly called Lenta.vru - ribbon.lie)
There is no 'insider trading' regulations on options market. SEC rules do not apply, since SEC do not regulate options market. The guy did buy puts _options_ not stock, right? So, even if the net result of buying puts is similar to selling stock, it's not the same. So he did not break any regulation.
Now, apparently he did break quite few laws regarding unauthorized intrusion into computer systems, but that's completely different ballgame.
Because in the end an application is going to get a packet of arbitrary size from network stack and has to allocate buffer accordingly. This is nature of asynchronous communication.
As rumor has it, Hybrid market is going to be shut down and all matching engines moved to ARCA execution platform sometime soon. ETFs are already there. Unfortunately, ARCA listed stock engine is not capable of handling even current load sufficiently well so move is somehow complicated. So really, this is not news worthy. Apparent purpose of Hybrid engine always was to keep specialists goons in business longer.
My parents' first home computer is a laptop running Linux and they cannot be happier with it. I support it remotely from six thousand miles away and already did complete system upgrade that way. They do have everything they need including browsing, emailing, skyping ( really saves on overseas calls ), digital usb camera etc.
Granted, my mom has been a programmer for over 30 years now but she never ever touched Linux before they got that laptop. It took her literally 30 min. to get used to KDE.
That leaves me completely bemused when I hearing people complaining about Linux not being desktop worthy.
If a developer feels that management is not responsive to constructive technical advise then it's time to find a better place. There are plenty of places where her expertise will be greatly appreciated. Doing the best of what you can also means making yourself more competitive thus getting respect and better income potential. Fighting politic battles will only makes you look like an asshole.
Let Darwin law do fighting for your: go work for better place and let old place wither and die.
AFAIK, the.SU TLD was known to be obsoleted for a very long time. Think about it, USSR was no more years before web happened. People who bought names in there have themselves to blame for the trouble along with the registrar.
There are quite a few regulations set up to prevent price manipulations just like this in stock market world. Fraud is the term used in these regulations. It is also strictly prohibited to do wash sales when benefitiary on both sides share common interest.
It looks like Ebay is asking for goverment oversight in a similar manner.
I have been interacting with Soviet electronics and chip design bureaus in late 80s/early 90.
For the most part those western-sourced componets were not actually used for production purposes,
but rather mostly for reverse engineering of technology and algorithms. Critical production
components were build internally and scrutinized quite hard for correctness and reliability.
Actually my doctor's theses was about these testing/screening systems and processes
Basicly, this entire story you are quoting is bogus.
Probably the last thing I want is to "use payment and shipping information they keep on file with Google" (quote from TFA). Keep my info in vast searchable financial database which makes it attractive to black hats and goverment?
No thanks , I'd prefer to spend a minute to create one-off credit card number each time I shop.
The ad was posted for few months on Monster, MonsterTrack and Dice. I personally suggested using Dice since it was my preferred place for job searching. However we found that Dice has very poor signal to noise ratio.
Sure, Dice has generated a lot of resumes but no good person to invite to interview.
The job description is to help out quantitative analysts with market data collection and programmers with building and running execution systems. Someone with 5 years of relevant experience would earn 6 figures doing that. So I dont think compensation is a problem either.
Well, we don't really need another resume, we need a programmer. Seriously, risk of posting real email on slashdot by far outweights any possible chance of hiring good guy.:)
Afaik, our ad is still on craigslist.
The company I work for has being trying to hire junior to mid-level programmer in major metropolitan area for six months already. We are not looking for extensive experience or specialized skills, just fairly common problem-solving and communication ability. Sure, we went throught more than a hundred resumes and about a dozen in-person interviewes but so far found just one good candidate who's employed and was just testing what's going on with job market.
Even though one case does not prove anything I'd say that finding capable person is very hard.
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First, roofing contractors do not use H1B. H1B is for advanced degree holders, not tradesmen.
Second, for me as a U.S. citizen via H1B track the visa was a way to pay for a chance to join U.S. When I got the contract I had post-grad degree an less than a grand in cache. So I paid with my work over the course of three years and every one was happy. Since then I've paid more in taxes to U.S. and state than probably 99% of U.S. native born citizens ever will. I'm sure this story is not an exception but rather common.
Third, there is going wide spread abuse of H1B program which subverts it original purpose. That is bulk-filing of tens of thousand of application by like 4 big indian-based consultancies, which prevents small enterpreneurs from getting people they want, people who already in U.S., like former interns. This is what extension is about - giving folks who already spent years in U.S. and like it a chance to stay.
"Once management starts treating all programmers as interchangeable is the day that all things start going to hell." - I second that, saw it happened and not once. Usually morale goes right to the crapper. The only thing worse for it is hiring "managment consultants" to "streamline" the process.
After some number of features implemented most time is spent on maintaining those compatibility layers and not implementing core logic. Code monkeys breed, creative people become bored and leave.
I programmed more or less exclusively for Windows platform in C/C++/JS etc. for more than 10 years, starting from early Win 3.1 days (and made a killing doing that.) Ditched it like 5 years ago for cross-platform toolkits and cannot be happier since then. .NET.
One of the most bothersome thing about Win platform is that every 3-5 years MSFT announced next best-thing-since-sliced-bred API and let the previous 'best' incarnation rot. Which forces everyone caught in this to spend a lot of time learning new ways to do old tricks. Take for example DDE-OLE-COM-ActiveX-.NET thingy.
I personally just found that this is insane drag on my productivity, since time spent on learning 'new' API is time not spent on solving domain problems, which is really bring food on the table.
Recall this when MSFT will start smearing
Have you ever tried to adjust AK after it's being in regular use for 5 years? If not, then shut up and talk only about the stuff you have a clue about. PS Fsking paper warriors
I contend that building cars (or any reasonably sophisticated machinery for that matter) is a direct manifestation of general technological ability of a nation. Think of this: for one graduate going to work on space programs there are going to be 5 if not 10 that had to pick up something simpler, like building cars, locomotives, airplanes, TV sets, you name it. After all, we are talking about "top talent" here? So where is those wonderful products produced by those 5 individuals that do not work for military/space programs? So, maybe those 5 individuals are not so bright after all? Should not that lead to conclusion that 'cream of the crop' we are talking about is more like a wash? :) and no recent substantial advancements.
Talent does not grow in vacuum, it has to have nutrients in form of mundane programs providing funding to the labs, majority of which do not have anything to do with space. Ask any professor or post-doc researcher. But all to be seen so far is just self-aggrandizing rhetoric (nanotech KGB way
I strongly recommend anyone who wants to develop opinion on technological abilities of the Russians to travel to labs in Moscow, Chernogolovka, Zhukovski, Novosibirsk and see the state those facilities for themselves.
Grandiose dreams do not require much funds, just enough to fill that big pipe or theirs :)
"First class" talent from Russia is already 10 years busy working for defence contractors around DC beltway an staffing trading rooms on Wall street. That is if not collecting disability/medicare/social security payments (older generation, the one that developed all that 30+ year old tech that you are so proud of.) Ah, well, may be you are talking about "first class" modern Russian kind, but let's not kid ourselves - it does not have anything to do with first world class. Here is an exercise - find reference to Russia on the list of 100 top world schools http://www.webometrics.info/Top_100_by_Country.html (hint - there is NONE)
As for experience, not to pump the chest, but does 10 years of study/research on space-related programs in soviet institutions count for first hand?
As someone who knows it firsthand, technological prowess of Soviets/Russians are _greatly_ overstated. How about building a car that does not utterly suck first?
Many people in USofA may not realize it but modern Russian state is build upon premise of alleged supremacy over decadent West/third world East (don't laugh) and hot air like this press release is only internal propaganda tool not inteded for external consumption.
Besides, it's published on Lenta.ru (jokingly called Lenta.vru - ribbon.lie)
There is no 'insider trading' regulations on options market. SEC rules do not apply, since SEC do not regulate options market. The guy did buy puts _options_ not stock, right? So, even if the net result of buying puts is similar to selling stock, it's not the same. So he did not break any regulation.
Now, apparently he did break quite few laws regarding unauthorized intrusion into computer systems, but that's completely different ballgame.
Because in the end an application is going to get a packet of arbitrary size from network stack and has to allocate buffer accordingly. This is nature of asynchronous communication.
As rumor has it, Hybrid market is going to be shut down and all matching engines moved to ARCA execution platform sometime soon. ETFs are already there. Unfortunately, ARCA listed stock engine is not capable of handling even current load sufficiently well so move is somehow complicated. So really, this is not news worthy. Apparent purpose of Hybrid engine always was to keep specialists goons in business longer.
I second this.
My parents' first home computer is a laptop running Linux and they cannot be happier with it. I support it remotely from six thousand miles away and already did complete system upgrade that way.
They do have everything they need including browsing, emailing, skyping ( really saves on overseas calls ), digital usb camera etc.
Granted, my mom has been a programmer for over 30 years now but she never ever touched Linux before they got that laptop. It took her literally 30 min. to get used to KDE.
That leaves me completely bemused when I hearing people complaining about Linux not being desktop worthy.
If a developer feels that management is not responsive to constructive technical advise then it's time to find a better place. There are plenty of places where her expertise will be greatly appreciated. Doing the best of what you can also means making yourself more competitive thus getting respect and better income potential. Fighting politic battles will only makes you look like an asshole.
Let Darwin law do fighting for your: go work for better place and let old place wither and die.
AFAIK, the .SU TLD was known to be obsoleted for a very long time. Think about it, USSR was no more years before web happened. People who bought names in there have themselves to blame for the trouble along with the registrar.
There are quite a few regulations set up to prevent price manipulations just like this in stock market world. Fraud is the term used in these regulations. It is also strictly prohibited to do wash sales when benefitiary on both sides share common interest.
It looks like Ebay is asking for goverment oversight in a similar manner.
I have been interacting with Soviet electronics and chip design bureaus in late 80s/early 90. For the most part those western-sourced componets were not actually used for production purposes, but rather mostly for reverse engineering of technology and algorithms. Critical production components were build internally and scrutinized quite hard for correctness and reliability. Actually my doctor's theses was about these testing/screening systems and processes
Basicly, this entire story you are quoting is bogus.
Probably the last thing I want is to "use payment and shipping information they keep on file with Google" (quote from TFA). Keep my info in vast searchable financial database which makes it attractive to black hats and goverment?
No thanks , I'd prefer to spend a minute to create one-off credit card number each time I shop.
The ad was posted for few months on Monster, MonsterTrack and Dice. I personally suggested using Dice since it was my preferred place for job searching. However we found that Dice has very poor signal to noise ratio. Sure, Dice has generated a lot of resumes but no good person to invite to interview.
The job description is to help out quantitative analysts with market data collection and programmers with building and running execution systems. Someone with 5 years of relevant experience would earn 6 figures doing that. So I dont think compensation is a problem either.
Well, we don't really need another resume, we need a programmer. Seriously, risk of posting real email on slashdot by far outweights any possible chance of hiring good guy. :)
Afaik, our ad is still on craigslist.
The company I work for has being trying to hire junior to mid-level programmer in major metropolitan area for six months already. We are not looking for extensive experience or specialized skills, just fairly common problem-solving and communication ability. Sure, we went throught more than a hundred resumes and about a dozen in-person interviewes but so far found just one good candidate who's employed and was just testing what's going on with job market.
Even though one case does not prove anything I'd say that finding capable person is very hard.
One more reason could be that US has fewer bureaucratic barriers comparing to that in Ukraine or Russia for example.
You forgot Step 7: Get investigated by FCC for market manipulation, heavily fined and possibly spend some time loked up.
Developed by Pivdenmash - see http://www.nti.org/e_research/profiles/Ukraine/Mis sile/2164_3853.html