If you are making $80k a year, you should not have to bank $30k a year into savings in expectation of it spontaneously going to zero on a regular basis...
Welcome to IT: you get to do a high-dive off the fad board sometimes, but may land face first.
Let's say you were right. If companies can comb the world for the top 10% of IT talent (skipping the 90% you say are junk), then roughly 90% of the IT work in the USA will be from those cherry-picked foreigners.
Thus, the 90% should die in the street? (Since by the same logic, the Walmart greeters and burger flippers will also be cherry-picked from abroad.)
Perhaps this mentality is why income inequality is increasing.
I'm I following your view correctly? Feel free to clarify.
Maybe as a society it's better to value jobs over stuff rather than torture and discard 90% of the population so that 10% can have $5 lawn chairs. That's a political choice, but at least voters should know what they are up against. Some conservatives claim "trickle down" works (rich spending trickles down to poor), other conservatives don't care if there is no trickle-down and want a hard-edged Darwinian meritocracy, Ayn Rand style.
How does this fit into my worldview where H1-B Visa holders are taking all of our jobs and lowering all of our wages? I'm just lucky I am easily able to ignore evidence that I don't like, or else this article would be troubling.
Simple. IT has proven to be highly cyclical based on past events. Good times today don't necessarily mean good times tomorrow. The H1-B program has no guarantees that the visa workers will go home if bad times hit.
The H1-B program is not based on any objective measurement of "shortage" and does not significantly respond to changes in demand. (I've personally lived through this after the "dot-com" crash.)
Further, it has harmed those trying to get into higher-demand IT specialties from glut IT specialties. Companies typically prefer younger visa workers to older citizen vying for glut transfers.
Rumor has it The Feds played Yoko at the Waco TX Standoff in an attempt to irritate them out of hiding, and it may have been what triggered the suicidal outburst. But I've yet to verify that rumor.
Why the hell are we still stuck using Javascript...
Because it would take a large group of organizations to cooperate and work together, which rarely happens. Closed source wants to lock out competitors and open source wants to each be their own kings of their own little hills for bragging rights. (Almost nobody really works for "free", they all want either money or credit/status.)
I'd loooove to see a GUI-friendly markup language that is either far less dependent on any scripting or application code for the common desktop-like GUI idioms, or at least is not heavily dependent on ONE language, like JavaScript is per DOM.
But it's probably too big a project for a small group of geeks to get right (or to make good enough to gain traction). Rich GUI kits are not easy to implement. Plus, it probably has to be backward compatible with most of the existing HTML stack. The separation of applet and HTML page is part of what killed Java applets.
I believe they can create an interesting ad campaign around the problem. Put up billboards near the state border: "BANNED IN [State]! The Car The Gov't Doesn't Want You To Know About". (A state can prevent in-state sales, but not owning.)
To manage a complex project well, generally you have to be a little bit of a dick at times. Too soft, and people walk all over you or ignore you. Too jerky, and nobody wants to work for you or feel unmotivated to please you. The best managers for such projects know when turn up the heat a bit, yet not in an arbitrary and moody way, otherwise the heat loses meaning in a calling-wolf way.
the munitions appeared to have been "designed in the US, manufactured in Europe and filled in chemical agent production lines built in Iraq by Western companies".
That does it! Invade the USA, those dirty evil doers!.....oh, wait.
"Our snooping feature has revealed to external snoopers that there is a hole in our snooping feature and that allows external snoopers to snoop and know about the existence of our snooping feature".
Don't bother with the class, just read the book, "Distributed Node.JS.AI with Quantum Lambda's and HTML5 Unleashed for Complete Drooling Buzzword-Chasing Idiots"
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and last 30 minutes on a charge.
Is there somewhere in Vegas I can bet on its failure? Finally my chance to get rich...
Oh Gawd, those are often the worse: idealistic, clueless about the domain, and experience-free
Welcome to IT: you get to do a high-dive off the fad board sometimes, but may land face first.
Let's say you were right. If companies can comb the world for the top 10% of IT talent (skipping the 90% you say are junk), then roughly 90% of the IT work in the USA will be from those cherry-picked foreigners.
Thus, the 90% should die in the street? (Since by the same logic, the Walmart greeters and burger flippers will also be cherry-picked from abroad.)
Perhaps this mentality is why income inequality is increasing.
I'm I following your view correctly? Feel free to clarify.
Maybe as a society it's better to value jobs over stuff rather than torture and discard 90% of the population so that 10% can have $5 lawn chairs. That's a political choice, but at least voters should know what they are up against. Some conservatives claim "trickle down" works (rich spending trickles down to poor), other conservatives don't care if there is no trickle-down and want a hard-edged Darwinian meritocracy, Ayn Rand style.
Simple. IT has proven to be highly cyclical based on past events. Good times today don't necessarily mean good times tomorrow. The H1-B program has no guarantees that the visa workers will go home if bad times hit.
The H1-B program is not based on any objective measurement of "shortage" and does not significantly respond to changes in demand. (I've personally lived through this after the "dot-com" crash.)
Further, it has harmed those trying to get into higher-demand IT specialties from glut IT specialties. Companies typically prefer younger visa workers to older citizen vying for glut transfers.
No, it's an iTable
Rumor has it The Feds played Yoko at the Waco TX Standoff in an attempt to irritate them out of hiding, and it may have been what triggered the suicidal outburst. But I've yet to verify that rumor.
so the "Dept. of Don't Be Evil" can plot their evilness growth curve.
Because it would take a large group of organizations to cooperate and work together, which rarely happens. Closed source wants to lock out competitors and open source wants to each be their own kings of their own little hills for bragging rights. (Almost nobody really works for "free", they all want either money or credit/status.)
I'd loooove to see a GUI-friendly markup language that is either far less dependent on any scripting or application code for the common desktop-like GUI idioms, or at least is not heavily dependent on ONE language, like JavaScript is per DOM.
But it's probably too big a project for a small group of geeks to get right (or to make good enough to gain traction). Rich GUI kits are not easy to implement. Plus, it probably has to be backward compatible with most of the existing HTML stack. The separation of applet and HTML page is part of what killed Java applets.
Great, until the robots get the e-b0la computer virus.
There's a secret Yoko Ono tune on the buried ET cartridges.
and neither work
...Warm Fusion anyone?
And don't forget the crow NY-Times had to eat in an apology to R. Goddard after claiming rockets wouldn't work in the vacuum of space.
http://www.popsci.com/military...
"and get off my lawn!" BZZZZRP, **poof**
Or, become a Linux admin :-)
I believe they can create an interesting ad campaign around the problem. Put up billboards near the state border: "BANNED IN [State]! The Car The Gov't Doesn't Want You To Know About". (A state can prevent in-state sales, but not owning.)
To manage a complex project well, generally you have to be a little bit of a dick at times. Too soft, and people walk all over you or ignore you. Too jerky, and nobody wants to work for you or feel unmotivated to please you. The best managers for such projects know when turn up the heat a bit, yet not in an arbitrary and moody way, otherwise the heat loses meaning in a calling-wolf way.
Labor of love? Goatse simulator? You are freaking me out.
I solved this by patenting the white lie
Once again, Onion & friends ahead of the news curve.
Seems Colon Powell presented evidence (cough) the hard way.
That does it! Invade the USA, those dirty evil doers!.....oh, wait.
"Our snooping feature has revealed to external snoopers that there is a hole in our snooping feature and that allows external snoopers to snoop and know about the existence of our snooping feature".
Don't bother with the class, just read the book, "Distributed Node.JS.AI with Quantum Lambda's and HTML5 Unleashed for Complete Drooling Buzzword-Chasing Idiots"