Fluffer A fluffer is a person employed to keep a male porn performer's penis erect on the set. These duties, which do not necessarily involve touching the actors, are considered part of the makeup department. Wikipedia
Imagine this interaction: Customer: I want you to build me a house. Contractor: Ok, How many square feet? Customer: I don't know. When can you start? Contractor: We can't start until we have plans drawn up. Customer: I don't have time for that. How much will it cost? Contractor: I can give you a rough idea once we've nailed down the square footage, number of stories, type of foundation, and some other details. Customer: You are wasting my time with all these questions. Contractor: Go Away.
Yet software developers agree to this situation, or are forced to agree to it, all the time.
As a manager at a company that does to hire the best and the brightest, I can say that people calling for more H1-B visas are full of s#!t.
The biggest users of H-1Bs are consulting companies, or as Ron Hira calls them, "offshore-outsourcing firms."
"The top 10 recipients in [the] last fiscal year were all offshore-outsourcers. And they got 40,000 of the 85,000 visas — which is astonishing," he says.
Here is the break-down of my reports. 15 - born in the USA. 3- naturalized citizens when I hired them. 2- from Egypt on L1 visas (we have an office in Cairo) 2- from Korea that had green cards when I hired them 1- from China that was a grad student that we supported. F1 students visa changed to H1B by obtaining a sponsorship position with an H1B sponsor company. 1- from India that was a grad student we supported. F1 students visa changed to H1B by obtaining a sponsorship position with an H1B sponsor company.
It is fairly easy to convert F1 visa for a student that has completed graduate school in the USA to an H1B, and as far as I can tell there is no limit. (I am not an immigration lawyer, nor do I play one on TV.)
If tried to hire highly qualified individuals from outside the US and was told that I would not be able to get them H1B visas because they were all taken (by the body shoppers). These people had PhDs from prestigious Universities and years of relevant experience. They made the unfortunate mistake of not attending a US graduate school.
So the solution is quite simple. Stop giving H1B visas to "consulting companies".
"Sgt. Chris Tatar, with the West Hollywood Sheriff’s Station, said five people in the three vehicles that were struck by the Tesla sustained “varying degrees of injury.” They were hospitalized, and had been released as of Monday, he added."
It originally contained no Perl. One of the experts they hired to fix it, rewrote the entire front end Perl. They left the old source code lying around just to help hide the Perl.
Better / Faster / Cheaper: Pick Two is an 'old saw' that pertains to any one project. Over time it is obvious that we can have all three. I think Musk/SpaceX is demonstrating that.
Do Boeing or Lockhead or ULA have a vehicle cleared for carrying cargo to and from the ISS? Do they have a launch system in production that they are trying to get certified to carry people?
Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (Second Edition)
Putt's Law and the Successful Technocrat: How to Win in the Information Age - When I read this one in my twenties I thought it was cynical and funny.
Now I think it is cynical and accurate.
: Males (%) Females (%) Firearms 56 30 Suffocation 24 21 Poisoning 13 40 I'm not sure if they include car exhaust on suffocation or poisoning. As a guess, I bet most "poisoning" is prescription drugs. Once again, women are less messy than men.
In 2009 there were 33,808 deaths in the US from auto accidents. In 2009 there were 31,347 deaths in the US from firearms.
The firearm deaths include homicides 11,493 suicides 18,735 legal intervention 333 (gotta love the CDC's terminology). unintentional 554 (I guess that's CDC speak for accidental).
I couldn't find data on the leading cause of fatal car accidents, but for all car accidents the leading causes are: 1. Distracted Driving 2. Speeding 3. Drunk Driving 4. Reckless Driving 5. Rain 6. Running Red Lights 7. Running Stop Signs (seems like 6&7 should be combined) 8. Teenage Drivers The list goes on.
Number one cause of distracted driving? Nope. Kids in the car.
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Fluffer
A fluffer is a person employed to keep a male porn performer's penis erect on the set. These duties, which do not necessarily involve touching the actors, are considered part of the makeup department. Wikipedia
LMAO
I have thoroughly examined them,
And they are not just merely dead,
They are really quite sincerely dead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
is giving estimates without a detailed design.
Imagine this interaction:
Customer: I want you to build me a house.
Contractor: Ok, How many square feet?
Customer: I don't know. When can you start?
Contractor: We can't start until we have plans drawn up.
Customer: I don't have time for that. How much will it cost?
Contractor: I can give you a rough idea once we've nailed down the square footage, number of stories, type of foundation, and some other details.
Customer: You are wasting my time with all these questions.
Contractor: Go Away.
Yet software developers agree to this situation, or are forced to agree to it, all the time.
Willkommen auf er neuen nationalsozialistischen USA
Indeed. May I buy you a pint?
As a manager at a company that does to hire the best and the brightest, I can say that people calling for more H1-B visas are full of s#!t.
The biggest users of H-1Bs are consulting companies, or as Ron Hira calls them, "offshore-outsourcing firms."
"The top 10 recipients in [the] last fiscal year were all offshore-outsourcers. And they got 40,000 of the 85,000 visas — which is astonishing," he says.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/allte...
Here is the break-down of my reports.
15 - born in the USA.
3- naturalized citizens when I hired them.
2- from Egypt on L1 visas (we have an office in Cairo)
2- from Korea that had green cards when I hired them
1- from China that was a grad student that we supported. F1 students visa changed to H1B by obtaining a sponsorship position with an H1B sponsor company.
1- from India that was a grad student we supported. F1 students visa changed to H1B by obtaining a sponsorship position with an H1B sponsor company.
It is fairly easy to convert F1 visa for a student that has completed graduate school in the USA to an H1B, and as far as I can tell there is no limit.
(I am not an immigration lawyer, nor do I play one on TV.)
If tried to hire highly qualified individuals from outside the US and was told that I would not be able to get them H1B visas because they were all taken (by the body shoppers). These people had PhDs from prestigious Universities and years of relevant experience. They made the unfortunate mistake of not attending a US
graduate school.
So the solution is quite simple. Stop giving H1B visas to "consulting companies".
What do they define as non-white?
Chinese?
Indian?
Pakistani?
Vietnamese?
Or buy stock in the company?
"Sgt. Chris Tatar, with the West Hollywood Sheriff’s Station, said five people in the three vehicles that were struck by the Tesla sustained “varying degrees of injury.” They were hospitalized, and had been released as of Monday, he added."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
It originally contained no Perl.
One of the experts they hired to fix it, rewrote the entire front end Perl.
They left the old source code lying around just to help hide the Perl.
That was exactly my reaction.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJhq9eq_eJg
What a senseless waist of human life.
Better / Faster / Cheaper: Pick Two is an 'old saw' that pertains to
any one project. Over time it is obvious that we can have
all three. I think Musk/SpaceX is demonstrating that.
Do Boeing or Lockhead or ULA have a vehicle cleared for
carrying cargo to and from the ISS? Do they have a launch
system in production that they are trying to get certified to
carry people?
Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (Second Edition)
Putt's Law and the Successful Technocrat: How to Win in the Information Age
- When I read this one in my twenties I thought it was cynical and funny.
Now I think it is cynical and accurate.
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Galactic_barrier
not to multi-task.
Yes it is BS. UPS screwed up the shipment. Was addressed to a FFL gun dealer.
UPS delivered it to the wrong address. Mentioning Amazon is nonsense.
Nightmarish.
Suicide squad of the Neocapritermes taracua liberation army, ATTACK!
2009 Suicide rates
Number of deaths: 36,909
Firearm suicides:: 18,735
Suffocation suicides: 9,000
Poisoning suicides: 6,398
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/suicide.htm
Rates by country are very interesting:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_rate
: Males (%) Females (%)
Firearms 56 30
Suffocation 24 21
Poisoning 13 40
I'm not sure if they include car exhaust on suffocation or poisoning.
As a guess, I bet most "poisoning" is prescription drugs.
Once again, women are less messy than men.
No other country has even CLOSE to the amount of gun related violence as the USA. .
Patently false.
If you limit the statement to developed countries, then it is true.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence
In 2009 there were 33,808 deaths in the US from auto accidents.
In 2009 there were 31,347 deaths in the US from firearms.
The firearm deaths include
homicides 11,493
suicides 18,735
legal intervention 333 (gotta love the CDC's terminology).
unintentional 554 (I guess that's CDC speak for accidental).
I couldn't find data on the leading cause of fatal car accidents, but
for all car accidents the leading causes are:
1. Distracted Driving
2. Speeding
3. Drunk Driving
4. Reckless Driving
5. Rain
6. Running Red Lights
7. Running Stop Signs (seems like 6&7 should be combined)
8. Teenage Drivers
The list goes on.
Number one cause of distracted driving?
Nope.
Kids in the car.