csdreamer7

Hello Mr Roberts,

How much do you agreed with the internet sentiment that HB-1 visas are exploitive? What rights or recourse do HB-1 holders have that they are not aware of?

I am an American citizen, but I do notice quite a few jobs filled by HB-1 that could have been filled by Americans but many Americans do not stay in because of low pay or poor career advancement.

> thousands of fantastic little games were implemented in Flash

True... but also when your right clicked in a Flash widget on Firefox on Linux in would cause the browser to hang. This problem existed for years. That is why I listed it.

> But video recording and streaming? Why would anyone prefer to use MS Office for that when OBS exists?

OBS was a lot more complicated. Yes, professional streaming you should use it.

She was doing a ph.d in social sciences. She had little desire, or really need, to use it when MS Office did what she wanted out of the box. Screen recorded presentations with powerpoint.

> Is it as obnoxious as having to use Teams for chat?

They did not use teams for chat. They used gsuite for almost everything else.

> That's certainly a case of having a hammer and thinking all problems are nails xD

No, it really is not.

> Annotations, citations, bibliography management I can understand, even if I use LaTeX for that and consider it a far superior tool.

Really? My mother was struggling to remember how to use a Windows desktop. You really want to suggest learning latex when she had term papers to do for a $60k degree? The required document format was ms word.

I do not think people remember how bad software was over a decade ago or even more.

Web browsers for example. I remember the days before Firefox got that quantum update and the crashes went down. Chrome tabs crashing. Adobe Flash.

Windows Vista came out in 2007.

Windows 7: Windows Vista with proper QA and drivers.

Windows 8: the user interface. Yes, some of you liked it, most didn't. It was very bad.

Internet Explorer... Windows 98... Windows ME...

Windows 10 was so much better. Windows 11 is the next Vista phase.

Mesa on Linux before Valve started hiring contractors to work on it. Remember the days when a major release of Mesa was based on if it implemented a new version of OpenGL?

AMD graphics before AMD properly supported it on Linux. AMD drivers on Windows before Youtubers started actually using AMD cards and complained about the drivers.

Games For Windows Live was closed on August 15 2013.

This was before fun things like mitigations for hardware vulnerabilities that software has to deal with. Or the growing scale problems AWS has to deal with it controlling 90% of a growing market.

Even Bing has gotten... a little better...

I guess Mac OS X has objectively gotten worse, but it has been that way since Snow Leopard (half joking).

Google search has objectively gotten worse.

> Very hard for me to understand why, in a world of Google docs, anyone would want to deal with the bloated mess that is ms office.

My mom had to buy a copy of MS Office. Her university provided free ms office online, but there were certain features missing from it she needed for her papers. I am remembering wrong, but it was annotations? Citations? I do not remember.

Libreoffice kinda could do it, but I could not find how online, while MS had it properly documented on their website and so many youtubers making videos on MS Office had it listed on their website.

Edit: also found out MS Office can screen record and record her webcam. Very useful for her giving a remote presentation during covid.

"The most common reason for bias internal to the IC is self-censorship

    IC analysts and managers have consciously changed or watered down assessments. This self-censorship was largely driven by a desire to stay relevant or an effort to avoid retaliation from policymakers.

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Would anyone be able to offer insight into this? Are they worried about pointing out ties of lawmakers foreign investment ties? Biden's son to Ukraine and Republicans to Russia?

Due to the political nature of this please post credible links to back up your claims.

The Linux kernel is complaining about a lack of funding for CI-one of the highest visibility projects out there. Where will the money come from for this?

Corps? Aside from Intel most of them barely pay to upstream their drivers.

The govt? The US federal government cut so much of it's support since the 70s and 80s.

Teams is unusually bad on Linux the last time I used it. I had it refuse to even work on GNOME Xorg.

Yep. GOG is one of the few places you can get old school offline installers for new and old games.

https://www.gog.com/

Where did they say they did not use fail2ban?

They left out the part where you can appeal their findings to a federal appeals court.

https://www.nlrb.gov/about-nlrb/what-we-do/decide-cases

You do see a judge, and you can have that trial by jury.

> When money was essentially free to borrow, it made all the sense in the world to make a large number of bets because the odds were on your side that at least one of them would pay off. Now, however, each bet comes with a real opportunity cost, so companies are making fewer speculative bets and thus need fewer people.

I disagree with this. Interest rates were very low for a long time. Tech hiring and salaries only boomed because of COVID. Companies needed to adapt or they would not be allowed to function; and these companies needed new software tools to handle it. COVID also encourages quite a few people to retire or move companies. Why work here if you can be in the hospital for another month? That same mentality also contributed to job hopping. Companies over hired just to deal with growing turnover. They said they over hired.

Interest rates do not help, but before generative AI, the best new startups would do is put an app for a traditional service or sell NFTs. It was not real innovation in those low interest times.

I just watched a youtube video on how a person looking for editing jobs had some pretty poor working conditions with terrible pay. A very controlling boss, asking him to edit on an old x86 macbook because he was told it was 'for creators'. The guy mentioned he a beast machine at home he could edit remotely and the person told him "do you want to edit?". The boss would not even provide him a mouse-he had to edit by trackpad.

He walked out around noon. The boss asked him to come back for an extra $20 that day.

What is your point? We were discussing when pilots should be expected to be recorded in the cockpit for privacy vs safety. I mentioned there are software engineer jobs where you have to keep the camera on all day.

There are jobs where you are expected to keep the camera and there are programmers who accept those work terms.

The people posting on Reddit would disprove your point. Likely because they do not tell you about that upfront and say it is a small thing.

There are software engineer jobs where you need to keep your camera on during work hours to show you are in your seat.

Calling China Russia's security guarantor is a stretch at best. The military difference between the two, while growing, is no where near the difference between the USA and Canada.

I would argue Russia's nuclear arsenal is a far more reliable guarantor of their security then China would ever be.

Would you please explain more?

Or..

Experienced applicants do not bother to list git as it is an assumed skill in dev work these days.

Maybe I am misremembering the interview. Maybe the person said that they used to use a hardened IBM power chip?

On Jupiter Broadcasting there was a lot of interviews on how this was a Linux powered device and could be the first of many new Linux devices on Mars by JPL. If I remembered correctly they used a space hardened Power cpu with an ancient version of Yocto since the newer versions of it did not have working drivers. When the rover had an issue they actually used the helicoptor's userspace command line GNU utilities to debug and get logs from the rover to send to Earth.

Also, this makes Mars the second planet that uses Linux more than Windows as noted by the tweet in the linux below. :-)

https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/19/22291324/linux-perseveran...

> It’s interesting that HN is more concerned about the rules changes than the person filing our company’s taxes (or our CFO). This is a topic that is basically glossed over as a non-event between us and those professionals.

You are the one who originally asked why engineers can't be considered a cost center. There is a reason; the R&D tax credit.

> Maybe I have a bad accountant and CFO? Or HN is extrapolating this to mean more than it does.

I am guessing you just do not qualify for the R&D tax credit or it just not worth the paperwork at your scale. For larger companies (and profitable, fast-growing startups that do a lot of the 'develop' part of R&D, which are rare these days, I guess) there is a benefit.

https://taxfoundation.org/research/all/federal/research-and-...

Considering even the tax foundation claims would bring in less than 20k jobs, maybe Congress made the right decision to bring in amortization even if I disagree with what it funds. I do not have numbers for how much it brings it to the federal government but the credit was already known for being difficult for small businesses to use.

> I don’t understand why businesses can’t just say that their engineering department is a cost center (COGS) instead of classifying engineer salaries as R&D expenditures.

They used to be able to. Then Trump and the Republicans came into power and changed it in 2017; the first year to be effective is 2022.

https://bipartisanpolicy.org/blog/congress-is-running-out-of...

This was to help finance that 20% tax loophole as far as I understand it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/08/us/politics/tax-deduction...

For those who want to eat sea food despite declining population numbers. Gordon Ramsay did a piece on how global warming was causing king crab to move north into former colder waters where they destroyed the ecosystem by reducing fish stocks and caused their numbers to balloon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6ff-ShY5Bw

There is quite a bit of ambiguity in your wording and questions as others have mentioned.

With that said, would you talk about your experience in the PE hospitals handling insurance? As far as I know, one of the biggest drivers of consolation in hospitals and clinics is smaller operators struggling to deal with insurance. The second is the rising cost of equipment and specialties as far as I know.

> 29 states make it outright illegal for non-licensed persons to own or manage an entity that engages in the practice or medicine.

What is your point? Almost half of the states allow non-licensed persons to own or manage an entity.

A semi-rural hospital in California saw it's doctors unionizing because of the performance metrics it's management imposed on the doctors that threatened their licenses after they were bought out. Do not know if California is one of those states, but it shows the short sighted profit seeking nature that people do not want to find out about the place they had or going to have their surgeries at.

I read the TOS as giving google the right to terminate my Google account.

And to be fair, video is expensive. Ads give both Google and the creators a return on their money.

Edit: just to clarify; I run ublock disabled on Youtube.com

When I first saw this I thought they released Doom 2016. I doubt anyone from Id will be able to comment on if 2016 will see the GPL, but there is no harm in asking. :-)

> If they had chosen Chrome OS instead it could have actually provided some value in terms of performance, security, modularity, and developer APIs.

I have not worked at Google. My assumption was that they wanted to avoid the GPL and avoid Linux's strick userspace backwards compatibility to get things upstreamed.

> The traditional wisdom that I'd read repeatedly until last year was job experience triumphs college and the opportunity cost is not worth it which is why I took the job

That is with the assumption have to take out a lot of student loans for tuition.

> Would you say this is still the case considering the events of last year? Does the compensation and tax differential across the pond make the investment worth it to join the US labor pool down the line?

A lot of people say yes, including Europeans.

I am an American and from what I heard American degrees are very valuable across that small pond. Get your education. A bachelor's is the basic minimum. If your college offers a masters in some tech with a similar ride, take it as well.

You know, I was expected to hate that part from Reed Hastings when I first started reading it, but he is right. Interviews are nearly useless and unfair. Giving people a chance to learn technical and professional skills when you are starting out, even if you terminated later, is important.