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They are basically "google of Russia" - main search engine, browser, etc. Waiting till Russia cuts off YouTube and the rest.

They basically adopt western open-source for Russian government (review and such). Their browser is Chromium, machine learning is Tensor Flow, etc. They also work in cybersecurity for Russian government (including conducting attacks).

I remember you could generate Notepad from the MFC wizard in Visual Studio 6.0. With menus and all...

Notepad++ is different.

39 and definitely agree. 20th, 30 - living in a poor country, settling in US, small kids, uncertainty.

39 - Silicon Valley salary, comfortable savings, six digits kids college account. Fun job, lots of respect for OSS contributions, great food, biking, fitness, luxury car. On top of that - coming home every day to kids who agree to play any online game I want! Main source of anxiety - aging parents living in a far-away country...

No. You can easily transfer H1. I did that twice. It’s L1s that are not transferable.

You are not. But others from your country are (the ones coming through staffing companies). It is tough to be punished for being from a wrong country. Maybe people like you should speak up more and join in fighting the H1 system abuse instead of joining with the abusers in demanding more visas?

The only thing that would happen had they allocated more visas - more people would be brought. You will still be stuck.

This. They make it easy to replace local workers as it is them who need to justify bringing the workers and the client.

Pretty sure, it would be hard for Disney to justify bringing H1s while firing locals. It is much easier for stuffing firms to justify that and then supply to Disney.

H1 does not lower employee power. I came on H1, got laid off within one year and then had to change companies again in 6 months. I could do it just fine.

Staffing companies should not be able to bring people. Only direct hires. This will fix H1 and will not require increasing cap and such.

There’s no physical key for them. You can trivially write/edit CSV or TSV on any computer using any editor.

Voice commands are the future . “Turn off kids bedroom” “remind me about ... later today”, “call wife”, “set timer for 3 minutes” - it is so much faster then fumbling through the UI

I am also a Google employee. Dragonfly needs to happen, no matter what random SJWs say.

One thing that annoys me is what effectivly amounts to a visa fraud. Consulting companies consume most H1 quota even though the peple they hire effectively work in a different location. They bring L visa people to work in an unrelated company (L1 requires immigrant to have been an employee before coming to US). And then we hear about H1 shortages...

Consulting companies charge fereign workers for visa processing (they disguise the charges as training and such) - which is illegal, keep people on L1 visas without applying for Green Cards (so the employee cannot find a US job without the contractor). And Google et al seem to be perfectly fine with that.

Green badge is an intern.

And in Cupertino Vallco is rotting.

And where is Vulcan standard? Windows games use DX. iOS is Metal. Android Open GL, ES, etc. Gaming consoles have proprietary APIs.

I would very much prefer games to use Metal on macOS (Starcraft2 is much smoother on the same hardware)

Dune2 did not require mouse, keyboard all the way. Same as with Early FPSes (I played Doom, Heretic and Duke Nukem 3d on keyboard)

CnC was a Dune successor. Red Alert was a CnC spin-off.

Warcraft (one) was a Dune2 clone with crappy pathfinding. But they did add ability to give orders to multiple units at once!

Communists considered Soviet Union just a bridgehead for the World Revolution. It primary goal was to serve as a resource base for spreading the fire all over the world. I just checked and it looks like English version of “the Internationale” is mild, the Russian lyrics explicitly state “this world of oppression we’ll reduce to rubble and will use that rubble to build our new world” - and I can guarantee you, USSR was really looking forward to destroy the capitalist world.

The industrial design showcased in this article is nice. But the reality was that most “nice things” were replicas, authorized or otherwise, of the things developed in the first world. I remember in 1980s looking throw the mail catalogues people brought from abroad and being amazed on how many nice things there were in the world. Obviously, I was mostly interested in the toys section back then - but those toys were decades ahead of what we had in USSR.

Loathed the scarf. Having to iron it every evening was a chore. And all that blatant propaganda attached - “it has the same color as our flag, the color of the blood our heroic ancestors spilled for our future”. Ugh!

No. Companies that matter are MS (they are still pushing DirectX), Apple (Metal or bust), Sony and Nintendo (each console has its API). Without full platform owner support Vulcan will be a second class citizen with all kinds of performance and compatibility issues.

10 years ago Eclipse was most popular editor and was considered the best. Java, C++, PHP. Aptana, IBM IDEs and many more. And now it is pretty much gone.

Coke was n/a - period. At least, in Ukraine. We were super confused when they begen selling it shortly before USSR dissolution.

Grew up in Kyiv. Pepsi was rare. I was probably 14 when I got a .33 bottle to myself, and not split 4 ways with my parents and brother.

I’m Diablo3 and Destiny fan - this summer I was bored and decided to give Warframe a try (we started it with my son together coop). I was appalled how bad the game is. Ugly, with like 4 levels (they have a couple tilesets and randomly generated levels - so the levels all look the same). I quit it after we unlocked archwing - that part was way too buggy, on top of general bugginess of the game.

Destiny2 gets a lot of hate, I don’t understand why. It is super-polished, level design is stellar (I love Nessus with the broken down Exodus One, mission on the Almighty was also really good).

Chromium is a ridiculously optimized and extremely flexible runtime. Qt is ok for basic UIs, but once you need to do custom draw, "modern" animations (supported by CSS) - Chromium will be much more approachable and faster.

Ebikes are not faster then the regular bikes. I am biking on a trail that has a 15mph speed limit. Even when I am allowing myself to go at 20 mph, I am constantly taken over by those elitist cyclists who feel like they are doing so much good by mere cycling that the rules don't apply to them.

Assist is "optimized" for 20mph and is capped at like 28 - I believe this is due to European laws. I have yet to breach 24 mph even with a full assist on a straight road.

My employer did similar trial (I ended up buying the bike and now I do around 30% commute by bike).

I don't think you can expect high percentage from people that are not obsessed with cycling - and those already use regular bike. E.g. I need to be home early 2 days/week to drive my kids to classes, sometimes I need to go to grocery store after the work, on some days there's dentist, weather, etc. So the drop in the usage is expected.

That's stupid. Competent 3d on Windows is DirectX. Competent 3d on Mac/ios is Metal. Competent 3d on consoles uses their propriatary API. So, what is the point of OpenGL portability? Between Linux and Android? You _will_ have to switch API if you are making anything worthy.