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The fee exceeds what many of these engineers earn in a year, with the average H-1B salary at TCS running about $105,000. A typical engineer deployed to an American client site generates $150,000 to $200,000 in annual billings at roughly 10% operating margins, producing $15,000 to $20,000 in yearly profit. The $100,000 upfront fee eliminates five to six years of that entire profit stream. J.P. Morgan states bluntly that the move effectively “prices out the utility of H-1B as a source of labor supply.”

Mathy look at the topology and some stuff about Yusef Lateef: https://medium.com/@lucas_gonze/coltrane-pitch-diagrams-e25b...

A human is a peripheral. Our use cases are meaning, identity, and purpose.

I respect you and Automattic being transparent about your thinking here on HN.

I'm not an accountant, but I know enough to have a sense of much "creativity" is possible. The purchase price might be in the past, while costs are ongoing. Yes there would be a markdown from purchase to sale, but that's a different line item from the annual run rate.

Epic owning Bandcamp never made sense.

Getting Bandcamp off the books is likely to make the business look better to investors.

The only people who know the term "copyleft" are already familiar with GNU, the FSF, and the free software movement. That is a tiny pool.

ShareAlike is also effective.

What we know for sure is that Copyleft is never going to work.

This is a valuable project, executed well.

A suggested edit: the term "copyleft" at https://writefreesoftware.org/learn/licenses is confusing and is falling into disuse. "Reciprocal licensing" is easier to understand and is growing.

Does Drew Devault have a HN handle we can @?

Which came first, the supply or the demand?

Any time you write you create noise for others. You shouldn't do that unless the information you are offering is valuable to them. Your writing can't be about you. It has to serve the reader.

Growing up I envisioned myself as a writer. When I got old enough to test that out I found out the truth of this writer's piece: I was well-known but painfully poor. My girlfriend asked "what are you doing this for?" and I couldn't answer.

I reset my career vision to writing creative code and everything turned around. Adulthood is crap except when it isn't.

Gross sales of Meta Quest are inflated. "Grossly" inflated. HAHAHahaha. The Question is not volume but ROI.

Meta is pouring massive amounts of money into the project and has yet to establish organic demand. The headsets that have been sold are gathering dust. There is no product/market fit.

I'm interested to see your unboxing.

Good list. I'd also find an HUD display like this useful for playing music:

- lyrics - chord changes - a visual metronome

I was an engineer, then a manager, and now I'm transitioning back to about 80% IC work. There were a couple big obstacles.

- Getting your skills back means getting hired to do engineering in the absence of sharp skills. I had to fake-it-to-make-it for a little while.

- Moving from manager to IC is a risky story on your resume, where you want to show continuous growth. You can't take just any IC role. In some way it has to show a positive career trajectory.

Now that I'm over the hump things are great. I love engineering and am glad to do it all day.

Yeah, I get where you're coming from. I agree that this technology is really neat. I love the creative computer science.

I think this may be the ultimate driving force behind krypto. It's inspiring. It has poetry and romance. It's weird and intriguing. Those are not pointless things!

The money of course resonates a lot more for most people, which is why all that weirdness has mainly been applied to fleecing suckers.

This seems like a bug, not a feature.

Personally I have Authenticator for day to day use, a Yubikey for restoring access if something happens to my phone, and backup codes.

I doubt employers just won't hire. That would be self defeating. They'll look to protect their trade secrets in other ways, mainly through aggressive enforcement of non-disclosure agreements.

Good good stuff. Immediately useful product with a clear revenue stream and effective implementation.

I was hunting around for such a scene. Thanks for getting me connected.

I don't believe that you are going to do all that screening before talking to the best candidates. It's just not true. You wouldn't invest like that in every candidate to submit a resume.

Your process is like everybody elses:

1. automated resume screen hunting for keywords 2. HR human review 3. HR call 4. 3-4 other calls 5. detailed screening 6. offer

If you are doing detailed screening BEFORE interviews, stop right now. It is wasted effort. Nobody else does it that way.

Or: what part of this isn't attributable to inflation?

Underpants. Northpaw Underpants.

What an excellent idea. Kudos.

Yes, I agree. Skype is even worse, maybe just because it's older and has been neglected longer.

...for the business strategy:

1. Neutralize the threat from Slack (AKA Salesforce)

2. Give Enterprise sales teams a checklist item

3. Don't spend a dime more than necessary on software development

4. Integrate with the rest of the MS enterprise product line

On top of those goals, the internal sponsors of Teams have to survive the savage internal politics at Microsoft, so the product is designed to threaten no important factions.

I'm curious what a vintage digital camera is.

"temporarily retire to school with the hope of becoming the old guy with a fresh degree and the niche expertise necessary": that's a smart strategy. How big did you go on this? What was the degree and how long did you take off?

Good takeaways here:

1. The less time you spend on-camera, the less your appearance dates you. Go voice-only when possible.

2. Stay on the leading edge of tech whenever possible