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If the message was "I baked cookies, come by my office if you'd like to try some" do you think this person would similarly be fired? A person that was recently promoted, was designated as a high performer, (and I have nothing to back this up but seemed strategically recruited since they did not fit the google mould as a high school drop out?)

I think a reasonable reaction would be to remove the message from the extension, put in place a better review process, better training and possibly some minor negative comments at review time.

In this timeline a ruling like this probably increases their valuation, too bad they filed for bankruptcy.

I interviewed at Carbonite back in 2014ish. I walked out of the interview absolutely perplexed what they do and where the leadership was. Before I even got the rejection email I started the process to give me the option to short stocks because I was sure CARB was going to go out of business in short order based on what I saw.

I didn't end up following through but the stock has been solid and increased a fair amount and here they are selling for a billion dollars. So... goes to show what I know.

Any reason pulumi, per the twitter thread, doesn't meet your needs?

What led to the decision to not contribute enhancements to the k8s cluster autoscaler? Seems like a lot of the features would be useful and in scope of the cluster autoscaler...

If a worker fails or gets pre-empted, how does it retry anything? It's gone at that point, no?

Sounds like you'd end up with a bunch of dangling shards orphaned in WORKING state. And now you need timeouts and health checks and something to coordinate all that.

Maybe a silly question, but if I run a for profit SaaS and I package my software with my business logic up in a linux container which uses alpine as a base (which uses busybox), am I required to release the code for my business?

Shares also "tumbled" >100% more than it was last year at this time...

I don't think there is anything stopping you from bundling multiple services/deployments in the same helm chart. Many of the "curated" helm charts do it: https://github.com/helm/charts

I read the blog post but it's still not clear what this is or its for? Is it a usb c port for laptops without them?

running a business is just the opposite side of the stock trading coin.

If the stocks themselves are random walks, then the underlying company performance must be random walks. If your education does indeed improve the outcomes of the business you manage and run then that would mean stock performance can be influenced by things other than luck.

Unless of course you are operating under the premise that company performance and stock performance are unrelated.

This is an interesting concept to be teaching business school students.

Doesn't this amount to telling you your education is useless?

I'm just here to thank whoever changed the title that used this as an opportunity to smear engineers. Levandowski was not an engineer. He was an executive and this type of behavior is completely in line with executive behavior.

Even if your instances are behind ALBs or ELBs they may not be protected if they make outbound connections to the internet.

I don't know anything about Pis, though I've seen one. How does this attach? Does it require soldering?

May be just a personal opinion but I don't consider paying taxes on vast amounts of wealth or the land you own in support of a community to be suffering.

I dont think this will pass and my best guess is this is the administration getting FAANG to play ball.

But... if it does, how will it work? I did read the article but it wasnt clear if current h4 employees would be grandfathered? I work at a place with a few hundred h1b engineers and it seems their spouses fill the product/project management roles. If they arent grandfathered it'd be catastrophic for the company I work for, never mind places the size of FAANG companies.

Yes, auctions will be similarly gamed.

I think one easy thing to do to ensure that small cos and rural areas still have access is to require all h1b hires to be level 4, the highest level. As it stands now more than 70% are hired at levels 1 and 2 (2018 data), which are essentially "below average" which is weird for a program aimed at bringing in those with hard to find skills.

You are. If they are skilled, lawful and desire to become citizens they should be given a green card after 1 year on the spot.

Like over other people fleeing dangerous situations (that the US may or may not be exacerbating?), war? genocide? famine?

Seems like the US had the moral high ground prioritizing the down and out, now just another country only accessible if you have $$.

A great improvement would be to give them citizenship if they want it.

The economic impact of immigrants is not under debate, however your examples are poor choices as I don't think any of those people came to the US on an H1B visa. If anything it's an argument against H1B.

It's a step toward the "staple a green card" immigration policy supported by both republicans and democrats. It's essentially a reversal from the historical "tired, poor, huddled masses" policy of immigration in America to something that is more in line with the rest of the neoliberal world.

Fine by me but H1-B should not be allowed to use the Level 1 or Level 2 wage designation the BLS defines, especially if they are masters students now that we are prioritizing masters degrees since we've decided they provide more value.

Setting wages from level 1 and 2 is exactly what happens in a majority of these visas today and doesn't make sense that we are importing "skilled" labor, fresh out of mostly mediocre schools, at entry level wages to work on back office systems at companies that make generous profits quarter after quarter.

Edit: I just looked it up, in 2018 nearly 72% of H1B applications that used the OES wage data in their LCA were either Level 1 or Level 2...

Below are the (possibly dated?) definitions for Level 1 and 2[0]:

Level I (entry) wage rates are assigned to job offers for beginning level employees who have only a basic understanding of the occupation. These employees perform routine tasks that require limited, if any, exercise of judgment. The tasks provide experience and familiarization with the employer’s methods, practices, and programs. The employees may perform higher level work for training and developmental purposes. These employees work under close supervision and receive specific instructions on required tasks and results expected. Their work is closely monitored and reviewed for accuracy. Statements that the job offer is for a research fellow, a worker in training, or an internship are indicators that a Level I wage should be considered.

Level II (qualified) wage rates are assigned to job offers for qualified employees who have attained, either through education or experience, a good understanding of the occupation. They perform moderately complex tasks that require limited judgment. An indicator that the job request warrants a wage determination at Level II would be a requirement for years of education and/or experience that are generally required as described in the O*NET Job Zones.

[0] http://www.flcdatacenter.com/download/NPWHC_Guidance_Revised...

BLS (which is what most employers use as supporting wage data. Some employers provide their own sources which is a whole other can of worms) allows you to search by "metropolitan statistical area."

http://www.flcdatacenter.com/faq.aspx

For instance a level 1 "programmer" in SF makes about 70k. A level 4 "Software Developers, Systems Software" makes about 158k...

My point is that the argument that h1b employers must and therefore do pay the prevailing wage is incomplete with out knowing the employees skills and the wage data the employer chose to set as the prevailing wage.

Have you ever looked at the DoL classifications? Very easy to make a level 3 "software engineer" at 135k a level 1 "programmer" at 65k and everything in between depending on your comfort. And it's all above board and by the law.

The valuation to jobs created ratio really highlights the imbalance between capital and labor in tech.

A few questions:

1) Have you or your firm ever submitted an O-1 application that did not get approved?

2) Have you worked with clients that after not getting picked in the H1-B lottery solved their need by increasing pay and hiring a citizen?

I know of an employer that has an apprenticeship program. They hire probably 20 or 30 master graduates in to it every semester. It's used as a holding pen for foreign student graduates on OPT while the company gets them an H1B visa. The apprenticeships require a masters degree but the work doesn't. This essentially guarantees they don't get any applicants that are citizens and also helps avoid the h1b dependent designation.

If your company does 360 reviews or has a "rating" system (smart companies refuse to call it a ranking), it's the same thing. It's in the corporate america HR handbook. If you are ranked highly, someone had to be ranked lowly.

This gets to the crux of the issue with the H1B system as it relates to age discrimination. Why are we hiring fresh grads on a "best and brightest" visa? If the college degree from a US institution made them the best and brightest, why wasn't a citizen in that classroom seat? If they are truly geniuses why are they paid at entry level wages?