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shimon_e··on China, Addicted to Bootleg Software, Reels from Ransomware Attack
I saw a secretary in an hospital still using Windows 98
shimon_e··on WCry 2.0 functions perfectly under Wine
Run wine inside an emulator... oh wait
shimon_e··on Accidentally Stopping a Global Cyber Attack
The Government can hire developers to do it themselves.
shimon_e··on Accidentally Stopping a Global Cyber Attack
Now is the time to write a virus that uses the same exploit and automatically patches the vulnerable before a new version of the ransomware is released.
shimon_e··on European Investment Bank announces €25M funding for MariaDB
I've seen multiple open source projects get such government funding. Does anyone know the process that they go through to get such grants?
shimon_e··on Red Hat OpenShift.io – Free, end-to-end, cloud-native development
It's what happens when you write your content for search engines instead of humans.
shimon_e··on Show HN: Kryptonite – a new home for your SSH private key
Yes
shimon_e··on Startups are America’s job engine, so give workers tax credits
I know a lot of entrepreneurs who travel to a cheaper country to work on their startup. They still pay their taxes to uncle sam.
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They are up to shenanigans to make sure they own the market. IBM for example is trying to hire up all available cheap talent in India so their competitors can't hire enough people to fill their contracts.
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Its not just low pay. A friend of mine employed a developer who was a senior at WiPro earning over 1 lakh per month. He was employed for my friend at a junior developer salary simply because he was sick and tired of writing random throw away code. This developer finally wanted to gain some real skills, work on a real product, and took a huge pay cut to come to start working at a product based company. So far he is doing pretty good.
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I've got an office in Bangalore. The only thing I have found such candidates good for are non-development roles. e.g. documentation, transcribing.
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As long as the outsourcing companies bill by the hour, they have all the incentive to minimise wages, and maximise billable hours.
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There are plenty of good developers in India who only want to be developers. They never work for outsourcing companies. They only apply for product based companies they are interested in.
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They are about half the size of the rest. Accenture should really be on the list. They have almost as many people as Tata.
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I've got an office in Bangalore. I have not interviewed a single person from the big outsourcing agencies who had real talent. Bangalore is packed with talent but they all cost at least 3* more what the outsourcing agencies are paying.
shimon_e··on The Guardian Pulls Out of Facebook’s Instant Articles and Apple News
You can unfollow such friends.
shimon_e··on Uber CEO Plays with Fire
In India, Uber helps drivers get loans to buy the cars. I've seen drivers who utilise their cars 24/7 (i.e. their brother drives at night) say they are making more than their previous office jobs. While regular drivers who aren't as economically savvy complaining about how uber scammed them to get loans that makes them slaves to the uber company.
shimon_e··on Uber CEO Plays with Fire
After reading the entire article everyone but one person declined comment. That person remained unnamed.
shimon_e··on “Users will only be able to view patents via HTTP. HTTPS will no longer work”
Its not just the US government using Drupal. The Australian Government loves it and pays its contractors very well.
shimon_e··on “Users will only be able to view patents via HTTP. HTTPS will no longer work”
Hiring freeze was lifted on April 12, 2017.
shimon_e··on H-1B visas mainly go to Indian outsourcing firms
The bars in Bangalore are filled with medical students. There are always a handful of Americans studying with them. I have a few friends who graduated recently and are now back in America doing their residency.
shimon_e··on H-1B visas mainly go to Indian outsourcing firms
Syria
shimon_e··on H-1B visas mainly go to Indian outsourcing firms
There are a ton of Americans studying medicine in India. Simply because its cheaper. So it goes both ways.

I'm pretty sure these Americans plan on working in America after residency.

shimon_e··on Steve Ballmer serves up a data trove about government spending in the US
hmmm... if anyone has any connections to Jared Kushner maybe we could recommend to him to create a blockchain for government budgets under his office of american innovation.
shimon_e··on Steve Ballmer serves up a data trove about government spending in the US
The article you link to says it was last week. This was the selective publication of White House visitor logs online. Those logs still need to be submitted to the national archive.

You can freely object to such changes. But the second people start spinning it into something much worse than what it is. I feel like they are playing politics and don't really care.

shimon_e··on United removes first-class passenger to make room for 'higher-priority' traveler
No, you listen to the reason he refuses to deboard. If it seems like a good reason to the flight crew. e.g. he is a doctor, etc. then you let him stay.
shimon_e··on United removes first-class passenger to make room for 'higher-priority' traveler
Apparently he wasn't at the time. News reports I read at the time said he applied for ESTA but was found to be in violation of ESTA terms at the boarder.
shimon_e··on United removes first-class passenger to make room for 'higher-priority' traveler
They also don't have connections. Or aircraft with different numbers of seats.
shimon_e··on United removes first-class passenger to make room for 'higher-priority' traveler
Shanghai is not 24/7. They have night time curfew.
shimon_e··on United removes first-class passenger to make room for 'higher-priority' traveler
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_System_for_Travel_A...
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