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This is so true. I've seen some companies however who allow end user teams to spend a certain budget using their corporate credit cards. But nowadays IT security and privacy restrictions anyway make every damn purchase a 8 month project at least

This is so true. The sheer administrative/legal effort and expense it takes smaller enterprise software vendors to execute a single sale is crazy. I'd happily offer lower prices if the process was easier.

But then why look at total per year. Calculate the cumulative total since the start of the industrial revolution. That number is relevant for the situation we're in today.

Religion? Thought you'd just sneak that past huh? How did India deny the right of religion? A temporary shutdown of communication, movement for public safety can be argued as justified for an area that's historically prone to violence resulting in loss of life and property. Kashmiri's themselves have lost the most in this Pakistan inspired violence.

We have a term for it. We call it code refurbishment!

Point a is covered under GDPR. If you have German on your website their courts have jurisdiction. The language is so vague that they will have jurisdiction over all the world when it comes to PI privacy laws.

A plugin to handle all of GDPR requirements?

A CMS backend to which I can sew on any template based frontend I want without having to follow the strict workflow set by the backend.

The backend would just serve content when asked (JSON prolly), the frontend could be anything you desired.

Security probably requires quite a bit of OSS on it. Lot's of proprietary software. There are a lot of penetration testing devices, not so many securing software.

I just scan the titles on Feedly, Open the titles I find interesting. Read the ones I really find interesting and bounce out of the ones where the titles were interesting by the item is actually boring.

But I can't catch up if I miss even one day. So there are periods where I have a 1000 unread items and I just skip them.

Typically a ledger should be immutable. That's what retains its auditability. Any fudging/changing should be done through reverse entries that explain why the reversal occurs.

That's one way to look at it. The other way is to gaze in wonderment to how much there is in the world to learn. And learn just for the sake of it. The day I look at the world and don't find enough interesting stuff for me to learn about is the day I'd really be afraid.

Your work situation can be remedied. Lots of companies require good engineers who're willing to learn stuff rather than pre-know stuff.

Angular + Flask is my go to. Still haven't jumped to Angular2 though.

> fixing the H1-B visa issue fewer H1-B immigrants will be working in the US and more Americans will be doing the work

That's if you assume this work can only be performed in the US. For the difference in costs I'm guessing the companies will find a way to offshore it.

> Many US firms have tried to offshore computer programming and in many cases found that it does not work. Penny wise, pound foolish.

That's anecdotal. Majority of the firms that did outsource work quite well. IBMs largest staff contingent is in India. It's not just programming, analytics, tech consulting, pre-sales, some marketing, architectural work, etc.

Did not know about Hillary's links to TCS/HCL! Thanks for the information. This is news.

> "The abuse of the H1-B Visa program is breaking the law since it is only supposed to be used in cases where there is no American qualified to do the job"

Isn't this basically an issue of "no american qualified to do the job" "at the price the market is willing to pay for that job"? It's not unfair to think that these American companies that save costs by using H1-B or offshored workers pass on those savings to customers and shareholders (since so many are public). Their products have an inherent savings because these companies are saving money using the H1B right?

I'm Indian and don't really care either way about this debate, but it just seems to me 'fixing' the H1B issue wouldn't really bring jobs back to the US. These companies are already used to such cheap IT labor and their final product/service pricing reflects that. You think they'll suddenly hire 50-60% more expensive US workers for those jobs? IMHO I think this will lead to more offshoring of jobs and the US will lose more jobs that were atleast situated in the US geographically and contributing to US taxes.

Will try. Thanks

I've been meaning to try this. I'll check it out.

The issue I think is people want an answer. Obamacare - good or bad? Hardly anyone is willing to accept the answer that it may mean different stuff for different people and approach such discussions with this nuance.

One probably needs to ask the question. What is the intent of such a platform? Popularity or creating a balanced, mature repository of arguments on a particular topic. The first shouldn't be too difficult, the second would be the holy grail.

What if the forum had both sides of each argument in parallel? You could contribute to your side and the opposition to their side and the most popular of each side is pushed to the top in a massive split screen?

I agree Postgres is pretty awesome, but I think the one thing it has going against it is a good GUI client. MySQL has way too many good options wherease Postgres is stuck on this front.

I do believe there will be a tipping point if it really creates large scale unemployment even in a certain sector. Without an appropriate safety net people won't have enough money to buy food which will trigger substantial social unrest.

> What would protesting automation even look like?

How about truckers stoning or blocking an automated truck that wheels into a rest stop to refuel? Maybe rest stop operators refuse service to automated trucks. (Can they do that legally?)

Aren't most of Colombian druglords' money stored as $100 bills?

Isn't there an angle here to how scared people are of the IRS though? Isn't their image a bit related to why this scam was possible.

My opinion on this is that you still learn and deploy on AWS or GCE. The learning curve might be steep at first but it'll save a lot of heartache when your organization scales or you want to set up a complex deployment that one of the smaller players don't necessarily support.

A fully open source business workflow engine, pre-built with a great UI for the users to execute the workflow. Mobile friendly is a definite plus.

Almost all government software are essentially workflow engines. This would instantaneously solve loads of problems.

Pardon me if I'm wrong, but I don't see Free/Open-Source anywhere on the website. It seems paid, proprietary everywhere.

Haha! This guy just called JNU India's Berkeley!! Epic!

These are the guys who predicted the 2008 crash and prevented it right? Oh wait..