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Excellent recommendation. I always use that book to explain to people how I grew up very differently from folks in the US (where I now live).

English: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24571

German: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/24571/24571-h/24571-h.htm

Same with statuspage

> This non-.com ickiness seems to be an outdated US-centric perspective, never heard of it elsewhere.

Not exactly true, for example for most German users not having a .de is odd. .com and .net already feel like a stretch for many. Beyond that other TLDs/gTLDs are not really trusted by most from what I can tell.

Berliner and Pfannkuchen are very different pastries (at least in the Northwest of Germany). Pfannkuchen literally implies it is made in a pan, whereas a Berliner is typically deep fried. It often has a fruit jelly filling, but you will also find those without a filling.

I agree that no native speaker would think of the pastry when hearing "Ich bin ein Berliner." Just like I wouldn't think of a sausage if someone were to say "Ich bin ein Frankfurter."

The Microsoft numbers do not seem right. This must include all the hires for attrition / backfills.

Under Satya rumors have always been under control it seems. Not sure whether this was your impression.

Well at Microsoft the CEO does a great job usually announcing major news via email to employees and releasing it for investors publicly at the same time. Not so this time.

People have been shamed for using spreadsheets to track their dates, this is even worse.

It is to be expected. I didn't mean that a leak is unusual, but rather that learning about it this way _feels_ strange.

I know some teams who had a sudden team meeting scheduled by their skip manager for 9 am today. I suspect this is how organization changes will be communicated to affected teams.

Major news came yesterday. Satya email this morning.

We learned about the Microsoft layoffs in the news yesterday and right now nobody knows who will be impacted. I'm sure they will handle it as well as they can, but learning about it from the news first instead of the CEO is also odd. We did get an email from Satya this morning but it appears that notifying impacted folks will be done in a distributed manner by their management chain. Most of the company isn't hiring now so there won't be many internal jobs that those being terminated could try to apply for.

I just ordered the M2 Pro Mac Mini that was also released. The Mac Studio was a bit excessive for my music production hobby needs, but I do need the extra cores of the M2 Pro models. Really thrilled they released this.

The article's title currently reads "over 18,000" - can we get this updated please?

Your dexterity is lost without practice, but I find that the new licks, chord progressions and other ideas you add to your repertoire to be used in improvisation stick around. This to me is far more valuable than the dexterity which I can reacquire in no time. My jazz voicings today are far better than they were at a time when I practiced a lot more piano.

I'm on call this past week and next week!

My on-call is a bit odd because it's both as OSS maintainer deciding whether I need to coordinate a hotfix release, as well as certain functionality within a managed service (PaaS) enabled by the OSS project. Only the latter thing can actually page me, and I don't anticipate being paged. Fingers crossed!

More like deciassed :)

All common first names for .dev were listed as premium at the time!

I once spoke to someone in charge of the .ink gTLD and they made all animals (among other things) premium domains, but forgot some. For a while I had "sloth.ink" or as I called it Slo(w) Think.

Perhaps a public interest argument could be made here for making this information more accessible. The whereabouts of a CEO of multiple companies could be of interest for investment decisions. For an ordinary private citizen this would be different.

This has been discussed many times - the flight data and aircraft registration details are publicly accessible via the FAA. Posting that data in an easily accessible form hardly violates anyone's privacy.

This surprisingly sounds very much like the actual ACH system still in use today in the US (from my limited understanding)

My five letter first name for some reason was not a premium domain (probably because it's not an English name and someone didn't do their homework) and I pay $12 / year. Of course the name would be snatched up quickly so I did buy it during the early access period when I had to pay $250 or so as an early registration fee.

> These are the words of a young person who was trained to see everyone else's success as an implicit criticism of their own ability and effort. It is not the author's fault. A mentally healthy person, when shown a display of excellence, is impressed, energized, and motivated.

I don't think that's universally accurate. While this is something I have observed living in the US, growing up in Germany was a completely different story: The people in small town Northern Germany went so far as to criticize and attack you for your achievements that far surpassed what they have accomplished. It appears to make them feel jealous and threatened, which in their view is best dealt with by making you less threatening instead of feeling inspired themselves.

Selection bias or not - I am saying across any employers out there, go ahead and ask folks. Maybe you don't realize how many people in your companies are or were on H-1B and came via this route.

The H-1B program is heavily used by graduates from US institutions.

I would welcome someone actually studying this rigorously. I am confident my observations will hold. There is also no evidence to assume that Indian consulting services occupy the majority of H-1Bs.

Tata/Infosys etc are some of the largest single employers of H-1Bs, but collectively it really does seem that the majority of new H-1Bs every year are in fact issued to people already in the country on F-1 student visas.

Go ahead and ask any immigrant who had a H-1B about their path. I am confident you will come to the same conclusion.

Most people will transition from F-1 student visa OPT (Optional Practical Training) which has a multi-year STEM extension to H1B. Essentially you have 3 chances to get a H1B if you can find an employer willing to go through the process while you are already legally in the country.

I have never met any current or former H1B holder who didn't enter the program through this route.

I am a naturalized citizen who also followed this path.

That really depends on the distribution of the layoffs.

The 10-15% percent aren't necessarily all bad performers but might just be people working on teams that are to be disbanded entirely.

Definitely do sell it to /u/filmgirlcw. I can vouch for her being awesome. :)

Sure, but what about the psychological impact / feelings of people when reading all the news of hiring freezes?

For example engineers that were laid off at Stripe in Seattle ordinarily have a good chance of getting a job at Amazon, but now Amazon isn't hiring. That combination certainly causes folks to feel uneasy.

Additionally, cities like Seattle are expensive and not all companies pay equally well. If you bought a house on a single income but suddenly cannot find a new job paying enough to pay your bills, then that's a problem too. Previously there were lots of jobs of similar pay to go around. In the current economy that is no longer the case. Suddenly you will need to make some tough choices. Yes we can argue that nobody should have put themselves into such a position in the first place, but buying a house is incredibly difficult in markets like Seattle and San Francisco, and so I don't blame people who are now in this predicament.

I work on cloud computing services (PaaS / BaaS) and infrastructure. All the big employers in this space have hiring freezes.

I used to get 20 recruiting emails from Amazon a month. Now they have a complete corporate hiring freeze. The saying here in Seattle goes that if you can't find a job you could always try one of the many Amazon roles because they were always hiring. Not so anymore.

EDIT: if parent comment is referring to Amazon job postings, the all up corporate hiring freeze was just announced this morning!