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bigcostooge

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    Comment #19069443

    Of course. It seems most masters degrees are pay to stay fraud. I work with a large number of h1bs and “students”, and nearly all are currently attending or did attend “remote grad…

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    Comment #17894520

    I’ll be better off than you when that happens.

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    Comment #17857439

    Improvements in efficiency may only be needed in build and runtime systems. You may still be able to write electron apps.

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    Comment #17756926

    I’ve hit this realization at 30. But exactly this.

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    Comment #17643398

    I think you can answer that by asking yourself another question: who at Harvard understands supply and demand?

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    Comment #17623311

    It’s possible I’m a fish person, but not likely. And this adds nothing to the discussion.

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    Comment #17616816

    I haven’t seen this specifically in our job postings. But we only hire H1bs to reduce cost.

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    Comment #17614955

    I’m not the poster, but I’ve worked with literally hundreds of H1B workers directly, and while some were ~decent developers, the majority were not. Even the decent developers had n…

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    Comment #17611496

    Technical ability alone does not qualify one for an H1b visa. You need to be above and beyond what is able to be sourced in America. Specifically, the skills need to be so advanced…

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    Comment #17226457

    Well. There’s always bitbucket.

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    Comment #17220345

    Maybe the thugs should just go to sleep. It’s midnight.

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    Comment #16981545

    You can encode about 1 video per EC2 medium instance without losing >1:1 encoding speed. It’s horrendously expensive.

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    Comment #16976370

    I find that all “best practices” are a lazy way to avoid justifying a position. Often the advice is almost always incorrect or situational, but the claim maker hasn’t done the work…

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    Comment #16965532

    The rest of the country needs this.

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    Comment #16946941

    When I was selling hundreds of items per month, I would hold any Spanish name for 48 hours. The majority of Spanish named buyers were committing fraud.

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    Comment #16899489

    Houses do pay dividends. You have to live somewhere, and you get to live in your house for free (in the analogy where it’s discussed as an investment.) The alternative is much wors…

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    Comment #16730981

    But it won’t.

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    Comment #16574897

    International responses skew the salary data and make it useless.

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    Comment #16458297

    This is my current life. Testing an idea costs $25M. It’s absurd, and most of my time is spent filling out forms or explaining the basics of the web to idiots.