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null | webdevche | null | Great News for India. No more IT sweatshops. | null | 0 | 1491286076 | False | 0 | dft0jaa | t3_637m7q | null | null | t3_637m7q | null | 1493779804 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | shinazueli | null | Not even mentioning it's wholesale illegal and would result in truly massive fines. | null | 0 | 1491286114 | False | 0 | dft0jvy | t3_637m7q | null | null | t1_dfszi1u | null | 1493779812 | 15 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | nixservice | null | I don't fully understand this. So for someone like me, an International student studying in the US on an F1 visa hoping to get hired as a malware analyst/software engineer, how does this affect my plans for the future of working here? | null | 0 | 1491286151 | False | 0 | dft0kgv | t3_637m7q | null | null | t3_637m7q | null | 1493779819 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | ArmandoWall | null | Are you joking? Where did I say that? | null | 0 | 1491286163 | False | 0 | dft0kng | t3_637m7q | null | null | t1_dft0bzz | null | 1493779822 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | nixonrichard | null | At the same time, how much is your company paying for apprenticeships and other training? I think a big problem in the US is this attitude of immediate availability of only exactly as much talent as is needed with no pipeline of US employees and no investment in US employees.
Your company really shouldn't be okay with being dependent on foreign workers, and should use them as a temporary solution, not as long-term infrastructure. | null | 0 | 1491286225 | False | 0 | dft0ll6 | t3_637m7q | null | null | t1_dfsyv4q | null | 1493779835 | 19 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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null | evincarofautumn | null | I guess it was fixed, or I misread it originally. I also got my fix wrong, writing `<` when I meant `<=`. Ugh. | null | 0 | 1491286292 | False | 0 | dft0mlg | t3_632jqy | null | null | t1_dfszhd6 | null | 1493779849 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | xordan | null | It's really depressive, reading this kind of stuff.
I am currently working as a software developer in Poland, and i currently earn $ 14k/year (net). And this is pretty good for Poland.
Reading that you earn figures of 100k per year and more makes me want to die lol.
I have only one year of experience and have bachelor's degree, but have been doing some stuff around software since i was like 15.
Currently my work includes:
* REST API design for both mobile and web apps (Java)
* Yeoman generators for internal use (node)
* some front end development (angularjs, bootstrap)
* using Cloud services (Oracle and AWS)
All of our workflow includes agile development (we use JIRA, scrum boards, we have 2 week sprints..), im pretty good at using git, all my apps are integrated with CI tools like Jenkins, we are using Docker for our databases and deployment... i write some unit tests, i know and use design patterns, try to keep my code clean and all that stuff.
Don't get me wrong, im not trying to brag proving im good here. Just trying to describe my work, i don't feel like im doing anything less than you guys out there. I'm trying to learn all the time.
And here i come, earning $15k / year. And don't tell me "you should go to your employer and ask for more!". No, even guys that work here 3-4 years earn maybe 40% more than me, and 3 years is a huge gap in experience nowadays..
How do i realistically find a job somewhere else that will have me earn my "worth"? I don't think it's much to ask for...
I don't have any obligations here, not really any close family etc. Basically free to travel.. | null | 0 | 1491286342 | False | 0 | dft0ncm | t3_637m7q | null | null | t1_dfslvph | null | 1493779859 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | salgat | null | They probably hit the highest usage areas first. Also, they are really trying to push Azure, so focusing on web is not surprising. | null | 0 | 1491286358 | False | 0 | dft0nm2 | t3_63a2p9 | null | null | t1_dft06sa | null | 1493779862 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | warsage | null | CS degree with 3.7 gpa from BYU. Currently living in the Salt Lake Valley. 2 years part time PHP, 1 year full time web dev for a Fortune 500 company. Angular, Java, Oracle. What am I looking at? | null | 0 | 1491286363 | False | 0 | dft0nok | t3_637m7q | null | null | t1_dfsqopw | null | 1493779864 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | pius3nd | null | EB1 and 2 are subcategories, not visa. You'd be on an H1b in category EB2. You may be thinking of O1 visa (which are likely EB1). | null | 0 | 1491286446 | False | 0 | dft0oyk | t3_637m7q | null | null | t1_dfsyf2n | null | 1493779882 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Euphoricus | null | > hit the highest usage areas
Do you have any statistics that show .NET is used for those areas in majority of cases? What about legacy web? Is that also included in those areas? | null | 0 | 1491286458 | False | 0 | dft0p5r | t3_63a2p9 | null | null | t1_dft0nm2 | null | 1493779884 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | flukus | null | In my first reply where I asked what rare skills you had that made you eligible. | null | 0 | 1491286469 | False | 0 | dft0pc0 | t3_637m7q | null | null | t1_dft0kng | null | 1493779887 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | weirdoaish | null | That's totally fine, every country's government can and should do that, I just don't like it when people give BS arguments like "helping indentured H1B labor with this change".
It doesn't matter if you support a change from your government, just don't try to present it as something its not. | null | 0 | 1491286470 | False | 0 | dft0pc9 | t3_638rgm | null | null | t1_dfsw6ce | null | 1493779887 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | nixonrichard | null | To be fair, in many fields H1Bs are used to keep salaries low "compared to other companies."
Professions like medicine and law which require certifications and a lot of education generally easily pay close to $150,000 for professionals. The H1B system has allowed many fields of engineering to keep salaries suppressed down in the $70,000 range. | null | 0 | 1491286487 | False | 0 | dft0pm2 | t3_637m7q | null | null | t1_dfsyk2g | null | 1493779890 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Khenshu | null | Seems cool. How is bitbucket and why should i choose it over GitHub/GitLab? | null | 0 | 1491286497 | False | 0 | dft0ps9 | t3_638wyo | null | null | t3_638wyo | null | 1493779892 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | vansterdam_city | null | I mean that is only one side of the story. How many genius immigrant software engineers are making US tech companies great? The USA gets all the best people with these same programs.
My workplace has immigration lawyers on retainer because geographical place of birth has nothing to do with potential.
And those wages are way above average. | null | 0 | 1491286512 | False | 0 | dft0q07 | t3_638rgm | null | null | t1_dfswa2i | null | 1493779895 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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null | rebbsitor | null | You're mixing salaries for and entry level programmer and an entry level software engineer.
programming != software engineering != computer science != information technology
They are distinct professions with different educational backgrounds. | null | 0 | 1491286632 | False | 0 | dft0rvc | t3_637m7q | null | null | t1_dfsmmdh | null | 1493779920 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | weirdoaish | null | Again, that's totally fine, every country's government can and should do whatever it feels is in its interests or aligns with its objectives.
I'm only opposed to the lying. Call a spade a spade, is all I'm saying. | null | 0 | 1491286658 | False | 0 | dft0s9n | t3_638rgm | null | null | t1_dfswa2i | null | 1493779926 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | FBA4ever | null | I think the public education system and the exponentially increasing cost of living in the US will strengthen India's dominance in the IT field. It's just numbers.
I think any IT job that can be worked off-site (most, thanks to cloud computing) and demands a $100k salary will be off-shored. That is 6.5million Indian Rupees. You can get 3-4 highly qualified engineers for that. Companies like Infosys, TCS, Wipro, Capgemini etc take a 20-30% middleman cut of the $60k salary. Imagine what these Indian engineers are really working for..... | null | 0 | 1491286694 | False | 0 | dft0su1 | t3_637m7q | null | null | t1_dfsmmht | null | 1493779933 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | DuneBug | null | Not all, but yes many jobs will be outsourced I expect.
But not 100% of former h1bs will be outsourced, so there will be some job gain I expect, but minimal. | null | 0 | 1491286730 | False | 0 | dft0tey | t3_637m7q | null | null | t1_dfsyej9 | null | 1493779941 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | salgat | null | Sites like this https://trends.builtwith.com/framework/ASP.NET indicate that ASP.NET is used by over 150,000 websites, which I imagine is more than the number of different desktop applications built with .NET framework. Regardless, just a guess on my part. | null | 0 | 1491286745 | False | 0 | dft0tmg | t3_63a2p9 | null | null | t1_dft0p5r | null | 1493779944 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | warsage | null | Conversely, I was offered $60k on an hourly contract and turned it down. One week later I was offered $70k on an hourly contract and sat on it. Four days later a $70k salaried position with benefits came along and I accepted.
Maybe it just depends on the area where you live? | null | 0 | 1491286781 | False | 0 | dft0u6q | t3_637m7q | null | null | t1_dfssw7s | null | 1493779953 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | shinazueli | null | It's almost like everyone whose spent any time in the industry has seen it, multiple times.
No amount of Mark Twain statistics is going to trump real life experience. You can fudge numbers all day, and I'll list a few ways I've seen it done.
1) you can simply give up trying to find employment. That takes you off unemployment's radar.
2) you can accept a vastly smaller wage because you need to pay bills. That takes you off unemployment's radar.
It's not hard to see that it's based on how you group a data set. Maybe you define someone as unemployed when they spend more than six months without work. (And no paycheck, but hey, doesn't count). Maybe you define someone as employed when they're employed by a contracting firm paying them half market rate. Maybe you count internships as full employment. Maybe you count part time workers as employed. Maybe you count only people with 10 years of experience, or you only count those with less than 5.
There's dozens of ways to spin it, and absolutely no way to spin training your outsourced replacement. | null | 0 | 1491286797 | 1491291011 | 0 | dft0uf1 | t3_637m7q | null | null | t1_dfsplvr | null | 1493779956 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | huarru | null | Don't think the legacy web is included. Think they are mainly focussing on the newer areas and promoting on how to build your applications in those areas. | null | 0 | 1491286804 | False | 0 | dft0uir | t3_63a2p9 | null | null | t1_dft0p5r | null | 1493779958 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | capitalsfan08 | null | Wow. I had an offer in DC out of undergrad for $80k a year as a software engineer. | null | 0 | 1491286858 | False | 0 | dft0vcc | t3_637m7q | null | null | t1_dfscn8p | null | 1493779968 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | weirdoaish | null | I am a contractor :)
And I'll see what I can do about my career and make it better, but at the end of the day if working in the US becomes too hostile, I will leave, go back to India and figure something out over there.
For now I see enough opportunity to try and stay :) | null | 0 | 1491286875 | False | 0 | dft0vkq | t3_638rgm | null | null | t1_dfsv93w | null | 1493779971 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | shinazueli | null | I feel like everyone on Earth is missing the fucking point here.
This changes absolutely nothing with respect to the market for software engineers. It only changes where they live. It's not like the investors or stockholders are simply going to take a 20% haircut on tech companies by hiring more American workers. That boat has left the harbor, circa 1995-2000. Those jobs are never coming back.
I can't imagine a way for them to craft the legislation without outright **requiring** a minimum percentage of a company being natural born American citizens, and even then they'd game the ever loving fuck out of it: "look, Larry the janitor, he's born right here!" or "hey, we are X% citizens, but our subsidiary, which we totally don't 100% own, they're not an American company, so....". Mark my words: the rich people that all but in name **own** our government will ***never*** allow it to pass legislation or rules that prevent them from making money at our expense. Ever.
They're just going to literally work in India now instead of here. That's it. | null | 0 | 1491286924 | 1491287234 | 0 | dft0wc1 | t3_637m7q | null | null | t3_637m7q | null | 1493779982 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | necrophcodr | null | I'm talking web development in PHP. It doesn't take a lot to make systems slow as balls. The language is not what determines this, but the code. I'm not arguing that we should be using C for everything, but saying that speed is no matter is plain wrong. Of course speed is important still, even today. If you have clients that deal with financial data, that's an obvious area, but that's not all. Imagine being a simple shared hosting company with a web bureau making the websites. If said websites are slow as balls, your clients are gone. Their sites need to be fast. Most of all they need to be responsive, but if they're slow, that'll affect the responsiveness. Performance matters a lot. Want to support a platform that isn't just 1-2 years old? Performance matters. | null | 0 | 1491286928 | False | 0 | dft0wds | t3_63c9e1 | null | null | t1_dft05qs | null | 1493779983 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | [deleted] | null | Sanity and common sense. It's rare in this day and age, so I can forgive you for not recognizing it when you see it. | null | 1 | 1491286974 | False | 0 | dft0x2e | t3_638rgm | null | null | t1_dfshsas | null | 1493779992 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | FBA4ever | null | I think the public education system and the exponentially increasing cost of living in the US will strengthen India's dominance in the IT field. It's just numbers.
I think any IT job that can be worked off-site (most, thanks to cloud computing) and demands a $100k salary will be off-shored. That is 6.5million Indian Rupees. You can get 3-4 highly qualified engineers for that. Companies like Infosys, TCS, Wipro, Capgemini etc take a 20-30% middleman cut of the $60k salary. Imagine what these Indian engineers are really working for.....
And if these companies were willing to deal with these "talentless" programmers in the first place, they sure will deal with them again. This time for less. | null | 0 | 1491287055 | False | 0 | dft0ya7 | t3_637m7q | null | null | t1_dft0tey | null | 1493780009 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | nermid | null | > Clerks and bus drivers and such maybe make 50-80k a year,
Jesus tits. I know a bus driver in the US who makes less than $20K a year. I should talk her into moving to Europe. | null | 0 | 1491287107 | False | 0 | dft0z32 | t3_637m7q | null | null | t1_dft0eas | null | 1493780019 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | ArmandoWall | null | Ah, but you didn't ask if I had the skills that made me rightfully eligible for an H-1B visa.
See, when you mentioned rare skills, I thought you meant rare as in, you know, something _rare_, scarce. As in, people of extraordinary ability. [There is already a process for that, and it doesn't involve work visas.](https://www.uscis.gov/green-card/green-card-through-job/green-card-through-self-petition)
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null | stubing | null | Were you already out of school for a while or was this before/recent graduation? You can be picky during that time.
It is why I also added "and you think this place will make you grow a lot." There is nothing wrong with taking a shit paying job if you think it will make you grow. you can always get that high paying job in a year. | null | 0 | 1491287142 | False | 0 | dft0zls | t3_637m7q | null | null | t1_dft0u6q | null | 1493780026 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | yawaramin | null | You don't have to guesstimate the tables, a lot of ebook readers store books in an embedded version of SQLite 😊 http://shallowsky.com/blog/tech/kobo-hacking.html | null | 0 | 1491287158 | False | 0 | dft0zu3 | t3_63adw4 | null | null | t1_dfsyumn | null | 1493780029 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | [deleted] | null | The US government hasn't worked for the US citizens since the 60s. Whatever our failings are, that isn't one of them. | null | 0 | 1491287159 | False | 0 | dft0zuw | t3_638rgm | null | null | t1_dfsyyf6 | null | 1493780029 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1491287222 | False | 0 | dft10ro | t3_637m7q | null | null | t1_dfsp8ku | null | 1493780041 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | [deleted] | null | > The "they took our jobs!" Trump voter base will not suddenly get college degrees, move to Silicon Valley, and take up jobs in IT.
That's because a large percentage of them are already there. You just don't know about them. They stay hidden because of assholes like you. | null | 0 | 1491287223 | False | 0 | dft10s7 | t3_638rgm | null | null | t1_dfscj51 | null | 1493780041 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | addtokart | null | The company is making a few management mistakes. This isn't an H1B or a foreign worker problem.
1) People should be treated as a (fairly costly) long-term investment. If the company/org doesn't value this, then we don't play the game.
2) The visa category and other personal information should not be made known to direct managers, so that the info isn't exploited.
3) Work-life balance standards should be communicated and made part of team culture. Team health should be a priority. Sustained overall team output is more important than individual output (and any sacrifices involved).
I've dealt with situations that you describe, only they involved overzealous younger college grads, workaholic older employees, or people escaping a hostile situation outside of work. With the right rewards/recognition in place and individual coaching these things work themselves out. In some cases those that don't align with the values leave (or are made to leave), even if individually they're "rockstars".
I've worked at consulting chop shops where this environment hasn't been in place, and it usually ends up in a dumpster fire within 12 months. For some businesses that may be a perfectly good model, but it's not someplace where you want to do big impactful work (which oftentimes takes years). | null | 0 | 1491287241 | False | 0 | dft1114 | t3_637m7q | null | null | t1_dfsgzm0 | null | 1493780045 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | [deleted] | null | > While I support this new H1B regulation, how can this prevent companies from outsourcing their entire project to China or India?
Been there, done that. It was a colossal train wreck. It's unlikely it will happen a second time. | null | 0 | 1491287301 | False | 0 | dft11wb | t3_638rgm | null | null | t1_dfsxh7l | null | 1493780056 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | addtokart | null | TIL credit card holders are killing jobs.
(overthinking....but what if it's true?) | null | 0 | 1491287371 | False | 0 | dft12w3 | t3_637m7q | null | null | t1_dfs7i2z | null | 1493780069 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Sir_Edmund_Bumblebee | null | I mean all I can tell you is that your experience doesn't line up at all with mine. I spend a lot of my time hiring and interviewing, and it's pretty damn hard to find good engineers even when you're paying at/above market rate. I work at a smaller company, so outsourcing/H1B aren't really an option, and we'd definitely like to hire more if we could find the people.
Maybe your local market just isn't particularly good for engineering at the moment? | null | 0 | 1491287377 | False | 0 | dft12zu | t3_637m7q | null | null | t1_dft0uf1 | null | 1493780071 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | irqlnotdispatchlevel | null | In an ideal world every product will be designed with security in mind. And every developer will care about it. Not know how to do it, just care, and use a defensive coding style. And every product will have people who know security for that type of product. But this isn't an ideal world so we just throw cram things together hoping we will accomplish something. | null | 0 | 1491287408 | False | 0 | dft13fi | t3_6344ep | null | null | t1_dfrey2u | null | 1493780077 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | rastermon | null | tar.gz is far worse than zip if your intent is to random-access data from the file. you want a zip or zip-like file format with an index and each chunk of data (file) compressed separately. | null | 0 | 1491287423 | False | 0 | dft13n7 | t3_63adw4 | null | null | t1_dfszeq4 | null | 1493780079 | 11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | [deleted] | null | > Honestly, the whole **(((Anglo world)))** is pretty rigged against its own citizens with regard to immigration.
FTFY. | null | 0 | 1491287430 | False | 0 | dft13qx | t3_637m7q | null | null | t1_dfsif3v | null | 1493780081 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | irqlnotdispatchlevel | null | You can prove that your application is not vulnerable in front of your tests, not that it is not vulnerable. Kinda like with any other bug. | null | 0 | 1491287509 | False | 0 | dft14wb | t3_6344ep | null | null | t1_dfrr4xf | null | 1493780096 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | interroboom | null | on the other hand, zero customers can even start using your service/site if you don't have anything to ship. the point of the article is don't let early decisions on performance get in the way of shipping, which seems totally reasonable. with your web development example, you'll run into a hundred more problems scaling your app before you're truly handicapped by a particular language's runtime performance (at which point you'll be so familiar with the pain points and constraints that you'll know more about whats the best solution than any medium article) | null | 1 | 1491287550 | False | 0 | dft15gn | t3_63c9e1 | null | null | t1_dfszvgi | null | 1493780104 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | jonjonbee | null | > The trick with H1B applications is not that they cannot find people; it is that **they cannot find people for the wages they want to pay**
Ding! You win the prize. | null | 0 | 1491287558 | False | 0 | dft15ki | t3_637m7q | null | null | t1_dfsr20a | null | 1493780105 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | flukus | null | I asked what skills made you a skilled migrant, which is what the h1b is for and I asked it in the context of an h1b visa. So reading comprehension is obviously not one of those skills.
So what skills did you have that were unavailable locally, making you eligible for the visa? | null | 0 | 1491287655 | False | 0 | dft16zq | t3_637m7q | null | null | t1_dft0zj9 | null | 1493780123 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | slackingatwork | null | This is a bad development. Another expression of the anti immigrant atmosphere brought by the damn bozo in the White House. Up until now it was about "bad hombres" and "Mexicans", but this is designed to make it more difficult for highly educated, young and upward bound potential immigrants to enter the country.
When a person kills themselves out of sheer stupidity it's called Darwin award. There ought to be a Darwin award for the whole countries; US has won it. | null | 0 | 1491287687 | False | 0 | dft17gr | t3_637m7q | null | null | t3_637m7q | null | 1493780131 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | DuneBug | null | Eh. I'm sure outsourcing will continue but one thing people can't stand is waiting a day for a reply. also the whole agile fad is teams sitting together working together which is the exact opposite.
If the indians decide theyll work the same hours (middle of the night for them) we do and can maintain the same level of quality I'm sure they'll poach more jobs. But Project managers are pretty naive if they dont think their job will be the next to go. After all if the dev team is offsite, why not the pm too? | null | 0 | 1491287716 | False | 0 | dft17vp | t3_637m7q | null | null | t1_dft0ya7 | null | 1493780136 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | addtokart | null | My observation: companies that pay the same for H1B, US Citizen, and all other immigration categories simply don't have the negative effects of immigration cited in cases like Disney, Tata, etc.
If the cost is the same overall, then companies will seek the best people regardless of country of origin. In fact, non-citizens end up costing more due to the extra overhead in dealing with immigration. If extra restrictions are added it just means more overhead – these companies typically don't care about the extra cost if they want a specific candidate. | null | 0 | 1491287804 | False | 0 | dft195x | t3_637m7q | null | null | t1_dfs3cnx | null | 1493780153 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Cyttorak | null | As far as I know you can just replace std::auto_ptr with std::unique_ptr and this will even catch some possible errors as a bonus | null | 0 | 1491287891 | False | 0 | dft1afo | t3_6350ax | null | null | t1_dfrnsfb | null | 1493780170 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | coolshanth | null | When you drive taxi wages low enough, you only get people who are desperate enough to drive a taxi. When you drive Uber/Lyft low, you get housewives and professionals with good cars looking to make a quick buck outside of their primary occupation. There's a big difference there IMO. | null | 1 | 1491288005 | False | 0 | dft1c3t | t3_637m7q | null | null | t1_dfsp43w | null | 1493780192 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | rastermon | null | you could just use eet and it's all done for you with a simple C api. :) blobs may or may not be compressed (up to you) and every blob is accessible with a string key (like a filename/path). if all you want to do is store N blobs of data in a file, sqlite would not be your best choice. it'd be good if you have complex amounts of data you have to query, sort and filter... but not if it's just N largish blobs of data you may or may not want to compress. for example eet would be as simple as:
#include <Eet.h>
int main(int argc, char **argv) {
Eet_File *ef;
unsigned char *data;
int size;
eet_init();
ef = eet_open("file.eet", EET_FILE_MODE_READ);
data = eet_read(ef, "key/name.here", &size);
eet_close(ef);
eet_shutdown();
}
and to write to a key:
#include <Eet.h>
int main(int argc, char **argv) {
Eet_File *ef;
unsigned char *data;
int size;
eet_init();
ef = eet_open("file.eet", EET_FILE_MODE_WRITE);
eet_write(ef, "key/name.here", data, size, EET_COMPRESSION_DEFAULT);
eet_close(ef);
eet_shutdown();
}
write as many keys to a file as you like, compress them or not with EET_COMPRESSION_NONE, DEFAULT, LOW, MED, HI, VERYFAST, SUPERFAST... you can read with "zero copy" read if the keys are uncompressed with eet_read_direct() that will return a pointer to the mmaped region of the file (will be valid until you eet_close() the file) ... just saying that there are far nicer ways of doing this kind of thing with compression etc. if you don't need complex queries. | null | 0 | 1491288033 | False | 0 | dft1cir | t3_63adw4 | null | null | t1_dfszhae | null | 1493780198 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | hamstercide | null | Thanks a lot, Pajeets. | null | 0 | 1491288042 | False | 0 | dft1cmr | t3_637m7q | null | null | t3_637m7q | null | 1493780199 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Isvara | null | The best way, at least in terms of disposable income, is to live somewhere with a low cost of living and work remotely for a company based somewhere with a high cost of living. | null | 0 | 1491288062 | False | 0 | dft1cwo | t3_637m7q | null | null | t1_dfs54ku | null | 1493780203 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | smdaegan | null | Yeah. Literally every time I hear this claim, the company is looking for a unicorn and offering middle of the road salary.
Pay more or lower your expectations. It's not a buyer's market at the senior level. | null | 0 | 1491288110 | False | 0 | dft1dlt | t3_637m7q | null | null | t1_dfszjwz | null | 1493780212 | 11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | tetroxid | null | You couldn't even survive on this little money where I am. The minimum to survive is around 30k.
Also our bus drivers are educated and tested before they're allowed to drive, maybe that plays into it. | null | 0 | 1491288121 | False | 0 | dft1ds5 | t3_637m7q | null | null | t1_dft0z32 | null | 1493780214 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | saturn_vk | null | I'm not sure whether rapid development only applies to interpreted languages like python anymore. In my personal experience, you can ship a service quite fast using languages like go or crystal. An added bonus is that they are both faster than, say, python, although that might not be of any concert during initial development. | null | 0 | 1491288123 | False | 0 | dft1dte | t3_63c9e1 | null | null | t1_dft15gn | null | 1493780215 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | BezierPatch | null | The comment literally said it was the key difference. | null | 0 | 1491288123 | False | 0 | dft1dti | t3_637m7q | null | null | t1_dfseo5c | null | 1493780215 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Isvara | null | > US software developers also work 60 hour weeks
Nah. Not even close.
> come in on weekends a lot
Ha! No. Weekends are mine.
> and have nothing even remotely resembling holidays
My last job had unlimited vacation.
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null | ShreyasRao | null | So you're saying, by the implementation of this law, those companies would have to pay more to Indian H1B's ? Just asking, does Game development ( Game programming ) have to do anything with this ? | null | 0 | 1491288157 | False | 0 | dft1e9w | t3_637m7q | null | null | t1_dfsc5oy | null | 1493780222 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | codebje | null | Yeah, like that. AFAICT they don't use that for domestic accounts here in Australia, but I may well wrong. | null | 0 | 1491288183 | 1491288392 | 0 | dft1emj | t3_63auwj | null | null | t1_dfszvzh | null | 1493780226 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | kiwami | null | The secret temptation was always a good steak dinner though. Ask around and you'll see. | null | 0 | 1491288183 | False | 0 | dft1emk | t3_637m7q | null | null | t1_dfszwn9 | null | 1493780226 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | diffeologic | null | Wouldn't you have been better off hiring an intermediate DBA and investing in their training at this point? | null | 0 | 1491288206 | False | 0 | dft1eyd | t3_637m7q | null | null | t1_dfsx6xg | null | 1493780231 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Cyttorak | null | But what about power consumption? | null | 0 | 1491288252 | False | 0 | dft1fni | t3_63c9e1 | null | null | t3_63c9e1 | null | 1493780240 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | NotExecutable | null | In Germany, you can't forfeit your copyright on any of your work. Thus, many people assume that any blanket grants like the WTFPL are not valid in Germany, as they are essentially the same as forfeiting of the copyright.
The Unlicense it particularly stupid on that regard, because the first paragraph would probably hold up, but is ruined by "In jurisdictions that recognize copyright laws, the author or authors
of this software dedicate any and all copyright interest in the
software to the public domain" - without any fallback clause should that dedication to public domain not be possible.
I used to use the WTFPL, until it hit me that it's just a forfeiture of copyright, which is invalid. What you want is the fallback clause that CC0 uses. (point 3, https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
Noble seems fine. All permissions are stated explicetly and there is no general waiver like "do what the fuck you want" or "this is public domain, have fun". | null | 0 | 1491288289 | 1491288927 | 0 | dft1g6p | t3_638uun | null | null | t1_dfsfbbf | null | 1493780247 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | MrAchilles | null | Can someone give me the ELI5 on this: are programmers still eligible?
I'm currently studying in the US with the goal of hopefully getting an internship/job placement. | null | 0 | 1491288315 | False | 0 | dft1giu | t3_637m7q | null | null | t3_637m7q | null | 1493780252 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1491288347 | 1491296625 | 0 | dft1gzo | t3_63c9e1 | null | null | t1_dfszvgi | null | 1493780258 | -3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | pmihaylov | null | Hey, thanks for the range notice about the 8 bit numbers. Point taken, edited that part of the article.
As for the floating point, I totally agree that you shouldn't use floating point for financial applications. However, the data type I mentioned in the article is decimal and is recommended for such calculations in C#. It is a floating point type, but its based on the decimal numeral system. http://csharpindepth.com/Articles/General/Decimal.aspx
But if you have an idea, could you tell me what kind of data type do you suggest for financial applications? Are you implying about a fixed point data type? Do you know some interesting libraries that implement those?
As for the article purpose - true, it is something you learn in discrete maths 101. However, I know a lot of people who haven't attended such a course and are self-educated (take school students, who aren't attending university yet or people attending boot camps). That is the target audience for the course. When I first started out programming, I hadn't taken a discrete math course and I would have liked reading such an article. | null | 0 | 1491288402 | False | 0 | dft1hsx | t3_62txn8 | null | null | t1_dfpbdif | null | 1493780273 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | darknecross | null | I'm just here for the dig at Leland Stanfurd Junior College. | null | 0 | 1491288550 | False | 0 | dft1jxb | t3_637m7q | null | null | t1_dfrxqip | null | 1493780300 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | NotExecutable | null | Noble fails to grant me the following rights explicitely (the MIT and BSD do):
* Use
* Modify
* Sell copies
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null | msgs | null | What's most interesting about this is that Kloss is helping organize a free 15 US city 2 week coding boot camp for girls. So if you know anyone that might be interested, have them check out her [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5hDgd3ubuE).
I can speak from experience that these types of boot camps can put young people on a path to a professional programming career. I took a similar BASIC programming boot camp for kids over 30 years ago. | null | 1 | 1491288638 | 1491288913 | 0 | dft1l5u | t3_63cj74 | null | null | t3_63cj74 | null | 1493780317 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | mrkite77 | null | > Hardware is very cheap compared to your time.
That's not how any company's finance department looks at it. They have to pay you, so you're basically a sunk cost. Overworking your employees is basically free. Hardware on the other hand is a line item expense. | null | 0 | 1491288646 | False | 0 | dft1la7 | t3_63c9e1 | null | null | t3_63c9e1 | null | 1493780319 | 11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | slackingatwork | null | Downturn? What the hell are you talking about? I have not seen a better job market since 99!
All this whining about Indian outsourcing companies does not make a whole lot of sense. Maybe as far lower skilled jobs are concerned, IT help desk type stuff?
The only thing that happens to developer jobs that I personally have observed is shipping them overseas. All this anti-immigrant BS is going to do is to accelerate that process. Any country with sufficiently large population (and especially with decent STEM education) is going to have a significant number of very smart people that would be happy to grab these outsourced jobs. Unless you are a PM or a tech manager, you can be replaced with a remote worker.
To be blunt, I think H1-B bashers are just a bunch of losers. If you can't compete with somebody barely speaking the language, having marginal education, no cultural experience, no safety net, money or anything else, then go find a job elsewhere.
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null | ArmandoWall | null | You may as well ask me "so what is your favorite flavor in the rainbow?" and then accuse me of not reading well when I tell you that rainbows don't have flavors, mate.
By the time I applied for an H-1B visa, I had a college degree, 14 years of professional experience in my field of preference and 3 years of professional experience in another field, _before_ applying for, and completing, a Master's degree in a program combining both fields. After the Master's degree, I took advantage of the so-called OPT to gain almost two more years of professional experience in which I led a team of American grad students complete a city-wide project, finish their practicums and successfully find jobs elsewhere. Then, I started in a mid-sized company that was looking for someone, _anyone-oh-gosh_, that was competent enough for the position they were offering. Then I switched to a bigger company, and finally an even bigger one.
I hope that answers your question, mate. System-abusing cheap labor I ain't. | null | 0 | 1491288746 | False | 0 | dft1mnj | t3_637m7q | null | null | t1_dft16zq | null | 1493780336 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | ledasll | null | on the other hand, what if 90% of startups fails, because they think that performance doesn't matter and use prototype as their product? | null | 0 | 1491288849 | False | 0 | dft1o3y | t3_63c9e1 | null | null | t1_dft15gn | null | 1493780356 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | ykechan | null | I scan through it and all I read is speed doesnt matter, what if it does, it doesnt, what if it does, it doesnt, what if it does, it doesnt... | null | 0 | 1491288859 | False | 0 | dft1o91 | t3_63c9e1 | null | null | t1_dft1gzo | null | 1493780358 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | smdaegan | null | Yeah, I really don't get this either. I care a lot more than you know when you should use one over the other than I care if you can answer trivia about it.
The lack of talent problem I hear about a lot, especially in respect to lower level engineers, is that they're being interviewed by a senior that is more concerned with proving how much smarter they are than the novice than whether the person can actually do the damn job.
I've had this happen to me before - even by companies like Microsoft. I was asked to design a data center as a web developer. When asked, the interviewer just admitted that it's a topic in his wheel house and has nothing to do with the position.
What the fuck. | null | 0 | 1491288930 | False | 0 | dft1p8h | t3_637m7q | null | null | t1_dfsxyai | null | 1493780371 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Various_Pickles | null | But who will do the needful and shit in the microwave at lunchtime? | null | 0 | 1491288972 | False | 0 | dft1pt8 | t3_637m7q | null | null | t3_637m7q | null | 1493780378 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Sydonai | null | We have an associate engineer in my office (a college student who works for us part time), and we run internships during the summer - one of which was converted to a full-time offer in my office. Additionally, we're starting to work with having our engineers mentor students starting in high-school to keep them in software engineering and to provide the support system to make them successful through AP studies, college, and ultimately a career (hopefully some of them with us). And this is in addition to how essential some of our Visa engineers are to our operations.
The demand for talent is growing so incredibly rapidly, however, even if we pulled the goalies and every software company did everything they could, and we changed it to a 100% success rate of "student walks into a CS class in high school" to "graduates college with degree in CS and lands a job" without losing anyone to a lesser career, even if we did that, I fear the demand would still outpace supply. | null | 0 | 1491288982 | False | 0 | dft1py4 | t3_637m7q | null | null | t1_dft0ll6 | null | 1493780381 | 17 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | loup-vaillant | null | No no no, I'm talking about all taxes combined. Granted, most people don't really know about how much their boss have to pay, but I was taking that into account.
Income tax comes on top of that, but it's barely noticeable by comparison. (We have a relatively low income tax.) The biggest invisible tax is actually the VAT, and that's either 5% or 20%, depending on how whether the thing you're buying is a luxury or not.
And for all that we get decent roads, decent schools (there are relatively few private schools), firemen, police… It's not so bad.
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null | FBA4ever | null | Skype for business offers multiparty screen sharing and teleconferencing. Besides, nearly every company in India's tech capital (Bangalore) operates at night. The employees love it as it gets a lot cooler and there's less traffic/noise. I don't think PMs will be outsourced as someone still needs to maintain the client's product backlog.
At $12-$15k a year, a developer in India can have a fabulous life and support a full family. This is why H1-B is a dream for them. They double their salary and pay the middleman cut. Then they become a perm hire with the client and stop paying the middleman. How much is a company willing to pay a US citizen above that?
edit: these temp H1-B employees also contribute to social security without ever withdrawing from it. I think if they make any changes to the H1-b, it should be associated with economic disincentives. First 30 applications should be cheap and then it gets prohibitively/progressively more expensive. Not only would the US get the best talent, abuse of the H1-b will be kept to a minimum. | null | 0 | 1491289056 | 1491290500 | 0 | dft1qy5 | t3_637m7q | null | null | t1_dft17vp | null | 1493780395 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | tetroxid | null | > unlimited vacation
Lol, that means you can take off unpaid time right? Great. My six weeks of holidays are paid 100%. I also get 13 monthly salaries a year, not only 12.
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null | foomprekov | null | I'll tell the library of Congress they're doing it wrong | null | 0 | 1491289129 | False | 0 | dft1ry7 | t3_63adw4 | null | null | t1_dfszeq4 | null | 1493780409 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | cris9696 | null | The Kindle also does this. For example it is used to save configs and details about the user. | null | 0 | 1491289183 | False | 0 | dft1snk | t3_63adw4 | null | null | t1_dfss8nt | null | 1493780418 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | qmriis | null | Country? SE Asia? | null | 0 | 1491289216 | False | 0 | dft1t39 | t3_637m7q | null | null | t1_dfsc7mg | null | 1493780424 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | foomprekov | null | No, I checked, both sites are up. | null | 0 | 1491289290 | False | 0 | dft1u0s | t3_63auwj | null | null | t3_63auwj | null | 1493780436 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | flukus | null | No, it's nothing like that analogy. It was clear from the context what "rare" meant. Had you mentioned the experience when asked you would have saved both of us a lot of time. | null | 0 | 1491289497 | False | 0 | dft1wtr | t3_637m7q | null | null | t1_dft1mnj | null | 1493780473 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | interroboom | null | then we've shifted to bizarro world where the rules have changed? in this world, the vast majority of startups don't fail because their server response times were too long | null | 0 | 1491289536 | False | 0 | dft1xct | t3_63c9e1 | null | null | t1_dft1o3y | null | 1493780481 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | occz | null | I'm a big fan of python aswell, but I'll play the devils advocate:
* What about maintainability? How does a large python codebase compare in ease of maintenance than a large codebase in another popular language?
* What about program correctness? Is it easier to shoot yourself in the foot and introduce expensive bugs in python than in another language, for example one with static typing?
Time to market is of course probably the most important factor, but if you lose all your velocity in maintenance after a while you lose your fast time to market. | null | 0 | 1491289606 | False | 0 | dft1ybv | t3_63c9e1 | null | null | t3_63c9e1 | null | 1493780494 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | itsmontoya | null | Or you can build lighting fast services with extremely high development velocity by using Go or Rust. I would HATE to maintain a huge service using a dynamically typed language. | null | 0 | 1491289632 | False | 0 | dft1yq6 | t3_63c9e1 | null | null | t3_63c9e1 | null | 1493780499 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | nso | null | State of Oaxaca, Mexico | null | 0 | 1491289671 | False | 0 | dft1z9g | t3_637m7q | null | null | t1_dft1t39 | null | 1493780507 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | 000xxx000 | null | sure, why not. i was just trying to point out to the GP that the way this system works, it has little to do with how much Disney can 'afford to pay their top IT talent'. it is more about how little they can get away with paying | null | 0 | 1491289717 | False | 0 | dft1zvp | t3_637m7q | null | null | t1_dfsttpt | null | 1493780516 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | qmriis | null | 85-110 W2 | null | 0 | 1491289736 | False | 0 | dft204w | t3_637m7q | null | null | t1_dft0nok | null | 1493780519 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | foomprekov | null | Literally every website was faster ten years ago. | null | 0 | 1491289824 | False | 0 | dft21c0 | t3_63c9e1 | null | null | t1_dfszvgi | null | 1493780535 | 16 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | bonekeeper | null | What's even more interesting is her [awesome coding skills](http://i.imgur.com/KE6QNYV.png). Not PR propaganda at all. | null | 0 | 1491289825 | False | 0 | dft21cz | t3_63cj74 | null | null | t1_dft1l5u | null | 1493780535 | 13 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | menno | null | $65K is about €60K which is about twice the average salary in The Netherlands. Developer salaries in Amsterdam max out at about that range (they're lower in the rest of NL), although higher is definitely negotiable if it's a lead/architect/devmanager role at the right company. Three years experience is still considered too junior for those roles, though. | null | 0 | 1491289883 | False | 0 | dft2252 | t3_637m7q | null | null | t1_dfsy7m0 | null | 1493780546 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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