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I know they make a point in reasoning "why not landfill?" but I have to wonder if "injecting our magic bio-oil deep underground" just sounded better to the VCs vs "we we just friggin' buried the corn husks."
Ah yes - let’s forget about a person’s right to privacy entirely! Great!
Exactly why h1bs we’re never intended to be used for marginal labor.
“This is not fair to all other developers on the App Store and is putting customers in the middle of their fight.” Ah yes, like it was so fair that every other big company got special deals and “reader app” exceptions and so on. Nice.
Wonder if they’ll finally start looking into thorium salt reactors again (which were originally designed for civilian use).
I disagree with the education claims. This article is mostly talking about engineers in the computer science/engineering field.
Tangent: I feel like those on work visas in the comments here are already outside of the norm that I receive resumes for and I honestly feel for their situation, hope they can stay so long as they choose to, and are paid fairly. Everyone deserves to be treated as equal humans and I feel like this is forgotten all too often.
The United States education system, while it does fail regularly, has taught most educated persons to question and be creative, yet also deliver quality. This is super desirable in this field.
I’ve reviewed a few hundred resumes, and at least a hundred on-site interviews, and I’m still trying to hold out hope for the h1b system yet am continually disappointed at the quality of candidates I’m being fed by the “approved” contract houses at the absurdly ridiculous company I work for. Faked resumes are the norm, as well as listing the fact that a dev has “Implemented UI Table View” as an Android candidate or the equivalent opposite for iOS candidates. (50% of the team I’ve hired are on work visas currently. The one contract house in question occasionally has a dev.)
The contract houses almost wholly refuse to source local talent. At first I thought it was a fluke. From one contract house - I’ve only ever been given two local devs and every other dev has been h1b. I get complaints that our hiring process is too strict because the dev can’t build a rest client app in an hour and a half, or write a method that parses a string and returns a double and an int.
Meanwhile, there are local devs I went to school with, and know of their skill level, who are looking for work.
I don’t think the education system has failed in this case - I think contractor culture of corps and contract house greed has failed us all. Also, the requirements of bachelor’s or master’s degrees has exacerbated the problem with the ridiculous cost of those degrees depending on the US schools chosen. If companies want to profit off local talent, then open up dev shops in other countries. China is the only country that’s potentially prohibitive of this practice depending on your business.
Also, which fields are you mentioning that require foreign “specialist” work that can’t pay these wages? They could apparently pay those wages in 1989. This program was setup to supply the US with skilled workers it urgently needed paying them an equivalent minimum of $121k in today’s money ($60k in 1989, which remains unchanged today).
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I believe the base account where you can choose a username and add your rss feed is free. I've never paid, but it shows up that there are options to pay $2 for cross posting, $5 for a hosted micro blog, or $10 for a hosted microblog + microcast(podcast?) hosting.
I think the whole premise is that if you a have a blog with an RSS feed, you can add it and it'll show up in micro.blog as concatenated posts, or you can take extra steps to make sure your blog supports the small post formats or whatever. There's a little guide to setting up wordpress here - http://help.micro.blog/2018/setting-up-wordpress/
The hard part for me is motivating myself to actually get my blog up and running because I have VPS's for so many other things that it seems silly for me to also pay for micro.blog hosting when I could just get my blog together.
No, it's more like rss based twitter. Any blog can become micro.blog compatible, and technically anyone could build a competitor to micro.blog that allows users to register their feeds.
That's just sample code. Actual docs look something like https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Mi...
those hyper operators...
Considering I cannot download copies of my iBooks purchases via the web, a more valid complaint (in my opinion) would be that you need a valid form of payment on file with B&N before you can re-download already purchased items.
There's some real nonsense.
Thank you for putting this out there.
I opened the nook app after reading this and promptly downloaded some old books, I then came back and read the comments to understand what the story was actually about. I had never actually used the website to download the ebooks so I was unaware that feature existed.
If you download nook for PC/mac, the .epub files are readily accessible after you use the in-app download feature, and considering the author is already using Adobe Digital Editions under WINE, I'd assume the author can just as easily download use the nook pc app. The complaint seems valid to me, I just don't think it's worth leaving $500+ of books (assuming the author is stating they can no longer access books due to the removal of downloading via the web).