I work at a place with that attitude. "You changed the copyright string from 2012 to 2013 and re-compiled. MUST RUN FULL WEEK-LONG TEST PLAN AGAIN BECAUSE ANYTHING COULD HAVE BROKE!"

Notice how all the commercials now are very careful to say "Em Pee Gee" instead of "miles per gallon". There is a reason for it. "MPG" can mean anything a lawyer can weasel his way into explaining. "Miles per gallon" is a specific measurement that customers could hold car manufactures to.

I used to run something like this (might have been the same thing) years ago, but I became concerned over what impact it has on my electricity usage and the longevity of my computer hardware. Can you shed any light on these concerns?

"No political appointees in an Obama-Biden administration will be permitted to work on regulations or contracts directly and substantially related to their prior employer for two years."

If he hasn't been a lobbyist within the past two years, I suppose we ought to give him a pass. Right?

I highly doubt you pay 60% of your income on taxes. Please post how you came to that figure, then we'll all school you on the meanings of marginal tax rate and effective tax rate.

When you work in a high cost-of-living area like Silicon Valley, you don't really have much choice about your commute. Anywhere affordable to mere mortals is 1-3 hours away.

...and don't get sick or injured to the point where you'd have to use your nonexistent health insurance.

If you need to work more than 40 hours a week to meet your commitments, that's definitely not over-achievement. You're taking 80 hours to do 40 hours of work.

If that's true, then it's exceedingly difficult to find average-or-better programmers.

We write much of our documentation while the software is being developed--it's descriptive, not prescriptive. Works for us. Much better than waterfall.

Wow, all this butt-hurt over a site that nobody is forcing you to use, which sends invitations nobody is forcing you to read. Personally I like LinkedIn, and don't think I've been spammed inappropriately or offended by any content it's displayed to me. If you don't feel the same way, you're free to cancel your account. What's the big deal? So much outrage!

Oh, so this article submission is NOT a repeat from 1997?

So are US workers incapable of or unwilling to make those same choices?

With the nice handicap of a higher cost of living.

We're talking about H1-B immigrants, not offshore workers. Doesn't the H1-B guy LIVING IN THE USA have the same cost-of-living handicap? How can he survive with such a smaller salary than the US worker?

Why does a "US worker" need so much more than an H1-B immigrant? Do they eat more expensive food?

How is it possible that an immigrant (who makes so much less than their US counterpart) can manage to survive in the USA with such a low salary AND have enough to help his family back home and eventually go back home to start a business? Whereas, as is claimed, if a US worker made that salary, he'd barely survive? It doesn't add up.