Actually, it's a decent natural filter, any company that wouldn't hire you for such a reason is one you don't want to work for anyways.

True enough, assuming that you are enjoying the luxury of being able to turn down job opportunities.

That said, I'm in the same position as a poster above - I hire programmers. And I also do not give a good god damn how old you are, as long as I believe you will be able to do the tasks assigned to you. I'm also in my mid, er, mid to late 30s, as are most of the people also in my position. So to us, you aren't old, you're still younger than me.

it's hard to operate them lying in bed through one half-open eye. Personally I`m waiting for voice recognition to become practical.

You have a problem looking at your smartphone while lying in bed, but don't have a problem bellowing at your television at 3am?

Silicon Valley is special to me because of its cultural diversity. In one medium sized company you can work shoulder to shoulder with people from every major world ethnic group and every major world religion (including no religion). They work together, peacefully, to make better lives for themselves and their children.

Yes, this is entirely unlike any other place in the world, especially unlike New York. Though here, we're polite enough not to discuss religion at work unlike you rude-assed left coasters.

I would've gone with Eric. Eric the fruit-bat.

It's just like I say with sex...

I may not be good, but at least I'm fast.

Instead of spending $$$ on bondage and discipline, how about treating your users like adult human beings? In real enterprises, there are call center people and sales people. Both groups of people can not be treated like adult human beings. To do so would be like asking a three year old what it wants for dinner. Sure, he's happy for a while, eating cookies and ice cream for dinner, but then you've got to deal with cleaning vomit off of everything, and 10 years later, he's getting his feet cut off from diabeetus.

Really. If they block any revolting and abhorrent phenomena that offends against the standards of morality, none of those politicians will be able to have web sites viewable in Australia.

I agree. And as a New Yorker, and therefore a resident of one of the two states which will receive any attention, I am all for this plan.

Do you hear the sound of the words echo through your head as you read words, like me?

No, and I don't move my lips while reading either. I read substantially faster than I can talk. But not faster than a woman can talk.

There already is a requirement that H1B get paid according to the prevailing rates. Not necessarily within that company (a company could have a policy to pay 110% of prevailing rates, but pay the H1B holders 100%), but you can't just hire an H1B engineer and pay him minimum wage.

Why 'should' we be able to? You think the laws of physics work like they do in Star Trek where all you have to is wish hard enough? Look, I'm just a caveman blah blah blah, but in my world heat = energy which can be recovered, and geothermal taps a constant temperature, not steam.

If AutoCAD 1.0 does exactly what you need, then why would you want to get 2.0 or 23.0?

Because you are a design shop, not a software development shop, and you do not want to spend $500,000 to save $50,000.