Yea, men are more capable of stopping a bullet or 2000 pound bomb than women and children are?
Really? Thats news to pretty much everyone on the planet I think.
I guess thats why they let women into the military now, because men and women are equally adapt at defending themselves against cruise missiles, laser guided bombs and depleted uranium bullets than all that stuff back in the early 40s.
You've never held a weapon have you?
If you're coding in lots of explicit memory reference deletes, what you're writing is not C++ but C. A C++ codebase would use RRID and automatic memory management to obviate the need for any explicit memory management. My last C++ project at work contained zero (yes, zero) calls to delete/free() out of around 20000 lines of code and a year of development/testing.
You're making the same mistake you're accusing C++ developers of making - you're viewing C++ through Java lenses.
Allow me to elaborate.
> In theory they can't lay off a ton of people in the US without pushing the H1B's out the door first
Wrong. Only applies if the more than 15% of the company is on an H1B.
> their most cost effective workers
Wrong. Microsoft does not (and cannot) pay employees differently based on visa status. In fact, thanks to annual visa renewal fees, visa-stamping travel reimbursements, green-card processing fees, "premium processing" fees (where do you think USCIS gets its money from?), H1B employees are per capita more expensive to hire.
Yes, I used to work for Microsoft on an H1B.
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