Comment Re: And it's not even an election year (Score 1) 407
In the UK, the borders were opened back in 1998. You'd think the initial rush would have stopped by now, but it is increasing (hence all the hooha over it today)
In the UK, the borders were opened back in 1998. You'd think the initial rush would have stopped by now, but it is increasing (hence all the hooha over it today)
Because they are trying to destroy your jobs, not their own.
The day that the H1B programme also applies to MBAs and Managers is the day that corporations stop using H1Bs.
That is also naive. The US is still the largest economy in the world, the companies are here because the money is here
I think you'll find the money is not in the USA, otherwise those companies would have to pay tax on it, hence all the 'not here' companies with the same name.
So, if they are happily opening offices overseas to save on tax anyway, why not employ workers in those companies and get them to collaborate with the parent company? With today's technology in comms and remote working, its not so much of a problem at all - in fact it can be a better condition to be in if your company places a lot of emphasis on having meetings, your offshore team would simply get on with their work while you wasted yours!
You could also pay them less in their own country, so I really do wonder why these companies are so hell-bent on increasing immigration.
partly population concerns - while Amwerica is a big, wide, empty country you all want to live in very crowded little communities. Increasing immigration causes more pressure on those communities for things like housing and traffic.
Then there's the economic issue, while the wild west had no social care benefits, today you have many. So every new immigrant either has no job and gets benefits, or has a job and pays his own way but helps to displace another worker who then ends up on benefits.
In the UK we see this a lot, while immigration has increased dramatically, the number of jobs has increased relatively slowly, so we have 6 million immigrants but 2 million unemployed. Our health and education systems have not been funded accordingly though, and are showing signs of collapse. Hence, immigration is a good thing, but only to a point - not as an unlimited influx.
Its probably entirely linked to the rate of immigration overall, in the old days when we had few immigrants being drip-fed into the system things were OK, now we have a flood people are getting concerned.
Actually that was one of the "great new things" for
except then they added the GAC and the crap in the various
correct - that's because once your fizzy drink that is designed to be drunk cold warms up you start to taste it....
real ales should be drunk at room temperature so you can appreciate all their complex flavours
it was just an example.. its been years since Latin was the most common language too.
that, and the fact that the people using it got a kicking from some other group. We don't speak much Latin anymore, we speak a bastardised Germanic-y language called English even if we have kept a few words for specialists.
And I'd say we only speak English nowadays, not because how the sun never once set on a salmon-pink part of the map, but because the Americans chose to speak it. If the USA had chosen German as their national language years ago, perl would probably be quite different!!
Now that happened, and we add the previous corpus of English-speaking people, I think its reached a critical mass to make it a de-facto standard (like how Windows and not anything really good is our most common OS, or javascript is the only browser-based language worth knowing
Maybe one day we'll replace it with Marain, but we'll need either a Utopia or Dictator to arrange that for us!
But that's because people are fucked up - and the language evolves to fill our needs of being weird and wonderful.
I think what's proposed here is the same ilk as that of Swatch Time. Someone thought its better if we have a dull but efficient system that reflects how computers want to work and not how people do. They forget that we're not (yet) servants of the machines and we like the craziness, the nuances allow us to express our creativity.
Now, I'm off for a pint, you can go and enjoy your 0.568261 litres of fizzy beverage while you sit in the corner with your po-faced mates and discuss base 10 maths
I didn't mean "not use stackoverflow" but "don't surf it as a hobby".
I happen to have quite a big rep on there, but my 2 work colleagues here who are older than I am both use SO without having a user account on there. (yes, they agree they should have one if only to show their appreciation in upvotes). And besides, it wasn't as heavily advertised as I never noticed it (though I do spend most of my time on Programmers rather than SO).
I think many older guys just aren't as likely to be filling in surveys on SO as opposed to using it.
dammit, I'm self-taught!!
I'm not sure he is - I studied late 80s and there were very few women in my comp.sci classes at my university.,
Maybe its a regional thing, I was in the UK.
Mind you, in my first year I had to take maths and another subject - I chose religious studies as it was 2 hours a week and the tutor explained that there were no wrong answers... I was 1 out of 2 males in the entire class of about 40. Best. Course. Ever.
no, we learned that tabs are designed for indentation - that's their purpose. So you prefer to ignore the right tool and slap spaces in instead shows you simply want to brute-force a poor implementation instead of using the correct tool, tabs in this case.
If Python had mandated tabs instead of general whitespace, nobody would be complaining and code would be nice.
tabs are tabs.
You know how people say "use the right tool for the job", well tabs are designed for indentation. So use them, rather than bodge some artificial implementation using an arbitrary number of spaces.
or... over 40s don't aimlessly surf the ends of stackoverflow to find the survey, or can be bothered to fill it out such trivia. Probably too busy doing things!
I know I do use SO but this is the first time I realised they even had a survey!
HELP!!!! I'm being held prisoner in /usr/games/lib!