The posting is NOT a "scathing rant", it's a pretty clear, calm and well-reasoned explanation as to issues that the author sees with GNU and GNU software development. There's no flamebait, no ranting, no name-calling.
1. It is scathing.
2. The person who wrote it describes it as a rant (see the subject line).
You want to start working freelance and you don't want to publicize how people can reach you? I'd expect a decent head shot, a phone number, a short bio and an email address.
Pretty much this.
If you were to open your FB and other social network accounts with business ONLY information, and keep your personal information (name, image, etc) off the Facebook account...will this keep your personal privacy still from them
This is silly, and I don't mean in the Internet era, but in any era. Go back to ye old pre-Internet days. Would you expect to be able to place an ad in a newspaper but refuse to give them your name, phone number, address and credit card information?
I was just trying to say that if one objects to universities' restrictions on free speech, they'll find that the legal and ethical issues differ when considering public vs. private secular vs. religiously affiliated universities.
For some, yes, they'd make a distinction. The WSJ article didn't, and nor does FIRE.
Somewhere like Liberty has goals, and a legal status, very different than those of a state university.
The database contains both public and private universities.
Most of the examples in the article have a pro-conservative leaning. So I went to their FIRE database and tried to find some cases where I knew universities tried blocking left-wing people from speaking. Not surprisingly, I didn't find at least the ones I was aware of.
I think it's good someone is defending conservatives' right to speech. I simply feel they should be open about their partisanship.
The decision making process (imho) should be based on the bare minimum for your situation.
The itemized list in my submission is the bare minimum. I make use of the alarm and stopwatch all the time.
Oh, and my cell phone is always off. But yes, I don't need a phone with an addressbook or a calculator...
Submitter here. I should point out that I'll still consider Casio if people want to recommend it.
This is largely because of the flood of foreign labor has decreased the wages and opportunities in STEM compared to the college workload and tuition required. It's a viscous cycle.
I'm willing to bet most of that foreign labor can correctly spell "vicious".
I've worked with many very talented foreign born engineers, but in all cases, the most capable people I've worked with didn't want to be H1B. They wanted to stay.
And they do stay!
Cringely may be right about the wage depression, but he's misleading about the H-1B's implications. It is officially a dual-intent visa, and allows people who have that status to apply for a Green card. Most qualified H-1B's get green cards that way - not through marriage as he claims. In fact most foreigners with STEM jobs who have green cards get it through H-1B and not through the O program.
I say, don't accept foreign students to US colleges unless we would be willing to let them immigrate afterwards
You're pretty much saying "Admit them and let them work on H-1B", because the US allows people on H-1B to apply for green cards.
An unbiased opinion, I'm sure...
Cringely is a US citizen with tech skills (he did work for Apple, after all). Therefore, one should treat his column as biased.
The 9-11 effect. Foreigners attacked us. It was bad. Foreigners are bad.
Sad but true.
Yes, all the hijackers came on an H-1B visa and worked under crappy conditions for 5 years. No wonder they got upset and resorted to terrorism!
Pouring metal in a melting pot, "absorbed metal", "pre-heated"... you sound like a crack pot
One made of metal, perhaps?
This article fails to even mention that H-1B visas are dual intent - green card applications are common for H-1B visa holders, and many large tech companies encourage green card application as an employee retention mechanism.
You're right, although it doesn't really detract from the main point of his article. He also claims most H-1B folks get green cards via marriage. While many do, it's not that many. I don't have hard numbers, but I'd guess 20%, and can easily believe less than 10% get their green cards through marriage. Most will get it in the manner you described.
What would you do if you were a non-techie, you ask the one computer guy you know which phone to get, and he tells you HTC, hands down? Versus seeing a TV commerical with a spiffy-looking unknown phone?
Word-of-mouth advertising is the best advertising. Plus, it's free.
Sorry to be a jerk, but do you have data to back that up?
As the local techie, everyone asks me which PC/camera/TV/ereader etc to get. I tell them. Almost none of them follows my advice.
You see, I'm the weird guy who has the stuff that none of their other friends have. They don't want to be that weird guy in front of all their friends.
Never underestimate the power of conformity.
"More software projects have gone awry for lack of calendar time than for all other causes combined." -- Fred Brooks, Jr., _The Mythical Man Month_
