I haven't explored their site. I get your point, but don't undermine and undervalue the work of software professionals. It devalues the line of work, debases earning demands while distorting expectations regarding quality, duration and cost of software products.
I challenge you to recreate their homepage in about a day in whatever! There is much planning, thought and work that went into it I'm sure. Even the templates you buy for X amount schlep together in a day took more than a day to build.

As to your dumb investors comment. You are most likely right, there is plenty of eager money out there looking for investment. There are also astute investors. One potential scenario I could see is pumping/hyping Ello with intention of shorting FB.

This is wrong. Yes, people have a natural greater affinity toward their own kind. However, to systematically and blatantly discriminate is illegal. The favored being a minority doesn't exempt one from discrimination based on national origin.

Supply serves a demand. I would like to see further investigation into the demand (specific corporations) this corruption meets the needs of. There is clear abuse of H1-B at the expense of the employee (the product):

1. The qualified American worker who can't get a job or whose market value is being diluted by unqualified foreign workers who'll take much less to subsidize non-American oversea lifestyles.
2. The qualified South Asian worker not getting a fair salary or being stereotyped as one who doesn't deserve his/her merit as an exceptional talent.

Wrote this few weeks ago, must repost.

There is no one nor entity backing up the currency like there is FDIC on the $. It's a big risk with my most liquid asset. Finance is all about mitigating risk and quite frankly bitcoin is too much of a gamble.

Where is my ever lasting car? Why am I paying all this money to mechanics over and over again. Only if I had gotten a brick wall to get me to and from work.

Also hit the idiot back with the same logic. "So if the company makes a loss and/or we don't get a pay raise/bonus to keep up with inflation or worse get lower salaries, you should dig into your personal assets to make up for it as you've failed in your role as a manager."

Tell your boss to go into brick laying.

Brick layer factors that into his cost. Furthermore, building a wall is something that can be mastered, whereas, writing bug-free code when working on something new and uncharted everyday can't. You are often pushing the boundaries of human capacity to maintain that logic flawlessly.

If he wants bug-free code, he needs to put up the cash, shut his mouth and pay for the additional hours required to produce bug free code as they do in missing critical software. You want a new bug-free widget? Okay, give me 6 months and well-defined specs.

The truth of the matter is that your boss has never programmed and is clueless about what it is. He looks down at you purely as an expense nothing more. The truth is that he is too dumb to be a programmer as if he was a smart guy/gal in the first place, he'd educate himself on what/whom he is managing. Good news for you is when there is economic hardship, he will be begging for jobs whereas you, with your concrete skill set, will have opportunities.

Where has the option to disable advertising gone?
Here's the funny thing. Out of appreciation of being given a choice, I chose to not disable. However, now that it's gone, I feel as if it's forced down my throat.
I haven't tried Beta, but I'm gonna go ahead and join the revolt simply because "If it ain't broke, don't fix it". I'm satisfied with Slashdot Classic.

I'm going to catch the wrath of my fellow flag-wrapped, self-professed "patriotic" American countrymen, but I'm fucking fed up and feel the need to speak up.
This sick propaganda starts with the media. Fuck reading a story's contents, you give me the color/race, ethnicity, religion, sexual-orientation, wealth/affluence, partisanship of the story (domestic and international), I'll tell you exactly what the reactions of my countrymen will be regardless of the facts. This post-colonial imperialism is sickening and runs through the veins of our society from top to bottom. It creates double standards, domestically and internationally.
China and its Ministry of Agriculture rejects unapproved goods just like our FDA would. How dare they expect the same as us? Let the smear campaign begin! China executes Uyghur Muslims, all of a sudden China is the best. Why? Because in our hierarchical caste system, China seems ranks higher than Muslims. This is the reality, a single stamp on your forehead of an identity defines one entirely and groups you with a stereotype irrelevant of the facts. And if you think that people are willingly going to accept second-class treatment, you are tripping, keep investing in the military as this is the only way.
This is exactly why:

• we are bending over and taking it as our gov't sells out its citizen's right to privacy
• some rich white kid gets off with "affluenza"
• Zimmerman, had irrational support cult-like following
• Snowden, a true patriot, is on the run from his own gov't
• we have murdered, YES MURDERED, hundreds of thousands of people in many wars
• Discriminatory anti-Muslim rhetoric is flowing openly. Sikhs are targeted as Muslims, we condemn the acts afterwards because "they aren't even Muslims"
• ...

These double standards and injustices go on BECAUSE you permit it to happen. I'm the fucking patriot here, you are just a mindless sheep falling in line, fuck you!

Exactly, that's the part these self-professed "patriots" don't get. Ideology and nationalism doesn't put food on the table.

Had you any business acumen, you'd realize that your short-sighted vision will bite you in the bum long-term. "Yes, we suck, but the other guys suck worse" Eventually, someone will come along/transform to provide a better solution and eat your lunch.