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Re:Temporary Visas, Meant to Import Talent, Help Ship Jobs Abroad
on Tuesday September 29, 2015 @11:38PM (#10301576)
The real problem is that the same Visa quota is being used for both highly-skilled workers who _don't_ displace American workers (e.g. Silicon Valley or high-tech manufacturing), and "body-shopped" workers who are _intended_ to displace American workers (the example in this article, and the previous example of Disney).
Re:Urbit: an operating function
on Friday September 25, 2015 @11:46PM (#10282019)
If things are really so screwed up, and we need to recover the dreams of the past, why not "recurse on the idea of the computer", and invest in something like Pharo Smalltalk instead?
Re:India students caught 'cheating' in exams in Bihar
on Friday March 20, 2015 @05:45PM (#9240859)
Yup, and it only makes it that much harder for Indian students who want to separate themselves from the herd and try to be honest hard-working individuals.
Re:OCaml: Objects
on Monday March 16, 2015 @01:52PM (#9213044)
Roughly, the intuition is that in OCaml, objects are to records as polymorphic variants are to regular variants
Re:Learning Haskell – A Racket programmer's foray into the land of Has...
on Thursday March 12, 2015 @01:35PM (#9192368)
(Only on Hacker News -- a discussion on point-free style devolves into a discussion on gender-free style!)
Re: We are moving into the quantitative finance industry
on Tuesday February 04, 2014 @03:41PM (#7180108)
Growing up and moving into the finance industry? Excellent! Please fix the typo in the 'FP Haskell Center (TM) Overview' section:
"... The personal edition aslo includes Emacs support ..."