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what the hell is this? A long demented rant!!

This is not about book reading. He is not saying kids should not read books.

Can someone post a mirror?

Which market isn't changing?. No good business is build assuming that market wont change.

I just watched 'About the Course' Video, it felt awkward, looked like professor Jurafsky was reading from a blackboard. Also wondering if people taking the course planning to apply any of it in their daily work.

Exercises are in python. Learning python as needed seems like a good strategy

IT services and call centers make up for only 3% of GDP despite the general perception

i doubt prevailing wage in new york city is $45k for a programming job. Prevailing wage determination has nothing to with H1B even if that was the case.

Was the prevailing wage where/when you were employed less than 45k?. If it was then you were not undercutting the american worker,if not your employer was doing something illegal. From personal experience hiring a H1B is anything but cheap, lawyer fees and all.

you cannot hire a h1b for 40k/year, minimum prevailing wage requirement prevents you from doing so.

"If what you are saying is wrong we'll find you and kick you out like dogs" - An actual dialogue blurted out by the immigration "officer" at the port of entry.

It would be awesome if it was just 4 yrs. The current EB3 wait-time for indian and chinese nationals is estimated to be around 70 years.

It is not about the inability to find a solution, there are hundreds of things that can be done to improve the process ( including major overhauls like the one you suggested) . But the whole topic is such a quagmire that no government want to touch the subject with ten foot pole. The backlog is there not because the handling is inefficient its due to the country wide quota from the archaic system

So this discussion is about " I told you so". Everybody did, so ?

There are literally thousands of vendors in the city of chicago. It would be years even if someone wants to do a second groupon. I dont get your logic behind market getting exhuasted.

May be not (then why are we discussing it on HN?). Not sure what you definition of a tech company is, I was comparing it to nextflix and the likes. Also i got this from WSJ, "33% of the 4th quarter US IPOs are trading below their offer prices." . So why is GRPN being singled out when all the stocks are taking heavy beating.

Not if you compare it with other tech stocks that are taking the beating too.

Not if i understand your comment completely but ripper in 1.9 seems to what ParseTree was doing. Am i missing something?

There seems to something similar for Ruby in terms of C# linq https://github.com/suryagaddipati/linqr

Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins