the_commentary

I think based on the rest of the context that was kind of the point - to drive home the "screw these people" attitude that policies like this would spring from.

> What if the H1B program was taking in a huge amount of new grads right now and not as many senior positions?

Then the program in turn wouldn't be abiding by the idea of the H1B program in the first place, which is to bring in people who have skills that can't be found in the US. You can hire new grads from the US just as easily as abroad, just maybe not at the artificially low prices that you want to pay them.

I would agree with this -- Gitlab seems like a company with a great philosophy and I'm sure a lot of people would love to help them achieve their goals... but I just used the calculator for my own area and my pay would be around half what I'm getting currently. I have to assume that makes it really hard to get serious talent, and makes it more of a pass-through for people to get their foot in the door.

To be honest Arch as a distro is more for advanced users -- if you're trying to dip your toes into linux the quintessential starting point is probably Ubuntu or ElementaryOS (linux mint is also pretty good). Arch's philosophy is very much to give you the bare minimum and then you can get what you need to stack on top of it, which often involves a bit of config tweaking. This might get frustrating if you aren't fairly intimate with working with a linux command line environment.

This is hypothetically true but I think if you're expecting your manual testers/business to play mad libs with your defined statements they have to be so resilient that they become fairly inefficient.

If that's an acceptable tradeoff for having anyone be able to create new test cases though, it would probably be okay.

It's ridiculous that your previous comment got instantly flagged - apparently some things are not allowed to be a discussion.