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Fired Americans Say Indian Firm Gave Their Jobs to H-1B Visa Holders
Re:Sudo for Windows
on Thursday February 08, 2024 @08:15PM (#39310173)
Does this mean that I can run PSWindowsUpdate in a remote PowerShell session? If so, this is going to save me a lot of time. Also, AD management tools never work vie Enter-PSSession. Will stuff like that work as well?
Re:Did a 1997 merger ruin Boeing?
on Thursday January 11, 2024 @10:57PM (#38963502)
Re:Ask HN: Why Hasn't the Doomsday Clock Advanced?
on Monday October 10, 2022 @11:00PM (#33158994)
thread over
Re:The History of Microsoft Flight Simulator
on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @08:46PM (#32573629)
It's a very compelling experience. It's kind of mind blowing to take your F-16 and casually glance at real world scenery outside your cockpit. The most immersive controls are hardware HOTAS/Yoke controllers, IMO. It runs fine for me on an RTX2080 and a Vive Pro.
Thanks to a glitch, some Seattle Mazda drivers can’t tune their radios from KUOW
New evidence of widespread wage theft in the H-1B visa program
Re:My Room in 3D
on Saturday September 11, 2021 @10:33PM (#28498126)
I have that same chair. I can never get it to stay in the highest position though. Do you have that problem?
Microsoft hits $2T market value
60 years later, is it time to update the Drake equation?
Re:From video game to day job: How ‘SimCity’ inspired a generation of ...
on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @02:01PM (#19313142)
This bridge in Alexandria Egypt must have been inspired by SimCity.
Re:Microsoft is Abandoning SHA-1 Hashes for Updates
on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @02:32AM (#19206291)
Re:What Happened to the 100000 Hour LED Bulbs?
on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @11:08PM (#19102917)
My Philips Hue bulbs visibly flicker when they are dimmed, but not when they are at full brightness. I never had that problem with the old style bulbs. I wonder if that could be fixed with a firmware update?
Re:A $1.2B law to boost US quantum tech
on Sunday December 23, 2018 @01:52AM (#18744824)
H-1B lottery change could help big tech companies, hurt outsourcers
Redmond WA CEO charged with fraud on more than 100 H-1B visa applications
Re:H-1B abuse: Bay Area tech workers from India paid a pittance, feds say
on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @02:02AM (#16974469)
If they don't have a skill that employers are willing to pay top dollar for, then no. H-1B is designed for bringing highly skilled workers into the country. It's not a program for job security for new grads.
Re:H-1B abuse: Bay Area tech workers from India paid a pittance, feds say
on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @01:50AM (#16974407)
H-1B shouldn't be used for entry level positions though. It should be used for positions that cannot be filled by the local workforce.
Re:H-1B abuse: Bay Area tech workers from India paid a pittance, feds say
on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @01:28AM (#16974297)
Why not just adjust the H-1B program so that the highest paid positions get priority? That way companies could still hire abroad for in-demand skills, but it would eliminate bringing people into the country to avoid paying the prevailing wages for IT workers. You could even make exceptions for academic or medical work as needed. It seems like a common sense adjustment to the program, but I don't see many people offering this up as a solution to this problem.
Re:How Microsoft brought SQL Server to Linux
on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @01:34AM (#14845335)
I can't tell whether this comment is satire or not.
Re:U.S. Senate staff can now use Signal
on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @12:50AM (#14355731)
Sounds like a good idea to me. It will demonstrate to lawmakers the advantages and necessity of encryption.
Re:Tiny Linux distro that runs the entire OS as Docker containers
on Saturday April 29, 2017 @02:06PM (#14227810)
for science
Facebook Launches “Moon Shot” Effort to Decode Speech Direct from the Brain
Re:Open sourcing Sonnet – a new library for constructing neural networks
on Friday April 07, 2017 @11:06AM (#14060288)
If this is text only, maybe it will work on Bash on Windows?
Re:Amazon wins streaming rights for Thursday Night Football
on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @11:29PM (#14039451)
Works fine on XBox though.
Re:Amazon wins streaming rights for Thursday Night Football
on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @10:37PM (#14039209)
Hopefully they will be broadcasting in 4K. It could be an influential driver of people with 4K TV's to try out Amazon Prime.
Re:Google Cloud Platform is the first cloud provider to offer Intel Sk...
on Friday February 24, 2017 @11:34PM (#13730076)
We use multiple machines with 6 TB each at my job, all for use with databases.
Re:Amazon soars to more than 341K employees, adding 110K people in a s...
on Saturday February 04, 2017 @03:06AM (#13566175)
I live in Downtown Seattle and it would take me at least an hour to get to the nearest ones unless it was maybe 3 AM and there was no traffic.
Re:NYC tech catching up to Silicon Valley, while Seattle flails
on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @10:47PM (#11539303)
King County just by itself has over 2 million people.