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Although staffing companies have abused the visas but given the way industry is structured, staffing companies do fill a lot of positions for contract workers & consulting roles. Strictly speaking in terms of law they should be able to hire people on visa as well.

The most idiotic thing here is giving a visa to a company based on lottery. As the original comment pointed out, there should be a point system where you are graded based on education and experience.


I want to find the guy who wrote this documentation :

"H2O is a powerful web server used and developed by Fastly" - Ok.

"H2O is a new generation HTTP server that provides quicker response to users with less CPU utilization when compared to older generation of web servers" - Great

This is where it becomes cringy : "H2O as a web server is very impressive and is seeing more and more use"

more

"I have used more web server frameworks than is reasonable. libh2o is by far the most impressive effort "

"The H2O maintainers are incredibly friendly and helpful."

I scrolled half the page and still doesn't provide any useful information.

If you happen to write or own any documentation. Please don't use filler use marketing language. Please.


Hi Rajesh, thank you for your thoughtful critique of my documentation efforts! I took a look at the sentences that are hurting you. The first part is from H2O's mission statement, which is clearly quoted. H2O is very impressive and is seeing more and more use. The h2o maintainers are indeed very friendly and helpful. But perhaps that is because I approached them with respect and did not hate them for their mission statement? We may never know. If you have anything useful to add, the document can be edited through https://github.com/ahupowerdns/hello-libh2o


Thank you very much for replying. I will take a look at the docs & github repo more closely and provide suggestions.


There are 17 sections of which 16 are technical and you complain about the “Hello and Welcome” ???


I totally agree. I did Java certification 10 years back when I was a junior dev. At that time, many people and companies valued that on resume. Over time, people realized certification doesn't add any real value as things/technologies change over time. Nowadays people would doubt your skills if they see Java certification on resume. Also, Certifications are values in consulting market. If you are looking to work in core tech companies, it is better to invest that time learning something else. Also, I would say in those times people had no other way to showing that you have the skillset. We are living in an era where github is your portfolio. Do open source contributions or do side projects. That is a way more valuable skill than Java certification.


You are missing a point. every 1 regular job creates 3 non-regular jobs in the market. New businesses like restaurants, coffee shops etc will created which will boost local economy.


Even still, that's only 100k jobs. There's already more than 4 million jobs in the city alone. A 2.5% increase in jobs is just not going to change that much. Cyclical employment changes alone are much, much larger than that.


Have you been to LIC recently? It’s not like it’s bereft of coffee shops right now.

Posters are here are making the same posts as they would have made if this article was about Akron. But NYC is not Akron, even if it happens to be NYC across the East River.


I would like to see the math on that. The proportion seems impossible to me.



your comments is exactly what the article is about. Fault finding becomes a second nature for engineers/programmers.


Are you finding a fault in his comment? If so, are you doing it just because you are a programmer? /s


Maybe we should think of it as social debugging.


You mean like nit-picking?


I work with marketing agencies which has huge requirement for i18n & translations. I think there is definitely a market out there that would be interested in something like this. I have seen content creators creating different sets of images with translated text(takes many hours to manually do this right now). I am not sure how you are planning to offer this product/service, I would recommend offering it as an API which your clients can call from their applications.


> takes many hours to manually do this right now

This was also the original problem we set out to solve. Thank you for letting us know that more people share the same problem. Unfortunately we haven't yet gotten it into the hands of the marketing agencies.

If you are ok with it, can you send us a 'hello' mail at team{at}imgtranslate.com so that we can discuss a little more with you.

Cheers


I completely agree with Stripe here. The homeless problem will not be solved by increasing taxes. The problem is whether the money is being used correctly. I see huge issues with that. The department of homelessness currently has an annual budget of $250Million[1] for providing shelter to homeless. I wonder if govt. is spending $250 Million every year on providing them shelter why are they still living in streets? Where is all that money going?

[1] - https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/29-million-incre...


So google tells me there’s around 7,000 homeless in SF. Let’s up that to 10,000. That’s $25,000 per homeless person per year. Am I missing something or is something very seriously wrong here?


Yes, you’re missing something: Much of the funding goes into prevention. SF only directly spends about $3K per homeless person. There are a lot more people staying housed because of those funds.


While I'm certain SF could be doing a much better job with their existing budget, that's not a very meaningful statistic. You'd need to know how many more people would be homeless in the counterfactual scenario where they weren't spending that money.


For what it's worth, that's way less than (less than half) the amortized yearly cost of a California prison inmate: about $70,000.

https://lao.ca.gov/policyareas/cj/6_cj_inmatecost


That is the average cost? How much would that be if we looked only at the min-sec cost?

If it is anything like the institutional system, the people who need dedicated watchers 24/7 are so, so much more expensive that person like my family member, who needs only occasional help managing his normal life and doesn't need anybody to guard him.


At a single moment in time there are about 7500 homeless people in SF, but about 20,000 are homeless at some point during the last year.


Break down of money spent on Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing

http://hsh.sfgov.org/overview/budget/


How is it different from a payment terminal machine from bank?


Integrates with all the other Square stuff I assume.


Those typically require a full merchant account, don't they?


it uses square


In the other news, software engineers are the lowest paid workers in tech companies.


I think US as a whole is behind using QR codes for payments in general. One big reason is banks. The credit card culture of US made it almost impossible for new technologies to come and break the ground. Till this day there are banks who issue credit cards without chip and people prefer to use it.


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