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spiderPig | 7 years ago | on: H-1B visa fraud: Sunnyvale man indicted for bringing in 600 workers illegally

Oh please, you're just parroting Steve Bannon's pseduo-intellectual propaganda. Pull out this program and most of the Big-N companies would simply move these jobs overseas. I would go so far to say that lumping them with illegal immigration is doing a dis-service to them considering how much they contribute to the economy. Most of them have built core components of what you use today. Why wouldn't you want them contributing to society here and buying houses?

That being said, sure, fraud happens and we need to come up with solutions to curtail that. Not knee-jerk reactions based on political biases.

spiderPig | 7 years ago | on: What Makes .NET Core So Special?

Devdiv (org that builds .NET, C#, VC++, VS etc) has always been one of the top notch organizations within Microsoft with great engineers (although from what I hear, some of them have left recently). Nonetheless, as someone who now works at a company with an open source tech stack, I sorely miss the tooling I had when I worked at Microsoft.

spiderPig | 7 years ago | on: Application for Fixed Satellite Service by SpaceX

It's an unnecessary misuse of the Big O notation used to establish bounds of functions. I think they just meant up to 1000 satellites

spiderPig | 7 years ago | on: A Retiree Discovers an Elusive Math Proof (2017)

Oh please let’s not glorify those simple trick questions to be anywhere near as hard or require the degree of intuition that OP or theoretical mathematicians work on.

75% of interview questions can be solved with some form of BFS/DFS and they’re largely a hazing ritual these days. I’m saying this as someone who recently got offers from 4 of the big 5 companies

spiderPig | 7 years ago | on: Portable Cloud Programming with Go Cloud

Isn’t this just centralizing the cloud provider SDKs? Instead of AWS, GCP, Azure designing their own SDKs, they have a common contract to adhere to. I’d imagine as the cloud becomes more mainstream, you’ll see similar support in Java and .Net (a System.Cloud package for example)

spiderPig | 7 years ago | on: Hundreds of nuclear blast videos show explosions in the ocean and Nevada desert

As a non-American, while I do see the need for such tests during the Cold War, the way America ruined pristine pacific islands just saddens me. They should’ve been held accountable for that but alas better them than the USSR

spiderPig | 7 years ago | on: Tesla sues ex-employee for hacking, theft, and leaking to the press

Seems a little far fetched for a process technician to make “direct code changes to operating system code” though

spiderPig | 7 years ago | on: GitLab GCP Migration Project

Yeah, I believe this whole move was prompted after Google Ventures invested in them

spiderPig | 7 years ago | on: NTSB: Autopilot steered Tesla car toward traffic barrier before deadly crash

Kudos to the NTSB. Events like this and companies like Tesla are exactly why we need regulation and government oversight. Tesla's statement that the driver was given "several warnings" is just a flat out lie.

spiderPig | 7 years ago | on: GitHub Founders Will Own More Microsoft Stock Than Its CEO

So jealous of the founders. Making it this big at such a young age. This is generational wealth.

OTOH, anyone else think Microsoft has massively overpaid for Github? Feels like Satya's Nokia moment to me.

spiderPig | 7 years ago | on: Microsoft acquires Github

Agree, hard to distinguish people from ads these days

spiderPig | 7 years ago | on: Microsoft acquires Github

You’ll see the same thing with Google. I’ve found quite a few Google shills on here

spiderPig | 7 years ago | on: Chris, Nat and Satya's Calldeck Regarding Microsoft and GitHub

Works for me, swipe left/right

spiderPig | 7 years ago | on: Congratulations GitHub on the acquisition by Microsoft

If anything this post is going to push people away from using Gitlab. It’s one thing to try and capitalize on it but this is just eww

spiderPig | 7 years ago | on: Leaked Emails Show Google Expected Military Drone AI Work to Grow Exponentially

Yeah but GE isn’t in the business of collecting personal data about you and selling it. Google business is data not jet engines

spiderPig | 7 years ago | on: Leaked Emails Show Google Expected Military Drone AI Work to Grow Exponentially

Think of it the other way, if Lockheed martin were to start a Gmail, GDocs equivalent tomorrow, would you use their services knowing how closely they work with the military? Would global users be comfortable using it? The whole PRISM fiasco isn't far from this. What's stopping the Pentagon from buying access to users data? It's a trust thing, imo.

spiderPig | 8 years ago | on: Facebook Q1 2018 Earnings Slides [pdf]

That's crazy. Their net income is almost the same as Google's with 1/3rd the number of employees. I am surprised that they have 25k employees now, wow!

spiderPig | 8 years ago | on: Alphabet Q1 2018 Earnings [pdf]

Wow you're either a Google employee or huge fanboy. Every single one of your comments is pro-google/anti-apple.

spiderPig | 8 years ago | on: Microsoft surges 8% after Morgan Stanley says it will reach $1T market cap

I would say Google is the new Microsoft of the 2000s now. From what I hear from friends, it’s very slow moving and filled with empire building leaders like Microsoft had. Amazon is really commendable in this aspect. Culture really does make a big difference no matter how smart your engineers are. I mean just look at how many chat/messenger products they have now.

Gsuite may be lightweight now but it’s only a few years away from feature creep with PMs pushing their shit and making it a bloated mess.

spiderPig | 8 years ago | on: Arizona Government Suspends Uber's Self Driving Cars from Roads

Which makes me think of it would be prudent for the government or military to invest in this tech as well. Companies like Northrop Grumman while being bureaucratic nightmares, take safety pretty seriously.