Yep. My wife just started as a professor (humanities) and she entered on H1B visa last week, as green card takes years to obtain. I have been offered a teaching job at the same institution as a partner hire and they have filed an H1B petition for me.
Unless they clarify that education is exempt from these rules, my wife will surely have to quit her new job. She is supposed to go on fieldwork later this year and she won’t be able to re-enter. Not to mention I can kiss my lecturer offer good bye. This is an incredibly retarded situation.
I don't know about you, but I was really laughing out loud reading that GitHub conversation.
GPUs: able to render millions of triangles with complex geometrical transformations and non-trivial per-pixel programs in real time
MS engineers: drawing colored text is SLOW, what do you expect
P.S. And yes, I know, text rendering is a non-trivial problem. But it is a largely solved problem. We have text editors that can render huge files with real-time syntax highlighting, browsers that can quickly layout much more complex text, and, obviously Linux and Mac terminal emulators that somehow have no issue whatsoever rendering large amount of colored text.
Unless they clarify that education is exempt from these rules, my wife will surely have to quit her new job. She is supposed to go on fieldwork later this year and she won’t be able to re-enter. Not to mention I can kiss my lecturer offer good bye. This is an incredibly retarded situation.