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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
But I regret the way programmers are treated in industry these days. It went from a niche profession to industrial worker. Being a programmer these days is similar to a worker working in a car assembly line.
You are not alone. It is really difficult to find cofounders who are really interested. Most people lack the perseverance required to see a product shaping up.
I started my career from one of such consulting companies. I was naive back then. I thought I am a developer/engineer and this is how software industry is. Now, I actively avoid them. The culture in these companies is horrible. I would rather prefer to work for a small innovative company than working for these body shops.
My first reaction when I heard Finance Minister's statement last year saying "Crypto is illegal" was, this is absurd. RBI has no authority to ban this. Good to see the crypto startups in India challenging government's decision.
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.