Re: More dysfunctional Ubuntu-isms

2016-11-08 Thread Stephen Partington
So I am now running Ubuntu 16.10 on my main machine with LVM-cache UEFI and my shiny new GTX 1070 with KDE Plasma 5.7.5 So far It is running very well. after i broke my LVM about 4 times trying to remember how ti set up LVM cache... On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 8:17 PM, Brian Cluff wrote: > I just ha

Re: More dysfunctional Ubuntu-isms

2016-11-08 Thread Brian Cluff
I just had to kill that on my home machine. It was making me wait 5 minutes even though I actually already had a connection... lame. Brian Cluff On 11/08/2016 09:54 AM, Stephen Partington wrote: I do much the same here. But if you are installing something that does not have an always connecte

Re: Hiring off shore

2016-11-08 Thread Todd Millecam
To me, your role is closest to that of a parasite. You aren't doing any real work, you aren't making anything new. I'd assert that in this scenario you are not helping your community, you're taking advantage of them in nearly every case. Hire an offshore dev and it won't be to specification, an

Re: Hiring off shore

2016-11-08 Thread Eric Cope
are you burning that $85? Will you save (which is then invested either through loans or invested in the market, same thing) or spend (which does affect the community)? If you can create value for your customer, and you can find someone willing to work for less, then it sounds fine to me. Thats cal

Re: Hiring off shore

2016-11-08 Thread Sesso
Im not a fan of off shore devs. Their hours are not lined up with ours and there is usually a language barrier. My clients use these people and I hear the “they are not available” excuse a lot. It also depend on if you want to help the American workforce or just you. jason > On Nov 8, 201

Hiring off shore

2016-11-08 Thread Keith Smith
Hi, I am a PHP programmer and I have a knack for Internet marketing. Say I decide to build a lead site or cultivate leads from the greater phoenix area. Projects you may qualify for. Then I hire an off shore developer. I pay this off shore developer $12 - $15 an hour while charging my cl

Re: H1B Visa

2016-11-08 Thread Lyle Tuttle
OOPS: RE: test scoresnever listen to guesses!! "Jeffrey S. Raikes School students are selected from the nation's top high school graduates. The average ACT score for a student at the Raikes School is a 33.5 (SAT a 1480 for combined two tests of Critical Reading and Math). " At 10:07 A

Re: H1B Visa

2016-11-08 Thread Lyle Tuttle
At 10:07 AM 11/8/2016, Keith Smith wrote: Hi, While at the polls I talked with a man running for Chandler City Council who told me the H1B Visa was necessary because there are not enough qualified Americans to fill those positions. I do not agree. And if it is true then why, for example, is th

Re: H1B Visa

2016-11-08 Thread David Schwartz
More propaganda from right-wing pro-corporate anti-American talking heads about a topic they are ill-informed about. (Most Americans have no clue about US immigraion laws.) The recent Defense Appropriations Budget opened the floodgates to H-1B visas, thanks to non-stop lobbying from large US te

Re: H1B Visa

2016-11-08 Thread Alan Dayley
I hear "We struggle to find candidates" all the time. I don't hear "We are creating, supporting and sustaining a system that creates candidates." In the Fortune 500 and other large companies in which I work, investing in training and in the people is extremely rare, no matter what the recruiters an

Re: H1B Visa

2016-11-08 Thread Anon Anon
The job I took when I was a young programmer had an h1 visa guy they fired before me. He nearly bankrupted their company and it helped me get the job. On Nov 8, 2016 10:38, "Eric Cope" wrote: > If I may, the market determines your value. If another employer is willing > to offer you more [money|

Re: H1B Visa

2016-11-08 Thread Eric Cope
If I may, the market determines your value. If another employer is willing to offer you more [money|vacation|benefits] then you may choose to switch employers. If someone is willing to offer your employer the same work for less [money|vacation| benefits], then why shouldn't they? To turn it around,

H1B Visa

2016-11-08 Thread Keith Smith
Hi, While at the polls I talked with a man running for Chandler City Council who told me the H1B Visa was necessary because there are not enough qualified Americans to fill those positions. I do not agree. And if it is true then why, for example, is there no Microsoft University that finds

Re: More dysfunctional Ubuntu-isms

2016-11-08 Thread Stephen Partington
I do much the same here. But if you are installing something that does not have an always connected network you might want to adjust the wait timeout for networking sooner than later. 5m boot delays are weird and annoying. On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 8:59 AM, Brian Cluff wrote: > In my experience the

Re: More dysfunctional Ubuntu-isms

2016-11-08 Thread Brian Cluff
In my experience the server install is pretty much just a minimal install that asks you at the end if you want to install certain typical server software. I just normally just pick SSH server and then add whatever I want after the first boot. I've always had less problems installing the serve