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Frankly, premium processing is abused. I recently switched jobs and just needed a transfer application acknowledgement to start the new job, however, the company offered to pay for premium processing and I gladly took it.

Honestly, they should raise the prices to $5000 with exceptions for financial hardships(they already have this) to weed out non-essential usage of premium processing.

> This temporary suspension will help us to reduce overall H-1B processing time

Overall, This is good. A lot of "regular" cases are stuck in backlog (see: http://www.aila.org/infonet/processing-time-reports/csc/2017...). Ideally, you want them to increase the workforce to handle all the cases but if that's not possible this is the right response for the current situation.

well, there are bunch of services which make it easy (e.g. xoom.com) and allow tracking of transactions and verification of transfers etc.

you dont see it behind by 30+% in 2013 to nasdaq and now meeting it to equal now.

See: http://stockcharts.com/freecharts/perf.php?$COMPQ,MSFT,$SPX&...

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And thousands of broken links would be born... Are you planning to redirect deep links of msdn pages to the page's new home?

Its not company profits, he clearly makes the point that customers in many faces prefer to interact with machines than humans and its cheaper to have machines than humans.

The work of human in the author's world is designing machines and automate the next step of tasks that haven't been done or spend time on doing more creative tasks and be more inventive.

> Plus, I'm always concerned when a developer ends their last job on Friday and starts Monday at our company. Why? I did that else my family would have without health insurance (and income) for a while..

I am not sure why mortgage interest deduction gets such a bad rap. It allows a lot of people to be able to afford homes which they couldn't otherwise. It helps the housing market/industry and banking industry.

Apart from that a lot of other countries has it. If I had to change something I would actually add a rental deduction to help those who can't afford to buy housing instead of removing mortgage interest deduction.

If you look at the financials, FB is making a chunk of money already.

GoTo Conferences: https://www.youtube.com/user/GotoConferences

Mycodeschool: https://www.youtube.com/user/mycodeschool - Great for a refresher esp. if you are starting with interview style questions

Google Developers: https://www.youtube.com/user/GoogleDevelopers

Oreilly - https://www.youtube.com/user/OreillyMedia/videos -> Need to look at playlists to find really relevant ones. But good videos on AI, microservices and software architecture

Well, Yammer is not going away, they are just changing the way they sell (Standalone vs part of O365)

Can you give a reference for "South Korea ranks #1 for the most innovative economy"?

All of my local recommendations (handyman, local photographer, where to buy tomatoes) have now shifted to facebook groups. I no longer google handyman in blah, xyz. instead I go through my saved posts in FB.

This is along with local city news and news from friends and family that is all on facebook. e.g. One of my colleague's (and friend) kid was in ER last weekend so on Monday during standup I was able to tell the rest of the folks that he was out due to family emergency without getting an email from him...

https://www.onenote.com/clipper is written in typescript

There's also an api you can use to pull data out.

"Oh - nobody forces anyone to work with uber. They know what they're signing up for. They're not entitled to anything from uber except for what they agreed upon in the contract to work."

You can make the same argument against minimum wage, or any other abusive contracts (payday/predatory loans). A lot of time one of the party signing the contract has no other option depending on his situation, that doesn't mean a company/individual should be able to take advantage of his situation and get him in a tough bargain.

Also, not all contract signings are created equal, that's how a lot of companies sneak no-compete's which have been deemed unenforceable many times.

The problem would be such a facility will have a hard time competing with a...

  1.Libraries without being subsidized from tax payers (free to enter and borrow books) 

  2.Big stores like B&N which have coffee and sandwich shops now and allow browsing and are free to enter.

Well i am guessing a decent chunk of the 56 is on weekends.

What's the source of the 12 second data?

But.. they have access to libraries with computers... More seriously, most of the world doesn't have easy access to libraries like US or some other developed countries while they do have access to decent internet.

Interesting that you rate Java higher in maturity of toolset given that C# has Visual studio + Resharper which many believe to be the best IDE experience out there for OO development.

Wait I have to tweet to Read the preview... No thanks :)

If you save notebooks to Onedrive (default option in latest versions) you can install the Onedrive app and have it sync the documents folder to your machine all the time so you will have a copy on Onedrive, and your machine. Onedrive also backs up your data though you might have to go through Customer support to get to that.

Anecdote, my father has had blood pressure trouble due to both high sodium and low sodium in the past. In the first episode of low sodium, he kept reducing his salt intake thinking that would help. A visit to ER helped fix that notion.

Our team went with Lenovo Carbon touch and Asus Zenbooks for our devs

My take with Onenote instead of dropbox.. https://ifttt.com/recipes/205212-ohlife-email

https://ifttt.com/recipes/205213-record-your-daily-journal-i...

Bill Gates with Microsoft.

At its peak Windows was running on 90% of computers and the biggest rival Apple (Steve Jobs) was taking money from Microsoft (Bill G) to survive.

Bill was able to leverage almost all other software companies to create software for Windows to create a lock in fro the customers.

Really, I can see some bad assessments in it. #3 and #4 are easily refuted via IE and Xbox. The Bing example in #1 is pretty bad as without Bing they wouldn't have had a partner like Facebook and they would have struggled to find services for Windows phone and tablets.

Also for a article picking on statements from others, statements like "Surface is an attempt to pretend Apple didn’t solve the tablet problem when they introduced the iPad. " seems plain stupid since Android has taken the lead from Apple and I don't think anybody believes the tablet "problem" is solved yet

Why not use a surface pro in this case?

You can access it via Office Online... go to onenote.com