Out of curiosity, what brain cancer does she have? I had a Grade II astrocytoma in 2013, came back in Sept 2015 as Grade III. Currently undergoing chemo and feeling fine (25 years old).
No, not because of that. In case you did not know, the companies are obligated to pay H1b employees more than the prevailing wage for that position in that county. This is something controlled by the Department of Labor.
> The Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) requires that the hiring of a foreign worker will not adversely affect the wages and working conditions of U.S. workers comparably employed. To comply with the statute, the Department's regulations require that the wages offered to a foreign worker must be the prevailing wage rate for the occupational classification in the area of employment.
The prevailing wage rate is defined as the average wage paid to similarly employed workers in a specific occupation in the area of intended employment.
Not really. "prevailing wage" doesn't mean average wage at that company, it means the wage that posted on the Department of Labor website as the minimum wage for that county.
The posted prevailing wage for an EE with 5 years in Santa Clara county, for example, is about $70k (or at least it was back in 2009); so if H1Bs are paid more than that is compliant with the law.
"Perhaps the final straw was what Gosling said was Oracle's move to rein him in. indeed they owned Sun and thus Java, so they also owned its creator and his intellectual property, so it was up to Oracle to decide what Gosling or anybody else had to say about Java."
But this doesn't really make any sense... Sun was a historically bad steward of Java after 1.5. Oracle has done a lot to advance the language and ecosystem since acquisition.
> The Foundation has a license agreement with Digia and Nokia. This agreement ensures that the Qt will continue to be available under both the LGPL 2.1 and the GPL 3. Should Digia discontinue the development of the Qt Free Edition under these licenses, then the Foundation has the right to release Qt under a BSD-style license or under other open source licenses. The agreement stays valid in case of a buy-out, a merger or bankruptcy.
One day. One day I hope Xamarin will find a different financing model, or like you said include VS support in their indie plan. It's just far too expensive right now.
You can dev for free with android/ios tools, you don't have to use Xamarin. The point of Xamarin is that you can make more money faster by developing and releasing for multiple platforms from one code base.
Just looking at the pricing model again and I see they've introduced monthly subscriptions. Going for the business plan will be, paid monthly, marginally cheaper than the annual subscription fee. I think I'd rather pay $83 a month than $999 at once.
I'm basically sitting here twiddling my thumbs and once VS support is included in indie (aka not ridiculously expensive) I will immediately buy a subscription. Until then, my (limited) money goes elsewhere.
Yeah. Also, I find it very sad that you cannot even try the Forms API before buying the suite. Their model only works for companies / individuals that don't care about the pricing.
Did they get rid of the eval period (30 day money back guarantee is not the same as an eval period) when they switched to a monthly subscription model?
One thing I didn't realize was that it any app built with the trial version can only be used for a 24 period. My plan was to build a LOB app, get my company to see the value in it and then have them purchase the full license. The 24 hour window makes that really difficult.
I also dislike their pricing. But their CEO was very open to discussing it by email the other month when they had a big new release, someone more articulate than me may convince them on the merits of a different model.
I'm somewhat disturbed by the fact that Samsung (and Apple) seems to be the only one that is pushing for >= 10" tablets. I had a Galaxy Tab S Pro which is not that great (heard the Note line is very good). I ended up gifting it to my dad and I bought myself an iPad, even though I'm heavily invested in Android.
Nexus 10 has no successor, and LG is not coming out with anything with that diagonal, and now this.
Bigger tablets definitely exist, but the thing is they're much bigger, and many don't run on battery. Search "android all in one" to find them. Here are some examples:
The Transformer series is usually good. Don't like the proprietary plug though. My 2012 model lasted well and I gave it to my mother as a gaming device that she is still using to this day. The Tegra 3 chip kinda sucked though.
There was no N10 successor because apparently it didn't sell well enough.
That's really strange to me. That prevents the card from being used in the US too. I'm guessing not that many people from your part of the world travel to the US then.
I know that one of the reasons is that here is very frequent that the police find some tiny electronic systems (skimmers/false_keyboard + minicams) glued or stuck on a lot of atm and pos with the specific purpose of cloning your cards using the stripe. So the only strong solution to avoid all this is making cards only with the chip, making those systems useless
I haven't seen a magstripe transaction in probably a decade and I live in Cyprus (hardly a technologically advanced country). In the past couple of years everyone also got issued a contactless card which doesn't need a pin for sub 20euro ttransactions and obviously no need to insert it in the card reader.
