Tabnine is my personal favorite as it works with most IDEs including IntelliJ, Vim and even VSCode and the suggestions are high-quality. I actually moved away from Copilot to Tabnine across all IDEs and haven't gone back since.
I can see how some people see this as positive but the premise that a talented and hard working foreign worker takes a job away from a citizen is short-sighted. Zoom out a little and instead of a talented and hardworking foreign employee taking a job you will see (on an average) that they help grow or expand projects and companies that opens door to hiring more people. Not only do they pay tax here and support social security benefits that many enjoy, they also help businesses survive and grow and help them stay competitive in a global market.
I'm not calling for open doors to everyone, this certainly needs a balanced approach. However, with such suspensions I think we seem to be going one extreme path. Global talent has helped develop industries and businesses here. Increasing restrictions to this extent and suspending these visas is going to push this talent out and promising businesses who want to get the best talent to work with them, will not-immediately but definitely follow their way out too. I hope the people who are celebrating this, at-least for a few minutes, come out of the myopic view and look at the long term economic consequences.
Beautiful explanation for something that tripped me up in early days of using mock/patch. Summary:
(1) Variables in Python are names that refer to values.
(2) (For that reason) Mock an object where it is used, not where it is defined.
A talented (foreign) friend of mine had the opportunity to switch to a better, higher paid role but due to the effort involved, the risk and the pause in H1B premium processing just hung on to his current role.
The H1B program itself is not a problem and in-fact is a big positive contributor to the US economy; but it definitely has issues like the one you highlighted (e.g. harder for employees to switch jobs) that should be addressed by the government to make it more viable.
I tried to get the H1B twice, couldn't get it through the lottery, so I had to move out of the US for a year and a half while I was waiting for the green card. The process is so backward.
I can’t help but wonder if a lot of the indignities that we tolerate (open-plan offices, unpaid overtime) aren’t worse because there are so many people in our industry unable to fight against them.
GoodRx is not a Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM) actually. A PBM negotiates prices with pharmacies to include them in their network, GoodRx does not do that to my knowledge. Instead, GoodRx offers a service that allows users to compare different coupon and membership prices so that people can chose the best available price/pharmacy combination.
They do it by taking up the role of a PBM. This is for some other discounter, but you get the idea, they process the prescription using GoodRx's system:
"GoodRx does not sell information regarding your drug prescriptions and medical conditions that are linked to your name, contact information and other personal data you provide us."
This could just mean pseudoanonymization. I.e. they staple you medical information to your IP, a cookie, or an advertising ID. A buyer can deanonymize that kind of data in many cases.
The only people who would have solved the captcha faucet to get coins at virtually next to nothing value at that time would be the ones who believed in the project right from the start which to me is a fair distribution scheme. ICO based distribution is usually more greed driven. In this case the developers and team were more motivated in building a new innovative blockchain protocol as opposed to raising money by simply issuing ERC20 tokens. Speaks a lot about the project in itself. And the team has even succeeded in building a beautiful, disruptive scalable protocol and currency with no transaction fee. I've tried RaiBlocks and so far have been impressed.
I always wondered why do we have to pay for domain names annually. Now I understand where that money actually goes. There are 340+ million registered domain names. [1] Annual ICANN subscription price of a domain name is about 10$. That is a guaranteed annual revenue of 3.4bn USD and consistently growing and no one can give ICANN a competition because effectively it's a monopoly. That is a lot of money for a "non-profit". We have reached a serverless computing era where paying for compute/storage for a small service is becoming cheaper than owning a domain name and the price for "buying" domains hasn't changed in years. People are so used to the standard domain pricing that they are willing to pay that subscription amount. All of this while executives of a non-profit get filthy rich. Me feeling unfair about it is not enough to change the market, but I sure do derive some business learning from this.
So, I think it's the registrars (GoDaddy, etc.) that get this money, not ICANN. Blake Irvin (CEO, GoDaddy) made 1.9 million in 2015 (with a turnover beyond 1 billion).
