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fredfoobar commented on Building the mouse Logitech won't make   samwilkinson.io/posts/202... · Posted by u/sammycdubs
flanbiscuit · 2 days ago
> My absolute favorite mouse is the MX Ergo from Logitech.

I switched to using Logitech's MX Vertical mouse and I love it. There was a learning curve period, especially when it came to finer grained movements, but I'm totally used to it now and it feels much more comfortable and natural to me that any other mouse I've used. It has a USB-C port and I can switch between 3 different Bluetooth connections (press a button, connects to my work laptop, press it again, connects to my personal one). I'm not much of a power user so I don't customize the buttons but I know it's possible with an app. I don't use the app.

https://www.logitech.com/en-us/shop/p/mx-vertical-ergonomic-...

fredfoobar · 2 days ago
+1

The mouse has disappeared into my hand and I've forgotten its existence. When I read your post I remembered how pain free my mousing experience has been lately.

fredfoobar commented on H-1B Visa Changes Approved by White House   newsweek.com/h-1b-visas-c... · Posted by u/ivewonyoung
alephnerd · 14 days ago
> The “employee” isn’t living off an H-1B salary — they’re already wealthy enough to bankroll the whole arrangement

If you are wealthy enough to bankroll this kind of a convoluted method to immigrate to the US (back of the napkin math $150k-250k), you are wealthy enough to bankroll an investor visa to the UK or Canada, invest locally in a business AND THEN target an American investment visa, or marry someone within the diaspora.

People are really overestimating the pull the US has on the truly rich. Most Indian H1Bs tend to be middle class Indians who hit a rut in their career in India, and are using the temporary US experience to land a better role back in India or maybe Canada.

If you are already earning $30-60K TC in the Indian market, the pull factor to earn $90-140k base on an H1B doesn't exist, especially because Green Card backlogs are multidecade long now.

There's a reason most of the H1B abuse is coming from consultancies - they tend to pay in the $3k-20k range. For someone in that bracket, the math of working as a low paid H1B works out.

That's why the H1B market is so bimodal - you have a huge chunk at consultancies who are paid low even by Indian standards and then an equally large chunk of people who are actually pretty elite and successful in India and are working at FAANG or top startups.

As a skilled immigration system, you want to optimize for the right half of the distribution and minimize the left hand side, but if you are too draconian in nature, you disincentivize people who you actually want to attract from coming to the US. India has already started trying to build something similar to the Thousand Talents program for NRIs and PIOs.

IMO, the current changes proposed are a good middle ground, but everything else on HN seems dumb.

fredfoobar · 13 days ago
I think there is a big astroturf campaign that is going on on x, reddit etc. that is rabidly anti-Indian.
fredfoobar commented on H-1B Visa Changes Approved by White House   newsweek.com/h-1b-visas-c... · Posted by u/ivewonyoung
Rebelgecko · 14 days ago
The WITCH companies are commonly held up as examples
fredfoobar · 14 days ago
who is contracting to those WITCH companies?
fredfoobar commented on H-1B Visa Changes Approved by White House   newsweek.com/h-1b-visas-c... · Posted by u/ivewonyoung
lgleason · 15 days ago
If there are qualified American workers who are looking for work and applying for these positions then no, they should not. Legally they cannot either. Now on the flip side, if there is an actual shortage of qualified workers then sure. But right now, there is no shortage of qualified workers in most of these slots, especially if companies are willing to pay a competitive wage.
fredfoobar · 14 days ago
I think you need some context here, most of the time, these folks have already gone through the PERM process (at least the legitimate ones, ignoring the fraud for a second), and gotten to the next step, but USCIS will reset them back if they switch jobs. If the candidate is from India, they'll probably do this multiple times in their career because the green card wait time is very long for them. I have a colleague who's not from India, and they got through the process and even got their citizenship in 6 years, for Indians, that it'd take 12 years on average to go from finishing the PERM and getting a greencard (let alone applying for citizenship, which would need 3 more years)
fredfoobar commented on H-1B Visa Changes Approved by White House   newsweek.com/h-1b-visas-c... · Posted by u/ivewonyoung
486sx33 · 14 days ago
If there is an American than can do the job then absolutely not the worker should NOT get a green card
fredfoobar · 14 days ago
I think you need some context here, most of the time, these folks have already gone through the PERM process (at least the legitimate ones, ignoring the fraud for a second), and gotten to the next step, but USCIS will reset them back if they switch jobs. If the candidate is from India, they'll probably do this multiple times in their career because the green card wait time is very long for them. I have a colleague who's not from India, and they got through the process and even got their citizenship in 6 years, for Indians, it'll take 12 years on average to go from finishing the PERM and getting a green card (let alone applying for citizenship, which would need 3 more years)
fredfoobar commented on H-1B Visa Changes Approved by White House   newsweek.com/h-1b-visas-c... · Posted by u/ivewonyoung
fredfoobar · 15 days ago
I don't think this is a fair comparison, software development is very complex, but an electricians job isn't, it's very simple but it's high consequence.

Software development may seem simple for a lot of people here on HN, but trust me, I can do the electricians job easily, but an electrician won't be able to do my job. The regulatory environment which requires the "apprenticeship" is a totally different topic and doesn't inform anything on the skill required to do the job. Also, the electrician apprentice gets paid while learning on the job, the software developer in training doesn't.

fredfoobar · 14 days ago
To the poster (nunez?) who was lamenting about me apparently claiming blue collar jobs are easier (and then deleted it when I was writing this reply):

1. I didn't claim that.

2. Yes, I did say it's "high consequence", but technically, comparing skill to skill, it's MUCH easier. I've done a ton of electrical work (along with plumbing) on our old home, there are a great set of safety rules to follow (and gear to use) before "touching the wrong wire".

fredfoobar commented on H-1B Visa Changes Approved by White House   newsweek.com/h-1b-visas-c... · Posted by u/ivewonyoung
xnx · 14 days ago
> I can do the electricians job easily, but an electrician won't be able to do my job

Watch out. Soon AI can do your job easily, but it can't do an electrician's job.

fredfoobar · 14 days ago
> Soon AI can do your job easily, but it can't do an electrician's job. [he said gleefully]

do you really want an Amercian to lose a job to AI?? Also, why do you think I can't become an electrician after AI apparently "does my job" (or a plumber, I'm a better plumber than an electrician)

anyway, it's fine, you don't seem to have any idea about software development or how AI is actually going to help me more.

fredfoobar commented on H-1B Visa Changes Approved by White House   newsweek.com/h-1b-visas-c... · Posted by u/ivewonyoung
const_cast · 15 days ago
Or the ultimate work-around, pay then the same and work them twice as hard. Boom, half the wage and nobody can tell!

How many of these consulting companies just have the most awful, toxic company culture imaginable? I don't think that's a coincidence - that's a purposefully engineered cost saving strategy.

fredfoobar · 15 days ago
That won't work as well as you think it does. This would come off as them being skilled enough to do the work in half the time an American would.

That said, consulting companies out of India are horrible, I don't think they'd be more productive even if they worked twice as hard.

fredfoobar commented on H-1B Visa Changes Approved by White House   newsweek.com/h-1b-visas-c... · Posted by u/ivewonyoung
lesuorac · 15 days ago
Afaik, the federal rule doesn't propose banning H1-B entirely. Nor was I proposing that.

So, it's more like saying "people speed and break traffic laws, therefore we're going to improve enforcement". Reasonable statement to me.

fredfoobar · 15 days ago
agreed
fredfoobar commented on H-1B Visa Changes Approved by White House   newsweek.com/h-1b-visas-c... · Posted by u/ivewonyoung
dec0dedab0de · 15 days ago
about 12 years ago I worked at a very large non-tech company that had outsourced to contractors to work on some code. They had a room in the basement for about 20 kids on H1B visas that were clearly right out of college. This was in a major city that had plenty of jr developers around, they just would expect more money.

I forget the contractors company name but they came up on HN at the time for being abusive towards their employees who risked deportation if they stood up for themselves. If I find specific examples I'll add them later, but you can probably just search hn for h1b.

fredfoobar · 15 days ago
I'm sure it's ok to give out specifics of something that happened 12 years ago, what makes you think this sort of stuff is still happening?

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KarmaCake day211October 8, 2010View Original