Readit NewsYou’d be surprised to hear how much the political power of the design team within Apple has eroded over the last decade.
Here’s a little game of insider Apple baseball:
1) why do you think the chief of design isn’t on this page? https://www.apple.com/leadership/
2) from the SVPs on that same page, who do you think the chief of design reports to?
It's tired. H1Bs are gamed to the point of uselessness. Most companies internally post H1B job offerings so people are aware. I've yet to see one with a competitive salary. They are used to source cheaper labor and avoid paying actual Americans the fair wage they deserve. The last 15-20 years of tech has slowly seen the InfoSys-ization of the tech economy. I work with more contractors from Mexico, India, and Eastern Europe, and more H1Bs from India than literally anyone else. On my team I can count the number of Americans on one hand.
The program should be extremely limited. I am a fan of charging 2-3x the normal tax rate for H1Bs so companies have to actually justify hiring "talent you can't find in America". There are 300,000 unemployed tech workers. I find it hard to believe none fit the bill. Just that most won't take a 60% haircut for more work.
Nonsense.
It reminds me of this breaking change to .Net from last year.[1][2] Maybe AA just needs to update .Net which would pad them out until the 2050's when someone born in the 1950s would be having...exactly the same problem in the article. (It is configurable now so you could just keep pushing it each decade, until it wraps again).
Or they could use 4-digit years.
[1] https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/75148 [2] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/compatibility/...
Didn't help that I had just posted a lukewarm spicy take on how linguistic prescriptivism is BS.
All the while the website felt like it was unstable, hard to describe, but it felt like it was bouncing around between URLs too much and reloading a lot.
Definitely feels like a botched update on their end.
E: Instagram is misbehaving as well, banner loads but big "Something is wrong" error on the feed.
E: now youtube has "Something went wrong" - WTF. I can't believe I'm saying this, but thank goodness for reddit and X[itter]???
E: interesting, seeing a big spike across multiple platforms on downdetector, including AWS: https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services/ I'm not able to log in right now, but that could be PEBCAK, I have too many saved IDs and I don't want to fail2ban myself
1 - Microsoft investing 3bn USD in India-based developers: https://www.reuters.com/technology/microsoft-invest-3-bln-ex...
2 - Microsoft having 4700 H1B filings for fiscal 2025: https://www.myvisajobs.com/employer/microsoft/
Utterly predictable behavior by Satya Nadella.