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sownkun commented on US signals intention to rethink job H-1B lottery   theregister.com/2025/07/2... · Posted by u/rntn
TrackerFF · 2 months ago
Yeah...look at all the top researchers in AI, and count how many of them came here through H-1B. Gotta be something like 70%-80%.

Nothing against "homegrown" talent, but let's be real - US is getting cream of the crop talent from other countries.

(And that's just AI, not do the same for other fields. Many of these people started as regular engineers and devs., and didn't come to the through the EB-1B/Einstein visa. Just a regular H-1B. And many on student visas.)

sownkun · 2 months ago
H-1B for top talent in fields like AI makes sense. But in most cases it's not being used for that. It's just being used to fill generic software jobs that can be filled by US citizens/residents.
sownkun commented on US signals intention to rethink job H-1B lottery   theregister.com/2025/07/2... · Posted by u/rntn
anonreeeeplor · 2 months ago
In my area, there is a Tae Kwon Do school my kids go to. You can see every year the class picture. For the last 10 years it was almost all white kids then it made a dramatic change to almost 100% Indian. We live near Microsoft. Something very obviously is going on with immigration. To say Microsoft has simply been flooding the area with Indians is shown visually.
sownkun · 2 months ago
Yep. I live in the same area.
sownkun commented on US signals intention to rethink job H-1B lottery   theregister.com/2025/07/2... · Posted by u/rntn
sownkun · 2 months ago
The amount of foreign tech workers in the U.S. seems far too high right now given how bad the job market is.
sownkun commented on Meltdown and Spectre with Matt Godbolt [audio]   cppcast.com/2018/01/matt-... · Posted by u/mariuz
willvarfar · 8 years ago
I wish it was more in-depth on e.g. repoline seemed to be a 5 second thing mentioned at the start. Does it go into a deep dive if you listen to the whole thing?
sownkun · 8 years ago
Yep
sownkun commented on “Node.js is one of the worst things to happen to the software industry” (2012)   harmful.cat-v.org/softwar... · Posted by u/behnamoh
sownkun · 9 years ago
bit of an overstatement if you ask me
sownkun commented on Easystar.js - Pathfinding for HTML5 games   easystarjs.com... · Posted by u/bryceneal
seth1010 · 12 years ago
Really? Charging $60 for Jump Point Search? I'm almost inclined to copy the API and implement it for free just out of spite.
sownkun · 12 years ago
Seriously man what are you thinking? Have you ever made your own project? There is NOTHING wrong with trying to make a business out of something you created and I'm pretty ticked off that there are people out there writing stuff like this.

u/sownkun

KarmaCake day12November 17, 2013View Original