> The essence of what Xerox taught was: to sell, find out what problems your customer has, and figure out how your product/service can help him/her solve the problem. That's it.
Oh, cool! That's the SPIN model[1], implemented by Neil Rackham at Xerox in the 70s.
I suggest you look into the companies that are actually hiring and getting the bulk of the H1B visas. Because it may surprise you, it's not top tier tech engineers at Facebook, Apple, etc. It's companies like InfoSys and Cognizant. [1]
The business model of these companies is to provide workers at a cost below what it costs in the US. This business model is a big reason why they are so successful. At scale these companies drive cost, and wages down. US workers then need to accept lower paying jobs. The worst thing about it is the wage depression here is most felt by the low-tier tech workers, not the well paid SV engineers.
And they don't always follow the rules either. Infosys and Cognizant have been caught up in legal trouble for visa fraud. [2]
TCS and Infosys should had been kicked out of the H-1B system long ago.
They are fraudulent as fuck.
- They realized the quota system is based on the physical action of taking random entries from the mail. So what they did was submit the same application multiple times, so that their H-1B applicants had a higher chance, to the detriment of other applicants.
- They forced their employees to sign a power of attorney and kept all money from the employee tax returns.
They suck. They should be sued to oblivion until bankruptcy.
I just installed jellyfin this weekend and I'm trying it.
IDK why there aren't more open source tools for this, IIRC Emby and Plex are not open source, and using a close source software for watching content from.. the high seas... is a bit risky IMHO.
I recently switched from Plex to Jellyfin due to the former's requirement that users must buy a PlexPass to download media you've shared with them. Relying on streaming for movie nights was a nightmare.
A community developer also recently launched their Plexamp-inspired iOS/Android music player on the stores.
Jellyfin has some serious performance issues. I tried using it on a small 12TB zfs dataset of Linux ISOs and it only indexed ~20% after letting it run for a month. For comparison, my ffprobe scripts only take a day to collect media info about every file and figure out what needs to be transcoded.
The web UI is also a buggy js SPA that doesn't use meaningful URLs with "#". So when it breaks, you can't reload the page and get back to page you were on. It's incredibly frustrating.
Unfortunately, Jellyfin is the only open source video server I could find that kinda sorta works. So this is as good as it gets unless you wanna get your hands dirty and rewrite large parts of it.
nb. I did not try out the online metadata fetching because I didn't want to give it internet access. I assume that enabling online metadata will make the server even slower
Wowie! I just installed this and this friggin rules! All of the features I care about from Plex, plus the ability to enable/disable transcoding on a per-user basis? Yes!
"That's one of the problems with murdering all your oppressors and seizing all their assets -- at that point you have no one left to blame when things go bad over the next few hundred years."
"It has been widely reported that in 1923 over 60% of Haiti's land was forested; the source of this assertion remains unknown but may be linked to the U.S. Marine Occupation in Haiti. In 2006, the country was claimed to have less than 2% forest cover."
Vitalik was a big blocks supporter for a long time. I saw this post as a 180 as well.
"Now I personally can see that it’s not axiomatically true that doing nothing is safest, especially in the context of a changing environment (for example I continue to believe that Bitcoin’s failure to raise its blocksize by a significant amount in 2016–17 was a travesty and a great violation of many people’s expectations of the protocol, and one that led to more total losses due to excess txfees than the amount lost in the MtGox hack), but this is the argument that you need to be arguing against."[1]
