> In a region that prides itself on disruption and working from first principles, San Francisco’s scaling problem is pretty humorous if you look at it from the outside: otherwise smart and inventive founders continue to set up offices and try to hire or move people in the most overheated environment since there were carphones in Cadillac Allantes
This is the best rebuttal to the more-immigration-so-we-can-haz-programmers I've read in a long time. And its so true. The way the current work visa (h1-b) is setup makes it far more likely that good programmers get tied to stodgy plodding firms and not smaller innovative ones that tech needs them to work for. Remote work and rewriting the current h1-b laws to make it so that h1-bs can more easily transfer their work permits and work for whoever they like, whenever they like ... remotely as well ... just like their American contemporaries would open up lots of supply.
but what the big firms really want is more pliant programmers who will work within the rigid confines they set up. Thats why we're not talking more about the mechanics of the work visa and the green card process which is currently set up pretty restrictively.
This is the best rebuttal to the more-immigration-so-we-can-haz-programmers I've read in a long time. And its so true. The way the current work visa (h1-b) is setup makes it far more likely that good programmers get tied to stodgy plodding firms and not smaller innovative ones that tech needs them to work for. Remote work and rewriting the current h1-b laws to make it so that h1-bs can more easily transfer their work permits and work for whoever they like, whenever they like ... remotely as well ... just like their American contemporaries would open up lots of supply.
but what the big firms really want is more pliant programmers who will work within the rigid confines they set up. Thats why we're not talking more about the mechanics of the work visa and the green card process which is currently set up pretty restrictively.