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H-1B visa-reliant Cisco ‘secured visas for foreign workers instead of hiring U.S. citizens’: report

Cisco denies paying visa holders less but fails to address claim that it favored foreign workers over Americans.

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Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A – Chick-fil-A Tech Blog – Medium

by Brian Chambers, Caleb Hurd, Sean Drucker, Alex Crane, Morgan McEntire, Jamie Roberts, and Laura Jauch (the Chick-fil-A IOT/Edge team)

Click to view the original at medium.com

Hasnain says:

TIL Chick Fil-A has some serious cloud computing chops with Kowbernetes - and they do real time demand forecasting.

This is some super impressive stuff and with some quotes right on the money about focusing on business impact:

“Research says that using the latest and greatest technology (like Kubernetes) has no correlation to a team or organization’s success. None. The ability to turn ideas into code and get code into production rapidly does.”

Posted on 2018-08-23T05:13:22+0000

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A web application completely in Rust – Sascha Grunert – Medium

My latest software architectural experiment is to write a complete real-world web application in Rust with as less as boilerplate as…

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Hasnain says:

This was a really interesting read. The blurb is a bit clickbaity but I learnt a lot about history, art, and chinese culture.

Posted on 2018-08-20T00:34:15+0000

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Why a patient paid a $285 copay for a $40 drug

Insurance copays are higher than the cost of the drug about 25 percent of the time, according to a study published in March by the University of Southern California’s Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics.

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How “Crazy Rich” Asians Have Led to the Largest Income Gap in the U.S.

“Crazy Rich Asians” offers an extreme example of prosperity, but a study shows that Asian-Americans are the most economically divided racial group in the United States.

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Why is San Francisco ... covered in human feces? | Nathan Robinson

People aren’t pooping on the streets because they unlearned basic hygiene. Rather, the incidents reflect shameful levels of inequality in the city

Click to view the original at theguardian.com