Brent Gaynor

Passionate product guy building in the cloud, who loves my family, dogs and a good pizza 🍕

SaaS | Finance | Design | Data

[Brent Gaynor @Quadten]

Rain is weakness looking for quitters.

@TorqueFitnessHQ #torquetank

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@Air_Shaper You really should have better educational discounts and programs. Think 4 years out!

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Wtf is up with @PayPal mobile login. Ridiculous for company of any size.

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@deptoflabour @GregAbbott_TX

Solve this problem.

[War for the West @War4theWest]

Part of the problem we are facing is that foreigners STEM workers have figured out that a masters degree is a 'cheat' code. 30 years ago most engineers I knew had undergrad and going for the masters wasn't common.

This was during an explosive time of innovation and tech growth in the U.S., with a small pct of tech workers being foreign born.

Now let me add that a masters can be very valuable, but what it also does is give the foreigner another bite at the following:

1. Many universities will offer an F1 grad student a lab assistant or research assistant job for up to 20 hrs per week. This does not require any work permit at all. There is no need to prove there isn't an American citizen available, nor are there wage minimums for doing so.

2. CPT programs are approved by a local school official, which allows for full time work while in the masters program, but it HAS to be 'integral' to their field. This is merely noted on the F1 students I-20 form by the govt. There is no need for govt approval, nor is need to be proved nor are there any wage controls.

3. OPT allows them to work at an even broader range of jobs in their field but this must be approved by USCIS. Part time during semesters, full time during breaks. It does burn down their 12 mos OPT time, but if in STEM they get 24 mos more Some prefer to save it all for after graduation to have the full 3 years to work in STEM but some work during school.

4. Hardship can also win an F1 visa holder a work permit if they've been here for one year.

F1 needs to be a strictly non-work visa.

OPT and OPT STEM need to be ended. Fyi, a strictly controlled CPT program limited to monitored internships may make sense as a 'practical' part of a students education but it needs to be locked down as it's abused significantly by many schools.

Many Americans also just aren't 'credentialists'. It seems many foreigners seek credentials and the status they confer. Keep in mind too that there is an epidemic of cheating across all Asian students on U.S. universities that has gone on for a long time without much pushback. It's not just Indians - this post isn't just about Indians.

This grad school pipeline is also why more foreigners end up in research labs, which have higher status and puts them in line for more high level engineering jobs. By now these labs are often run by foreigners on Green Cards or other 'genius' visa types. Americans often feel excluded and like 'the other' in graduate programs and research labs in the U.S. today.

Imagine this scenario. Your Abstract Algebra class is taught by a Chinese TA who speaks in broken English and the class is 80% Chinese and Indian. Cheating isn't noticed, no less punished. The Chinese and Indian students clique up by ethnicity, caste and race. Do you think that might be a bit alienating for an American student?

Is that what grad school should be like in the U.S.?

Even more to the point, why should a recent CS gradaute with a 4 year degree be competing with dozens of foreigners with masters degree for an entry level job as Ron Hire points out below? Rarely are the advanced topics covered in such masters programs relevant to entry level roles.

STEM alienating for American kids from the moment they start their university education and it continues into the job market and higher education.

The entire ecosystem needs to be drained of foreigners starting with undergrad programs, quite significantly, until Americans are the majority by a wide margin at all levels of tech and STEM generally.

Just sayin'...And no politician says this, most don't even understand the issues.

[Brent Gaynor @Quadten]

Is @webflow notably horrible about not saving changes or is it me? WTH!

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Good deconstruction of the current reasoning big tech has a bias for H1B's and the introduction of the https://t.co/8v4IStxqkD job board that lets US citizens apply to jobs up for renewal.

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Love how fast MOMO Pro has been working lately. Our new 3 min timeframe has also been nice for reducing noise vs. 1 min.

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@newsfilterio your payment subscription link seems to be down. Are you not offering service?

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@StockSavvyShay @danielnewmanUV @finchat_io I don't think so. Agree w YouTube but, but only time before Grok and others support advertising and I'm personally using Grok / GPTwhatever multiple times a day where Google has let me down with shopping sites and such for research. Gemini in current for kinda is lame vs. grok

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It's much better now. Using it daily.

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Grok has become so slow it's unusable. @grok @elonmusk

[WallStreetBets @wallstreetbets]

The SEC just approved the first 24/7 US stock exchange, realizing thy're just redirecting capital inflows away from stocks, into crypto when markets close

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@JeromySonne Heard of? Opinion?

https://t.co/xTccnLh4HV

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@JeromySonne Interesting. Just spoke to my devs about this today. But I want more insight. Many tools don't maximize things. Can you do me a price? Used Claude for similar solution on building attribution model for funnel. Can you dm your details/pricing/etc so I can eval build/buy?

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@1sttimeer @zerohedge Never been good. Sorry.

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@VivekGRamaswamy Do it!

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Odd milestone.

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Now this is not a prototype Tank M1 sled, but it should be! What do you think @TorqueFitnessHQ ?

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@ParisBaguetteUS You should re.kve the lemon croissant because you stopped selling it. Apparently sales were poor so you now just sell unflavored varieties. Boring...

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@ParisBaguetteUS Update: Paris Baguette lost a touch of the charm. Thinning out their variety really reduces the attraction. While some varieties may not sell like others, having a wide selection still gives people a choice and sense of discovery.

Please bring back the lemon and other varieties.