Oh, I can believe it. If you have a local government that encourages tech companies to open development offices there, then they can become enormous successes, if they have the right people running t… (View Post)

While that's true of the West Bank, I would note that the Palestinian Authority has cancelled elections... because if they had them, then Hamas would win. Israel pounding Gaza doesn't make the Palest… (View Post)

I've never found India a particularly cheap place to develop: sure the people are inexpensive, but the smart ones have all left for the US and the quality of management is often poor. It can be a dec… (View Post)

The $100k H1B fee is good news for tech centres outside the US: it's not like tech giants aren't going to seek out the cheapest skilled labour they can find, especially in a world where everyone is c… (View Post)

Indeed, they deliberately make sure their camps are (a) easy to leave from, and (b) close to the French borders with the UK and Belgium. It's politically popular for the French to encourage the self-… (View Post)