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Or if they must have an in-person meeting, they could send their US based staff to Iran, Syria, etc., instead of bringing those guys here. 
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Muslims buy iphones and see ads on facebook, too.
A market that big is worth the effort of an empty gesture or two.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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They probably don't have a lot of employees from those countries, although as big as they are, the number is almost certainly non-zero. But if you don't draw a line at the start eventually the situation gets a lot worse.
Quote: In Germany, they came first for the Communists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist;
And then they came for the trade unionists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist;
And then they came for the Jews, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew;
And then . . . they came for me . . . And by that time there was no one left to speak up.
--Martin Niemöller
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Dan Neely wrote: But if you don't draw a line at the start eventually the situation gets a lot worse.
Agreed, but drawing the line at an appropriate place is important too. A 90 day travel ban for people travelling from 7 specific countries into 1 specific country does not merit the response it's received across the world.
Comparing the Trump Administration and 21st century America to the Third Reich and post WW1 Germany only shows historical ignorance.
In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. ~ Ronald Reagan
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Cute, but there is no Muslim ban since the countries with the largest Muslim populations aren't affected. It's not an indefinite ban. And I fail to see why it's suddenly wrong to put something on hold until issues are resolved.
If country A goes to war with country B, are you suggesting that if both countries curtail immigration from each other, is that Niemöller's slippery slope?
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I used to contract for a satellite manufacturer whose publicly stated vision was something about allowing people to communicate and work remotely all around the world.
It was ironic to the point of absurd that they had a "no remote work" policy. I was a thorn in some of the management's side because I actually was breaking that policy.
Marc
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I'll take a job. 
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"operations are affected" is not a basis for changing clearly legal decisions. If this decision were upheld, corporations would literally be running the government.
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The programming boot camp Coding Dojo did its own analysis of the most in-demand programming languages of the year by poring through data from the job search engine Indeed.com. "Or art thou base, common and popular?"
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Most of those 'statistics' are based on two factors... The number of job request, and the number of questions online...
And that's the beauty of statistics as 'science'... The moment you have the numbers, you can attach to it any reasoning you want...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Suspect methodology.
SQL came first even though it is not primarily a programming language - and indeed Job listings for C#,Java, etc. probably also listed SQL as a requirement.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Exactly. Surely nobody ever advertises exclusively for a javascript programmer, it's just on that list of stuff that people append when they're after an ASP developer or whatever.
It's the kind of approach that makes recruitment agents (failed developers to a man) so excruciatingly useless. They grep for a single word, find it in your CV and consider you the perfect fit for a job that's a million miles away from what you actually do. Then they want money for having done that.
Slogans aren't solutions.
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You don't honestly think they're smart enough to use grep, do you?
They probably upload the files to google docs and use google search -- although there's probably an even dumber process that involves scanners, OCR, etc.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: You don't honestly think they're smart enough to use grep, do you?
After a nanosecond of reflection - no. Fair point!
Slogans aren't solutions.
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It took you that long? Sheesh! 
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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"Coding dojo" sounds too much like "Bunch of cojo" or "High on play-doh".
CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"Go ahead, make my day"
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It's barely February.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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But April 1st is behind the next corner, you know
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Good point. We should start early.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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People who work more than 39 hours a week are putting their health at risk, new research from The Australian National University (ANU) has found. No, working 78 hours is not twice as healthy
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I believe it. My supervisor is currently on FMLA leave for 3 months, because 40 hours a week, with an additional 8 weeks of leave time per year, is just too much work.
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What's the limit on pretending to be working? 
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I spend 4 days, proximity 9 hours each day at office - so it is a good time... BUT! I do other things around, like fixing things at home, keeping the garden, buying, cooking, cleaning and mustering the kids... Some of these are not less stressful than office hours...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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