GFischer

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by GFischer 8y ago
That's basically business class :)
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by GFischer 8y ago
It does violate the letter of the law. B1 visa is only for training, meetings, conferences, etc, if you work remotely for an U.S. company you're not supposed to work while there, only training and meetings. Not sure if you work for a f
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by GFischer 8y ago
NASDAQ had a 2 Petabyte Microsoft SQL Server. https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/nasdaq-omx-group...
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by GFischer 8y ago
I actually liked the syntax for generics a lot more (and BASIC syntax in general over C syntax). But C-style syntax has won over the world.
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by GFischer 8y ago
A lot of immigrants do that, but you have to know the local system of where you'll be treated (that's why it's mostly immigrants that do it). For what I'm readying, for a lot of non-life-threatening care, it's way c
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by GFischer 8y ago
There are better systems... over here in Uruguay, you have basic tax-paid "free" healthcare but you are able to purchase better services on top (I have several layers of extra care on top of national basic service). The richest us
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by GFischer 8y ago
Yours was a good question, no idea why you got downvoted. Mdpopescu provided an insightful answer. Also, it opens up networking opportunities for said developers, maybe they get a better remote contract afterwards.
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by GFischer 8y ago
I want to try my hand again at video-sales. Huge market there (tried my hand at a startup, unfortunately didn't get funding and WebRTC was a bit flaky as well).
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by GFischer 8y ago
My country (Uruguay) has strong, very often out-of-control unions. I don't think they're a solution. I've seen good union leaders, but most of them were corrupt and actively harmed the workers they purported to defend (when t
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by GFischer 8y ago
I stayed away from Core because of the issues you mention, but it's gotten a lot better recently. Did a POC for an API that wouldn't break anything if it had to be reworked, and it was a breeze. Of course, if Node works for you, t
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by GFischer 8y ago
Agreed, I built a data entry program in VB.NET for an insurance company. The WYSIWIG aspect of .NET WinForms and events meant I could build a very efficient data entry program (I miss that part a lot when developing for the web).
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by GFischer 8y ago
The company I used to work for (big, multibillion-dollar insurance company) had a lot of VB.NET projects (and C# projects, and Java projects, and anything you might care to think about). In particular, the manager at the branch I worked in
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by GFischer 8y ago
In the U.S., you mean. I've seen plenty of events (usually professional conferences) that have to be paid in cash or wire transfer here in South America.
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by GFischer 8y ago
The former president of my country (Uruguay) was a terrorist (or "freedom fighter"), and so is the current vice-president. So, does every national at my country have to say "Yes"?
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by GFischer 8y ago
You can find some pretty awesome work on "traditional" companies. There are some pretty cutting-edge projects where I work too :) (but way more legacy migrations and boring financial CRUD apps).
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by GFischer 8y ago
Apparently they're only temporary controls... I drove from Spain to France a few weeks ago... there was a sign saying "France"... and that was it. I had to Google for this: http://www.blather.net/theblather&#x
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by GFischer 8y ago
Not the first time Huawei fakes something, they were cheating on benchmarks: https://www.phonearena.com/news/Huawei-Ascend-P7-found-to-be... https://www.anandtech.com/show/8403/examining-huawe
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by GFischer 8y ago
I built and maintain one such service. Hopefully we don't have delayed gate information, but we DO ultimately rely on airlines, and we sometimes get very confusing information.
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by GFischer 8y ago
If by "westerner" you mean U.S. American or Mexican, you might be right. However, here down in South America, we can't handle spicy at all (our food is considered bland by people from spicy countries). I almost died eating Me
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by GFischer 8y ago
That sounds like incredibly awful implementation. I live in Uruguay where we have a hybrid system, it's single-payer in that everything is funded through the state, but you have a choice of medical systems, mostly are Mutual Organizati
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by GFischer 8y ago
That said, no North American city comes within an order of magnitude of the complexity of driving in Latin America. You can forget about traffic rules, and you very often have to check the other driver´s body language to make split-second d
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by GFischer 8y ago
I´m interesting in transitioning into something similar, did you write how you learned or how you transitioned somewhere? Was it thanks to your network or did you start out cold?
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by GFischer 8y ago
It actually is Netflix. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/faang-stocks.asp
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by GFischer 8y ago
Depends on the country as well. Here in Uruguay, 99% of the time they do, and usually several multiples of what their reports make.
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by GFischer 8y ago
My current theory is that it's a form of signalling: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signalling_theory
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by GFischer 8y ago
Curious as well. Have been looking at stuff like https://www.floydhub.com/ and https://www.datarobot.com/product/ - we have some use cases we want to implement but nothing built yet.
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by GFischer 8y ago
There are a lot of websites that I'm not sure if they count as businesses but are reasonably simple: - code prettifiers, - converting from X to PDF, - converting image formats, - YouTube downloaders, - TimeZone converter
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by GFischer 8y ago
CESVI in Argentina. Not very close to Chicago though :P , but I'm sure there's an US equivalent. https://www.cesvi.com.ar/index2.html I remember reading about the people that dismantled cars to find where manufact
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by GFischer 8y ago
Here in Uruguay, marijuana is legal, and homicides are at an all-time high (higher than Argentina and very near to the rates in Brazil, we used to be at less than a quarter). I´m not sure if decriminalizing all drugs would change the equati
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by GFischer 8y ago
I used to work for an insurance company and I got an entertaining presentation from a 3rd party that showed how ingenious thieves went around car block, special keys, etc, by bringing in the entire front panel of the car (thieves had one fo

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