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by NTDF9 10y ago
The rising cost of US education was already prohibitively expensive for people of other countries (who suffer double whammy because of rising dollar against their currencies). Trumps uncertain strategies is just the nail in the coffin. Who
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Just give them some random password. They're not going to test it on a device for every visitor. If they come back after a few days saying your password doesn't work, just tell them you changed it for security purposes. If they do
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by NTDF9 10y ago
Time and expectation management. 45-60 mins is very limited time. What does the interviewer really want in 45 mins? - Thought process/multiple solutions/tradeoffs (at the expense of writing awesome code in time and talking about w
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by NTDF9 10y ago
Even as an immigrant to the US, I agree with this. A large part of the shortage is self-inflicted. Did we see a shortage of American workers who could do the job right away? YES. Not many people work in the same area of technology. There re
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by NTDF9 10y ago
>> I suspect this is not just an American or British or solely cultural thing but also a number-of-children thing. This seems like it would also be the natural response to having fewer children. I suspect the same. When the first chil
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by NTDF9 10y ago
I think companies will just outsource crud jobs. There's enough talent outside the US. Until now, they were being brought in with H1b. Now they'll just do if from across the world.
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For top schools, money is secondary to building and maintaining reputation and leadership in research. Money comes as a consequence of being leaders, Think of Carnegie Mellon Robotics professors and grad students poached by Uber. Think of t
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by NTDF9 10y ago
This is a great opportunity for Canadian, Australian and top European universities to step up their game. Some universities in these regions have solid reputations but lacked the star-power of top US univs. Hosting a few ACM conferences wil
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by NTDF9 10y ago
>> The false negative/false positive question is more about the costs of hiring a "bad" engineer than how hard it is to find a "good" one. I'm familiar with the argument. Erring on the side of caution is
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by NTDF9 10y ago
>> As someone seeking a job, yes, it's unfortunate. But from an employer's perspective, false negatives are safer than false positives. - Are you an employer complaining there is a shortage of good developers? - How many ca
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by NTDF9 10y ago
Bullshit interviews are part of the system now. The only way to beat it is with interview-er accountability. In interviews today, the expectation is that the candidate should be perfect, do this, that, don't forget to do this. But the
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Tomasulo's algorithm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomasulo_algorithm A modified version of it is used in most CPU register out-of-order execution
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by NTDF9 10y ago
>> This statement only holds water if you'd feel that same way if your preferred candidate won. The fact that a bumbling idiot (apologies for my language)can become the leader of a country, fill the white house with 'swamp&#
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by NTDF9 10y ago
Two questions: 1. What is the difference between elected dictatorship and democracy? 2. Will Americans stop screaming 'Murica', 'We are number 1' from now? This president and how elections are held in this country are a
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by NTDF9 10y ago
>> If you need a house to live in, the monthly rent for a 1MM house is likely going to be over $3k.Over 30 years this will come out to be $1.08M, much more than the $870k in mortgage interest + taxes for owning the house Over 30 years
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My point is: Are those mortgage and tax levels sustainable over 30 years, considering how fickle the tech industry is? The downside risk seems so much greater than upside potential
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by NTDF9 10y ago
I don't know. I personally am more scared of carrying such a huge mortgage on myself. A home worth $1M means $200,000 liquid cash + $800,000 in mortgage principal + $570,000 in interest + $300,000 in taxes...over 30 years. Will house v
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by NTDF9 10y ago
>> The alternative of renting does not maintain value What if renting is cheaper than buying (example SF bay area)? More importantly, what if the purchase of house is made with the expectation of growth in value of the house and that
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by NTDF9 10y ago
>> That means zero property tax As a tangent, I've always wondered if my understanding that property is no guarantee of survival is incorrect. When I was younger, I used to think having a fully-owned house is survival forever, si
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No wonder marriage is a shit deal. If love is the only thing uniting us, in a fall out, love should be the only thing that is lost.
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by NTDF9 10y ago
A very interesting question about divorce asset-splitting: How are assets split if the woman (in the above story) cheated instead of the high net worth man and the man filed for divorce? Who gets what?
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by NTDF9 10y ago
>> They are punishing the person who lost at musical chairs or am I missing something? There was an amnesty window leading up to this. Until Sept 2016, all black money could have been deposited in bank accounts in India, no questions
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There is also a strong correlation between money and # partners...all else being equal. By saying all else being equal, you are singling out one quality. If people were to judge ONLY on that quality (all else being equal) everyone gravitate
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>> Research has shown that we prefer altruistic partners, all else being equal "...all else being equal" <--- the reason why altruism doesn't get you partners in the real world (outside of polyamory).
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>> However, a new employer can apply for a new H1B for the balance of unused time in the original 6 year block without being subject to the cap even after you leave the US So, say a worker on H1b quits and goes back to home country on
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Anecdotally, I've been thinking about this. "Being needed" is can also be looked at as "having a sense of purpose". Today, the only "Sense of purpose" is wealth accumulation and debt reduction. There is ve
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by NTDF9 10y ago
- Property owners - Restaurants, bars, night life sellers AWS is more like SUN microsystems, selling infrastructure, whose subscription will dry up (or at least slow down in a bust cycle).
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The exact timing of the feedback session is debatable. It could be in a wrap up session, next training session or whatever. More importantly, it should be private and only for the eyes and ears of the team/band/player.
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>> It's likely that greeting them with criticism of their playing as they walk off the stage won't do much to encourage them to try it again. There's a way to frame it. At the end of a band performance, the audience (ev
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by NTDF9 10y ago
>> That doesn't sound like very constructive criticism. A constructive criticism isn't a one-liner on HN. If you're skilled enough to show how that transition works, show it to them and make them learn it.

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