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by anxrn 5y ago
While I completely agree the H1B is a PITA, it has been and continues to be the primary vehicle for the huge % of tech-employed immigrants to attain the sort of independence referred to in the OP.
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by anxrn 5y ago
Not directly racist, but there's a huge difference in effective waiting times for employment based green cards by country, mainly due to the per-country cap. Roughly speaking, for similarly qualified folks applying in the EB2 categor
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by anxrn 5y ago
A tool that inspects a company's software dependencies and generates a report of open source dependencies, state of support, and easy ways to fund (direct corporate funding, or even employee + corporate match) would be super useful.
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by anxrn 5y ago
Since Sundar became CEO: - GOOG has grown nearly 300% (last 5 years). It is by far the strongest performing large tech stock this year (>+50%). - They just announced one of their best quarterly earnings in their history (highest quarterl
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by anxrn 5y ago
Reminder that Jobs initially did not support having an app store at all for the original iPhone, IIRC for reasons of maintaining the bar on experience. His proposal was to build "apps" for use in Safari. https://applein
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by anxrn 5y ago
Disney's market cap is about $320B, and Netflix at about $280B. It isn't unreasonable to expect that YouTube would be valued at at least that if it were valued independently (Alphabet overall is $1.9T - YouTube as 15% of that valu
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Alphabet’s Project Taara laser tech beamed 700TB of data across nearly 5km(theverge.com)
23 points by anxrn 5y ago|7 comments
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Delhi Police Raids Twitter India Offices(news18.com)
5 points by anxrn 5y ago|0 comments
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These Precious Days(harpers.org)
2 points by anxrn 5y ago|0 comments
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by anxrn 5y ago
Why do people need gold?
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by anxrn 5y ago
Is LTE necessary? It seems that 3G or even 2G might suffice, and might be cheaper?
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by anxrn 6y ago
Not Moderna, but this [1] was a very useful primer on grokking how the Pfizer vaccine works, especially for computer programmers. [1] https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/reverse-engineering-source...
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by anxrn 6y ago
Sorry to have to ask this, but did you read the article? It explicitly addresses this. > *Wozniak obtained a master’s in computer science in 1987 and does code. Though Jobs was brilliant and technically savvy, Jobs clearly didn’t profess
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by anxrn 6y ago
Getting an MBA does not make you not-an-engineer. From the article [1] you linked, "He earned a Bachelor of Science in industrial engineering". Also, the article is referring to founding CEOs, and hence referring to Page/Brin
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The Talent Myth (2002)(newyorker.com)
1 points by anxrn 6y ago|0 comments
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by anxrn 6y ago
Irrespective of which of the myriad ways you use to compare tax raters, the assertion that the US has "ridiculously high taxes" does not hold up. https://www.crfb.org/blogs/us-highest-taxed-nation-world
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by anxrn 6y ago
One of these is not like the others. I would genuinely like to understand why I should not trust Mozilla.
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by anxrn 6y ago
You and op might be more violently in agreement than you might have surmised.
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YouTube commits $100M to ‘amplify’ black creators(theverge.com)
4 points by anxrn 6y ago|1 comments
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Lawns Are an Ecological Disaster(earther.gizmodo.com)
10 points by anxrn 7y ago|1 comments
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Senate fails to pass bill that would eliminate per-country caps on green cards(vox.com)
1 points by anxrn 7y ago|0 comments
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by anxrn 7y ago
I suspect using the median net assets instead of the average would lead to vastly different results.
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by anxrn 7y ago
"have you not ever heard of our service?" No I hadn't heard of rsync.net before. I even browsed a few 'listicles' and didn't come across it. I admit even if I had, I'd tend to lean towards more established
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by anxrn 7y ago
I'm also a Dropbox on Linux user, are there other cloud storage services with better Linux client support? I was considering Google Drive but it doesn't seem to support Linux at all.
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Tennessee Williams: The Catastrophe of Success (1947)(genius.com)
2 points by anxrn 8y ago|0 comments
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Course: Fairness in Machine Learning(blog.google)
3 points by anxrn 8y ago|0 comments
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by anxrn 8y ago
Not quite Toronto, but Google has a number of software engineering openings at Waterloo. https://careers.google.com/jobs#t=sq&q=j&li=20&l=false&jlo=e...
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Machine Learning for Drug Discovery(medium.com)
1 points by anxrn 8y ago|0 comments
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Machine Learning for Drug Discovery in a Nutshell(medium.com)
2 points by anxrn 8y ago|0 comments
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by anxrn 9y ago
So, wanting to work at a reputed place for software engineering == endorsing every single policy the company (a collection of over 70K individuals) might adopt? To the point that you should be expected to take a bullet for it?

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