chetanahuja

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by chetanahuja 10y ago
Irony of only focusing on tech jobs when talking about H1-B is two-fold: 1) Tech jobs (especially in software fields) are some of the easiest to do remotely. Creating higher barriers to H1-B visas will only create higher incentives to let t
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by chetanahuja 10y ago
> Of course, doing this would almost entirely eliminate the economic incentive for companies to bring in foreign workers since they would be free to negotiate better deals once here This is ignorant ranting at it's worst. Changing c
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by chetanahuja 10y ago
First of all, extent of Snap's dependence on Google Cloud and this extreme volume of spend was never public. Also, there's a difference between something being public (like press releases) and actively generating buzz where lots o
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by chetanahuja 10y ago
> Of course, maybe they got some killer promotional deal with Google For sure. How much is this free marketing that Google cloud service is getting worth? I'm pretty sure whatever discounted deal Google gave Snap is more than made u
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by chetanahuja 10y ago
We run our infrastructure on public cloud but almost our entire stack is cloud agnostic (except for a particular big database service we use). So our serving nodes are distributed across many public cloud providers and we can make decisions
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by chetanahuja 10y ago
> almost immediate payment from their customers Isn't there a gap between customer making the credit card payment and the bank transferring the actual money into Amazon's account?
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by chetanahuja 10y ago
The US immigration policy is very deliberately focused on giving visas to highly educated people. A large fraction of the visas are actually granted based on immigrants already having job offers. And among the rest who are unemployed, a l
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by chetanahuja 10y ago
And what are the costs that need to be considered?
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by chetanahuja 10y ago
" That is: The language doesn't fit the reality in the US, whereas it often does fit the reality of the third world. " Yeah... this is what we keep telling ourselves.
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by chetanahuja 10y ago
I'd like to see reuters/AP etc. not only take the same approach, but even use the same language to US reporting as they do in other "regimes". Here's a slate.com series that I thought was doing a great job but for
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by chetanahuja 10y ago
I think the time has come for anybody doing business with Peter Thiel, having him on boards etc. to either fire him or render an explanation for why they continue to associate with him. The explanation might well be that they're OK wit
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by chetanahuja 10y ago
[Meta] I clicked the link. Saw just a white screen. May have had some light grey markings but my eyes couldn't tell what those markings could have meant.
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by chetanahuja 10y ago
It's more like there was always a lot of pent-up supply of amazing content available. The reason the supply was not finding an outlet was because of the problem that such content doesn't have the mass appeal required to be a hit
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by chetanahuja 10y ago
No it's not just you. In general, "follow latest trends blindly" has never been a winning strategy in software development at any point in computing history. Now, that is not to say that you never change your tools or methodo
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by chetanahuja 10y ago
"if you are building a server application in Node and the total number of included packages can reach into the thousands" You know, this should be a hint that the problem is perhaps not with the versioning system.
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by chetanahuja 10y ago
tl;dr Economy is booming but living here is expensive. Also, gas prices are cheap right now so... that helps.
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by chetanahuja 10y ago
So you mean trivial data types ? Well how's memcached (the other alternative in this discussion) gets you less trivial data types? Quite the contrary in fact.
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by chetanahuja 10y ago
"trivial data sets... you use redis" Can you elaborate on what you mean by "trivial data sets" and why is redis only suitable for those?
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by chetanahuja 10y ago
Awesome. Thanks.
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by chetanahuja 10y ago
"Google lets you get up to 10 free data sims" Tell me more. What exactly do you mean by "up to 10 free data sims" ?
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by chetanahuja 10y ago
Not a (current) thinkpad user. What's the effort involved in swapping out the ssd?
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by chetanahuja 10y ago
I've never heard something so absurd. Next you'll tell me that they'll fire you for punching the CEO. Great sarcasm but the problem lies here: The lawsuit says that Google’s Code of Conduct classifies confidential informat
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by chetanahuja 10y ago
I humbly (re)submit this for your consideration https://git-man-page-generator.lokaltog.net/
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by chetanahuja 10y ago
Interesting "work-in-progress" document. I'm moderately interested in this topic myself ;-) If this thread gets popular, I'd be happy to answer questions with my company's (check profile) experience with UDP on mob
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by chetanahuja 10y ago
a "debatable" option shouldn't be the only option. Which is the case in chrome. No way to disable that behavior either from the command line or from the settings UI.
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by chetanahuja 10y ago
Oh everything is debatable if you're inclined to debate. But as far as user experience goes, that shitty default (with no way to disable it) on chrome is a pretty one-sided debate.
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by chetanahuja 10y ago
"Xiaomi's new Mi Band includes heart rate tracking and is priced well below any competition, making it more suitable for impulse buying than any other fitness band. Despite its worldwide growth in 3Q16, the company managed to los
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by chetanahuja 10y ago
Smartwatches are today where iPhone was in 2008-9 timeframe. If and when technology in smartwatches get to a price-point where value/price ratio becomes hard to ignore for the global middle classes (like smartphones hit in about 2009-2
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by chetanahuja 10y ago
I'm currently facing this problem as a volunteer. I'm teaching coding to my son's 4th grade classroom and there are about 5 or so kids out of 30 who finish everything assigned really fast and have to wait for the others to ca
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by chetanahuja 10y ago
Currently I'm mostly keeping an open mouth watching the events that are unfolding in this timeline.

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