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by eshvk 13y ago
This is incredibly bad advice. There are enough people who get screwed badly for silly offences. And yeah, once you get a ten year ban, it doesn't matter if you write a cute article on medium and get it on the front page of HN, INS doe
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by eshvk 13y ago
This is true for everything in life. E.g. I became a permanent resident after winning the green card lottery. The process of getting together nearly five pounds worth of documents, spending thousands of dollars talking to lawyers in three d
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by eshvk 13y ago
Depends on where OP was born really and how many degrees he has. The employment based Green card process is terrible if you were born in China or India, or don't have a Masters degree. Otherwise, it is not that complicated. There are e
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by eshvk 13y ago
Once the stem is over, you need to switch to the H1B. Also if you were born in Canada, Singapore, Chile, Australia, things are easier.
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by eshvk 13y ago
Thanks for describing this specifically. Quite a few PhDs and some Masters students would definitely qualify for this. There are many folks who get stuck in the H1B labor farms who could be out there making amazing shit if not for this situ
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by eshvk 13y ago
> Stay in OPT as long as you can. You get more flexibility that way. Try getting the 17 month (I think) extension. You need to start working at a company with no more than total 90 days of unemployment between jobs. Also, the 17 month ex
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by eshvk 13y ago
> But that requires you to be among the best in your field. It's a pretty high bar. Surprisingly, the bar is not that high. They have weird rules like people who are "good" in your field need to recommend you, you need to
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by eshvk 13y ago
I believe the guys who started interviewstreet were on an H1B visa. Maybe talk to them?
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by eshvk 13y ago
> The real benefit of being comfortable with trees and graphs is so that you're comfortable with actually using trees and graphs yourself, directly, when they'd be useful to manipulate. If you want to look at a commit log, well
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by eshvk 13y ago
> There's nothing that says std::map has to be implemented as a red-black tree. Of course not, but understanding what that means is key to using it. If you think a red black tree is some arcane bullshit that you never are going to u
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by eshvk 13y ago
> Through 23andme, I found a moderate genetic disorder that I have which prompted me to make certain lifestyle changes that will very likely stop me from having emphysema relatively early in life. Because I had the particular disorder, I
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by eshvk 13y ago
The problem is that abstractions are leaky. E.g. when I first started learning C++ in high school, I didn't know a tree if it bit me. But, the STL has a set implementation. If you take a closer look at the docs, you will find out that
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by eshvk 13y ago
I am not clear what exactly you are looking for. The first link that you put up is a USCIS link about permanent resident sponsorship. This process is distinctly different from visa sponsorship. I don't know about marketers but develope
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by eshvk 13y ago
1. Visa and work are extremely tied unless you are a U.S. citizen or a permanent resident. If not, you will have to get something called an H1B visa. This is not something you do, you just get a job and the company applies for a visa for yo
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by eshvk 13y ago
Well, I took a couple of courses at UT which dealt with "practical" distributed systems. The first was more on the lines of here is a large dataset, how do we design a distributed system that handles it. There, we learn about prin
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by eshvk 13y ago
> Do you agree/disagree that the government should give more money to universities, so all research can be free (as in freedom). This phrasing I agree with (conditionally). I think as a taxpayer if more money can let research be fre
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by eshvk 13y ago
I was a grad. student for three years. I am not sure it is a "take the work of graduate students and make it closed" kind of deal. It is more like you are an employee of the University and your work belongs to your employer. Also,
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by eshvk 13y ago
> You don't think all software that researchers/grad students write should be open source?? Erm...I am not going to make declarative statements one way or the other. I have worked on academic projects where the nature of the gr
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by eshvk 13y ago
> also these academia patents probably had public money funding then also. Yes, but does that mean that all things that made from public funding should not be monetized? Is it a requirement that a road constructed out of taxpayer money s
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by eshvk 13y ago
I find that the article is conflating the interests of the general public with those of a private company. A lot of money investment goes into research by a University. It is not clear to me why they shouldn't attempt to monetize it. A
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by eshvk 13y ago
It depends on what your background is. And what the role looks for. There is a wide spectrum of programming vs statistics background that may be required for a job. Having said that, here is a list of basic stuff that may be useful to know.
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by eshvk 13y ago
> Isn't my github profile enough proof to show that I can collaborate with people? It doesn't show if you can collaborate with these people. Which is one of the things that I look for when I interview folks or interview at comp
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by eshvk 13y ago
Couple of questions (again following up on OP's hypothetical stream). 1. How is a small team of programmers to know that you will be able to collaborate with them effectively within the space of an interview ? 2. What exactly do you me
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by eshvk 13y ago
> If they're the kind of company that makes people jump through a bunch of hoops, gives them positive feedback every step of the way and then doesn't hire them then it's likely not a place you want to work. I know you are
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by eshvk 13y ago
OK. Yeah, that is where it gets arguable and gets into the realm of where lawyers and judges come into place. I don't think the Police's decision making process as far as charging is concerned is relevant here. I think if she was
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by eshvk 13y ago
The "victim" comes in to an airport, holding what looks like a malleable substance hooked to a 9 volt battery, not responding to a request as to what that was, potentially freaking out an airport employee and it is completely Bost
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by eshvk 13y ago
> Yes i know F1 visa is study visa. But after studying in US its easy to get job and H1 there. Again, you are not being clear here. Let me ask you a few questions (which are more really a thought exercise for yourself). Why do you think
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by eshvk 13y ago
Let me give you some realistic advice. 1. Figure out if you actually want to work/start a startup. You can do that anywhere in the world. 2. San Francisco as described in Hacker News is a biased glamorous view. The city is not paved wi
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by eshvk 13y ago
Are they American by citizenship ? If not, your statement is useless as it is outside the scope of the article which is clearly about an American hostage.
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by eshvk 13y ago
But but but stock options, 'generous equity' etc

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