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by eshvk 14y ago
So I am confused here: Are you being asked in an application form to list your education? or Is this during an interview call/email? If it is the former, I wouldn't think too much about it. People probably use standard forms for these purpo
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by eshvk 14y ago
What stops an American or Chinese military vessel from blowing up so called data center if it is known that it has been used in conducting activities inimical to the interests of these organizations? Hyperbole aside, my point is that I am n
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by eshvk 14y ago
You are comparing apples and oranges: The reason a foreigner who marries an American gets a green card is because it is considered to be a preliminary step for the person who by virtue of marrying a U.S. citizen to acquire citizenship. The
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by eshvk 14y ago
Umm...Let us see. Assume I am trying to build a fancy new recommendation system for movies on a completely new media device. Let us assume that for now we have been collecting user data and recommending them random movies. The first thing w
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by eshvk 14y ago
> Sure there are always workarounds and in the end spouse can always look for someone to sponsor application for working visa, but good luck with getting it if you had no or little experience. Going back to school doesn't really solve t
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by eshvk 14y ago
> Please don't use such words as hackable when discussing immigration policies, and please try to look at the situation from the perspective of an immigrant. I am an immigrant on a visa, so yeah I do know both sides of the coin. The t
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by eshvk 14y ago
> Immigration policy in the US is ridiculous. Why is this particular bill aimed at people with advanced degrees only? The majority of software engineers only have undergrad degrees and don't really need anything more than that. This is
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by eshvk 14y ago
On the larger scale of things it is going to be minimal. The proportion of Indians and Chinese in the PhD programs is so high and 50,000 visas is so much of a small drop in the vast ocean, that it may have a tiny effect blimp in the curve o
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by eshvk 14y ago
Oh also, when you are done learning how to type. Check out http://oktypist.com/index.html . This seems like a fairly neat way of checking what your net wpm should be. (The reason I recommend doing this after you learn how to type is that
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by eshvk 14y ago
In fact, getting into a U.S. university for grad. school gets harder (if not impossible) if you don't have a 4 year Bachelor's degree.
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by eshvk 14y ago
> Is there a country that does tech immigration "right" like Canadian health-care is compared to US health care? Erm..maybe the Canadian immigration system? They have a points based system where expertise in rare specialized skills gets
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by eshvk 14y ago
This is how I learnt typing too. I highly recommend it! Mavis Beacon and all those other boring typing tools never worked for me and I eventually did something like the OP where I had an adapted 3-4 finger typing system. I finally spent one
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by eshvk 14y ago
Are they buying people Androids a la Google style?
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by eshvk 14y ago
> 1. Like I said I'm from Europe, unfortunately I do not have a green card. However, I think that if you manage get a job at a company it is possible to move to US and work even without a proper degree. For instance, Tim Van Damme ( ht
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by eshvk 14y ago
> Or you could host themed nights where a few academics give talks about why Subject X is interesting, and then you tell the audience they can buy/order books on Subject X from you at the end (and please do, it's how you pay for the fre
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by eshvk 14y ago
Couple of points: 1. Immigration Related: Do you have a green card or are you a U.S. Citizen? If not, working in the U.S. is going to be impossible legally unless you have an advanced degree in Math/Science/Engineering. 2. The most I learnt
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by eshvk 14y ago
You are missing the point and flailing at straw men. I don't care about the female ratio (Neither I think does any one who downvoted the OP). I am not going to discuss the utility of the HR department, the issue here is that they are human
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by eshvk 14y ago
@eshvk I am mostly a scaling/machine learning tweeter.
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by eshvk 14y ago
I believe age discrimination is being split into two chunks: 1) Some people with a mistaken belief that correlation does imply causation think that just because some programmers have let their skillsets atrophy implies that one should stay
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by eshvk 14y ago
Nice, very classy of you. Tell me again, how does it feel to time travel here from the fifties?
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by eshvk 14y ago
I agree with you: However, I am unsure who is at fault here. There is a unique problem in that people don't genuinely know what to call the role they want to hire for and there is a worry among recruiters that the "wrong" or "unsexy" job ti
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by eshvk 14y ago
Great, sounds good, thanks!
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by eshvk 14y ago
I would be interested in visiting some or most of these countries in a few years time. At the risk of sounding cliched, I don't obviously want the touristy experience but want to experience the country(ies) and am prepared to do that for a
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by eshvk 14y ago
I don't know about South America but I grew up in Africa and South Asia. The general principles for interacting with people in power outlined here (name dropping , money exchanges) are plausible and would work (Obviously, with significant c
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by eshvk 14y ago
> Really? To me it seems to be more American than anything else. There are guys dancing and pretty girls and special effects. That seems pretty much like an outgrowth of MTV culture, rap videos, etc. which are of American origin. I'll g
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by eshvk 14y ago
Clearly, you are motivated enough to read (allegedly) the entire article and open the link and comment here about how you have never watched it. Yet, you still are ready to make an assumption of its alleged crappiness without having watched
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by eshvk 14y ago
James Cameron did that exactly. [1] 1. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/03/120325-james...
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by eshvk 14y ago
I confess to be slightly disappointed at this. Although there was speculation that this was indeed iceberg related, there was also speculation that possibly a living creature could be the source of this. Sad to say this but it appears that
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by eshvk 14y ago
We have bottled beer and a "home"-brewing kit at work. I think this is fairly common in startups. Obviously, use good judgement and save it for the end of the day.
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by eshvk 14y ago
This thread is interesting because I was in a similar (or worse of) situation as you. I was sort of clueless about what sort of company I wanted to join, I loved living in Austin but Austin has a distinct lack of interesting (to me anyway)

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