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by eshvk 15y ago
I think this is the most important lesson that I learned in Grad. School. Taking a few courses in abstract mathematics quickly strips away any illusion that a scale of "smartness" is anything but flawed. The best you can get beyond a certai
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by eshvk 15y ago
For some reason the vertical split patch (available on Macports) stopped working once I upgraded to OSX Lion and I find myself depending on terminal "tabs" to mimic it (which is slow and painful). Well, maybe it's time to make the move to t
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by eshvk 15y ago
Forgot to add: One another situation where I would use emacs is if ever I really got into R. ess (emacs speaks statistics) is quite good compared to vim equivalents.
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by eshvk 15y ago
Vim for almost all coding (except for Java: I still use vim for rolling out tiny programs but since eclim, the Vim plugin for eclipse is not very good, I am forced to use eclipse). I use emacs in vim-mode as a GTD planner, mainly because or
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by eshvk 15y ago
Let me try to deconstruct your points: 1. I believe that by law an H-1B professional's salaries have to be competitive so that they don't undercut the market. In fact, I recall in my previous company that they posted salaries drawn for each
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by eshvk 15y ago
I already bit the bullet and moved to SF.
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by eshvk 15y ago
I think by law H1-B's are supposed to be paid the same as locals (so as not to undercut them).
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by eshvk 15y ago
My school was filled with either folks who went and worked for Google/FB or disappeared to work for large embedded systems firms. I wanted to work for a start up doing machine learning.
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by eshvk 15y ago
It's kind of hard to be a struggling grad student in Austin and offer to buy engineers in San Francisco coffee. :-) However, having said that, what you say does make a lot of sense.
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by eshvk 15y ago
While, I'd like to agree with most of what you said. At least one of the parameters in the last statement you made can be statistically invalidated: Have you not seen the multitude of brown men in programming?
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by eshvk 15y ago
The other problem that I found annoying when interviewing (even with Startups) is the way the whole system is organized. 1. Talk to recruiter who is a non-tech person who doesn't really know what they are talking about and to whom you canno
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by eshvk 15y ago
I would actually suggest a third alternative, the Macbook Pro 13". I have had all three laptops: 1. Macbook 15": Awesome specs, but it is pretty heavy and is not the most convenient if you want to code on the plane. 2. Macbook 13": Middlin
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by eshvk 15y ago
There is something like this in place. (Refer http://travel.state.gov/visa/immigrants/types/types_1322.htm... ). The DV Lottery annually gives out ~ 50,000 green cards to people from which historically there have been low immigration ra
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by eshvk 15y ago
From my limited experience hunting from a job in Austin, I think one of the reasons is that there literally aren't that many firms (small or large) doing software engineering. The other vibe that I get is that culturally most of the older c
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by eshvk 15y ago
Good stuff here. As a ruby person, you probably also know about Wukong ( https://github.com/mrflip/wukong ) which lets you do Hadoop stuff without looking at Pig. (I don't know about Pig version 0.9.1 but I have had pretty weird bugs on ve
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by eshvk 15y ago
There are probably a couple of reasons: 1. The total number of startups is going to be lesser due to redtape although I believe that is becoming less of an issue as time goes on. 2. It is probably perceived to be more lucrative to target th
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by eshvk 15y ago
That looks like it would be at the top end of intern salaries but the figure as far as I understand (just did an internship a few months back) is roughly correct.