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by gautamdivgi 10y ago
I think the reason academics don't publish their code is that they don't want to get stuck into an endless discussion on the code along with people asking for "support" on it. What I have found is that if you need the co
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by gautamdivgi 10y ago
Agreed - that's a good point. In fact Elsevier has caught on to this as well. I remember when I published with them they gave me an option of making my paper open access if I paid somewhere around $1000 (or maybe it was $3000). I igno
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by gautamdivgi 10y ago
You confuse two things. The main career goal of a researcher in academia is generally moving up to the tenure track. The method to measure this progress is typically a)publication in journals with a high impact factor and b) Being on the te
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by gautamdivgi 11y ago
I work remote most of the time and so do almost all of my colleagues. But I think you've highlighted an important issue here. White-boarding!!! No communication tool comes close to a human drawing pictures to explain complex concepts -
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by gautamdivgi 11y ago
That's what I was leaning towards. If the meaning of the visa changes so that people can move freely the scope for abuse is very limited.
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by gautamdivgi 11y ago
Yeah - there's folks who game the system. Have you seen it happen often though? The one thing I've had against the h1b is that its tied to the employer. If they free it from the employer then there will be much less incentive to d
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by gautamdivgi 11y ago
Nope... that's the law. You being paid the same as the H1B is absolutely in alignment with it. The USCIS won't grant an approval if the H1B is paid below market rate...
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by gautamdivgi 11y ago
I think you're missing the point on both the money and the patent laws in India. According to the article "Successive governments have taken a view that patents should be granted only for major innovations, not updates to existing