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America COMPETES Act of 2022 passed House and Senate(congress.gov)
86 points by huy-nguyen 5y ago|160 comments
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by huy-nguyen 5y ago
“THE TRUTH ABOUT DENTISTRY. It’s much less scientific—and more prone to gratuitous procedures—than you may think.” https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/05/the-tro...
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by huy-nguyen 5y ago
I left this team a few years ago after working there for 3 years under the parent’s poster (PM of the team). I really loved it there and parent poster is a really great manager to work with. Feel free to email me if you need to talk to som
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by huy-nguyen 5y ago
You're right. What Facebook is accused of is not putting enough effort into recruiting US workers to show that there's no qualified US worker for the Green Card "positions" that H1B workers have to "apply" to.
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by huy-nguyen 5y ago
I think the reason is that the upgraded CPU ($200 extra) automatically triggers an upgrade of the memory config from 16GB to 32GB ($400 extra). That explains the $600 increase.
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by huy-nguyen 5y ago
Medical Science & Computing (contracted to NIH/NIAID) | Back-end and devops engineers | Rockville, MD (REMOTE possible, US only) | VISA | Full-time I'm the tech lead who's building out a new software team to build a new &
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by huy-nguyen 5y ago
Then you probably haven’t heard of airport TSA agents turning away people with New Mexico license, thinking that New Mexico is in Mexico and not the US.
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by huy-nguyen 5y ago
I considered both and ended up just using pf on OpenBSD. Very simple config on top of a rock solid OS.
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by huy-nguyen 5y ago
This is an oldie but goodie: “ TCP/IP Network Administration (3rd Edition; O'Reilly Networking)” by Craig Hunt. However, I think nothing teaches networking better than making your own network devices from open source components, f
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by huy-nguyen 5y ago
Rough overview: Leaflet: fairly simple open source mapping library. Canvas-based. The original Mapbox (called MapboxJS) is based on this. Openlayers: open source mapping library that’s more capable (e.g many different protections) but also
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by huy-nguyen 6y ago
CSS The Definitive Guide by Eric Meyer is a deep dive book into all aspects of modern CSS by an expert.
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by huy-nguyen 6y ago
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26698242 ?
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by huy-nguyen 6y ago
It's not just migrating the front-end if they're also using other functionalities like Netlify functions, forms, authentications etc. Netlify is not just static file hosting.
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H&M Is Erased from Chinese E-Commerce over Xinjiang Stance(wsj.com)
2 points by huy-nguyen 6y ago|0 comments
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by huy-nguyen 6y ago
My way of staying focused: - Use the Leechblock browser extension ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/leechblock-ng... ) to block all distracting sites (facebook, twitter, news sites etc) from 8.30
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by huy-nguyen 6y ago
How does Schemaless compare to Vitess ( https://vitess.io/ )?
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by huy-nguyen 6y ago
https://observer.com/2017/01/tired-of-news-head-to-pornhub-t...
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by huy-nguyen 6y ago
Rebasing is very useful. For example, GitHub allows you to require that branches are “up to date” with (i.e. being direct children of) master before merging. This ensures that all changes team members makes in PRs are made against the late
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by huy-nguyen 6y ago
I still highly respect NYT but I agree that the tone of its headlines (if not the actual article text) in general has gotten more sensationalized over time. I now read both NYT and the news section of WSJ to get a more balanced perspective
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DHS’ proposed rule for salary-based allocation of H1B cap [pdf](dhs.gov)
2 points by huy-nguyen 6y ago|0 comments
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by huy-nguyen 6y ago
Google Colab is an alternative to consider if you need to share Jupyter notebooks: https://colab.research.google.com/notebooks/intro.ipynb .
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by huy-nguyen 6y ago
Are you the same guy from Reddit?
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by huy-nguyen 6y ago
When the National Weather Service calls something “insane” in their bulletins, you know it’s actually insane.
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by huy-nguyen 6y ago
You can do a great public service by publishing a metric of postal mail delivery timeliness from across the country.
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by huy-nguyen 6y ago
This seems very similar to https://miniflux.app/ .
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by huy-nguyen 6y ago
The argument seems to be that the Fed's massive QE and Congress' large deficit spending will lead to instability but other candidates for the reserve currency status have their own problems too. The euro zone just announced a larg
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by huy-nguyen 6y ago
In the latest EO, the Trump administration mentioned changing the H1B program to protect American jobs better and transitioning to a merit-based system. There may not be enough time to make that happen but I imagine some sort of immigration
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by huy-nguyen 6y ago
Will this trend revive the fortune of WeWork? We can have a future where teams within a company decide on “core days” where everyone is in the office but WFH the rest of the week and the company can pay for a variable number of office space
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China-US row: Fugitive researcher 'hiding in San Francisco consulate'(bbc.com)
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by huy-nguyen 6y ago
I’ve done this a few times. Even if you do 301 redirects properly, it still can take a month or two for google traffic to day get back to previous level. You might just have to be patient.

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