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by jitix 9y ago
This is a bit tangential and only based on recent events, but the US immigration uncertainty is probably going to be a factor in sustaining the ecosystem..
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Twitter employee earning $160,000 in San Francisco says he's scraping by(cnbc.com)
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by jitix 9y ago
It's about the last mile connectivity. People don't want to walk/uber from home to the train station and from the train station to work. Having a car on rails solves this problem.
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by jitix 9y ago
That's your opinion. Getting stuck in a traffic jam on a hot sunny day is very displeasing to me. I'd rather move fast through a tunnel. Edit: fixed typo
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by jitix 9y ago
As a person on H1B I can say that the lock-in is the most frustrating part. I can easily change jobs but I cannot create apps for mobile devices or monetize my website.
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by jitix 9y ago
As a former employee with TCS (India) I can say that most of the development work is done with an intention to make the client coming back for improvements, maintenance, fixes, etc.
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by jitix 9y ago
H1B employees can already change jobs. However there are some caveats around the time interval between jobs so (4) would be great.
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by jitix 9y ago
IMO one of the easiest ways to tackle the entire issue around H1B visas is to remove or separate the category where a visa is sponsored by company A for someone working as a contractor in company B. This arrangement is the major cause of th
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by jitix 9y ago
I agree. I started using apple mail and then Nylas but reverted back to gmail web interface after a few months. Unless you want to store emails locally email clients don't make sense.
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by jitix 9y ago
I cannot vote in the US while the US taxes my income earned in other countries. This is very weird.
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by jitix 9y ago
As a non-citizen living in the US I am taxed on income I earn in my home country. This is literally taxation without representation!
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by jitix 10y ago
It depends. 12k in India is a good salary in most cities whereas 65k in New York won't even enable you to rent a studio apartment. My last salary in India was around 15k a year and when I moved here I was initially getting 65k during p
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by jitix 10y ago
89k for Cupertino, CA. That's hilarious.
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by jitix 10y ago
As an Indian software engineer on H1B I totally support this idea. I see a lot of Indians working with the consulting companies where entire departments are staffed by H1B workers on low (65-70k) salary. That kind of work is degrading even
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by jitix 10y ago
Hmm.. in that case some sort of classification should be there. Games are non-essential but temperature controller, door openers and locks are essential functionalities. As a general rule the manufacturers of IOT devices should be made by l
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by jitix 10y ago
We should probably start having regulations around IOT servcies. The issue here isn't that the customer or the service rep was abusive. The real issue is that the company can disable the cloud service that is essential for their produc
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by jitix 10y ago
Citing the particular case in the article, isn't there a rule that if you employ 10 or more us citizens you get a green card?
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by jitix 10y ago
Isn't that what suburbs are? I live in a suburb and while the apartment buildings are pretty big (but 3 story) they overlook lush greenery.
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by jitix 10y ago
That would probably require a major reform of the K-12 system, and also a cultural shift where people actually become interested in tech curriculum. And to do that STEM subjects need to be given importance at a very early stage.
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by jitix 10y ago
I agree. Thats why I said "to start with". Universal free education should be a right in this day and age. However if the Congress is to pass such a bill they most probably won't make it all free on day one. They (and the pop
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by jitix 10y ago
To move to a more automated manufacturing industry and to expand the service industry the US needs more educated people. You can't do hi-tech manufacturing with high school graduates. I think US needs to fix it's education system
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by jitix 10y ago
I might be wrong but it seems that it's a good example of the bubble that people have been talking about. 1. It's a blogging site. A nice one. But that has already been done many times over. 2. If they wanted to replace publishing
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by jitix 10y ago
Thats a bit hyperbolic. There are some good articles on Medium. And its just "some".
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by jitix 10y ago
This is a great news. I was looking for a decent, free ReST client for Mac for a long time.
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by jitix 10y ago
How is the CBP official supposed to know the actual answer if they haven't been to software engineering school?
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by jitix 10y ago
This article seems to be based on a small sample size. As an anecdotal evidence, most millenials that I've met (I'm 29) are very pro-capitalism but are liberals. In 2017 you should not mix the two - you can have a capitalist econ
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by jitix 10y ago
They have very good business reasons to do this. If they do end up giving out the data they will most probably face a severe dip in sales as most people (even those who aren't that privacy focused) will be scared of buying it. I'v
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by jitix 10y ago
Mechanical engineer specializing in guns - guns are quite impressive works on engineering.
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by jitix 10y ago
Damn right! Its about time someone took a stance.. HN is slowly becoming reddit.
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Efficiently storing and analyzing vast amounts of data isn't very difficult these days - esp if the data is something that they can monetize.

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