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by jlees 15y ago
Actually, I have first-hand experience of this process. My comment was not made offhand. It took less than 18 months from starting work as a H1B to receiving my green card. I started the green card process a month into my job. 8 How come? T
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by jlees 15y ago
Depending on your qualifications, you can also get a H1-B job from a major US corporation and convert it into a green card. Being sponsored as the spouse of a US citizen is probably faster (especially if you are from a country where employm
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by jlees 15y ago
We recently did a ton of customer development in this area. They are pretty good at using iPads and apps, if the font is scalable, but transitioning between apps is harder. Agreed, though, that "appliance" is the mindset to go with.
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by jlees 15y ago
I liked this, but found it hard to retain my interest after the first lessons until I found the 'problems' section. I tend to learn way better when actively working on a problem and having to go look things up and learn them to advance, so
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by jlees 15y ago
There are still places within Google where people can run independent projects and experimental stuff. Innovation isn't dead. :)
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by jlees 15y ago
i'd cut it down to a few core services and make those awesome. what do your users need most?
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Google Maps team does an AMA on Reddit(reddit.com)
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by jlees 15y ago
I was in India recently; there is a huge amount of love for Google there, so it doesn't surprise me.
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PajamaConf: $10 online "Entrepreneur School" conference this weekend(pajamaconf.com)
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by jlees 15y ago
Then get a job, any job. It doesn't have to be programming. It'll get you out of the house, get you with other people, and put a few bucks in your pocket. If you love programming enough, you'll find time to keep it going on the side. Tota
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by jlees 15y ago
Fantastic news. There is a huge funding gap in the UK that people bridge with grants, government money, and even loans. Early stage investment from someone like Anil will really help.
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by jlees 15y ago
Well, anecdotes are anecdotes. I know plenty of women the same age as me (I'm 29) who also don't want kids any time soon, though more and more of us are getting married. I really don't know of any of the women I went to college with at unde
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by jlees 15y ago
I agree that the smaller proportion of women in science means that there are naturally fewer women hacker founders, but 4% is lower than the percentages of women in science commonly quoted (anywhere from 10 to 38%). My feeling is that this
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by jlees 15y ago
Aye, but it's a bet on a ten-year old trend. Remember IMVU? One of the stories from that is they believed it was going to be a great way to hang out virtually with your friends, but it turned out that users wanted to meet new people, not si
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Why female entrepreneurs should apply to YC(women2.org)
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by jlees 15y ago
I feel the presentation and line breaking has a lot more to do with that than the point size.
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by jlees 15y ago
I totally agree with your comment on REAMDE and am glad I'm not the only one with this line of thought. It's the first novel of his that was stifled by its own realism. OK, maybe some of the handwavy spy technology was a little fanciful, bu
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by jlees 15y ago
Looking at it from the other person's point of view, you can discover a surprising amount. The blog post was entirely bashing Ted, but it's pretty clear to me what happened -- Ted told his company he was going to leave (or at least hinted),
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by jlees 15y ago
In all honesty, I only ever mention that I've been programming since the age of 6 when I'm trying to impress someone -- someone non-technical, at that, and very rarely. Technical people are not likely to be impressed, as they know exactly w
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by jlees 15y ago
Back in my day, the BBC Micro ecosystem meant that your parents had very little to do with it -- you had access to a good programmable computer at school. I was lucky enough to have a ZX Spectrum at home, which my (decidedly not middle/uppe
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by jlees 15y ago
$79 from MetroPCS. http://www.metropcs.com/shop/phonedetails.aspx?productid=hwm...
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by jlees 15y ago
When you do, totally check out MPESA and how widespread it is. Mobile payment traction that a US startup would die for.
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by jlees 15y ago
Looks like it's set to 11PM not 11AM - at least, I'm in PDT and it's counting down to 11PM for me.
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by jlees 15y ago
Agreed. I have a background in mathematics and formal computer science, and a great grounding and feel for algorithms, yet I work as a product manager and hack on stuff in my own time; in fact, I think "hacker" was completely overlooked in
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by jlees 15y ago
I'm glad you wrote this, Daniel! I applied to Accenture three times, in my final year of undergrad, a year after graduating and then again when I was doing my Master's. I only got to the final stage of interviews once, and apparently cocked
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by jlees 15y ago
I call this the Game-For-Cats-Law-of-Touch-Screen UI: any UI feature that is too hard for a cat is too hard for your average iPad user. I am partly in awe of your skill and this extremely insightful comment, and partly terrified.
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by jlees 15y ago
So, if the next fight will be apps vs web (or screen vs browser), what does this mean for us hackers? And what about Facebook? Already we create a web app, a mobile version, an API, a Chrome extension, a Firefox extension, a Facebook app, n
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by jlees 15y ago
We recently discovered empanadas (if you're in the Bay Area, buy 'em frozen at the Milk Pail). Surprisingly similar to pasties.
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by jlees 15y ago
My partner and I created an iPad game for cats. I have to derail here. What inspired you to do this? Sounds like a fascinating idea.
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by jlees 15y ago
What if a visitor on your network is using a new service with different ports from your standard? What if you're looking at a sync service that runs within the web browser or otherwise uses shared ports? Or perhaps you're (shock, horror) a

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