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by joshAg 13y ago
it depends on the promotion. the ac21 stipulates "New employment must be the 'same or similar' occupational classification". According to my coworkers, that means they can't get promoted to management from dev/qa. http://immigrationroad.co
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by joshAg 13y ago
I did some more research after leaving my last comment, and the part i was talking about was "New employment must be the 'same or similar' occupational classification," [1] which according to my coworkers means you can't switch amongst QA e
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by joshAg 13y ago
thanks for the update. i was just going on what my h1b coworkers have told me. unfortunately, i can no longer edit or delete my original post, so i hope everyone reads your reply. as for payment versus greencard/citizens versus h1b's, it de
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by joshAg 13y ago
because h1b visas require you to stay employed (you have like 30 days before they deport you) and they require you to keep the same job title throughout the whole greencard process or your waiting period starts over.
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by joshAg 13y ago
you know there's more to the bay area than just sf, right? it's been beautiful where i am in san jose/cupertino for the past month or so.
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by joshAg 13y ago
Forget whether the tech is something special; it's the value of the real estate. If tesla builds out the supercharger network before anyone else, then they'll be able to license the tech for close to whatever they want, because the cost to
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by joshAg 13y ago
> For starters, almost all of them recognize that their industry itself arose out of government funding (see ARPANET), and some of the most celebrated achievements of the digital culture (open source software, Wikipedia) involve commons
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by joshAg 13y ago
As someone who bought his cheapest dream car about 6 years ago, don't blame the car for getting bored. :P
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by joshAg 13y ago
not unless i'm genuinely interested in the ad.
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by joshAg 13y ago
You could always adopt a more conservativ window upgrade strategy. Mine is currently something like "every other windows and/or only after sp1".
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by joshAg 13y ago
If they give me something approximating the ui of win7 combined with all the "backend" optimizations they made in win8, I'd be ecstatic. Perhaps it works better on a tablet, but the few hours I spent with win8 were enough to convince me tha
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by joshAg 13y ago
Man, 4+7 is rough. If I were in your situation, I probably wouldn't have taken the job unless A) I knew I could do my own work on the commute (ie drag another laptop along, or get them to amend my employment contract so that all work done d
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by joshAg 13y ago
"don't take a job where you're the smartest person in the room" is probably more important. a four hour commute can be mitigated (eg: work from home 3 days a week, or a mobile hotspot and pre-tax public transport commute programs, or if the
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by joshAg 13y ago
Hmm. What about haskell, or, going in a completely different direction, assembler? Also, why sml over lisp?
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by joshAg 13y ago
do you really use lisp on a /(semi)?regular/ basis?!
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by joshAg 13y ago
I know the air is compressed when they flood the tanks, but I'd assume that some power is needed to blow or regulate ballast, just from a mechanical standpoint of opening and closing doors. I'd be surprised if there were no backup generator
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by joshAg 13y ago
so if i'm understanding correctly, from a black start it would take at least a day for the nuclear reactor to come online? then you'd need at least a couple diesel generators and fuel or power cells to get the reactor into a state where it
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by joshAg 13y ago
With a storeable dc power source, just like a car or truck. I suppose if that failed or had somehow discharged incorrectly, there should probably be a way to handcrank the diesel generator, like how early cars required hand cranking to star
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by joshAg 13y ago
I can think of a few possible answers: 1) wouldn't you just insert/remove control rods as needed to restart the nuclear chain reaction? i'm pretty sure most reactors design control rods to be manually insertable/removable, even if there are
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by joshAg 13y ago
What are you looking for? Pretty much anywhere between the presidio neighborhood in sf all the way down the peninsula to say Cupertino/Sunnyvale will be good, depending on what you want. BART stops running about 12:30 AM and caltrain stops
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by joshAg 13y ago
There are quite a few projects that do formally prove the algorithm before its implementation, but most of them we don't have access to. The closest we can easily see is the code JPL uses on their rovers and the associated C coding standard
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by joshAg 13y ago
Not really. That sounds almost exactly like what bmw has any of their new cars. They only part I'm unsure of is the valet service to pick up your car. Of course, hyundai already does that for their equus owners. This is pretty typical servi
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by joshAg 13y ago
It depends on where you go. If you go to a dealership, they will usually at least have a shuttle service to take you whereever you want and pick you up when your car is ready. The nicer brands almost always have a loaner car for service, bu
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by joshAg 13y ago
who the hell wears a nice, light-colored suit like to an active construction site?
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by joshAg 13y ago
Isn't scheme just a dialect of lisp?
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by joshAg 13y ago
I name my personal computers np-complete problems. so far I've used: knapsack, k-sat, TSP, and ILP. here's the list I use when I need to name a computer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NP-complete_problems
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by joshAg 14y ago
buy a bunch of stuff (eg: gold oil, water, food, cars) now on credit and sell it for more than you borrowed after the dollar's value tanks?
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by joshAg 14y ago
I thought it was a little low, too.
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by joshAg 14y ago
(very) Briefly: Current immigrations policy is based on quotas. IE, only a certain number of immigrants from each country are allowed. The total number of immigrants allowed each year is 700,000. Not every immigrants counts towards this, th
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by joshAg 14y ago
perhaps just open a guest account with limited permissions?

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