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High-Tech Printed Magnets Have Wild and Specific Superpowers(popularmechanics.com)
1 points by neilk 11y ago|0 comments
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by neilk 11y ago
I agree it's not easy. I also was an H-1B, and in the exact same situation. I have heard contradictory things from various lawyers about whether I could continue a green card process if I changed employment. Even if there is a correct
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by neilk 11y ago
Lots of people seem to be getting O visas anyway. I don't really know how, but ask a lawyer.
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by neilk 11y ago
But you can. The H1-B program is designed for all that. The sponsor has to prove they're paying market-ish rate (in practice it's at the low end of market, but close enough). And the employee can quit and go to any company willing
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by neilk 11y ago
Hey everyone. I'm proud to open source this, as it's one of the coolest things I've ever done – a reimplementation of Apple's code signing (well, enough for re-signing) that works on Linux.
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Isign, you sign, now we all can sign apps(eng.saucelabs.com)
4 points by neilk 11y ago|1 comments
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by neilk 11y ago
This article details some of the issues we encountered with Yahoo. http://gizmodo.com/5910223/how-yahoo-killed-flickr-and-lost-... I would add though, that Flickr Mobile (which I worked on a little) was considered one
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by neilk 11y ago
I hope they do avoid native mobile! The government should be making services that work with every kind of device, out of the box. Given the kind of services the government is likely to build, a website is way, way more cost effective. And G
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by neilk 11y ago
Seriously? What caste did your family belong to? I'm allowed to ask these questions; the Indian side of my family are Brahmins, and boy does it show! Most of us walked straight from the lawyer/doctor/accountant/businessp
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by neilk 11y ago
This is more like "what it's like to join a startup at various stages". Perhaps the implicit lesson is to match what you're looking for to different stages? In any case, this is changing all the time. The seed-stage star
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by neilk 11y ago
I thought my manager was great, and I still left a troubled company. Granted, our 1:1s were like "Yeah, so what other horrible thing happened to you this week and when are you leaving?" They were also looking for an exit, and left
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by neilk 11y ago
Well, I don't agree with pg at all on this issue, but this is the simplified version. It's not fair to ask for citations here.
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by neilk 11y ago
Alternative viewpoint: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHVqxD8PNq8 But, don't take the speech purely at face value -- Adaptation (the movie) leaves it ambiguous about whether this is wisdom, puffery, or accidentally tr
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by neilk 11y ago
I know it's easy for me as a random internet guy to poke holes in their work after skimming a paper, but it seems to me they are describing enthusiasts for anything, not just geek culture. From the research methods, it's not clear
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by neilk 11y ago
Stellar solves the same problem in a different way - nodes pick whom to trust in the network. So it doesn't burn vast quantities of energy just to stand still, and it's not vulnerable to someone with vast computing resources. I&#x
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by neilk 11y ago
Hells to the no. In my experience, if you see a useless young male intern, he's probably the nephew of the dumbest investor. But the pattern holds in one way, because to keep up appearances, we're supposed to put the useless male
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by neilk 11y ago
I don't know. If we're talking about the self-described "rationalist" technologist clique, you have a point. Their relative insularity and elitism sometimes serves to intensify their own biases. However, I think it'
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So you want to reform democracy(medium.com)
1 points by neilk 11y ago|0 comments
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by neilk 11y ago
Yeah, I expect that's just someone with a mania for Wiki-standardization. It's not a precise shade; any cyan-ish color would do. In practice non-repro pencils and markers varied from sky blue to a rich turquoise. The article seems
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by neilk 11y ago
The "graphics arts cameras" they are referring to are pre-digital. They looked like this: http://www.forgottenartsupplies.com/?what=artifacts&image_id... The goal was to compose a layout into a single image. Y
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by neilk 11y ago
> With larger companies, they will never say it, They will say it. I worked for a startup acquired by Yahoo. I was hired by the founders, but then they all left and I was kind of stranded. Anyway I tried to make a go of it, and proposed
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by neilk 11y ago
I can't claim to have jl's "x-ray vision", but I think I've gotten a lot better at this. Possibly because I'm not naturally good at this, so I have to do it consciously. The way in for me was English literatu
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by neilk 11y ago
You're suffering from startup myopia. Things like GPS are society-level upgrades. Uber is just one application of GPS.
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Ask HN: Startup equity, no liquidity event
1 points by neilk 11y ago|0 comments
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by neilk 11y ago
Let's not forget that your team needs to manage itself differently for the remote worker to be a success. Here's stuff that we (Sauce Labs Mobile Team) have found to work: - Slack everything all the time even if you are in the
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by neilk 11y ago
Missed the edit window, but of course it was p4 and not svn. Small blessings.
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by neilk 11y ago
This has to be a sick joke. The monorepo at Google was the bane of my existence, and everyone else that I knew. I don't know what it's like now, but at the time Google was on svn, and there had to be a specially hacked version of
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by neilk 11y ago
HackPad is a fork of EtherPad, which was all JavaScript on Java! It uses the Rhino JavaScript engine. Believe it or not.
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by neilk 11y ago
About a year ago I started being careful to call my things projects too. In the current climate people want to hear what your monetization strategy is first, or they think you're a loser. And a lot of the time I don't have one, or
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Ahimsa online: adapting an ancient practice to a networked society(medium.com)
2 points by neilk 11y ago|0 comments

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