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by neilk 14y ago
I've never heard of this before, from either my lawyer or any of the lawyers for any of the firms I've worked for. And I have asked this question specifically, because in my case, it may take much longer than normal to get a Green Card. But
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by neilk 14y ago
According to the lawyers I have had, and my own personal experience, it is a bad idea to try to obtain a TN visa at a land crossing. Your chances of success are higher if you go through the airport.
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by neilk 14y ago
You cannot switch jobs and keep the same Green Card application. It's true you can transfer an H-1B between employers but any associated Green Card application is lost if you leave them.
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by neilk 14y ago
A game called 'Mythic' is a notorious example. http://betabeat.com/2012/04/this-is-what-a-kickstarter-scam-...
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by neilk 14y ago
Good intentions yes, but is this even fun? She says she playtested it, but I can't imagine it holding anyone's attention for more than an hour. Maybe you can re-play it by reading the story again, though. Tangent: I've had an idea for a whi
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by neilk 14y ago
That's what I was trying to say, but I guess I was unclear.
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by neilk 14y ago
Raganwald's point is well taken - going out and reading some research is much better than head-butting for karma. But I feel that he's not appreciating the value of informal conversation enough. First of all, depression is characterized by
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by neilk 14y ago
I read Seligman's book about optimism as well. He studied insurance salespeople for a time, which I think influences a lot of the advice. The best salespeople had a modicum of self-preserving delusion. Not enough to ignore correctable probl
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by neilk 14y ago
I have some experience with cognitive-behavioral therapy. I can tell you anecdotally that it really does work, and it is among the most scientifically verified treatments out there. I'm not sure if I understand your objections to CBT -- the
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by neilk 14y ago
Can we agree to stop using Anonymous as a collective noun? It's like saying "In other news, a site was vandalized by The Hackers." All it means is that someone published something anonymously, with an intent to associate themselves with thi
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by neilk 14y ago
Just curious, YC people - let's say that an eccentric billionaire asked you to "invest" in things that would have the greatest impact on the world, even if they weren't profit-generating enterprises. Would you have invested in Wikipedia? Ti
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by neilk 14y ago
What if you changed how YC operates so even more of the startups flamed out before Demo Day? An internal Demo Day, perhaps? If the public Demo Day is now fraught with too much expectation perhaps it should be treated as a PR event rather th
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by neilk 14y ago
Maybe there should be an "anonymous week" where usernames are hidden. Just to see if there are any different patterns.
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by neilk 14y ago
Your expenses are probably much higher though. Generally people adjust by downgrading their standard of living. It's not unusual to be making $100K+ in SF and have a roommate. I can't imagine what it's like in NYC.
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by neilk 14y ago
Agreed. There's basically only a couple of reasons to start your startup in Canada. * Portable, cheap healthcare. A lot of people in the US don't join a startup due to the health insurance issue. The healthcare you get from a startup is not
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by neilk 14y ago
You probably didn't mean to use 'strident' there. From Webster's dictionary 1913: Stri'dent (?), a. [L. stridens, -entis, p.pr. of stridere to make a grating or creaking noise.] Characterized by harshness; grating; shrill.
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by neilk 14y ago
I was happy that the headline writer phrased it that way, precisely because most people are that naive. So for everyone who read that article, in the future, when they hear "our software catches criminals" they'll mentally append "...and
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by neilk 14y ago
Yeah, this spoils the analogy somewhat. Human beings are born to run. To get better, all you need to do is run a lot. Compare this to swimming. There's no guarantee at all that you'll get better just by practicing - gliding through the wate
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by neilk 14y ago
Some of this seems evil to me, some of it doesn't. It is likely that many people really are searching for the button that allows them to fucking play the game. (The people joining Facebook now must be the trailing end of the trailing end of
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Seed funders and incubators springing up in Kenya(economist.com)
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by neilk 14y ago
Tor would be useless if it was only for dissidents! You should think of Tor as a tool for everyone, where we all cooperate to increase our privacy, and have anonymity when we need it.
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by neilk 14y ago
The full idiom is "graceful degradation". It's been common on the web since the 90s, but I think it actually came from networking jargon. It's not the same as responsive design. Graceful degradation implies a sort of hierarchy, where you su
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by neilk 14y ago
It's taken me more than two weeks in some cases. Because after a week of thrashing, a new hire will quite rightly get panicky if they aren't yet writing code. So one may just give up and accept a machine in a 'limping' state. When I was y
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by neilk 14y ago
Misko Hevery (author of AngularJS) wrote a good blog post about how if you pair with a new hire for a day, you can bring them up to speed almost instantly. I tried it and it works - my new hires were committing real fixes by the end of day
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by neilk 14y ago
This is also the formula behind an entire subgenre of business books, like "Shakespeare on Management" or "Jesus, CEO". I've even seen one like that for Dr. Seuss. I keep wanting to do a business book based on Kafka.
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by neilk 14y ago
We already have an existence proof of near-real-time 140 character messages crossing networks. It's called SMS.
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by neilk 14y ago
Nicely argued, but you are responding to a straw man position (that government has no role in regulating cosmetic services) nor did you read the article (which points out that licenses are cheaper in neighboring states, but not Utah.)
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No meetings != no communication.
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by neilk 14y ago
This was in the NYTimes a few weeks ago: "So you think you can be a hair braider?" Not without two years of cosmetology school, which should set you back $16,000. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/17/magazine/so-you-think-you-... Nobody's ar
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by neilk 14y ago
I was amazed by this sentence in the C&D: "Massachusetts law does not sanction unapproved devices for use in commercial transactions." Does that mean what I think it means? If I use an iPhone app to calculate the tax, and it's not appro

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