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by nonamechicken 8y ago
I am not sure how helpful this would be to you. I just started this course: https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn This seems to be very popular and highly recommended in Reddit. She briefly talks about h
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Ask HN: How is ageism in Indian IT industry?
30 points by nonamechicken 8y ago|9 comments
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This was something that shocked me. These companies are paying the same salary to new graduates as 12 years ago. Inflation in India was high during this period, especially the last few years. I think the reason is customers still want to pa
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by nonamechicken 8y ago
>Just showing how these companies operate and capture profits, while screwing everyone else in America/India/China. That is 100% true. Also, you forgot another group - sales guys. I think they also play a big role in exploiting
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by nonamechicken 8y ago
>They will hire some H4 EAD who asks $65K per annum in NJ. These people are happy to get some job and experiences. In my experience, these companies as well as the American consultancies were hiring Indian students who studied in US way
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by nonamechicken 8y ago
I think it's unfair to blame it all on the Indians. There is another side to it, in the form of extremely demanding customers. The Indian companies resort to using cheap resources because the customer has x amount of budget, and they w
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by nonamechicken 8y ago
Is h1b abuse by Indian companies still an issue? According to this article: https://m.economictimes.com/nri/visa-and-immigration/h-1b-ex... Six Indian companies — TCS, Infosys, Wipro, Cognizant, and the US arms of
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by nonamechicken 8y ago
It is. I have been trying to get her to stop playing it by introducing to other games. But no. She spents a good chunk of her free time on this. Since she is a teacher, she gets a lot of free time at work too. It hasn't affected either
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by nonamechicken 8y ago
I am using pfsense with pfblockerng for ad/tracking protection. My wife spents a good amount of time on a mobile fashion game. In addition to the forced in app purchases once a month, it makes her watch plenty of video ads every day. S
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One question I have is when we block ads and especially analytics/tracking, won't it decrease the battery life of mobile devices? Apps could be written in such a way that if a request gets blocked or dropped, it will keep on retry
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A Banner in Goa Is Advising Tourists to Not Follow Google Maps(news18.com)
2 points by nonamechicken 8y ago|0 comments
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by nonamechicken 8y ago
Twitter declined to appear before the committee. From https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/twitter-ceo-top-offic... >Twitter CEO and top officials have declined to appear before the Parliamentary Committee on
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by nonamechicken 8y ago
Majority of us in India would also want to work on the latest and fancy tech. But unfortunately, most of us who work in the IT consultancy companies don't have that luxury. Most of the outsourced work are brain dead maintenance project
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by nonamechicken 8y ago
Ageism is a huge thing in India too when it comes to hiring, especially in the IT consultancies. Since they want to ahow cheap rates to their customers, they hire a lot of 0-6 year experienced folks. It becomes harder once you cross 10 year
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by nonamechicken 8y ago
The article mentions how they plan to handle it. >The Japanese government, Maeda said, will be issuing Green Cards for highly skilled professionals, the first of its kind in the world, thereby, providing people to get permanent resident
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by nonamechicken 8y ago
Actually, they seem to be warming up. There was a report a few months back that they want to bring 200k IT professionals from India. Not sure if they actually mean that though. >Japan will open up its doors to about two lakh IT professio
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by nonamechicken 8y ago
People getting jailed for Facebook posts happen frequently in India. Looking at the arrests they have made so far, there are 3 categories of people whom you shouldn't criticize or make fun of in Facebook: politicians, religion and wome
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by nonamechicken 8y ago
Is FirstPost rightwing? >The Ministry of Home Affairs on Friday clarified that its recent order authorising 10 agencies to snoop on any computer in the country in the interest of national security is based on the UPA-era IT Act and the I
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by nonamechicken 8y ago
According to the below link, this is not a new rule, but something the UPA government passed. This new order just lists out the agencies that can access the data, where as the original rule didn't list anyone specifically. I remember t
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by nonamechicken 8y ago
Looks like this is not a new thing among parrots. YouTube shows quite a few results when I searched for "parrot alexa". Also, there are some interesting videos for "parrot siri". In one case, the owner got the package de
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by nonamechicken 8y ago
I don't know much about the history of India. But this video shows a huge part of present day India and Pakistan being part of the Mughal empire in 1705. Video: https://youtu.be/QN41DJLQmPk?t=628 (at 10:28). Some other
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by nonamechicken 8y ago
In my state Kerala in India, police seems to have started using face recognition. There was a huge protest recently in a famous temple called Sabarimala. Police had installed 12 cameras in the temple compound. If I understood correctly, th
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by nonamechicken 8y ago
I didn't see it mentioned anywhere that he brought people from India. Usually, these kind of scams involve students who came to US to study. So they were already in the country. They will be forced to leave in 18 months unless they get
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by nonamechicken 8y ago
There are a huge number of American companies selling products in India. They also harm the local economy including in job creation. Brain dead outsourcing jobs created by American companies shouldn't really be considered as value addi
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by nonamechicken 8y ago
>I don't know why only Indians are doing this shit predominantly. Because of a huge number of Indian students, especially from one particular state. US is marketed as an utopia to them, so they all line up to study in US thinking th
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by nonamechicken 8y ago
As of April 20, 2018, there were 632,219 Indian immigrants and their spouses and minor children waiting for green cards also known as legal permanent residency cards. https://m.timesofindia.com/business/india-business&
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by nonamechicken 8y ago
A good chunk of low wage h1bs are students. They are desperate to get h1b within the 12-18 months they are allowed to remain in the country. So they will accept any kind of job they can get at very less pay. I know teams that exclusively hi
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by nonamechicken 8y ago
As an Indian, I would really like Americans to kick out all Indians so that they will stay in India and make India great. At least our children won't have to listen to such statements.
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by nonamechicken 8y ago
H1B has basically become a slavery visa for Indians. Similar to how the Indian government runs commercials warning Indians going to Gulf countries not to fall into employment related traps, it's hightime we educate Indians wanting to g
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Related: Why women in Stem may be better off working in India and Latin America: https://www.theguardian.com/guardian-professional/2015/jun/2... What India Can Teach Silicon Valley About Its Gender Problem:

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