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by padiyar83 9y ago
Sure, but a smart Chinese researcher can move to Vancouver or Toronto very easily, so does a researcher from Bangalore or Buenos Aires or St. Petersburg, but its harder for a firm or a research lab based out of say, Shanghai or SV even, to
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by padiyar83 9y ago
I think any Canadian cities like Toronto or Vancouver or Dublin, Ireland are best contenders for the title and here is my reasoning for it. You need to wait for about a year to get a H1 visa to work in SV or work in the same firm for over a
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by padiyar83 9y ago
But you pay for Dash subscription, this one seems to be free.
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by padiyar83 9y ago
>> By not paying a competitive salary, those IBM offices in India are lacking the deep experience of western programmers. 1. IBM offices and most multinationals do pay competitive salary in India. We have the same problem with retaini
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by padiyar83 9y ago
>> Any jobs list which has Python above Javascript and Java has to be flawed. What data are you looking at to backup this assertion?
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by padiyar83 9y ago
>> India barely has power for normal domestic consumption; even in Bangalore, the ostensible "Silicon valley" of India, power cuts for an hour or two is a daily affair. - Thats because India today relies heavily on hydro ele
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by padiyar83 9y ago
But remember, UBER was playing in an unfair world. A world in which the existing Taxi companies had entrenched monopolies and yearly contracts with airports and city councils. And UBER does provide a valuable service to its users. I hate t
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by padiyar83 10y ago
Nice, thats awesome. This is really using his knowledge for the betterment of the society. Too cool !
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by padiyar83 10y ago
Man those links are illegal and can get someone into trouble especially if they download it (unknowingly) from a corporate VPN. Just link the books on Amazon and leave out the dropbox referrals
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by padiyar83 10y ago
Its not either or at this point, you need both (as many as possible) solutions. In some regard CO2 storage solutions are better because you can make use of lower priced real estate like ocean floor vs growing plants and forests which take a
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by padiyar83 10y ago
Bangalore. Great startup scene, amazing talent. The IT spirit of the city almost feels like silicon valley in 90's. Also a lot of pubs and bars and thousands of places to eat makes the city just a amazing place to be in.
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by padiyar83 10y ago
Love it!
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by padiyar83 10y ago
I agree and its wrong. India should have a path to allow for long periods of staying and working in the country and provide for a valid path towards citizenship. Thats the only way India can be a country that can attract and retain smart gl
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by padiyar83 10y ago
> Because those companies are US companies, their very existence is a byproduct of this political community's stability. Engineering talent (in US and other countries) is also a byproduct of that society's investment into educa
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by padiyar83 10y ago
When US companies (and universities) can operate and profit by operating in other countries, like India. Why should we not allow employees from other countries (like India an China) to seek employment in US, if they can do the job better an
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by padiyar83 10y ago
That was my first thought too !
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by padiyar83 10y ago
.. beautiful words ! I signed up just for that :)
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by padiyar83 10y ago
And these are the exact kinds of people who have to work the hardest to get a US citizenship. On average it takes an Indian citizen 10 years more than immigrants from other countries to get a US citizenship. Its equally bad for people who a
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by padiyar83 10y ago
This reminds me of an article on wired[1] where someone hacked into hosts that were hooked into legacy X.25 networks. And just like mainframes and COBOL, there are not very many engineers who understand X.25 networks today, and hence had a
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by padiyar83 10y ago
You would need a parachute for a cabin bag and checkin luggage too in that case! :)
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by padiyar83 10y ago
Correlation between two variables, does not imply one causes the other.[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_cau...
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by padiyar83 10y ago
> ..or taking forever sync. This is really amazing. I don't think this solves the problem of taking forever to sync. Nothing has changed there. You are still bound by the same data retrieval and network latencies to get the file st
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by padiyar83 11y ago
Network monitoring sucks because its usually an afterthought from a protocol design standpoint. This means most of the monitoring tools end up running at a very high abstraction layer like SNMP or PING requests and as a result, deeper level
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by padiyar83 11y ago
There are bad coders everywhere and it takes years of deliberate practice to be good at anything, including programming. Those people who did not put in the work, don't make it through grueling interviews at Microsoft, Amazon, Google a
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by padiyar83 11y ago
Hey I am sorry if you are impacted by downsizing, but there are better ways of handling this than disparaging the tech community in India. I have worked in both US and India for more than one company and can tell you there is no discernibl
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by padiyar83 11y ago
Not quite true, Satya led cloud and enterprise org. before stepping into CEO. Many of the initiatives at Azure started with direct involvement from Satya. He also pushed for open Microsoft long before becoming a CEO, its just that now he is
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by padiyar83 11y ago
This is my own opinion here. I think if you increase the price of H1B significantly then jobs would just move to Bangalore, Dublin or Vancouver. There is a higher limit to how much you can jack up the prices of a H1 visa and that higher lim
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by padiyar83 11y ago
>>> .. I don't think anyone seriously believes the manned exploration of Mars will turn any profit. I think this will be the most profitable enterprise mankind has ever seen. A earth full of mineral wealth untouched, available
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by padiyar83 11y ago
Agreed, they should have been upfront on what technology they developed in house and what it can and cannot do. A simple table outlining that could have cleared up the air.
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by padiyar83 11y ago
They never once said they were not using existing machines to do these tests, not once, they only spoke about the quantity of the sample needed. Using the same analogy, saying I have a great story to tell you but then reading Moby Dick isn&

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