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by petilon 8y ago
Because people who come in on H-1B are eligible to apply for green cards.
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by petilon 8y ago
H-1B is temporary work visa. It is the visa that is temporary, not the individual, because folks who come in on H-1B are LEGALLY allowed to apply for a green card, and once they get it they are permanent and can start their own companies. H
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by petilon 8y ago
The exact visa doesn't matter. The point is, without immigration silicon valley wouldn't be silicon valley.
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by petilon 8y ago
You are splitting hairs. They were all immigrants. Without immigration these companies would not exist. It doesn't matter if the visa they came in on was called H-1B or B1-H or whatever. More than half of the most valuable U.S. tech co
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by petilon 8y ago
I have used jQuery in a React app without issues. It is no worse than making direct DOM calls. React is great for rendering, but you can’t implement direct-manipulation on top of virtual DOM. Direct-manipulation means interactively resizing
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by petilon 8y ago
This is why we need the EU, and laws like GDPR and the Right to be Forgotten: Google's Eric Schmidt suggests that young people should change their name upon reaching adulthood https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology&#x
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by petilon 8y ago
See also this story: For all of the supposed liberating power of their digital devices, they might as well be wearing ankle monitors. Today’s students live their lives so publicly — through the technology we provide them without training
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by petilon 8y ago
>> I care about them having it to start with. Having what? Data regarding what features of their product customers are utilizing and what features are not being used? If you were a software developer would you not want to have that k
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by petilon 8y ago
Telemetry is for software developers to learn how you are using their product. This isn't as bad as what Google is doing. Google is interested in everything you are doing, and then they sell that harvested information to advertisers. M
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by petilon 8y ago
If you want to see an example of the devious means now employed by Google, open Chrome settings and turn off "Allow Chrome sign-in". Then go to Gmail and sign in. You are now signed into Chrome, regardless of the setting. By signi
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by petilon 8y ago
I corrected a factual error, but I am not refuting or supporting the rest of your claims. But I will note that you are complaining about people who you perceive to be your competitors. You inherently have diminished credibility because of t
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by petilon 8y ago
> There is a saying, that if an Indian becomes a manager, soon all his department becomes Indians, which really stands out among all other races. That's nonsense. Indians aren't one race. Indians are multiracial themselves. Th
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by petilon 8y ago
English language proficiency is the reason Indians are doing better than Chinese.
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by petilon 8y ago
America is the most powerful nation in the world today not because it has the most number of people, but because it has the best and the brightest, gathered from around the world. There are 4x as many geniuses in China as in the US. This is
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by petilon 8y ago
Citibank, BofA and others let you create virtual credit card numbers off of your actual credit card. These numbers can only be used by one merchant, and you can specify the max amount they are able to charge, as well as how many months the
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by petilon 8y ago
A good example is SiriusXM. They give you a lowball initial offer, and the fine print says that at the end of the offer period the subscription will automatically renew at "then current" rates. To cancel you have to call their 800
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by petilon 8y ago
Investors in general prefer multiple founders, and they want the founders to have roughly equal equity too. In part this is because they want the ability to push a founder out if he/she isn't working out.
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by petilon 8y ago
> Educated people have vastly huger carbon footprints than non-educated people, thinking globally. But the resistance to doing something about it is not coming from educated people, at least in the US. Regarding India and China, their g
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by petilon 8y ago
Outside America the governments are on board. The only country not in Paris Accord is the USA (which also happens to be, historically, the biggest contributor to global warming).
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by petilon 8y ago
When it significantly impacts the daily lives of uneducated Americans . Educated people around the world already want to do something. Uneducated people outside America already want to do something (because their governments are on board.)
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by petilon 8y ago
Disappointing article. There are no clear reasons mentioned for migrating away from MongoDB. "All these problems" and some issues with Ops Manager are mentioned, where "all these problems" is a couple of outages. As if o
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by petilon 8y ago
You do need frameworks, but you don't need big fat frameworks that completely change the programming model and require you to learn its own incantations, rituals and ceremony. React is one such beast. React is only useful if you need t
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by petilon 8y ago
Windows 95's 3D look & feel was copied from NeXTSTEP. To me the pinnacle of 2D UI design was OS X from Steve Jobs' time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X_Tiger#/media/File:Tig...
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by petilon 8y ago
From the linked article: Components are more powerful, but they have to render some UI. This makes them inconvenient for sharing non-visual logic. This is how we end up with complex patterns like render props and higher-order components.
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by petilon 8y ago
From hooks documentation: If you look at a typical React application in React DevTools, you will likely find a “wrapper hell” of components surrounded by layers of providers, consumers, higher-order components, render props, and other abst
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They may have to rename the browser again .
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What % of that is Chrome vs Safari? On Androids Microsoft could cut a deal with Samsung to ship CEdge.
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by petilon 8y ago
What the author is missing is that Google is not forever the owner of the dominant browser engine, and in fact, if Microsoft executes well, they might well take control of Chromium in a few short years. All Microsoft has to do is persuade W
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by petilon 8y ago
>> Google is pretty open about what they do Where have they disclosed their deal with MasterCard? >> there are usually ways to opt out and still use the service Often the opt outs don't work, and these appear to be &quo
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by petilon 8y ago
If you have Gmail click this link, it is an eye opener: https://myaccount.google.com/purchases Google knows every online purchase you ever made, every line item, the price you paid, the address it was delivered to, and so o

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