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by pthomas551 8y ago
Chicken rice isn't unique to Singapore though. It's pretty much the same in Malaysia and the Thai version is quite close as well. Katong laksa on the other hand (which is in the article) is probably the famous hawker dish that is
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by pthomas551 8y ago
Agreed, Viet food is lacking in SG. For various reasons it hasn't caught on with the locals. Still, the average quality level of those Viet places that do exist is higher than that in the US. As for hawker food, the increasing cost of
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by pthomas551 8y ago
This is the way to do it. Then make the ask for a referral, interview, etc. at the end. It usually works, I've gotten a good job doing this.
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by pthomas551 8y ago
I'm not inherently opposed to referring people I don't know, as long as we have some sort of connection. The referral bonus at my company is pretty nice, after all. So what I do is ask for a CV and cover letter; if they're go
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by pthomas551 8y ago
Depends on if your area has a strong pub culture. Not the case everywhere.
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by pthomas551 8y ago
Keep in mind that Singapore is a police state where homosexuality is illegal and HIV positive foreigners are subject to immediate deportation.
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Singapore's national HIV patient database leaked(straitstimes.com)
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by pthomas551 8y ago
FWIW, my company is highly ranked on Glassdoor and they applied the opposite of pressure to leave a review - in fact they said to please wait a few months post-onboarding before reviewing so that reviews were substantive rather than honeymo
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by pthomas551 8y ago
William Gibson's Blue Ant trilogy was set in the present day and has no fantastical technology. (He did predict YouTube a couple years ahead of time, though, and got the cultural impact almost exactly right.)
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by pthomas551 8y ago
To quote MST3K... Can't we just get beyond Thunderdome?
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by pthomas551 8y ago
What did your parents use to get your passport in the first place? Did they get a Report of Birth Abroad at the embassy? If so you can use that. There's also a process to apply for a citizenship certificate from USCIS, but you will pro
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by pthomas551 8y ago
If you are a typical American you are likely to be interacting exclusively with the upper class. Even if they don't feel upper class to you, by local standards they are at worst upper middle class.
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by pthomas551 8y ago
It's not - one of the first things Giuliani did in NYC was get rid of the squeegee men, and other cities followed suit.
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by pthomas551 8y ago
Not as true as it used to be. In my experience any midwestern city over 100,000 in population will have an Asian grocery store, and it's often got the best fresh produce in town.
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by pthomas551 9y ago
I'm sure I'm not the only one to get a warning from Github about this..
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CVE-2017-0889: Paperclip ruby gem version 3.1.4 and later(cve.mitre.org)
1 points by pthomas551 9y ago|1 comments
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by pthomas551 9y ago
Even the jQuery CDN is down intermittently for us here in Chicago. Sometimes CSS for core apps like Calendar is not loading, either. Definitely something amiss.
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Gmail, Google Maps and YouTube had outage issues(thenextweb.com)
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by pthomas551 9y ago
For sure. I think cost of living is a big differentiator. As for weather, let people work remote from the West Coast in the winter ;)
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by pthomas551 9y ago
Great article! Talent is definitely a big challenge in building out startups here in Chicago.
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Building the Midwest: Money. Liquidity. Talent?(linkedin.com)
3 points by pthomas551 9y ago|3 comments