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by semerda 11y ago
Find a great lawyer and have them use your startup Delaware corp as sponsor for your H1B. It's like moving employers. You may need to move $$$ into the company to demonstrate there is enough money to meet your minimum wage category and
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by semerda 11y ago
Wow this is awesome! Thank you for sharing. Retainers post Invisalign cost between $400-900 for 1 set - total ripoff. This looks like a far cheaper alternative.
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by semerda 11y ago
A ~$4B MVP?
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by semerda 11y ago
The issue is people. When we ripped out the back end manual fax process in favor of a better system with OCR, APIs et al we also had to change the interface phone number from ph#1 to ph#2. Changing that alone proved to be a bigger headache
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by semerda 11y ago
Ditto! Bitbucket has served me well for so many years esp with their ondemand integrations. I really don't see why I should move to any other gitxxx. Moving tools is also a pain point so best to choose wisely.
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by semerda 11y ago
If someone wrapped it as a microservice with containers and a deployment script for AWS then yes. Otherwise the configuration alone would take few hours. This then begs the question; was/is AWS or Google a better backend to rely on lon
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by semerda 11y ago
Is email really broken or are people looking for things to change? Reason I ask is because I see this "let's fix email" so often, peeps build something new then it either gets acquired & killed or goes no where. What if e
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by semerda 11y ago
Is this another Theranos? I hope not but all we are hearing are promises, NDAs and big rounds/valuations for a product not yet on the market. One kinda grows suspicious after so many howls.
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by semerda 11y ago
What difference does it make when the incomes are combined in the end?
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by semerda 11y ago
Interesting observation. Anything that creates an emotional bond & takes down walls is going to build long lasting relationships among people. So partying is one of them. Especially if you are at a top school where most of your peers wi
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by semerda 11y ago
Same example can be applied to many folks working on startups that go nowhere. Especially the early days of pivots, a/b tests et al where many solutions get thrown out. Maybe a better way to handle this is focusing on growth achieved (
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by semerda 11y ago
Building a product is easy. Especially if you are an engineer. Getting people to pay for a product now that's where a business sprouts from. Just because you built a product doesn't mean you have a company/business. You need
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by semerda 11y ago
Do something in between. If you have a great job that pays well expand your network and start investing excess cash into startups really early on. This way you dip your toes into those waters and get to see all the dirt and help them clean
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by semerda 11y ago
Nice write up! Thanks for sharing. I attended a similar retreat in Australia and it's definitely a nice way to decompress and reflect. However trying to bring it into everyday habit/life is a lot harder. In the end I found that is
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by semerda 11y ago
PageSpeed is 1 liner installation on your instance. It will compress assets etc automatically as Apache serves them. Worth adding to your deployment script.
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by semerda 11y ago
Feels like AWS is less of a vendor lock than building it inhouse. Doing it all inhouse has a high upfront cost that must be realized over X years irrelevant of the outcome. On the other hand if one implemented a microservices architecture,
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by semerda 11y ago
Look at Varnish Cache https://www.varnish-cache.org/ and Google's PageSpeed module on the server. https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/?hl=en
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by semerda 11y ago
What other vendor did you go with and now looking back was it worth it from a cost & operational perspective? Why not work with AWS to mitigate such risks now that you know more about ELBs?
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by semerda 11y ago
How is Netflix able to manage this so effectively and still serve ~30% of US traffic off AWS? I've heard the non-AWS folks talk of these vendor lock ins or long term costs but aren't those irrelevant in 2016+? eg. microservices to
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by semerda 11y ago
Sounds like the mark of a beast, some religious text have prophesied ;-) In all seriousness this is nothing new. RFI was an initial play and the tech is just maturing (getting smaller & better). But really will my toilet paper have a ch
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by semerda 11y ago
No Phd. Just Masters & Bachelor. I blogged about my journey as an Aussie founder in US on a H1B getting a Green Card here: http://www.theroadtosiliconvalley.com/visa/green-card-cofoun... Feel free to reach out if y
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by semerda 11y ago
I was in the exact position. H1B founder needed to move to a GC. My 6 year H1B renew runway was ending. Peter did all the legal/immigration work for me. Applied for the GC via extraordinary ability (EB1A) context. I must say this was t
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by semerda 11y ago
Might not be that easy esp if your o/s entity still has you as a shareholder/owner. And if that country has a taxation treaty with USA like Australia does. Then you need to reveal all your foreign activity.
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by semerda 11y ago
I believe the answer is No. The E-3 Visa states you have an intention to return back to Australia. So you need to move to a Visa like H1B which opens the door to a GC.
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Profit is opinion but cash is a fact. They are pushing cash back into the business to create more opportunity.
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by semerda 11y ago
So who are these younger developers talking about now?
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by semerda 11y ago
Awesome news! When I 1st arrived in USA (from Australia back in 2009) I never knew of Atlassian when their tools were brought on-premise at Coupons.com. Boy was I proud to hear it's an Aussie product. Yap, it was expensive. As time wen
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by semerda 11y ago
I think the CompSci folks that are dissatisfied with their employer and are comfortable with their skills are already doing stuff on the side. Today, sharpening your skills & earning extra $$$ through side projects is a no brainer. The
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by semerda 11y ago
What an awful article. "colleges doing such a rotten job of teaching them skills."? right, this is why Google and Facebook nick those with a Computer Science degree and pay them bucket loads of money. Try getting into those compan
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by semerda 11y ago
Totally agree. There's nothing like the feeling of dropping down a gear and hearing the machine come on boost. That whole experience alone is a pleasure to drive a manual.

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