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by smenyp 9mo ago
Nice! Check out liftosaur as well - comes with a DSL and ability to write programs (pun intended).
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by smenyp 6y ago
But "this will increase salaries by reducing supply" is the common narrative on HN that one cannot fight. Reasoning bottoms-up, you are right. This will reduce Bay Area footprint, and will allow good talent to join at lower costs.
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by smenyp 6y ago
Why is the burden of proof on the poster arguing that India is more democratic rather than the side arguing that US is more democratic? India is the world's largest democracy, has a multi-party system, has had prime ministers from diff
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by smenyp 9y ago
This is nothing particular to India. On the day Snapchat went public, investors in the US bought the wrong company - Snap Interactive. These were investors, who were putting their money at risk! Point is, this happens everywhere and people
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by smenyp 10y ago
It's really sad how hard it is for an Indian-born migrant. The 10 year wait he cites is the wait time if one had applied 10 years ago. Current backlogs are much much worse: https://www.cato.org/blog/no-one-knows-ho
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by smenyp 11y ago
While I do feel for Dragon Systems and James Baker, I agree with the finer line toed by Matt Levine's article here: http://dealbreaker.com/2013/01/dragon-systems-shareholders-c... : "Why would you hire an
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A brief overview of the various types of Work Visas(movingtobayarea.tumblr.com)
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by smenyp 13y ago
He chaired the committee that ran and organized foss.in - (un)arguably India's greatest open source event. Held every December, it attracted thousands of students and working professionals from across the country. It helped set the image of
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by smenyp 14y ago
Anecdotally (n=1, of course) I have seen and heard tremendous resistance to clisp in the industry I work in 5 years ago. Now, clojure and Scala are being adopted and recommended by even conservative PMs and architects. The choices are way m
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by smenyp 14y ago
FYI, Simon Marlow is incredibly big in the Haskell community and is the leading expert in Multi core parallelism via STMs in Haskell. Some of the work he has done for the GHC compiler is frankly fantastic. This is incredibly big news in the