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by t1o5 9y ago
Thats wrong information. H1B is a “dual intent” visa. Its broken because it was really intended for exceptionally skilled workers. But currently its a lottery. USCIS just takes the word of the company applying for it and grants the visa. Th
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by t1o5 9y ago
The problems are too fragmented for a generic alert service to solve.
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by t1o5 9y ago
There are many sites which already does this. During that situation when I missed a slot, I didn't want to take any chances again by using sites like visualping. I trusted my script and twilio API to work. First I thought to ring a lou
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by t1o5 9y ago
Yes, made it to SK, but moved to Montreal for better job prospects. Probably will have to move to Toronto because my spouse's can't find a good job due to the strict French language requirements for non IT jobs in Quebec.
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by t1o5 9y ago
Frankly, I didn't think much. Just wrote this script in an impulse of a moment when I missed a slot. During that time, I didn't think about how it was done, but the end result. Sure diff would have triggered false positives, lucki
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by t1o5 9y ago
So we both had life changing events. Its the real winning moment of a programmer when he is able to use his/her skills for a "non-work" task automation. Its more satisfying.
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by t1o5 9y ago
Because this was very important to me and my life forward, I thought it was better to roll my own custom notifier. Moreover, the phone call thing was the most important part which will get attention any time of the day than an email.
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by t1o5 9y ago
You took the right decision. (well, your dad).
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by t1o5 9y ago
Yes, too small of an audience to sell it to. Also I didn't care about the timezones in the script. It will make the call no matter in which timezone you are in (you will get the call in the middle of the night), because Saskatchewan&#x
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by t1o5 9y ago
The problem with monetizing this service is because there are many immigration watsapp groups with many members in it. So when one member buys this service, he can simply broadcast this notification to his watsapp groups. I even made the se
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by t1o5 9y ago
I did, hosted at sinpnotifier.com, Saskatchewan province is not that attractive for skilled immigrants. Had one sale though, then I shut it down.
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by t1o5 9y ago
I was in the US and want to immigrate to Canada because of US broken H1B immigration system ( for me it will take 9 years to get a greencard). Here is what I did - The immigration website of Saskatchewan province opens up randomly to apply
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by t1o5 9y ago
Exactly my thoughts, when people say they have a great work life balance at their enterprise IT company, it’s at the cost of some cheap labour outsourced somewhere. When you buy cheap cloths at Walmart or even at the brands, just have a loo
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by t1o5 9y ago
“Worlds most popular banana” is a tall claim. In my part of the world, where the large population on the planet lives, we haven’t heard or eaten a Cavendish. How could Cavendish be world’s popular ? It might be popular in North America and
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by t1o5 9y ago
That is why I rephrased the quote.
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by t1o5 9y ago
Probably because you don't have to have different css styles for many of the options like image size, font size, language, color. Though these can be achieved with css. One use case I see is for native mobile apps to generate the avata
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by t1o5 9y ago
We have been using Hazelcast for a while now. Currently evaluating K tables if we could get the same performance. Any learnings or advices would be welcome if anyone has done the switch.
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by t1o5 9y ago
95$ is too less for visas. Probably he holds a very accepted passport. Have to count in the huge visa costs and its processes for the less privileged ones like me.
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by t1o5 9y ago
According to my tinfoil hat, if we plugin sensible defaults to the drake equation, the aliens should have been broadcasting something around 21,000 light years ago for us to get something in 2035.
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by t1o5 9y ago
Only applicable for an approved I-140 employee. That will be a slight relief though.
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by t1o5 9y ago
Its not easy as it sounds. Its not a transfer per say, its a new petition. Recently premium processing was stopped. Many H1B transfers were in limbo. If an employee transfers when he has I-140, his greencard process might get jeopardized. T
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by t1o5 9y ago
H1B employment is a legal way to own a person in IT. To Quote from the article - " Employees are more risk averse, they fear being fired more than contractors do being sued. " Rephrasing - " H1B employees are even more risk a
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by t1o5 9y ago
Has also to do with the H1B employee lock in benefits.
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by t1o5 9y ago
I will chip in for what I feel about the supposedly bad code quality problem. Most of the US firms which outsources to India is looking for work to be done in an unreasonable amount of time. To make my point clear, if a story takes 8 points
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by t1o5 9y ago
An exception in India, a small state called Kerala which has achieved 100% electrification recently. This do not mean there are power outages and voltage problems. This is among many other socio economic achievements which makes it stands o
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by t1o5 9y ago
Automotive makers like FCA is still sticking with QNX and Harman made headunits hardware for many years. Having programmed on them, it was a pain with so many constraints while we have watches 100x more powerful than them. While the UI&#x2F
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by t1o5 9y ago
Comparison, an ideal scenario: Direct PR from Federal = 6 months. Quebec Inland = 6 months (CSQ) + 1 year(Federal). Quebec Outland = unknown number of years, I know cases which are 4 years waiting for a CSQ. So it boils down to how many poi
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by t1o5 9y ago
This. The southern Indian state of Kerala successfully resisted and shutdown this company for good. Even the state made legislation to sue the company for those affected by its ruthless exploitation of ground water. The factory was in the P
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by t1o5 9y ago
Quebec likes to do things differently when it comes to immigration and work visas than the rest of Canada. I can explain it a bit here though IANAL. To get a work visa in Quebec, the employer have to apply to MIDI (Quebec's Immigration
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by t1o5 9y ago
In India we got lucky this time that the TRAI ( Regulatory Authority ) rejected the proposal even though Mr Z personally visited PM Modi to get his support including a town hall in IIT. Facebook even employed questionable tactics to get sup

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