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by theshadowmonkey 7y ago
Isnt this the common situation in most of Bay Area for service workers? Im in no way associated to Facebook, but I think its a bit unfair to call them out just to make the headline sensational. They're just another tenant in the Bay Ar
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by theshadowmonkey 7y ago
Thats ember over there. Almost Everyone who works on or maintains EmberJS works for LinkedIn.
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by theshadowmonkey 8y ago
Using gitlab and bitbucket for my personal repos on their free tiers have solved a lot of problems for me. Also, a lot of features are way ahead of github on these 2 platforms including CI/CD, Code reviews, and other tooling.
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by theshadowmonkey 8y ago
Sorry for the late reply. - Was a little upset with my previous company over certain things and took the first offer that came my way. And I had to get some immigration stuff done and this company was willing to(Which is really good for me
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by theshadowmonkey 8y ago
It's not hard to live on. But, you mostly don't save anything or you might take a long time to buy a house.
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by theshadowmonkey 8y ago
It did not long exist. It only started since 2009.
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by theshadowmonkey 8y ago
I'd say in my experience, atleast in the Bay Area unless you are a co-founder, dont bother joining an early stage or that's not as late stage as Airbnb or Uber. The problem is the base salaries are good. But, startups try to be to
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by theshadowmonkey 8y ago
The program was not a thing only because long wait times for a green card was not a thing. A lot of companies have a lot of Indians compared to elsewhere. But, majority of them is probably factually wrong.
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by theshadowmonkey 8y ago
A lot of foreign born workers are not H1B because they got their green cards or citizenship. I'd safely say a majority of them were H1Bs till recently. Till 2008, getting a green card for any country was not a problem. It has gotten a
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by theshadowmonkey 8y ago
Most H1Bs in high density areas are not this way. A lot of companies like Oracle, Google, Facebook etc.. have very few H1Bs even though you see a lot of them. Look at them as a % of all employees. And most H1Bs are highly paid, highly skill
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by theshadowmonkey 8y ago
H1b employees in this category with an approved i140 have already expressed an immigration intent. So, they're almost immigrants except on a waitlist.
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by theshadowmonkey 8y ago
> 10 years is the length of the current backlog for Employment 2nd, 3rd, and “Other Workers" preference visa from India, but only two years for Employment 1st Preference,.and Employment 4th preference is current. Have you looked at
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by theshadowmonkey 8y ago
1. Might not happen in the probably the next decade. Earning 200k+ in Bay Area is common and still hard to live on a single salary. What should an engineer do to make it go to 400k? 2. So, you want experienced, well trained experts in their
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by theshadowmonkey 8y ago
This is awesome. My USCIS just not for asylum applications, but everything else. USCIS required 2 factor for login and that's awesome that you take account security for sensitive applications seriously.
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by theshadowmonkey 8y ago
Or reviews are written mostly by people who had a bad experience yelp or glassdoor - same thing. Look at a few profiles. They have nothing but negative reviews.
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by theshadowmonkey 8y ago
Google Reader I loved the simplicity and the usability aspects of it. I use Feedly these days. But, I hope reader was around.
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by theshadowmonkey 9y ago
I started running a newsletter with 5 articles aggregated from sources like these which I think have high signal:noise ratio. If you are interested, please subscribe to the newsletter. I send out one with around 5 links. This is the link to
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by theshadowmonkey 9y ago
Eloquent Javascript is probaby a single good resource I'd recommend if you're starting out. http://eloquentjavascript.net/ Other one if you want to go in a little deep: https://github.com/getify&#x
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by theshadowmonkey 9y ago
If youre getting a nice suit or a jacket, splurge and get a good one. I good fitted Ted Baker jacket and a custom tailored suit from JHilburn and they made a big difference in the looks vs say loose fitting clothes or off the rack one. I&#x
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by theshadowmonkey 10y ago
The author gets most of the things wrong in this article. Even though H1B is not an immigration intent visa, most H1Bs come with an intention to stay here. If you give them a chance to stay in the United States, they'll happily stay he
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by theshadowmonkey 10y ago
H1Bs do not work for minimum wage jobs. Why then is the minimum wage not rising ? If you do not consider the Indian consulting companies, H1B get paid higher or on par with most Americans and most have graduate degrees.
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by theshadowmonkey 10y ago
So, what the author of the article gets wrong is how many H1Bs want to be citizens and how hard it is to become one. Currently for anyone who starts their immigration process, it takes anywhere between 7-15 years to get a green card if you
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by theshadowmonkey 10y ago
I second this and if you are in the Bay Area and not getting a job, you seriously need to look at what's wrong in your approach.
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by theshadowmonkey 10y ago
I worked for one of the big names mentioned above(not IT services) and I am a H1B myself with a masters from a US university. And most of the H1Bs I know are on par or more qualified than their peers, most of them educated here at top tier
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by theshadowmonkey 10y ago
lol man.
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by theshadowmonkey 10y ago
you meant closure ?
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by theshadowmonkey 11y ago
Cool. But, do you think a paid model for consuming content would work given the number of content sources and the frequency with which a user visits a single source? Don't content creators depend on some form of revenue and trackers ar
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by theshadowmonkey 11y ago
What you probably missed is if I am a big enough retailer, I can pay off your bouncers to still follow you from a distance and still show up on your newspaper on one side since I have more than you and can pay off your bouncers to work for
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by theshadowmonkey 11y ago
This is an awesome project. If you want to do some lightweight tasks, you can get it running on a free openshift instance very easily.
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by theshadowmonkey 11y ago
Most of the extension reviews say they are spam. Are they installing by themselves somehow on gullible user computers ?

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