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by troebr 6y ago
Back when I applied for an H1B visa, the chances that I'd be outright rejected was 30%. The next few years I believe it climbed to 60%. Just the fact that I found a company willing to apply to my visa involved a lot of luck. Even me be
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by troebr 6y ago
It would also favor really large companies, that don't necessarily hire better engineers, but pay substantially more.
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by troebr 6y ago
There are multiple ways to make a project fit into a deadline: - change/reduce the scope => lowers the value of the product - cut corners: for ex. skip testing, ignore bugs, work faster, skip code reviews, etc. => lower quality -
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by troebr 7y ago
At my company we've used for a few years each: Hangout, Bluejeans, and Zoom. We got acquired so now we're also using Skype and Teams alongside Zoom. Zoom didn't really invent anything groundbreaking, they did the same thing b
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by troebr 7y ago
I think it's a common theme of how fraudsters get caught, they get greedy.
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Mandrill is planning a 6 hour downtime with 3 weeks notice(twitter.com)
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by troebr 7y ago
This is unacceptable. Any competitors you guys can recommend?
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by troebr 7y ago
https://gdpr.eu/companies-outside-of-europe/ it looks like it would? I'm no expert though.
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by troebr 7y ago
It would be really surprised if this were compliant with the GDPR. I live in the US but I tried email accounts of relatives in Europe and they had data in there.
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by troebr 7y ago
Knewton @ Wiley | Full-stack, Frontend, Backend, SRE | Full Time | ONSITE (Hoboken, NJ) & REMOTE (US) | https://www.knewton.com/ Knewton is an affordable adaptive learning platform for higher-education. We're compe
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by troebr 7y ago
It does, I moved to New Jersey from France, and my phone was in French. Navigation was kind of funny because it was attempting to pronounce English words as if they were French. For instance, street was pronounced "stré" ("st
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by troebr 8y ago
I like asking what their definition of a senior engineer is. Good candidates will have answers that are multi dimensional: eg. ability to drive technical change, mentor junior engineers, design system that solve complex problems in a simple
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by troebr 8y ago
Vingt mille lieues sous les mers. I was a huge Jules Verne fan when I was a kid.
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by troebr 8y ago
Knewton | Software Engineer, SRE/Infra Engineer, Senior Security Engineer | NYC | ONSITE | Full-Time We build adaptive learning software that powers our online learning platform. We work with universities and community colleges to prov
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by troebr 8y ago
I've been asked about why my boarding pass didn't have the same name as my passport once, back when I didn't put a middle name. I'm from France where we traditionally have 3 first names: <actual first name> <god
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by troebr 8y ago
"Sources said that the tests were ordered by senior Kremlin officials despite objections from the program's engineers, who voiced concerns that the system was still in its infancy.". Putin's press conference was on March
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by troebr 9y ago
It's all about what they bring to the table. Some people are clearly senior level after 2 years: they communicate well, they can mentor other engineers, they can criticize an existing design or plan the implementation of a new feature,
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by troebr 9y ago
In the US, the skilled worker visa (the infamous h1b) requires a bachelor's or masters, or 12y relevant work experience, or a mix of the two.
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by troebr 9y ago
Ouch one of my jobs was like that. I was supposed to log _when I was going to the bathroom_ in their homemade time tracking app. Then every evening the "standup" was the CEO berating everyone on how long it took them to finish the
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by troebr 9y ago
Whether you work with a monolith or microservices, decoupling is the key, and the best way to ensure decoupling is using the proper abstractions and APIs.
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by troebr 9y ago
I wouldn't say uncontroversially. There are political issues around what to do with aging nuclear power plants (see Fessenheim: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fessenheim_Nuclear_Power_Plant ) and whether to invest m
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by troebr 10y ago
I've heard Death March more meant as a crazy period before a deadline.
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by troebr 10y ago
It's super creepy and the interest rates are outrageous; but you have to give it to them, public shaming as a collateral is good "outside the box" thinking.
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by troebr 10y ago
That's a sad looking crocodile
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by troebr 10y ago
I'm running it on a 5X and it ran just fine.
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by troebr 10y ago
According to CreditKarma, getting "excellent" on the number of open accounts factor means having 21 or more open accounts. Assuming you have 4 cc, 2 student loans, 1 car loan and 1 mortgage you would still be in the "poor&quo
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by troebr 10y ago
Usually you're there for a couple hours, it's easy to sneak out in between 2 interviews for 2 minutes.
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by troebr 10y ago
This is the state making sure that uninformed customers are not taken by surprise by a gigantic data bill. Sounds like the state trying to protect its citizens. They're not bullying Niantic, just raising a concern. If anything this cou
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by troebr 11y ago
I just wrote our API layer with redux-saga too, I started with thunks but I didn't like dispatching thunks and actions, also it was hard to reason about flow and side effects: If I update my search form, the results need to be updated,
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by troebr 11y ago
They don't block foreign VPNs?

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