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by troebr 11y ago
Even ignoring the cost, H1B candidates need to file their paperwork 6/7 months before starting, which means interviewing 7/8 months before October. And then you get a 50% chance that the application is going to be rejected by the
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by troebr 11y ago
At the same time, the US getting educated and skilled workers that it never had to pay a dime for to educate. If you look at European countries, a lot of them are trying hard to prevent their skilled workers from leaving for the US. If anyt
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by troebr 11y ago
I would tend to agree. Facebook's point is that he found a vulnerability, and exploited it instead of stopping there. I kind of understand their point of view though. "See you have a vulnerability there, and then I can get access
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by troebr 11y ago
In France there's a 4 month probation period extensible to up to 7 months. It's too long, 7 months makes very little sense, and some companies abuse it. Basically you can pretty much fire at will during this probation period, but
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by troebr 11y ago
I have an é in my first name, many automated systems still choke on this, and the email looks something like: "Hi Name<GarbledCharacter>EndOfName"
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by troebr 11y ago
I think we should compare quality of life instead of salary. You'll make 3 times the salary in the US, but: - no pension for your retirement (you have to save) - prohibitive health care costs even with insurance - prohibitive higher ed
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by troebr 11y ago
I worked for 3 years in France (Paris and province), and 3 years in the US (NJ and NYC). Things are the same. Humans are the same. It all depends on the company culture.
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by troebr 11y ago
I've done like the first 3 levels in the past. This stuff takes a lot of time, if I wanted to get a job at Google I'd probably go with the phone screen instead...
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by troebr 11y ago
Have you tried debugging with webstorm?
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by troebr 11y ago
I was once asked to name the last 5 CEOs and the past major acquisitions of that bank during an interview. I was a junior software engineer not even working in that industry.
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by troebr 12y ago
Cached: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:zLvbJ9R...
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by troebr 12y ago
University rankings are full of manure if you will pardon my French. The model they use favors big general universities with a strong research department. Also how do you evaluate the learning environment? Number of flat screen tvs per stud
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by troebr 12y ago
It's at least the third article that spun off from the WSJ article (if not even an older article/interview).
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by troebr 12y ago
What kind of visa could you qualify for as a COO?
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by troebr 12y ago
The concern wasn't about it being better or cheaper, it was that most restaurants were claiming that the food was home made while it was prepackaged. It's not forbidden to serve prepackaged food.
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by troebr 12y ago
I don't understand, are you saying that there are too many languages? I find it very reasonable: - css, js, html are unavoidable for a web app - sql is as standard as it gets for interacting with your database - shell is also widely us
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by troebr 13y ago
That's subjective, I like the simple look. Also his prospective client want an MVP, a working prototype, they're probably not after the design.
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by troebr 13y ago
In France it's very hard to fire. What ends up happening is that consulting companies are popping up left and right, the result is that salaries are lower for employees (less leverage when negociating, no room for promotion, company cu
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by troebr 13y ago
Isn't it simply a form of garbage collection? Instead of garbage collecting all the unused objects at random moments, an object is garbage collected as soon as it goes out of scope. The way I understand it, no garbage collection means
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by troebr 13y ago
They obviously want to prevent phone thieves from adding money to your Starbucks account!
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by troebr 13y ago
You can invalidate tokens for a compromised phone. Well you can also change your password, but I'd rather revoke the access from my phone than have my password stolen. Some kind of validation mechanism before you order could be nice (l
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by troebr 13y ago
I used to read r/programming a lot, but eventually ended up reading hacker news for this kind of news. I would not be surprised if you could match r/programming decline in popularity with a rise in popularity of HN.
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by troebr 13y ago
I used to live in France, DSL providers are a joke here. Verizon advertised $30 for single play (no phone, no television). In the end they added "fees" and taxes (what those are not included?), the price was $56 per month. The rou
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by troebr 13y ago
I made a little trello clone as a weekend side project, http://lipstr.com , I've stopped working on it, I don't use it all that often since I like using a paper to keep track of my tasks now. My girlfriend is probably
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by troebr 13y ago
If you're like me, you had the wrong google account selected. Once I switched to my phone's, it was terrifyingly accurate.
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by troebr 13y ago
Windsurfing also requires stronger winds. ~13/14 knots is enough to kite and jump around, and I think you need 3/4 knots to windsurf comfortably.
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by troebr 13y ago
It's the first exercise in datasci-001 on coursera... Not much of an invention. https://class.coursera.org/datasci-001
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by troebr 13y ago
100 minutes talk is outgoing and ingoing. Learned it the hard way. Luckily the interview was over.
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by troebr 13y ago
That's a ridiculous amount of time, nobody would wait that long unless they are changing jobs and are not in a hurry.
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by troebr 13y ago
So the fact that the US is not the only country doing it should make it acceptable? What kind of an argument is that.

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