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by turar 15y ago
CEO doesn't control the price of his company's stock. It's silly to use stock price, which is set by the market as a performance indicator. It's makes more sense to compare metrics like net income, free cash flow, etc. And Microsoft isn't d
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by turar 15y ago
Will setting downvote display limit to 0 instead of -4 help?
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by turar 16y ago
http://www.quora.com/Can-a-H1B-holder-work-for-a-startup-as-...
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by turar 16y ago
Sorry, I gave wrong information. For H-1B, the company doesn't have to prove this. I confused it with an employer-sponsored green-card application process.
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by turar 16y ago
Funny, seems that the author of the image in the article only uses "adult" and "rants and raves" categories on Craigslist. :)
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by turar 16y ago
I suppose it can, but the code would have to be written prior to that and/or outside the US. The bottom line is that you can't work for money in the US, whether for yourself or somebody else, if you don't have a proper work visa. And you ca
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by turar 16y ago
The most common way is to come to the US to study first, say for a Master's degree, and then look for a job while still in the US, before graduation. Other than that, you have to look for a company that would hire you from overseas and spon
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by turar 16y ago
This is nearly impossible with current US immigration laws. You can be a founder of the company (i.e. an investor), but you cannot legally work for the company, or you violate your visitor immigration status.
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by turar 16y ago
I usually try not to stay once I've shown my intention to leave, no matter what the counteroffer from the current place is. So, I would change it to: Ask for a raise. If refused, find another job that pays more. Period. edit: decided to rem
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by turar 16y ago
Why not start with telling how you made your $1M? :)
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by turar 16y ago
Wow, I can't believe nobody cares about this. This is the best that I've seen on the internets for a while. And with very nice presentation.
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by turar 16y ago
It's Pandora of music videos. You select music "styles" you like, and they get played non-stop.
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Helloday.tv: I had to share this, simply awesome(helloday.tv)
2 points by turar 16y ago|3 comments
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by turar 16y ago
I'm also interested.
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by turar 16y ago
"A young man worries what people think about him. A mature man doesn't care what others think of him. An old man realizes that people didn't really think of him that much." (or something like that, can't remember the exact quote)
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Hitting a $27 million lottery jackpot by investing $7 million(books.google.com)
2 points by turar 16y ago|0 comments
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by turar 16y ago
What's the point of having a "karma goal"?
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by turar 16y ago
Is there a reason for secrecy around the name and nature of your dipshit company? Does it have a website?
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by turar 16y ago
Workopolis.com is the big Canadian job site
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by turar 16y ago
I agree, but even for the largest players, there are broad "themes". E.g. Amazon's core retail frontend is written in Perl Mason, but most of backend services are written in Java and C++ with Oracle as a primary DB choice.
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What's that written in?
3 points by turar 16y ago|2 comments
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by turar 16y ago
Thanks, awesome.
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by turar 16y ago
Is there a way to save/bookmark HN threads under my HN profile? I see "saved stories" under http://news.ycombinator.com/saved , but don't see a way to save anything there. The only other option is to comment on something and then have it a
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by turar 16y ago
Why not put links to these on the top nav bar? It's not like there's no room up there.
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by turar 16y ago
I wonder how the HR woman ended up seeing the HN post in the first place.