LetBinding

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by LetBinding 4y ago
Atlassian.
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by LetBinding 6y ago
> vegan crap no one is interested in but vegans And SF has a large populace of vegans like me, who have a choice of dozens of innovative restaurants with mind boggling vegan food, from Michelin quality and expensive to cheap and homely a
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by LetBinding 10y ago
I am a data scientist working at a big firm in the San Francisco Bay Area. I have a PhD in CS with a specialization in AI / Machine Learning / NLP from a US university. I am from India. So I assume my nationality will be an immigr
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by LetBinding 11y ago
I agree with the principle of your comments but not with the wealth aspect. My experiences have told me that the world of traveling is restricted to those with the right passports, i.e., North America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Japan,
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by LetBinding 11y ago
They are. But it's drowned in the noise about undocumented immigrants, which is a much more emotional issue and more in the consciousness of the general public. If a politician says he wants to improve H1B, he'll get a primary opp
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by LetBinding 11y ago
Again you are technically right. But in practice this is of no help. The AC21 allows you to change employer when you have filed the I-485. That is step 3 of the 4-step green card process. One can't file the I-485 until the "priori
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by LetBinding 11y ago
Technically yes. But the poster's employer has probably applied for a green card. Since the poster is Indian, that is a 10+ years process (4 for China and 1 for everyone else). If the poster changes employer (or accepts a promotion), t
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by LetBinding 11y ago
Brainfuck. Because it's fun. My favorite Brainfuck interpreters. http://brainfuck.tk http://copy.sh/brainfuck/ http://www.iamcal.com/misc/bf_debug/ This is a good IDE for Bra
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by LetBinding 12y ago
I feel this is a common situation for many people.
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by LetBinding 12y ago
Uh.. H-1B visas are used to for mechanical engineers, nurses, doctors, and MBA grads all the time. The reason you don't know them is because this is a tech-focussed forum and the absolute number of these visas going to the other profes
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by LetBinding 12y ago
Only for fungible types of workers. Programmers, software engineers, data scientists, product managers, designers, etc aren't like farm or construction laborers. These skills aren't commodities.
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by LetBinding 12y ago
Except this will only help large employers like Google and completely screw startups. How do you compute wages when it is paid in terms of equity? 1% of Google was worth nothing in 1995. It's worth a lot today. How do you identify if a
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by LetBinding 12y ago
It is simply because the contribution of a musician, a model, and an athlete is more easily understood by peers in other fields. The value of a 10X engineer is not that well understood by "outsiders" and in many instances by &quot
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by LetBinding 12y ago
7 is not satisfied by a letter from any company CEO. The person writing the letter has to be a distinguished individual in their own capacity. A startup CEO, irrespective of potential, is a nobody. Tim Cook writing the letter means somethin
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by LetBinding 12y ago
Except talented graduates of the American higher education systems have to leave the country if they don't get selected in the H-1B lottery. Last year, there were 45,000 applicants for the 20,000 advanced degree H-1B cap.
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by LetBinding 12y ago
O-1 is also tied to the sponsoring company. The standards set by the government for the O-1 visa are more geared towards pure research scientist or professor kind of positions. A PhD is a minimum requirement along with publications in top i
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by LetBinding 12y ago
I am sold. Is anyone in Vancouver hiring? Perhaps there needs to be a "Who's hiring in Vancouver" thread, along with information on whether they will hire non-Canadians / non-Americans stuck in the Valley due to the immi
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by LetBinding 12y ago
Is there a Big Data / NLP / Machine Learning scene in Vancouver? I rarely see any Data Scientist positions being advertised in Vancouver? I am a foreigner with a PhD in applied NLP from a US university and I have been looking at s
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by LetBinding 13y ago
That's nice to know. Do you work for a Berlin big data startup too?
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by LetBinding 13y ago
What is the Big Data startup scene like in Berlin? I am about to graduate with a PhD in Machine Learning from a US university. I have talked to several Big Data startups in the valley but being a foreigner, the visa is a hurdle. But if this
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by LetBinding 13y ago
Albuquerque, NM
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by LetBinding 13y ago
Always wanted to do this. But my inferior passport makes it infeasible. To even spend a weekend in most countries, I would have to document every detail of my life, and every detail of what I intend to do in the country, before some bureauc
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by LetBinding 13y ago
The solution is a non-partisan blanket primary. It keeps decisions in the hands of the voters, and also insulates against extremists being nominated. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonpartisan_blanket_primary [wikipedia]
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by LetBinding 14y ago
In a political climate where a major state's dominant political party's platform wants to ban critical thinking skills because they "challenge a student's fixed beliefs" and "undermine parental authority", it is unthinkable that scientists
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by LetBinding 14y ago
Lawyers creating jobs for lawyers. Google's lawyers and Apple's lawyers have a vested interest in keeping each other in business. Extend to all lawyers for tech firms.
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by LetBinding 14y ago
Humanities are the hardest discipline to get a PhD in. The leap from a top student in a CS undergrad program to a CS PhD program is not a big one. Most top students in an undergrad CS program can make the intellectual leap necessary to get
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by LetBinding 15y ago
If the idea that you are pursuing is out of some list of "hot trends", then you are already too late.
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by LetBinding 15y ago
What exactly do you mean by compensation? If you mean salary, then the chef has a lower salary than an engineer. If you mean stock options, then employees aren't given stock options based on their skill sets. They are given options commensu
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by LetBinding 15y ago
This is interesting. I signed up with a new email address. Put in my phone number. I _do not_ have this phone number on my primary account. Now on my dummy account, I get a long list of friend suggestions, most of them from my primary accou
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by LetBinding 15y ago
They are protesting the casino economy.

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