titomc

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by titomc 10y ago
ex-H1B here, You have good skills, once you graduate, you will have to depend on your luck to get into the H1B system currently. Why don't you get MS from good universities in Canada and enter the express entry immigration system which
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by titomc 10y ago
Just a drop in the ocean.
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by titomc 10y ago
ex-H1B Indian here, now permanent resident of Canada. Left US for good, because I was being exploited by tech firms taking advantage of my H1B status. This is a welcome change in my opinion. H1B workers were exploited by the Indian body sho
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by titomc 10y ago
Proud to be a permanent resident of Canada now. I left US (H1B visa) some months back.
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by titomc 10y ago
The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) is a central government agency of India. Its objective is to collect the biometric and demographic data of residents, store them in a centralised database, and issue a 12-digit unique ide
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Unique Identification Authority of India's Developer Portal(authportal.uidai.gov.in)
1 points by titomc 10y ago|1 comments
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by titomc 10y ago
2008 subprime lending crisis happened only in America. Lets think outside of America for this one. Lenders outside America are not idiots. Most of them lend on a solid collateral and someone from the family will have to have co-sign the loa
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by titomc 10y ago
Part deux: What Asian students go through once they get their degrees from American Universities. They go down the rabbit hole of America's broken immigration system, starting with OPT visa, then H1B (read lottery luck, not based on sk
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by titomc 10y ago
If something can be done similar to a Klout score based on frequency of posts, ranking, topic distribution, it would be great.
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by titomc 10y ago
me too and I found this very useful with the 'engineering_blogs.opml'
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A Curated List of Software Engineering Blogs(github.com)
92 points by titomc 10y ago|17 comments
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by titomc 10y ago
Looks like you will have to disagree with the majority of HN community on this one.
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by titomc 10y ago
The companies have these "schemes" in place. If you look at an LCA posting, these scheming companies will post a salary range, eg : 75k-110k. 75k being the prevailing wages from the DOL for that area. This range means the company
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by titomc 10y ago
" Most of the time it is just easier to hire Asian/Indian employees because they are readily available " - I doubt that. It's "easier" to hire because they "agree" to lower wages and its easier to ret
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by titomc 10y ago
Why am I not surprised ? Yet another H1B discrimination story to rant about. (though the article do not say anything about the 'Indian' people's visa status, isn't it obvious ?)
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The Canada experiment:is this the world's first 'postnational' country?(theguardian.com)
1 points by titomc 10y ago|0 comments
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by titomc 10y ago
I am from the state (Kerala) which is called the "Spice Garden of India". Little did I know about the history of Nutmeg that grows in abundance at my home in my state.
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by titomc 10y ago
What backups your claim ? The same online articles ? Have you had first hand experience of the same ? I have lived in both countries and have experienced personally what does it take to live as an H1B worker as well as in Dubai on a work pe
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by titomc 10y ago
US is no better if you want to speak about indentured servitude, that is H1B. https://medium.com/@seeminglyquiet/modern-day-slavery-in-ame...
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TransitApp rolling out crowdsourced real time transit information(medium.com)
2 points by titomc 10y ago|0 comments
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by titomc 10y ago
Kerala, India -- The world's first solar airport no longer pays for electricity http://money.cnn.com/2016/03/14/technology/india-cochin-sola... USA -- whaat ?
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by titomc 10y ago
Automatics makes the driver hands free for texting,snapchatting,makeup. A recipe for accidents. No I don't have data to back this claim.
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by titomc 10y ago
All the black money is in gold, dollars & euro ! or at the swiss banks. This is not going to smoke out the big players in this game.
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by titomc 10y ago
AMEX is closed loop network. The advantage possibly would be huge troves of data about customer spending habits, if they expose those in future(obviously without PII)
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Amex for Developers(developer.americanexpress.com)
152 points by titomc 10y ago|86 comments
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by titomc 10y ago
A "technical" recruiter asked me "how comfortable are you with 'tomcat' programming language". I said I am not at all comfortable with "tomcat" programming language because I have to invent one. He wa
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by titomc 10y ago
Very good insights on buying a side project. I too have some side projects. But I never want to go fulltime into it because it's using APIs of some well known services. I always say " Never play soccer in someone else's groun
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by titomc 10y ago
wait till you scale.
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by titomc 10y ago
I will admit that I have done this (bg repeat) too, on my lycos,geocities sites.
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by titomc 10y ago
One spammer realised that he is talking to a bot and asks the bot about the three laws. http://www.mlooper.com/conversations/3072

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