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felixmc | 9 years ago | on: How Utah Reduced Chronic Homelessness

Your comment is a little misleading...Rio Grande and Pioneer park are literally right next to each other. And other than those couple streets in that corner of downtown, you'd be hardpressed to find any other gathering of homeless people.

The Road Home (mentioned in the article) and a Catholic food bank and other homeless services are located in that area, hence the reason for the homeless density in that area.

source: I live in downtown salt lake

felixmc | 9 years ago | on: Trump Is Right: Silicon Valley Using H-1B Visas to Pay Low Wages to Immigrants

In the early 2000s my dad left his cushy job as an electrical engineer at a nuclear power plant in eastern europe to come to the US with an H1B to fix AC systems for a company owned by an eastern european that only hired immigrants.

They would count the price of plane ticket, technical training classes, english classes, etc to a "debt" that you had to pay off. You would get paid a salary, but depending on how much money you made the company each month, this debt would either go up or down, and the company claimed you wouldn't be able to leave the company until you paid off this debt (eventually my dad figure out that this was not true or at least not legal, but this policy still goes on as we speak).

You can imagine most people who worked there struggled for years to pay off said debt.

felixmc | 10 years ago | on: How to Deploy Software

Would someone mind explaining the argument for spaces over tabs? Possibly naive young dev here.

felixmc | 11 years ago | on: Beta users wanted for new social network platform

it could use some UX work (just simple things like where you position fields or how you indicate things are required)

also, when I filled out my profile and submitted, I got JSON representation of my profile back

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