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zpk | 12 years ago | on: How EverTrue Hired Their First H-1B Visa Employee

"But they are lucky to be allowed to work 80-100 hours a week in order to keep their job and visa status, and to pack up the next day if they get fired."

Wow so off base its funny, that's the blanking problem.

zpk | 13 years ago | on: Ruchi Sanghvi, Dropbox VP, testifies on immigration reform [video]

Nothing like the CEO's of the top tech firms saying Americans are unfit for the job, lets bring in the younger cheaper labor. Still waiting to see the boatload of 35+ H1B's at top tier salaries to come in, since frankly there are no 35+ American developers ready to do the job. Free trade or we die. Hey Manufacturing, how lucky are you that NAFTA was passed 20 years ago?

zpk | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: is it possible to make high quality movie really low cost?

The answer is yes, and no. Its the talent that costs money, and deservedly so. If you can land that cheaper then go for it. Check out Robert Rodriguez too, he makes movies for 1/3 the typical Hollywood cost...he gives solid advice on learning the craft.

zpk | 13 years ago | on: H1B Visa Lottery for FY 2014

"then allocate any remaining H1-Bs for consultancy agencies from India" The idea of companies eliminating a source of relatively cheap labor is unheard of, not gonna happen. While I agree with your statement, this is the crux of the problem, and why I am against 20k increase in STEM visas. Its bad for every worker, US citizen, Green Card Holder, and Visa alike in this country.

zpk | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: How does one get into contracting for financial institutes?

Financial industry as a whole is under a lot of stress right now. The jobs opps out there are shrinking...Banks talk about going lean, AKA layoffs. If you can't get into an investment bank, go for a tertiary opportunity. Try retail or some insurance company for a year or two.

You need Java or C++. Web/SOA/ and for some reason they all want multithreading experience, even though 80% of the work is server side. Familiarize yourself with the Java Concurrency package.

zpk | 13 years ago | on: JetBrains is working on a cross-platform C++ IDE

I love IntelliJ, I sound like I work for them. I don't.... If you do Python web development, specifically Django you can debug your application with that. Never tried straight Python, but probably that too.

zpk | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: What code-editor do you use?

Unfortunately I can't gauge that at all. They don't pre-announce, I got my license of IntelliJ last December...I discovered the news here. I think they have a twitter acct which you can subscribe to, and they mention sales on that.

zpk | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: What code-editor do you use?

"I also bought a bunch of other IDE's on JetBrains' end of of the world sale including Intellij Idea, WebStorm, RubyMine and PyCharm"...RubyMine and PyCharm are IntelliJ plugins, check them out before dropping $$ on the license upgrade.

zpk | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: What code-editor do you use?

IntelliJ, for almost everything...best $50 I ever spent. Seriously, Java, PHP and even my first Rails project. Missing my favorite MVC framework(CI) for PHP though.

Wait for the sale.

zpk | 13 years ago | on: I'm a loser and I want to change that - now

Glad you mentioned this, the point often gets missed...Colonel Sanders didn't start KFC till his 40's. Dangerfield didn't get into comedy(again) until he was in his mid 40's. I wish we could find some examples in the tech arena, to break this under 30 stereotype... Actually one person comes to mind, Larry Ellison, he found Oracle in 1977 ~age 33.

zpk | 13 years ago | on: Study: High-Skilled Immigrants Are Neither Better Nor Brighter Than U.S. Workers

If there was a real talent shortage and a real Visa need, then we would allow H1-B's to self sponsor. Let the company elicit one visa and employee, and have the Fed gov garnish 5-10k over the first year from the employees' wages. After that he/shes a free man/woman to look where they choose. Stay employed, stay out of trouble, and pay another 5-10k and get an additional 3 years. The visa is tied to the person, which is the way it should be. That's a semi compromise, but I still would keep the # capped at < 100k new per year. As it stands with 8% UE we had an increase of 110k in 2010 to 129k in 2011 , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-1B_visa#H-1B_Applications_App....

zpk | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: In light of Rails security is now a good time to learn Django?

If you want a good start to Django follow this guy's setup. The virtual env made managing my libraries a lot easier.

http://www.jeffknupp.com/blog/2012/02/09/starting-a-django-p...

Rails the framework I think is better than Django. I just found conceptually it had more of what I wanted already in there. However coming from a Java/Perl background, Python was easier for me to grasp and read over Ruby. And timing wise, I wouldn't deploy or upgrade a Rails app until I felt comfortable with the security issues being addressed. Hell, I wouldn't want to surf the internet with an app running on my computer today.

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