One data point: it is not bad at all. I use Firefox as my primary browser(having used chrome on and off for many years) and it works well for almost everything. There are occasional sites that don't behave with ff and for those I go to chrome. Even the andoid version is not bad (the only problem is that is is harder to avoid chrome due to smaller issues with websites).
A few points to point out: from your post, it sounds like Amazon never applies for h1b which is not true. They just don't prefer to use it for a person who is not already in USA. They do apply for the visa where it makes sense.
If they chose to go h1b route, they will have to apply for a visa and then wait for 6 months before the person can actually work(and the developer could still choose to not join thereby making the visa application useless). Clearly, going through Canada is a better option for them.
Thanks for taking the time out to answer questions!
I am from India and am in US on H1B with gc process underway in EB2 category. I (along with a fellow friend) have been thinking of doing something on our own but are always discouraged by the immigration process. If we were to start something on our own, what are our options? H1b where you have a majority stake seems to not be an option. Is there an alternate way to do this?
That's the general idea but USCIS also will want to see a board of directors that neither you nor your co-founder can control so if the two of you are on the board, there needs to be a third board member at a minimum.
[Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. I am especially not your lawyer, or anyone else's. This is not legal advise. I recommend anyone in this situation retain an attorney and ask them for legal advise on this subject.]
Get an angel check. One share in a billion leaves neither cofounder with a controlling interest.
For what it's worth, I recommend giving more like 2% for a sole angel, assuming their contribution runs little further than satisfying this control problem. But technically speaking, whatever somebody agrees to should solve the control problem.
I had the same question. I clicked on a few links that I thought would lead to the product description but they didn't. Eventually I realized that the domain was open.buffer.com. Once you go to buffer.com, you see the product description. From the homepage:
"The best way to drive traffic, increase fan engagement and save time on social media."
They kinda do. Over time, the skills of a dev and SRE diverge a bit but at the core they are the same. I am a dev at Google but went through a program called Mission Control[1]. (It was a great learning experience and helped me do my job as a dev much better.)
As others have said, there is a pretty intensive training that you go through and obviously you learn a lot when you are handling things...
This argument doesn't really make sense to me. What browser, OS and device are you using to post this comment? Someone made profit when you bought the device, bought the OS and/or browser.
A healthy system needs some kind of motivation. In economies, that is profits/money. What's wrong with that? (I know I am being simplistic here but...)
> A healthy system needs some kind of motivation. In economies, that is profits/money. What's wrong with that? (I know I am being simplistic here but...)
Simple.
I buy a thing, I get something – in that moment the contract is over.
VW doesn’t come to me every 3 days with "You bought a car, to continue using it, take this and drive to Hanover and deliver it there".
When I bought my computer, or its parts, I bought them, I put them together, and that’s it. The manufacturer has never asked me to do work for them, or pay for them again.
I use ARCH Linux and Firefox – projects done by volunteers, and they profit by having a better product for themselves and others.
Google profits from ads, and from selling data. That’s a tradeoff, and a reason for me to try to use as few Google products as possible.
But when government organizations use ReCaptcha, and I have to work without pay for Google, then I have no choice, and it is not something I agree with.
The devices that I buy generally don't ask me to do work for them. If they do, for example by spying on my behavior, then I'm not so happy. On the other hand, I may accept some spying/doing work for companies if I get something in return - which happens for some Google products, like search.
When doing a captcha, I don't really get anything. It's something I have to do because the website I'm using has the problem that they can't find a better way to identify bots. So I do a captcha, fine. But, if there's benefits for whatever company offers them, i.e. I'm doing work for them without getting anything in return, or without everybody getting anything in return (the GPL option), then I'm again not so happy.
Napster, torrents, and the free internet warped an entire generation's perspective on things. This sort of "everything should be free" attitude isn't going away any time soon.
I can say "Open Spotify" and it will open the app. Then I have a button on the helmet that sends the Play command. But I can't do anything robust like playing a specific artist.
Perhaps if I used Google Music the integration would be built out.
On my Nexus 6p saying "OK Google play 'artist'" will open Spotify and start playing the top songs of that artist. This does not work to play specific playlists though.
Heh, I always get a bit of a giggle when I read sentences like this that end with a ":)" or similar emoji.
I have this weird mental image of your desk being being suspended above a tank of sea bass with lasers, and unless you tell me about how awesome the office is on hacker news, they're going to lower you in.
So you comply, but you include that little emoji at the end as a subtle cue that maybe not all is as it seems.
I really hope I'm not responsible for you being fed to the sea bass.
I think that is just a habit(or reflective of my state of mind). They do not sacrifice employees for good reviews on Hacker News (at least not that I am aware of...).
/note-to-self: I should really find out if there is a hidden room somewhere in this office where this happens
Both. I have a 7 month old and just finished working on a decently sized project (amp-analytics[1]). Both my team and manager have been super supportive through the process. I don't remember when I worked full 40 hours a week (that does not mean the work did not get done. Just that I could work when the child allowed me to.) Except for working from home on occasions (1-2 days a month), I didn't work remotely much so I do not know the policies around it.
