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Hi Peter, thank you for this! I understand that when a company terminates an H1-B worker, the company must offer to pay for the return flight. But what happens if the termination o…

Software Engineer 15+ years / Ex-Twitter ex-Twilio Location: Melbourne, Australia Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes (SF, NY, Singapore, London) Technologies: Scala, Java, Go, Ty…

Location: Melbourne, Australia Remote: Hybrid preferred, but fully remote OK Willing to relocate: Open to a few places, just ask Technologies: Java/Scala, Go, Javascript/Typescript…

Ok, that's a possible reason. But shouldn't there be some amount of human intervention for false positives? There wasn't a flamewar brewing in this thread.

This item was on the front page just a minute ago with 11 points. It grew to 134 but is now all the way on the fourth page. Something is suspicious.

Encryption is mandatory. Currently, the implementation uses SRTP, but the proposal is eventually to use SCTP over DTLS over UDP. [ http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-rtcweb-data…

The author defines "kiasu" as the fear of losing (out) which leads to avoiding risk, but I've always thought of it as the fear of missed opportunity which leads one to take risks. …

Really, no one thought this was cool at all?

There are two parts to example: the plain functions, and the composition. CoffeeScript can make the plain functions look different, but the composition is the strangest looking; I …

Since you're familiar with arrowlets, would you mind having a look at samsara? [samsara]: http://lcfrs.org/samsara/docs/dragndrop.html

> Girish, if you are reading - I'm in Australia, if you could - please don't turn this into a wider "Australians enjoy India bashing meme". We already have a hard time here, and ra…

Startups with co-op business models should be called "co-ups".

Sure, there's no disputing that the fixed pie fallacy exists, but you have not made a convincing argument that this situation is an instance of the fallacy.

I'm not sure I see how this is a fallacy. Can you explain even anecdotally?

Let's bring back the example in the parent: you see a coworker down the hall, wave, then walk towards him only to pass him awkwardly. In this scenario, the wave coupled with walkin…

Forget the other replies. The key to avoiding social awkwardness is all about broadcasting your expectations, and reading (then responding to) others' expectations. Socially awkwar…

Yuri Lifshits made an entertaining presentation at yesterday's SHDH with data from graph.facebook.com. Link: http://ediscope.labs.yahoo.net/ .

Meta-contrarians are just early-adopters of the synthesis stage of a dialectic: "Hegelian dialectic... a thesis, giving rise to its reaction, an antithesis, which contradicts or ne…

Thanks for that! I was looking at your PHP extension a few months ago, but didn't come to a decision on integrating something that users would need to install in addition to the st…

Can I get some thoughts on http://github.com/luciferous/pip ? It's an interface and a web server (and framework). Its a ways to becoming near a standard. I think it "fights" PHP st…

Yay for ReviewBoard!

This is the best advice. You don't have to leave a person, you can recruit them. It also works with people with whom you don't get along at first.