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This is not true. Green cards are distributed across countries respecting the 7% limit, but the remaining green cards are distributed to those in the backlog.

This depends on the state, e.g. in California: "Strategic default works in California because this is a "non-recourse" state. Unlike in many states, a mortgage lender in California…

The numbers at the bottom of the check are all that someone needs to initiate an ACH transfer out of your account!

The company becomes equally less valuable after a buyback. Consider a company with value of $1000, with 100 shares outstanding. Each share is $10. Buying back 10 shares, the compan…

It's a little more complicated than that. Say a company is worth $1000, and has 100 shares outstanding, for a share price of $10. They can pay a dividend of $100, reducing their va…

Yes! Funnily enough, the fact that equity grants are "options" to purchase stock at a strike price less than the real share price is much less valuable than the optionality you des…

Interestingly enough, you don't need Apple's support to do that: https://github.com/st3fan/dovecot-xaps-daemon . Apple didn't have to build an API for them, they simply provided do…

My interpretation is that "O(...)" informally means "Theta(...) in the average/amortized case". In the average case, Quicksort is Theta(n log n).

I was about to correct you until I realized you used big-O instead of big-theta notation. Informally we tend to use big-O to mean big-theta which only adds to the confusion.

I would argue it's not the difference in wealth, but the cost of living, that entices these people to move to poorer areas. The greater difference in wealth may in fact hold them b…

How would you implement analog parity? Parity doesn't translate well as a concept into the analog space. You can take an analog signal and "quantize" it into sixteen possible value…

Am I the only one who misread this as an API that returns the number of shares outstanding in TWTR?

I wouldn't segregate the general approaches to life in that sense. Providing different prices to different groups of people does not result in "everyone winning". It's a classical …

Go made choices that makes it a good language to be compiled to. Compilation-wise: it's incredibly fast and compiles to static machine binaries. Runtime-wise: it has great concurre…

class="two-thirds columns" enforces a strong coupling between the HTML and how it is presented. To change how wide a column is, you change its class. To change how wide an image is…

It's very doable, but Sass or similar is necessary. For example: http://neat.bourbon.io/

I'm surprised at the lack of semantic meaning in most popular grid frameworks. Years ago, we moved away from layout with tables because is a horrible way to separate presentation f…

Properly implemented crypto takes a constant number of instructions to encrypt/decrypt, regardless of key, plaintext, etc. Time to sleep() would vary across processors, os-es, and …

http://www.mycareercity.com/defaultC.aspx is launching pretty soon (i.e. within a week). They're aimed at more junior-level developers I think.