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FYI. This was written in 2010 although it feels relevant even now. Didn't catch it until the mention of Amazon SimpleDB.

This chart is entirely misleading. In any given year, there are only 85k new H1B visas. That's it, it has not grown nor shrunk. Reason for increase in population shown here is H1B …

Not to take away anything here, but hooks are present in other similar products. Atleast one example here - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonq/latest/qdeveloper-ug/com...

I think the argument was that it has nothing to do with it, companies don't sit and follow a rule that prioritizes hiring H1Bs (talking about companies like Facebook here). In fact…

I don’t know why but your assumption that others are skating by with what they know rubbed me the wrong way (maybe because I have been on other side of this). There are likely many…

I wouldn't recommend this website for visa information. For example, I put in "United States" -> "Peru" - it says visa is required and when clicked on more information it takes me …

I found "Designing Data-Intensive Application" book to be really helpful introduction to learning more interesting details about distributed systems. The book provides a gentle int…

Just to provide an alternate perspective here, this seems to tilt the incentives towards people that are not working already. I wonder how many folks have time to take a week or mo…

Retro amazon, http://www.amazon.com/

Its Mars orbiter, not lander.

You keep moving the goal post. ISRO delivered some fantastic stuff on a very low budget, this is not about whether ISRO will be able to compete in future or not. Infact going by th…

It's not about the number of lives but it is about the state of fear that grips the state afterwards. That anything can happen and government has no power to stop that.

"Most of being nice, in a software context, is about being considerate. Not unnecessarily trash talking other people's stuff. Not going out of your way to be a jerk. Try to be help…

Are you sure about this? Reading wikipedia suggests only 90mg or higher unit dosage falls under Schedule II narcotic. You may not be guilty after all :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wik…

great blog.. i love how each article has a different layout emphasizing the content.

thanks.. used the third one!

wow.. this is incredibly juvenile. you should need to appreciate other people's opinions too apart from yours

Cool project. Identifying common news and showing them as one that spans across will look awesome