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xoail

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About xoail

likes to build software stuff.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #25430394

    Looks neat but I am not sure how anyone can prepare for coding interviews using flashcards.

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    Comment #24731150

    Per October bulletin, it is kinda odd that the filing dates moved up significantly but final action dates are still lagging for India. In your opinion/analysis why is that the case…

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    Comment #24730933

    Hi Peter, my AOS filing date is current as of October bulletin (India born). How crucial it is to apply for AOS asap compared to later? My employer's attorney is too slow and is fl…

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    Comment #24492965

    Whats up with everyone starting a newsletter these days? Congrats anyways, looks good. Looking forwards to it.

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    Ask HN: How to Find Career Mentors?

    Basically I am stuck at a job since last 8 years. Moved up the ladder from engineer levels to engineering manager (2nd highest layer in my company, only a VP is above me in my dept…

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    Comment #23393953

    Just do what Apple does. Own the certification and recognize trustworthy developers. Allow new devs to easily distribute and ban/block them if they turn malicious. Its not a perfec…

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    Comment #23393640

    This is so true. When you renew, you get back to square one with reputation.

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    Comment #23393626

    How am I nitpicking? I am just highlighting the fact that when I signed my app using Apple provided certs and notarization, there is no additional warning for the user while on MS …

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    Comment #23393573

    User are generally not tech savy to bypass Smartscreen warning by themselves.

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    Comment #23393533

    I recently went through this pain for an electron app. Non-EV code sign cert kept throwing SmartScreen warnings for most users. Acquiring an EV cert forced me to register a company…

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    Comment #21261256

    > The reality is that someone from India will accept much lower wages and poorer conditions than someone born in Australia, Sweden or Switzerland. People on H1-B live in the US and…

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    Comment #17366094

    Sales tax has one of the most complicated structures. Recently ADP built logic to tax according to counties and sub-zones (not just states and cities) to save millions on taxes for…

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    Comment #17366046

    Would love to see Stripe provide an API for this.

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    Comment #17191938

    I am working on a medical dictation app and the lack of any interoperability between 1000s of EHRs is mind boggling to me. There is absolutely no standards and like you mentioned i…

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    Comment #15802345

    I am more excited about this project https://github.com/AntonTheDev/ExtendaBLE Disclaimer: Created by one of my co-workers.

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    Comment #15366709

    I built this as free extension since the cost is almost negligible. I built a routing engine to find the cheapest provider to deliver an SMS. Currently only offering in United Stat…

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    Comment #15099434

    Thank you! I will be doing so.

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    Comment #15099356

    Hi Peter, I am Indian citizen on H1-B with GC EB2 priority date of 4/2011 and approved I-140. I've been with same company ever since in US. Is there a way to make my GC processing …

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    Comment #14992953

    There is only 1 metric I believe we all need to test during ideation. Will people use this? If so, why? This may involve various ways of answering that question. Things like, figur…

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    Comment #14992799

    Interesting. How would you use it though? Since most Mturks are random people with random background which may lead to incoherent response?

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    Comment #14894398

    The biggest hurdle I constantly face is in aligning my local team to be vary of remote teams. Somehow they tend to become impatient when remote folks have lots of questions.

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    Comment #14825151

    Yes this is a good option but an expensive one.

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    Comment #14825150

    Yes, this is so important and yet I see many EHR companies relax on it since its not heavily mandated.