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Ask HN: I'm desperate to stay in Denmark. Anyone need a great web/ios dev?

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Re: Ask HN: I'm desperate to stay in Denmark. Anyone need a great web/ios dev?

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You can try contacting your embassy ( http://denmark.usembassy.gov/ ) and see what options you have available. It sounds like you're pretty overqualified to be in Denmark. :) You could also try to hit up the Robocat guys ( http://robocatapps.com/ ) and ask if they know someone in the community who have any open positions. I don't know how well they're doing, but Planely ( http://www.planely.com/ ) offer visas for emp…

> overqualified to be in Denmark explain

I think the overqualified here probably is in respect to the points system. You gain points for the level of education that you have, what your nationality is etc. For example, I've got points to burn here being an EU national with a bevy of academic qualifications.

Re: Ask HN: I'm desperate to stay in Denmark. Anyone need a great web/ios dev?

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> overqualified to be in Denmark explain

Ya, that's weird. From my own anecdotal experience, Denmark has the maybe highest per capita computer science PhDs in the world.

also, Danes came up with or were leads in the development of Ruby on Rails, PHP, C#, Turbo pascal, C++, Delphi, Google maps, Google wave, the V8 javascript engine for Chrome, and the Varnish cache.

Pretty good for a country with half the population of New York I'd say.

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