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bankimon Tsunami alert as Chile hit by powerful earthquake

Looking at the latitude, can Tsunami go as far as Australia/NZ?

Congrats Neha! Way to go!

bankimon Show HN: Visa Explorer – Salaries, lawyers, companies of all H-1B in the USA

Nicely done. This is useful to gauge salary levels in your current company and also what companies in similar domain are paying in the area.

There is another website http://dolstats.com/ that gathers data from PERM applications. I've found it useful for comparing salaries when looking for new job.

bankimon Ask HN: Are there any startups making desktop apps?

AeroFS on multiple platforms including MacOS, Windows & Linux https://www.aerofs.com/

bankimon The Time Needed to Write “Effective Modern C++”

I've read couple of Effective C++ series books by him and I've found Effective STL to be the most useful book for my day-to-day C++ programming at work.

bankimon Ask HN: Is this a good package for an Engineering Manager in Seattle?

Is $150k stock per year or for 4 year period?

bankimon Spin-in startups from Cisco

From what I hear, Noiro Networks/Project is the next "spin-in" from Cisco http://www.networkworld.com/article/2176631/data-center/litt...

bankimon Syncthing: Open Source Dropbox and BitTorrent Sync Replacement

Alternative would be AeroFS (https://aerofs.com/) which also does P2P file sync.

bankimon Employee Equity

Kudos for a post focusing on startup employees and not founders!

bankimon Spouses of H-1B Visa Holders May Soon Be Allowed to Work in the U.S.

India and China are vast countries, the diversity should also take into account population/area of the country on which limits are enforced.

bankimon Intel invested $740 million to buy 18% of Cloudera

Cloudera has some of the best talent in distributed systems in the valley. Nice to see enterprise tech company grabbing one of the largest private financing round.

bankimon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2013)

Nimble Storage | San Jose, CA | Full Time

Nimble Storage is one of the fastest growing storage systems company. http://www.nimblestorage.com/company/awards.php

Looking for system software development engineers with expertise in C/C++/Java.

Please check careers page for specific positions: http://www.nimblestorage.com/company/careers.php

If interested email resume along with job position to bankim [at] nimblestorage [dot] com

bankimon Personal Finance for Young Professionals

This is great actionable advice!

bankimon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2013)

Nimble Storage | San Jose, CA | Full Time

Nimble Storage is one of the fastest growing storage systems company. http://www.nimblestorage.com/company/awards.php

Looking for system software development engineers with expertise in C/C++/Java.

Please check careers page for specific positions: http://www.nimblestorage.com/company/careers.php

If interested email resume along with job position to bankim [at] nimblestorage [dot] com

bankimon Google Shopping Express looking for Bay Area testers

Doesn't this compete directly with Instacart and eBay Now?

bankimon Dropbox Hires Rasmus Andersson, Facebook’s Mobile Design Guru

I would prefer to call Dropbox as mid-sized company with momentum

bankimon Dropbox Hires Rasmus Andersson, Facebook’s Mobile Design Guru

Dropbox is certainly out of startup realm and the time from now to possible IPO is good time to hire best engineering talent in the valley.

bankimon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2013)

Nimble Storage | San Jose, CA | Full Time | H1B welcome

Nimble Storage is one of the fastest growing storage systems company. http://www.nimblestorage.com/company/awards.php

Looking for system software development engineers with expertise in C/C++/Java.

Please check careers page for specific positions: http://www.nimblestorage.com/company/careers.php If interested email resume along with job position to bankim [at] nimblestorage [dot] com

bankimon Airbnb connect those in need with people who are able to provide free housing

This is noble!

bankimon Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (November 2012)

Nimble Storage | San Jose, CA | Full Time | H1B welcome

Nimble Storage is one of the fastest growing storage systems company. http://nimblestorage.com/company/awards.php

Looking for system software development and test engineers with expertise in C/C++/Java/Perl. Please check careers page for specific positions: http://www.nimblestorage.com/company/careers.php

If interested email resume along with job position to bankim [at] nimblestorage [dot] com

bankimon The Great Dropbox Space Race

That's a great idea to get users!

bankimon Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (October 2012)

Nimble Storage - San Jose, CA - Full time System Software Engineers with expertise in C/C++ or Java.

Fastest growing storage systems company http://www.businessinsider.com/nimble-storage-sequoia-accel-...

Check out careers page for job listings http://www.nimblestorage.com/company/careers.php

If interested email me your resume with job titles, in order of preference, to bankim [at] nimblestorage [dot] com

bankimon Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (September 2012)

Location: San Jose, CA - Full time Nimble Storage: One of the fastest growing storage systems company.

System software engineers are welcome! Positions: http://www.nimblestorage.com/company/careers.php

If interested email me at bankim [at] nimblestorage [dot] com

bankimon A Python Reading List by Wesley Chun

I took a class from Wesley Chun on Python while at VMware and he did a good job at teaching Python. Sadly apart from writing simple scripts at home I haven't gotten a chance to work on full-fletched Python project.

bankimon Poll: How much did you earn from your stock options during exit?

May be this deserves to be a separate question on HN :)

bankimon Poll: How much did you earn from your stock options during exit?

Do you mean do startups allow employees to forward exercise options and file for 83b? If yes, I'm interested in knowing that too.

bankimon Poll: How much did you earn from your stock options during exit?

When one exercises options that starts holding period for capital gains...

bankimon Ask HN: What are some good resources for learning distributed systems?

Following Quora question has great responses http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-seminal-papers-in-distribu...

More readings http://bytepawn.com/readings-in-distributed-systems/

Recommended text book Distributed Systems: Concepts and Design (5th Edition) by George Coulouris http://amzn.com/0132143011

bankimon Why code review beats testing: evidence from decades of programming research

In my previous job at VMware I've found code reviews to be very useful. Apart from finding bugs at early stage as pointed by this article:

- Code reviews are an effective means of knowledge transfer among engineers.

- It makes engineer more conscious while writing code since the patch will be read by others and hence less likely to cut corners/put hacks.

- Since the patch should be understood by others, author needs to ensure the code and the change/commit description are well documented.

- It lets your co-workers/manager know about the amount of progress made on a task.

bankimon Index Ventures Leads $4 billion Valuation Round In Dropbox

Looks like you might be interested in VDI(Virtual Desktop Infrastructure).

Disclaimer: I'm ex-VMware employee.