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Does the article mention this? Sorry I have been looking for this information and did not see it. Regardless I am a Mint Mobile user and I don’t think I gave my SSN to Mint. Hell I don’t even think they have my DOB.

I've yet to see a useful master's degree. Especially in the US and in STEM it seems like master's has just been a gate to the next thing.

I have a master's and one of the biggest reasons behind my education was the opportunity in the US after the master's. Sole benefit of it has been the OPT (~3 years work visa). I learned small things here and there during my education but as an SWE I don't use them at all and I forgot the rest of my classes. I wrote a thesis but it was nowhere near a PhD level research.

Additionally higher entry level areas such as ML and AI often require PhD so getting a master's is not getting your foot in the door.

Interesting, considering gaming, do you completely give up gaming? Or reduce it to moderate levels?

I am a non-native English speaker. “Even I” would come to my mind first and then that.

For some reason it means “I also” in Indian English and it sounds weird to non Indian dialect.

Like “Even I don’t understand this” sounds obnoxious to me because in my mind it means “Even I, an almighty being, don’t understand this, who are you to think you can understand it” but it means “I also don’t understand” in Indian English.

According to google “Even” as adverb: used to emphasize something surprising or extreme. So I assume what I think at first is what native English speakers also think.

I hear this daily and I know what it meant to mean now, I had a friend who did not know this and thought her Indian colleague was talking down to her.

While I get what you mean, data has the profile links too. Matching the data to real facebook profiles would be near? impossible if the source was not Facebook.

This idea assumes that one I am familiar with grep and vim or nano and two that I was using my terminal already. Which can be true or wrong. But, the discussion is not about whats the best way for searching for text in a file set. I am just talking about whats the use case in which I prefer VSCode over IntelliJ.

This is great but it has a lot of limitations. I will give it a try thanks.

Sometimes I just want to read code with highlighting. I want to open the project and search for some text in all the files. I don't want to wait for IntelliJ to take 30 seconds to open.

This is a cool project. As a user entering information in a pdf file with hundreds of input boxes stresses me. Hiding the document until after I enter all the information makes it easier to file tax.

But it would not be feasible to use this for most of the people. Tax is often vastly complex and it ignores all those parts. I don't have any capital gain, any properties or any uncommon income such as from rent but even for me this would not work because I get 1099-INT forms from bank (for 1.25$) and there is only W2 option under income.

I am also a nonresident so I need to use 1040NR another block there but I am not even talking about that.

Not exactly a big deal I just did not think it was feasible but the exclusion is reasonable.

Kind of off point but I actually do have a compulsory military service in my country of birth as well.

This makes sense you are right. Voting rights never even came to my mind.

I am a green card applicant basically waiting to become a US citizen in the next 5 - 10 years. Comments are mostly blaming the person for not renouncing it but is renouncing really necessary?

If I end up going back to the country I was born in and leave the US what benefit do I have as a US citizen? This has been a scary scenario for a long time for me and I don't think I would be able to pay tax to the US with my income in that country.

If I basically stop being a citizen of the US by moving to another country why do I need to continue paying for it?

Is there any other country that does this?

Edit: This post made me finally read about this scenario. FEIE [1] exclusion for about $105,000 as of 2020. Is a relief because I can never earn that amount with the exchange rate in my country of birth.

1. https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/fore...

I wonder what it takes to take down Uber and alike. These companies keep losing money but still going on.

Is it possible that they pivot the whole business to Uber Eats only?

I've read only the The Mythical Man-Month from this list. It is amazing how the project management really did not change much. Similar ideas (sometimes same) to similar problems.

I would recommend watching this talk [0] from Kevlin Henney to anyone who likes that book.

[0]: https://youtu.be/AbgsfeGvg3E

I have been a hackintosh user for the last 3-4 years. I was shocked when I had problems with the GTX1060 I bought. I am using High Sierra because of this.

IIRC AMD hardware was the one without support for a long time. It is weird how it changed all of a sudden.

I am definitely amazed and grateful like others by the work involved in writing this book. The attention to detail is visible from the first parts of the README. Clear explanations for everything.

I am also a sucker for clean written Makefiles. I have "Managing Projects with GNU Make" book that I keep in my to-read list (shamefully putting reading it off). Checking out the Makefile in the repository was a delight.

I also would like to know. Does it even count as intellectual property of the company?

Nice article! I always wonder what the legal aspects of publishing a reverse engineering article for a private API are? Does the company that the API belongs to have rights to an obligatory take down request?

Just about a week ago, there was another thread about Macbook 16-inch Fan [1]

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22207018

There are tools that can measure some sensor temp and control the fan speed according to that on Mac. I was using it on my older MacBook Pro and the fan usage was relatively better than when it was set to auto.

> I think the "didn't fit into Canadian culture, or found something imminently attractive about US life" may be reading too much into things.

That is probably true for Canadians. It is definitely easier, faster, and more accessible for a Canadian to immigrate to the US. Fewer reasons can be enough.

For immigrants from other countries even though good jobs is one of the priorities it does not always justify immigrating. There are often other additional factors that push people to immigrate.

Using search engines efficiently not just Google.

Tracking your online privacy and personal information.

As unfortunate as this is, I think this only applies to Indians and Chinese. I was surprised to see Yoluk did not want to bother applying to jobs in the US.

I am a foreign person from ROW (Rest of the World) in the US studying with F1 visa and trying to immigrate here via employment based options.

I have friends who also immigrated to Germany and Britain. The process is definitely easier and guaranteed there but for us ROW, the process does not look so bad to me right now. Maybe I just don't know how it should be.

After I graduate with F1, I can work up to 3 years with my OPT, companies apply to H1-B in that period. Some start the H1-B process even before you graduate if you have a bachelor's degree already. You have 4 chances in H1-B in the end.

EB-2 green card is also an option for us, as far as I know I can get that in less than 2 years. I've read about people who applied to EB-2 directly without H1-B and got that in their STEM OPT extension duration.

Finally, even though it is a slim chance, there is also diversity visa lottery. I have friends who got picked from DV lottery while studying here with F1. Everything became easier for them.

The US is still attractive to people like me, I don't think how this article portrays the immigration is true.

> the more of a noob you are locally, the less of a noob you are globally.

> if you stay in your home country, you'll feel less of a noob

> And yet you'll know more if you move.

I experienced this in the US when I was scheduling interviews for an internship with a US company. I had waited for the interviewer for half an hour and shoot them an email asking for rescheduling after they did not show up.

Turns out I forgot the timezone difference. In all my (quarter-century)life, I had never needed to check timezone in the same country. Felt like the biggest noob. I know more in general now but, even for a simple thing like scheduling an interview, I became "locally" noob.

In my experience good first issues are mostly hidden. Most of the time, big projects with large communities use that label in issues and at least for me the issues are almost never good first issue.

Projects with at most one or two regular contributors often are easier to get into. They are relatively smaller and there is a higher chance that the open issue is simple but no one had time. But the label is not used in those issues.

I have several contributions that are only 1-5 lines to projects with more than 10K stars. Issues were definitely good first issues but no one had time to work on them, let alone labelling them.

It is probably a bit out of context but my car's battery died yesterday. Apparently I left the headlight open and for some reason it did not beep while I was leaving the car.

I learned how to jumpstart a car. Definitely a valuable skill.

I've applied online mentioning HN.

> if any of them address what I think is crucial. Once you have all your HTML and CSS and JavaScript all ready to go, how do you actually got about putting that webpage online the right way for the modern internet, including basic security best practices.

I consider this the seperating difference between a good and bad tutorial.

That is a really cool app. I have been using Miniplay for this. Already installed it and uninstalled Miniplay.

Edit: Oh, and it is always on top, you are my favorite open source contributor.

It seems like the link is just the poster image itself again nothing else. Same as the links in previous terms.

I was going to ask if yesterday's election was a decision point for moving to Istanbul from Bodrum?

I think people underestimate the language barrier here. I think it is not going to be "hard", it is going to be impossible. Even in Istanbul, especially in some districts you can't find a single person who can speak English.

I am a Turkish student in the US right now getting my masters. Turkey would be the last place I would move to for many reasons. First being the language barrier and the corruption. I know the advantage in expense but I would guess there are countries with better opportunities.