Name is confusing. Is this same as Nous Research Hermes Agent ?
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There are several cuisine specific classes in SF downtown. They are listed in eventbrite.com.
Also, any onsen city is worth going in the winter.
Books - Michael Lopp presents his full arc of transition in his book Small Things Done Well https://www.amazon.com/Art-Leadership-Small-Things-Done/
Newsletter - Louis Bacaj transitioned from SW Engrr to CTO. His newsletter can help.He is helpful over twitter DM well
Courses - David Kline runs a cohort course on maven.com on management. Worthwhile but expensive
Mentor - seek a mentor inside and outside the company.
- LCA for a candidate is filed only once per company as long as he is in the same job role. Factos like getting promoted to Senior X, recent pay-hikes would not get reflected in LCA.
- Wage listed may not include bonus, and other compensation. So dont leave money on the table while negotiating. Crosscheck with glassdoor.
- Companies also go through frequent job title changes, so it is possible you might miss more dataset hidden in other job titles.
- When you are looking for wage related idea, only latest year matters.
- Some people have mentioned earlier that H1B have 10-20% less salary. My personal experience says otherwise. There is always bound to be variation even among non H1B.
Finally - I am not a lawyer, and none of it are legal or professional advice.
I would suggest following this blog - http://highscalability.com
which goes into real life architecture of various services and gives behind-the-scene look into cloud and non-cloud architecture, and why they chose to use certain tools or technologies.
Core concepts in domains like virtualization, networking, authentication, scalability are the same whether you do it in your own data center or cloud.
My advice is to strengthen yourself in core concepts.
- Avoid seats in the middle. Period. Exception - exit row or front row seats
- Select seats which do not have seats in front
- Do careful consideration before taking emergency exit seats. The door is more than 50 pounds. You need to unlatch it , twist-turn to get the door inside or throw it out.
- Do not take seats beyond the half way of the plane. The more you go behind, more you hear engine noise and longer it takes to disembark
- Avoid seats near toilets. You need to put up with stink or people standing in your legroom
- Take aisle seats if the wheels-2-wheels time is more than 3 hours
- For frequent flyers - note down the sun direction if you are taking window seat. It will help you choose left window seat or right window seat. You do not want to face the sun all the way during the flight. You selected window seat for a view, it is stupid to close down the windows.
- If flying red eye, choose window seat because you can rest your head against the window.
Your definition of what friendpod is - includes the friendpod word itself. Also I had read 4 lines to get to the line what friendpod is actually is. It could be reworded as
friendpod is a group texting service. When one of you sends a text it goes to everyone in your friendpod. Use it for - your roommates - people you go out with on weekends - friends from home - a few coworkers
Friends from home ?. It doesn't make sense to me.
Also the other thing, there is a similar named website - friendspod.com ( a service in India) offering vaguely similar service. Choice of website name could have been better.
My $0.0.2
The companies you have quoted are 1. In pure service delivery (aka consulting line of business) 2. Run extra-ordinarily large project teams (100+ consultants) 3. Deal with business or enterprise software.
It is unfair to expect them to deliver any quality line of work when organizations deals with even 1 of 3. Your perception of Top big 5 consulting firms (for that matter..any country) delivering quality output might be misplaced if you haven't seen the quality of work at hackathons, startups. Outsourcing works for huge organizations which need to maintain enterprise systems running on legacy platform. It is recognized by most small business owners everywhere its just ain't their cup of tea. Small business projects runs on talent and execution. Not on mythical manpower or cost per hour rate.
I would suggest you to do an internship at SV,Colorado,Boston,NY and get involved in a startup or any non-business software company. It might open up another world perspective.
There are two sections of people you might face - those who need IT literacy so that they can move on with jobs like DTP, Admin Assisstant and those whose career would like to be built on computer science.
For IT literacy section, familiarity with MS Windows, MS Office (or OpenOffice alternative), Internet Browsing, Accounting packages like Tally, Computer and printer hardware assembling and troubleshooting
For Computer Science section, you will still need
Programming: GWBASIC (or latest MS Simple Basic) to get them familiar with programming and their syntatic structures. Database: SQL language based on DBASE III (or latest MySQL alternatives).
Teaching programming in C,C++ and Java always helps, as most schools and companies insists them as your passphrase in your resume to be even considered for written tests (talk about idiocrazy)
One another thing I faced during my career start, I could not afford any computer literature like books, magazines as it is way too expensive even for great Indian middle-class. So wherever possible, I try to sponsor computer magazines and books to local libraries and private lending libraries so my fellow citizens have better learning opportunities than me.