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Are the politicians pushing for this from rural areas? Seems like either they are serving their constituents, or they'll be voted out next time?

Do you actually phrase it as a request? I find that some social media averse people also tend to be curt/sharp with their requests (I totally understand the underlying concern though).

I feel like photos are nothing special, a lot of the friction/anger people are just responding to perceiving an accusatory tone. (But I'm willing to let the odd photo slide, so maybe dropping the worst arguments made life easier)

It's 0 % shocking to see the lack of empathy and schadenfreude, if you've been in H1B related discussion on this site over the years.

Then focus on mourning the dead, and don't waste time over some bank over the pond?

What actual metric do you monitor for "datadog outage"? Simply have the deploy tooling make an api request/something else?

Our playbook asks the deployer to take a look at dashboard X, but automating this would be nicer for some of our CD pipelines

Don't you have to get a crazy amount of miles on that car to make it worth paying close to six figures? How do most people not just walk away from that kind of deal?

probably just adding up 11% layoff last september (although the % maybe on different numbers)

This isn't a very insightful observation though, velocity is not the be all and end all of everything.

What newspaper do you read, that didn't cover this news today?

> Priyankaja

> for your juggard tech support

maybe they have had really bad experience working with Indians?

Disclaimer: This is the first time in my career there is a relative industry-wide slowdown, so my future decisions might be driven by other factors, like having to pay rent.

I go to India at least for 4 weeks in a year, sometimes longer. The typical 20 day PTO limit means I'm out of travel budget, have to do off the books deals with my manager, or dance with HR to get unpaid time off.

Since 2015, I instantly decline any job offer that doesn't have unlimited/flexible/discretionary time off. It's doubly useful: when the company has grown bigger, and hired middle managers who don't approve requests, it's time to switch teams/companies. I view it as a leading indicator of the culture changing. From my perspective, I've always been reasonable (I usually take 6 weeks off, and the max I've ever taken is 8).

Totally agree; my wife and I have 100% stopped burger places now, since most of them have replaced veggie patties with impossible/beyond meat.

The thing that grinds my gears (I'm a H1B holder) is that no one really knows the answer to this question, including immigration lawyers who post on linkedin). The general advice is to start the clock the day you are laid off.

works intermittently for me

By the time I finished reading this, I had forgotten what you were replying to. Well done!

Yeah it's just buggy (same phone here). Works 90% of the time for me (but 100% of the time for my wife, who uses a Pixel 5a).

It enabled this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33335391 which, I would argue, adds a lot of value.

Consider adding a disclaimer that you're the founder of Convex

>I’ve been a very early adopter of this tech (Kickstarter backer of Oculus), get zero motion sickness

Me too!

Have you written about your setup anywhere? Are you willing to dump some notes and share?

ha, me too, 4-5 years ago!

I won't really trash on google here, the recruiter gave me a _lot_ of useful tips/tricks that were generally helpful. But what made me sort of resentful was that the offer was (IMO) quite weak.

> Among the 8 or so software job offers I've accepted in my career, I don't think I've ever had one take more than 7 calendar days from initial contact to an offer.

same for me, it's usually <10 days from onsite->offer, then about 2months for h1 transfer and notice at current job.

I applied at google the last time I looked for a job (dec2020-jan 2021). The 5-7 stages interview process isn't even the worst thing about it. Unless you disagree in principle, it's basically a day's worth of time.

After confirming that the hiring committee had said yes, and a level, the recruiter found some teams that were atrocious (either they were looking for a completely different skillset, or so far out from my stated preferences). We then did a 2nd round of interviews and did a level jump (mid Feb-2021), and found a team in mid-March. After okay-s from both sides, it took them till mid-April to come up with an offer.

My entire h1 transfer for the company I chose took less than how long google took for the last step.

>No, buying from a coffee shop with trained baristas making coffee all day is a much better deal

Not the OP, but my bar for "good coffee" is pretty low. I think I'm not alone, and for a lot of us the investment is way smaller. In 2017, I spent about $500 for a grinder, kettle, scale, dripper and glass containers. I haven't spent a cent since then on infra, just ongoing expenses for beans (again, not terribly expensive given the bar).

I like an amazing coffee now and then, but the number of places where the $8 coffee is really amazing is vanishingly small, IMO.

Any reason to believe that's true for the subset of US residents that are on HN?

Re. markdown, why should I? Also, what's sales documentation, is that something I should have received?

Given the state of the market, choosing between many cars wasn't an option, but outside of that, I care that the process is fast, there aren't sneaky charges, and the interaction is respectful. I prefer all my paperwork printed out, and that's what they did by default.

We got a car two weeks ago, the experience at the Acura dealership was pretty good (of course, we got presented the bullshit warranty stuff in the finance manager's room, but we were able to turn everything down for a couple of minutes and things were ok).

We also had a good time at a Toyota dealership, but any car buying with them had a $6290 markup....

Do you always put random "#"s in your sentences? Is it a startup thing?

I guess you joined the industry 2 weeks ago.

My wife works at AWS (for the last ~5 years) and has generally loved being there. She says the parent post has truths (people write documents), and a lot of exaggerations.

So if that was the _only_ anecdote that made you rethink, hopefully this is a second anecdote that helps you make a choice!

(side note: If you dislike working with Indians it can be a terrible place, a good number of her colleagues have been Indians (she is one as well).)

Not a fan of the PM, but the gazette calls out a couple of exceptions, including: "Export will also be allowed on the basis of permission granted by the Government of India to other countries to meet their food security needs and based on the request of their governments"

I presume the list is 0 length right now, and it'll be interesting to see if it ever expands.