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Not really. AFAIK, after you obtained a priority date with an approved I-140, you can still switch job while keeping your priority date. But you need the new company to transfer H1-B and re-sponsor the GC application again given the job skills are matching.

Global influence is not just about GDP (not sure if there's a power influential index for each country).

We all know American culture for heavily depended on automative and roads don't work for most countries, probably only work in US.

I do agree completely with your statement on rural area with population. It's a fact that nobody can argue with.

But to think about it more, why do people have to live in such lifestyle with so much open "wasted" spaces?

Why everyone "has a car already"? All we talk about is the American lifestyle which most American still refuse to adapt or look different.

(Being a Chinese grew up in Canada, and now working/living in the Bay)

In my opinion, most people in the valley or in North America still refuse to give up their lifestyle. They look for something like self-driving cars, all electric-powered "personal" vehicle to invest. And those still drive on the same road/interstates/highway infrastructure and don't give you the benefits compare with high-speed rails.

They don't recognize the real priorities - how to transport millions people everyday efficiently, cost-effectively, and most environmentally friendlies.

They also don't recognize local economy, local businesses thrive with these connected network. It is proven to be the case in China and Japan.

High-speed rail network is what people want - to get from point A to point B quickly. It's not something even the most efficient self-driving car with the best MPG electric-powered vehicle can scale for millions of people everyday.

Instead of investing into some new technologies, they seem like they refuse to take decades of proven technology and just use it in US (high-speed trains were first invented in Japan in the 60s)

But as I understand very well in the culture here, the politics, the corruption, and the oil/automative conglomerate will never make this happen for the actual good for the people.

I would without a doubt to say the US is in its downfall as it didn't pick the priorities to fix the root of the problem.

Mind to share the list of .plists that you have deleted and disabled?

Yet another language - excuse for my lack of context/background, but why? If you go into a job now, how many will expect you to code in Pyret?

Don't get me wrong, I love learning new languages and every language does give me a slightly different perspective when it comes to programming. It sometimes change how I think in my mind to code.

But do we need a new language just for the sake of someone wants to write a new language?

I used Readability in the past and it works great! But then they too shut it down on Sept 30.

Is it really required to found a startup inside US to have a greater chance of success? Or more specifically in the bay?

I have seen many successful startups found in other countries (such as China) Alibaba, Tencent, etc.

Is this a push that all talented software engineers HAVE TO move to the bay to become successful?

I'm very doubtful on that claim.

I'm not sure I agree entirely with you. As a startup engineer who already had some 14+ hrs work day, and when getting home have a family + kids waiting for me fill in a role as a father. I'm not even sure we have extra time for a side project for fun on the weekends. To me, being a dad is always take higher priorities.

I guess people like us will never be good engineering hire. That's fine. Standing on the shoes of a startup founders, I probably wouldn't wanna hire someone who's not committed either.

I see no exit for this. I'm preparing to be fade out by the younger blood and eventually lose my engineering value.

So much for "disruption" in startup ideology, but I guess it is China that starts bring them back to reality. This is China, nothing is fair even you optimistically believe it to be.

I'm not sure what's the fantasy on China. I'd personally prefer winning the 6b population markets over the 1.3b.

Sure, it takes time, but in a long run it is more sustainable. But obviously in a startup world, a sustainable business without the hyper-growth is not much valued.

I have the MiBand, and it drops hundreds of times. I had eventually lost it. Sure, it's only $10, but it doesn't make sense to buy anything just because it's cheap.

And I have the earbuds too. Sure another $10, but the sound is very mediocre compare to the stock headphones I got.

I also have one of their TVBox, bought it mainly for my Chinese parents. None of the channels work anymore oversea.

Sure, $10 who cares. But I would rather spend bit more on something that last longer than a manufacturer producing more electronic junk to this already-polluted planet.

After using few Xiaomi products, no thanks.

If I want a Linux dev box, there are other options too.

How about with kids? With a family? With aging parents that needed help while you are the only child? With a H-1B visa on the edge of being kick out because I'm heading to the 6 yrs limit?

I felt this way because that's exactly where I'm in now and I don't seem to find a way out. Need some advice here.

Anyone knows whether there's similar thing for Mesos ?

Well, it's not really a law, but attorney has suggested that CBP normally don't terminate H-1B at border vs TN as H-1B does have a dual intent, so they can't just say you have an "immigration intention" to deny your visa at border.

And that's definitely an advantage over TN.

And Europe life isn't bad either. I'm glad it works out for you. I'm considering similar option, maybe we should chat? :-)

That's BS. TN doesn't help Canadians with family. Also US CBP can always terminate your TN visa on the border if they "think" you are abusing. H-1B is safer for that reason.

Or you can save up all of your tmux sessions and setup your environment. There's a way to save tmux session in disk.

Or just a simple tmux session?

Anyone test this against China GFW and get it working?

Kinda off-topic, but I was wondering if anyone can recommend some setup for a CLI based mail client that works with IMAP and Gmail?

I'm on a Mac now.

I wouldn't call the place I came from is a third world , but same here. I have never heard of "peanut allergies" until I came to US.

totally my bad! I forgot to check the date. I just happen to stumble upon this article yesterday!

Well, very unlikely you will pay some 30+ aged footballers (except GK) much higher value regardless of which countries they were from. But for youngsters, they are full of potential, so a tool to help the club to scout is very helpful. In the past, they are relying heavily on "scouting agents", and that's bit of an art than science with data backed.

It's sorta weird to chat about Arsenal here...

I do agree with your above points, but he has his football (sorry American) philosophy which not most fans understand.

The past decade, he cut his spending to just build a new stadium for Arsenal, budget is tight, so what to do? Bring in the new blood, and the hard data + analytics help!

I'm hoping to see he can also bring in some data-driven approach on his on-field tactics and off-field strategy.

I disagree (and I am too an Arsenal fan). Wenger always brought in these new blood who are mostly below the age of 23, and I guess that's the trick he used to scout them.

I also think he is not the type of guy brag about his tricks.

But this is just for scouting. I'm yet to see someone can get all the data on each games, and help in coming up with tactics and strategy for planning the next match. Perhaps employ some ML too!

As sports are now much more data driven, is there any other analytics are doing similar? In this case of Arsenal, they purchased it for "scouting" purpose. I would also love to see if some sport clubs can leverage the data and make sport management as a predictable science.

Reminds me of the film "Interstellar" with dust storm. And this is already happening every year in Beijing and its neighboring towns. Does this "bad" human cultural behavior push our scientific researcher further? It certainly does for the 200 yrs of technological advances.

Would love to try this! Thanks for sharing !

My question is why not go to SV if you are going to leave your home country for startup anyway.