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The Foreigner Dilemna
I'm a foreigner (Entrepreneur/Software Engineer) with a H1-B Visa in
San Francisco looking for a new job doing iOS development without
prior experience in mobile development.

After hearing the same thing over and over again from recruiters:
"check back in a few months", because my resume didn't check their
boxes, I sent one of them the following message:

----------------------------------------

Just to let you know, I'm about to quit my job to work on my own
project and above all to do what I love. Quitting my job means waiving
up my H1-B work-visa and not being able to work in the US for the near
future.

My value and potential is not in having prior experience in X or Y
technology, but being able to understand and adapt fast to the
emerging technologies. I would need one month or two to be up and
running on iOS Mobile development.

Unfortunately, lot of people don't see these opportunities and
complain about a half-existing talent-war. So frustrating.

To sum-up about myself:

- I was the 6th engineer at STARTUP_X, a one billion dollars start-up
right now, I left for visa issues. My main job was doing things I had
never done before (hacking nginx servers mainly by reading the code
source directly, no documentation available at that time).

- I started a company when I was a student which was my main revenue
stream to pay my engineering school. I was selling over Internet
sporting goods imported from China. From the customer perspective, the
transport cost was more expensive than the product itself but it
didn't prevent people from buying it as the brand was becoming
notorious. I got unexpected traction across Europe but I decided to
shut it down to come in San Francisco (I still own the brand).

- One year ago, I wasn't speaking English at all.

If your change your mind, let me know. I'm flexible enough to prove my
value with a trial period or so. Just what I need is to keep up my
visa alive which would be crazily hard to rebuild from scratch (Visa
transfer is one paper to fill out, building a visa is a 6 months to
one year process and the result is not even guaranteed).

Best,
MR_Y
It's quite refreshing to see, too.
To make this assertion also makes it clear that you probably haven't worked on much desktop software distributed to a large number of users. There are so many different configurations that the only real way to figure out why it isn't working for a particular user is to have it phone home with a stack trace and basic system info. Otherwise, pretty much every bug would not be reproducible.

If you don't like your software doing that (and, believe me, most of it does), then lock down your firewall and only let a whitelist of programs communicate with the outside world. A lot of your software will stop working, but at least you'll know that no information (well, not none, just less) is getting sent out to various servers.
I worked on a sports app that is regularly at the top of sports category for paid apps. It does not make enough to support the team that is working on it yet.

If I remember correctly, we were making ~$250 a day and were in the top few thousand apps in the store. The VAST majority of developers make almost no money at all.
"multi-task... while you drive" sounds like a terrible pitch for any product.
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Upvote for public transit. The service is still useful for bus/train riders. Especially during busy commute hours, when you are often forced to stand, having something you don't have to look at would be pretty cool.

Still waiting on my mp3 to get a feel for the quality, especially when it comes to technical stuff, but I dig the idea!
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Driving is one of the few times I stop mindlessly reading mediocre content [1] on whatever screen happens to be in front of me and actually start thinking. It's a wonderful website and I'm sure some will gain great value from the product - just consider whether you really need another avenue of endless information, or a moment of peace instead.

[1] hyperbole
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The performance of laboratory mice in mazes varies considerably among tested populations, with some mice clearly being "smarter" than others. It's possible to train a mouse to be smarter, to learn, but the effect is only a few standard deviations from the norm at best, not orders of magnitude smarter.

Remember that genetics is, at best, all about probabilities. Just because your parents are athletic is no guarantee that you're an athlete. There's always a one in four chance that you get the worst possible pairing of genes, after all.

Intelligence is a complicated thing. A child who can remember things easily will be considered very "smart" even if they can't do much with that information, whereas one who's very clever at figuring things out will be considered "stupid" if they aren't able to memorize as well.

IQ is such an arbitrary metric that it hardly deserves scientific consideration. It completely glosses over any unusual talents someone might have.
The NSA has no need to restrict itself to anything like a stack. My point is that you can work on open source stuff there.
I'm not sure how you get that - I assumed this was a fairly conventional Aquirhire.

Having said that....

SugarSync has a deal with Samsung where you can keep your files in SugarSync and play them on (some) Samsung Smart TVs. Seems like a win/win - SugarSync gets distribution and Samsung gets a nice feature.

Dropbox is already playing a similar space with its deals to get on Android phones.
Really? In my experience (and I'm being honest here), his colleagues would be high-fiving him for "bangin' the boss". I apologize for the crudeness, but I really think this would be the case.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Principle

The principle is commonly phrased, "employees tend to rise to their level of incompetence."
Well of course they do. I would be really surprised if they didn't.

That's why we should ENCRYPT EVERYTHING possible. Use HTTPS as much as you can.
Ugh, look at all the whitespace from the compiled mustache. Embarrassing.
I'm sure these would never be used for political gain.
Because only the actual copyright holder of the content can counter-sue and most either don't have the resources to counter-sue or also work in the entertainment industry and are ultimately beholden to the same people sending the takedowns in the first place.

I can't wait for someone to finally start taking fraudulent DMCA takedowns to court.
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Of course they do.

The job of the National Slavery Agency is to keep track of all the slaves.

They keep the plantation running smoothly.
Ok, to reply to myself there really seems something wrong with Dropbox...

The email-address i signed up with and the one that is attached to my account is @gmail.com

However, i've recently invited 2 people with my personal @gmx.de email (using the iPhone app) and guess what...

I've got Euro Dice spam in my spamfolder there :(
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1,3,4 & 6: Just fill out a Linkedin profile right now. The recruiters will start calling.

2. No, it's a seller's market now.

Go to some meetups and meet with local developers. If you're any good, you'll get lots offers for freelance work or jobs.

Since you're still a student, you should take the time to learn mobile programming. Pick ios or android. If you're going the ios route, look at the Stanford Fall 2011 video lectures on Itunes university by Paul Hegarty. That will give you the basics. The rest you can look up on stackoverflow or the Big Nerd Ranch book. If you can make a non-ugly app or two, there will definitely be more recruiters calling.
What's more likely: There is only one or few exceptions to the rule and it's binary or there is a continuum.
> Front line engineers know what every other development group is doing and can integrate their systems in a pinch!

Well, no one knows what every other development group does in a company of significant size. And more often than not, no one can integrate systems in a pinch; and when it comes to integrating, the front line engineer does it. Unless your hypothetical architect has magical powers, I don't see how your point is relevant.

It's up to the other development teams to expose an interface to their services and make their libraries re-usable; and most importantly, document them and let other teams know. A company should encourage, and somewhat mandate(Bezos directive regarding no stinking db accesses, only services).

> They are also across the application security requirements recently mandated in government regulation

I don't know where you work, but the places I have worked, all mandated and non-mandated security requirements are implemented by engineers. I am curious. Care to quote me some of these security requirements of yours?

> can implement that too!

Implement what? I haven't implemented a hashing algorithm, or public-private key encryption ever, and most likely am not going to - I use tested, out of box components like I should. What's rocket science in storing hashed-salted passwords, or using SSL for transport, or PGP for offline...which engineers are incapable of? If they indeed are incapable of using bcrypt for storing passwords, well, I don't know what to say - words fail me.

> No-one needs company-wide frameworks, because each development unit's home-grown libraries are good enough

I am yet to see a company-wide framework which is relevant to anything beyond a small team, let alone useful. That said, I need to secure encode input and that other news team which takes news feed from variety of providers in multiple languages has already something for sanitizing markup. Are you implying without this architect of yours, I won't talk to the other team, or look at the code; and go in my cave to re-implement that? That makes 0 sense to me.

> Systems design? Pfft, overrated. Just check it in and break things, it's called 'agile'.

Where does this come from?

> but your advice to 'fire all the architects'

The architects in the article refer to a particular kind of person who finds it beneath himself to actually implement something, and spends his day making slide deck and uml diagrams. And yes, they should be fired, unless they are capable of and interested in implementing the stuff they swore by in their slides. Do a PoC and the engineer will take it from there. But don't come in with your ppt - you are wasting everyone's time.
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Shoot me an e-mail. I work at Mapquest and we are hiring right now in Denver. I'd be happy to give you some of my time.
I like the first one. Think anonymous dropboxes. You don't need much storage; hopefully (and if someone has the moolah) put 256GB of SSD (so it doesn't use much power); power it with a solar charger and hide in a tree or in some out-of-the-way place. Slap a webserver on it, and let people upload/download content...
I bet you could take the tales about her, change her name to someone else who's well known in the valley, fix the pronouns, and it would look positive. Someone should try taking this story, washing it through sed, and re-posting it somewhere to see what the reaction is then.
I have a question about this -- maybe I'm ignorant. But using https without self-signed keys actually allows the government to peer into your communications, doesn't it? We are worried about third parties stealing your data between you and your bank for example. A bank might be a bad example as they probably already have access to their databases for compliance reasons. Can't the US government ask for the keys of these US based certificate authorities?

My point being is that https is probably equivalent to plain text when it comes to government surveillance.
This is the kind of stuff Yahoo needs to shed.
You're absolutely right. I tend to mix these two terms up, even though I recognize the difference between the two. Good thing I didn't go into finance.
I always wonder how useful friend sourcing is for travel outside the US. A lot of my friends only travel to major cities in the US. Nationwide, only 3 out of 10 Americans have passports.
What is Open Data?
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Sorry about the delay. Our email outbound provider dropped the ball and there's a big backlog of emails. Trying to get it sorted now.

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Sure, they have all data about someone. But, what is the use? It is like searching a needle in a haystack.
That's bringing a knife to a tank fight, my man.

Better, IMO, to just assume they read and listen to everything digital, and work around it.
I think that built-to-flip vs dent-the-universe is a gross oversimplification and a false dichotomy. Maybe they were aiming to change the world, but their funding round wasn't coming together. Or maybe they lost the faith and decided to return money to their investors, rather than go bust. Maybe one of their key team members had a personal or family issue and needed more financial stability in a hurry. Maybe they learned so much about startups that they were wishing for a reset button. Maybe some combination of all of these things and more?

Startups are a repeat game. A base hit might just be the right career move. You can swing for the homerun on your next at-bat.

Having just gone through a small acquisition myself, I can tell you that it's incredibly bittersweet to pad your bank account by means of killing your baby. Unless you've gone through the process, you have no idea the extent and complexity of thought processes and emotions you experience as a founder.
Sure. Pretty much none of what he's talking about is unprecedented (except actually breaking the speed of light). It's just inconvenient and far from mainstream.
Oracle BigData uses open source software such as Hadoop and R.

http://www.oracle.com/us/technologies/big-data/index.html

Accumulo also uses Hadoop.
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Until you piss off or catch the eye of someone with access to it. Then you'll find out just how quickly your particular needle can be found in that haystack.
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I'm now part of a team working on a new product that just launched (not Google).

Every morning I go in and look at the dashboard, which shows the email addresses of the last 10 new signups. About 6-7 is gmail, 1 yahoo, 1 hotmail. There's usually 1 that's a custom email like from an unknown domain.

I don't have hard stats as I don't have access to the user db, but I've been playing this game for 1+ month every morning, and it's the same pattern all the time. This is for early adopters.

Also, from personal experience, most of my acquaintances, whether technical or not, are migrating from yahoo/hotmail to gmail. It's pretty common for me to have to remove somebody's old yahoo email address from my contacts because they finally got a gmail address.
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Some things are natural to streaming - voice-over, video, music - others are very hard.

An FX explosion with tons of particles needs lots of textures/models in advance to be visualized.

An on screen-model (say the weapon that the player carries in FPS game) is so detailed that you need several megabytes only for it there. If it's multi-player game, you need to be able to change that weapon instantly, so you need to show it right away.

Oh, I've said sounds are easy to stream - well not so, if this is the sound of your gun, which should come in an instant!... And in multi-player game, this means a lot more guns :)

Then the level. In single player game you start from a predefined point, so you can do some hints to the streaming system - precache this/that, etc.

Multiplayer baby! What would you do? You can be spawned at any point...

The UI of a modern AAA game is also pretty big - you need icons, images, etc of a lot of detailed weapons, attachments, etc.

You need roughly 100mb in an instant to have some good play, and somehow load the rest (gigabytes) in the mean time. And this is for current gen consoles, for high-end PC and future consoles this could get x10 easily.

As for the whole procedural thing. It's cool, I like it - but don't overdo it - it's the artist arch-nemesis. And more or less only programmer types are kind of into controlling such procedural "thingies" :)
Except in the context of software development, specifically, it's not generally just "an idea." It's the sum total of all unpublished and unannounced information of unreleased products that you're being given access to as a developer. There may not even be any plans to file patents: you have to take affirmative steps to maintain trade secret protection, as well. But, among other things, trade secrets have to be reasonably specific, certainly more so than "everything you learn about our products in the course of employment", and, well, "secrets" to begin with (not merely "unannounced" or "unpublished").

Confidential business information like customer lists, on the other hand, tends to be protected even in the absence of a written agreement; a good contract lawyer can quickly pick out the potentially troubling bits of an employment-related contract from the mass of "mostly harmless" boilerplate that merely restates your obligations under various laws (often including amusingly obvious items like not stealing physical property from the company and returning company-owned equipment upon request).

Finally, many companies have agreements with third parties that require measures to ensure employees and contractors given access to third-party confidential information (of various sorts) hold it in confidence.
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Maybe they enjoy the work they do, despite the poisonous culture. If you put time and effort into something and believe in it, then as a 'self-respecting' person you probably wouldn't jump ship that easy.

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Ethics, morality and legality aside, I'd be really curious to see what information is actually stored in these "dossiers", besides (presumably) one's name, address, and other details that other branches of the government legitimately have.
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Oh, don't worry: ethics, morality and legality are being very much set aside.
I wonder if MLK would exist if this were around 50 years ago.
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One additional thing I'd like to see: Really strongly encourage dogfooding. One of the most depressing things I experienced while working at Yahoo was when I'd look around and see all my co-workers using competing email, search, maps, etc products. People looked at me funny when they noticed that I had taken some time to configure my.yahoo.com and set it as my home page. There was no sense of ownership of the various products, so nobody really cared whether or not they worked well.

On a related note, on the rare occasion when somebody did try using yahoo properties and they found an issue or wanted to suggest a feature (e.g. more powerful mail filtering capabilities), the common refrain that typically came back was "You're not the target audience." It was as if yahoo only wanted to cater to the most basic use case. Yahoo needs hiding behind this "not the target audience" crap and challenge itself to make a product that is both powerful enough to appeal to sophisticated users and simple enough to appeal to users with more basic needs. It can be done, and I'd point to Google and Apple as examples of companies that are enjoying much success right now because they've seen the value of it.
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The architects and MBAs will counter by blathering something about siloing, antisocialism, poor communication skills, and anything else that will attempt to disparage and marginalize people who strive to understand things at all levels including the very deepest. Some people are insane about this. I've heard some messed up things like academic advisors telling me to avoid computer science professors because they are 'hard to talk to.'

Asimov's "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge" anti-intellectualism is really horrifying to behold and will be used against people who strive to know the high level and the bare metal. There is really no defense against this career-wise either except to get out in the open market where it's just you and your knowledge against the idea guys and their talk. In most organizations the idea guys like you describe will posse up because they have to.
I think this gets into a debate that can't really be settled with rights and wrongs, but:

Frugality for frugality's sake is just as dangerous as extravagance for extravagance's sake. Saving $40 on a laptop is great if and only if you're positive that a more expensive laptop isn't going to make that money back. The danger of excessive frugality is that you start thinking of employees as costs to be trimmed, as opposed to investments who generally pay handsome dividends.

Never underestimate the productivity of an engineer who has everything he needs.
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