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Recently, we released RsRelayJS, a small RxJS lib that provides 'Relay' types. These are analogous to Subject types, but without the ability to call complete() or error(). Therefore, they are stateless in the sense that they cannot enter a terminal state. I've found myself using these more than Subjects in our code, to bridge non-Rx code to Rx.

Check it out here - https://github.com/Microsoft/RxRelayJS

Nothing overly exciting, but I've started a blog recently at shanefitzpatrick.io and am working on a Ghost theme inspired by Google's recent Material Design.

I'm going to be in this lottery and it's unnerving thinking about how different my life could turn out if I get this visa vs. don't. Young male, can't imagine I'd try again next year so it could be the difference of a much higher paying job plus living 5+ years in America vs. staying in my home country probably for life. Nothing wrong with my home country, but I'm excited of the prospect of living in America and the experiences that go with.

For people in the same boat: I think it's easier to cope with this if you take the view that you have to be lucky to get the visa, not unlucky not to. No one complains of ill-luck when they buy a lottery ticket and don't win millions. Positivity folks! :)

Not quite 68% because there are two categories: 20,000 for advanced degree holders and another 65,000. There is an initial lottery between the advanced degree holders for the 20,000, and then the unsuccessful people go into the regular lottery. Don't know if the figures were released for the number of advanced degree holders who applied, but assuming the cap here was also met, the chances in the main lottery would be 65,000/114,000 = 57%

Great guide, I'd love a similar one for Green Cards.

For instance, does a Masters in CS qualify you for an EB-2 filing? A search shows that the employer would have to give evidence of the advanced degree being necessary for the job. Usually you wouldn't need a Masters degree for a programmer role but I'm wondering how strict this is in practice.

Concretely, if you were to enter the US on a H1-B for a SDE role with BigCorpA and had a Masters degree in CS, could you immediately file for a Green Card under EB-2 category?

I used to do this, but then when compiling the project the Dropbox client would shoot to over 70% CPU usage and the fan on my laptop would go into overdrive.

Switch to GitHub/BitBucket

Ghostery blocks this entire article for me... (first time I've ever seen that happen)

I've seen this on numerous sites now and each has 'Reveals Real Name' in the title. His name wasn't some big secret beforehand (it was on his wiki page) and using this link bait in the title defers from the quality of his speech.

Fiddler on your desktop machine - http://fiddler2.com/documentation/Configure-Fiddler/Tasks/Co...

What saddened me most about that reaction was that it was for the announcement of something that we have always had. The biggest reaction at E3 was to a non-restriction, not a game!

What are you interested in? I've been using Win8 since launch and I'm looking forward to:

- View all apps by swiping up

- No longer auto-put app tiles on my Start screen

- Improved windows store search

- Different size app multi-screening

- Boot to a different screen

- Change which screen 'Start' gets you to

- Edit functionality of corners

I can't imagine what Facebook would be like today if every user had a share, given the community uproar (at least initially) to any new changes to the UI, feature set etc.

The correct way to go about this is to advertise to the entire population, but make a conscious move to have it geared towards women more (e.g. advertised more heavily in women-dominated areas).

Then you hope the best candidate is a women.

While they might lose the extreme tin foil hat customers, this deal will only serve to enhance their trustworthiness as a company. "The CIA trusts Amazon with THEIR data...heck, so should I." etc.

Fantastic, reminds me of one of my favorite mobile games - FreeFlow.

I'd rather if my move didn't get set until I stop holding down the cursor (may be different on the mobile version, don't have an iPhone).

I believe they had an agreement similar to this already (without the charge).

"...that the /gaymer sub-reddit had use of the word in exchange for a link to my site. Apparently that wasn’t enough for them because yesterday they filed a petition to have the trademark taken away." - Extract from a post by the trademarks owner.

Full post - http://www.gaymer.org/index.html/_/site-news/help-save-gayme...

I suggest people also read the trademark holders recent post on gaymer.org

http://www.gaymer.org/index.html/_/site-news/help-save-gayme...

I imagine they were pointing out the irony that someone who wanted to see the end of internet anonymity, which would inherently reduce privacy, is now complaining of a privacy breech on a site where there is relatively no anonymity.

Linkbait title since the Wii U wasn't on sale for the full month and stock levels were low. I can't foresee a similar article after December.

For us younger programmers, 'Think first, code later' is without a doubt the best advice you can give someone going for their first interview. I still shudder thinking back to an interview when I threw myself straight into coding the solution to the given problem.

Stand back. Think. Draw/Design the solution. Code

I don't think this will be chalked down as a total failure. With the low market share that WP has, there's no such thing as bad publicity.

I believe that if you group all your friends into a list 'myfriends' and select that as your newsfeed, it will be sorted by 'Most Recent'.

Option to open all links in a new tab would be greatly appreciated

I spend last summer in California on a J-1 work travel visa (Irish student). I had no job lined up before I went over and the visa was very easy to get. Agencies do all the work for you for a reasonable fee.

Initial thought was that the introduction/explanation paragraph was difficult to read due to the font. The rest of the page is far easier to understand

I find it strange that facebook doesn't incorporate this in some manner since it is mentioned in their IPO filing that they consider AdBlockers potentially harmful to the business model.