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It is interesting that a similar thing happened when millions of manufacturing jobs were offshored to China and other low-cost sites. Now it has come to the tech industry, and every other industry where it is possible. It hurts when it comes to us. (Speaking as a person in tech in high COL). I hope we will find other roles as people found when they moved on from manufacturing roles too

It may not be depression. It could very well be stress and burnout. To start with: just to to any therapist (ie counselling psychologist or clinical psychologist), basically a therapist. You need talking, and then they can show the way forward. I may be wrong, but this is what I am doing as well.

I don't think you are missing anything here. Both work in different ways (I have worked with companies as large as 250k+ employees to 2 employees). Both try to achieve different things (make something from zero, and create drastic value, v/s incremental changes and building and sustaining existing revenue streams) As an engineer: in bigger company, you will learn how large scale projects are pulled with so many people, v/s in small ones, you know what you are learning. In startup's favour: since a company from 2-1000 employees can be called a startup, so what I mentioned about large scale projects in bigger companies, you can learn that in these companies as well. I would suggest you to speak to more such people and get their perspective. You will figure out what both businesses offer, and based on what you want to do in your life, you can make an informed decision.

I tried that, but I try to search in wide world, sometimes about topics that I don't even understand. So I don't know where to look. And many of my searches are like that (examples: how merchant fees work, how QC affects stock prices, effects of vitamin D3, how price parity is determined, how to focus on something boring) All these are varied terms and most of search results will be like that, so I wonder if moderated directories would ever serve that.

I have also worked with many companies that are pretty huge, cash positive, exploding growth, and with very complex software as their product. They made a rule of not hiring using DS&A after accidentaly coming across a tier-3 college student with no knowledge of DSA and still doing pretty well (and he didn't jump ships too), so then changed their strategy to: only test them for what you need from them. I will give it to Google and FB that their technical scale is much much larger than that company, so they might demand engineers who can understand that.

Can you elaborate more on this? I think we are getting blocked :|

Not just any videos. Now I even speed up movies on netflix. That's why I have to watch them on laptop now, as I can't speed them up on TV.

A moment of silence

I see a really good example in India's UPI. You can make payments upto $600 USD using that, it directly deducts from your bank account and you can do P2P too.

Amex has fairly been consistent 'because it is not accepted anywhere'

Sauce?

Always come with citations.

Yes, I think so too. Previous comment I think meant that if making cultured 'flesh' is infeasible, we can switch to a diet that is vegetarian and feasible at scale.

I agree to that, not just it kills local job market, it is exploiting foreign workers. I read Theranos' account, and I imagined many Indian workers kept working because they had no choice to say No. The moment they say no, they will lose their job, and getting a H1B sponsoring job in 60 days? Ain't nobody got (enough) time for that!

That's true for FAANG companies as well. They have slowed down hiring in US since it has become really hard to bring that talent in the country. Instead they are slowly moving their work to other countries and doubling down on hiring there. Source - I and many people I know have been approached for jobs in Countries other than my country of residence.

Not just exceptions. I have hoards of friends who have bachelors degree and they moved in through H1 route, but now working in FAANG or similar competitive start-ups because they are skilful and are making 130k+. But I got your point, there has to be a quantifiable way to judge talent.

It was nice to hear some unpolished stories.

In one religious ideology here in India, they actually focus on one thing which is being non-materialistic

Did it factor currency value too? An average Indian has a salary of 400$ or lesser, with which he pulls off a family of 4.

I find it fine. Here, read my article, and links to my work. Fair trade.

I second what you said here. I worked as a CTO of a start up which was primarily driven by ego and lies of the CEO. He didn't want to go a rational way and constantly duped (yes duped) investors.

I took a long time to exit the startup. Reason? Because I was not able to think through it, because when you are so much into something you can't think without it affecting your thoughts. But slowly and steadily I was able to judge the situation by thinking practically (keep thinking, many be write your points, that helps). So for me, best thing was to get out we that company was not going anywhere, may be not the same for you. After four months I joined a very successful bootstrapped startup in tech role. It is an individual contributor role. But I am learning, and preparing for my next feat. Life goes on.

In india, a pin is mandatory for all the purchases even when there were no chip cards. Uber had some trouble because it could not charge credit cards like they do in US, as our cards needed two factor auth.

Is it too late to ask that how such art is valued? Of course I read about the theory that it depends on art dealers and a lot of things, less to do with quality of art. As quality of art is subjective after a certain point.

Just thought someone could guide me.

I saw this tutorial by you somewhere Spandan, and found it here on HN. I am yet to explore it but I have marked your GIT repo already. Thanks for the hard work.

I love to take source code away. It's fun.

How were the months in between you reached California and got a job. I am in one same phase except changing the state. How did you pau for expenses?

I am in technology, so must be you. Though I really find it hard to get any such work (projects) that you said you finally were able to get. Any help on how i can do same for me?

Haha.. same old story, every time you write a scraper, they hit back with captcha. :)

I was a mobile developer and always wanted to step up my game. So I left my that job and joined a start-up with just an idea. Now I am CTO of a data capability company, And in process I learned two new languages, frameworks, exposed myself to new technologies such as mongo, data scrapping, API writing, handling whole product development. Last few months were great from work perspective, though not from money perspective. Now we are on to raise some money, and hopefully i will be alloted a good amount of equity. That's it for this year.

Demonetization is not a magical wand that will remove all the black money overnight. Now people who says it only for red middle and lower classes, know that it affected mostly people with black money in cash. Cash hoarders, Hawala money, counterfeit money and cash involved in rigging elections, help terrorism and many such illicit activities. Yes, middle class people will have to bear the pain of changing their currency but look at what it is bringing to you. And yes, it is first step, time will come and other sources of Black money will also be taken care of, matter of time, wait and watch. Even writing one such long comment takes time, let alone removing corrupt money fro a nation of 1.2 Billion where people love to ease taxes.