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Except for the fact that your US immigration story will fully depend on where you're born. No amount Canada/Mexico/UK citizenship can change that place of birth, and the US will treat this generation of Indians/Chinese the way they always have.

My friend, there's a huge difference between family based green cards (FB categories) and employment based (EB). The wait times change from 1-10 years in the former [1] to 100 in the latter [2]. A normal indian cannot go through family, since they're not closely related to a citizen. I have close relatives who gave birth here (they're working on a H1-B). The mom and dad would make it quicker by waiting for the US citizen kid to become 18 and apply, than they applying. Heck, they can wait for the kid to turn 18, go to Iceland/Sri Lanka, give birth to the grandkid, and that grandkid can apply for the citizenship and that would be faster. :(

[1] - friends and my roommate here in the bay [2] - my application

This is really surprising to me. Compared to other high paying paths (medicine, law, MBA, finance), STEM degrees offer a much shorter completion time, lower debt, and higher starting salary. This holds even for engineering jobs, completely outside tech companies.

I do concede that the software industry can improve on attrition rates and career stability.

But on a simple time value of money front, I'm yet to come across a field of study in the American education system that pays more with lower debt than a STEM degree does.

The main person behind Microsoft's award winning ResNet, Kaiming He, left for Facebook AI research last year. This work looks like it builds upon the previous work done on Residual Networks (ResNet).

The median would definitely be lower. I'd wager money on this. The mean is skewed upwards thanks to executives earning USD 1 million+ . The median would just treat these people as being above the 50th percentile.

If you don't mind me asking, how did you get such an increase over 2.5 years? I find it surprising that $200k is possible 2.5 years out of undergrad. Are there any particular opportunities you made use of?

I can communicate over mail, if that helps.

It's probably the only major city in the Southeast, so that could be a factor. Drive an hour north from Atlanta, and you'll see confederate flags in this place. I'm not defending Atl, just rationalizing expectations.

Do you require clearances to apply? Do you allow non-citizens to apply? And do you plan sponsor visas in the near future? I couldn't find info on this from the description.

I could refute this by bringing up the carbon footprint of India vs. the US.

That doesn't have to mean everyone needs to have children or everyone needs to have multiple children.

I'm not proposing that people curb procreation, just that the logic you proposed does not talk about the magnitude of procreation that would be 'optimal', so to speak.

I usually use x = tuple((1,) ) so that non-Python programmers on the team know what they're dealing with.

Tragedy of the commons. It definitely benefits everyone if some people stood up, but it's in no one's specific personal interests to be at a comparative disadvantage due to this.

The fact that it underpins so much of our daily life, implying that subsidizing them helps in ensuring those functions still remain intact.

They are forcing countries to extradite accused citizens while refusing to do the same. They have gitmo. They're asking companies like MSFT to collect data that even MSFT is not legally allowed to do. So, yeah, they're more 'covert' than others, but not necessarily more benevolent.

Can you name his competitors?

I can only recall Salesforce, although I don't know the extent to which their offerings overlap.

I haven't heard of this before. This is pretty interesting. Do you have a source?

I asked someone from the AT&T Atlanta office, and they said they are done hiring.

Do you have links to any open intern positions for the Plano position?

Flipkart is not exactly a local company. If I'm right, most of their equity is held by a singaporean holding company. There's also this aspect that a loss-making company cannot go public in India, so Flipkart have structured themselves to IPO elsewhere.

Are you hiring international students for the Software Engineering Internship position? There wouldn't be any sponsorship required - CPT should cover it.

I wonder how much did Benioff being on the board have to do with this?

Are you hiring interns too?

Hi,

I cannot see the listing for an engineering intern. Is there an place I can know more about this internship?

Can we still apply if we're not from a local school?

Hi,

Are you hiring any interns for the summer? What positions would those be?

I applied online for an internship position (in the Computational Geometry team) a couple of months ago.

Are you still hiring for those?

The problem is that your kids (male) might have to undergo conscription. I know the situation is changing now, but that was a large deterrant behind a lot of my friends leaving Singapore.

What I've always found surprising is the arrogance that America (and maybe some Americans too, to an extent) displays in this context. In this day and age how is it right that a single country can mandate a requirement on every piece of luggage that passes through their airports? It might be a security concern, but there definitely are better ways to deal with this - all other 'first world' countries in the world do.

I'm pretty sure if India, China or any non-Western country did this, everyone would be up in arms about misuse, infringement of rights, etc. And yet when the TSA acts so stupidly (a photo shown to the public) and with multiple incidents of abuse of power from the TSA's side, the public opinion is still that the TSA is competent and well-intentioned.

I would call it hubris if they show capability, but this is downright arrogance.

I'm surprised no one is suing the government over this. Or is it like a EULA when you enter the United States that you agree not to press charges on such incompetence?

I'm not an expert, so apologies if my question is stupid.

Why can't the competition have the same test data each week across all participants? So that no matter how many accounts you create, you will train with the same images everyone else gets to train with.

I think people underestimate the systemic restrictions placed on the Indian Middle Class, and fail to realise the connection to a larger problem India faces, viz. drastic shortage.

You want to become a doctor? Too bad you don't have an MBBS. We don't care whether you decided to become one only during college, and are willing to spend a few extra years catching up.

Except for diplomas (by which I mean qualifications like CA, which you theoretically could get without attending classes at a college) doesn't place a prerequisite on having a degree. Every master's program I have come across requires a bachelor's degree. Some are more flexible, admitting degrees outside the relevant fields. But most are not.

The reason is pretty simple : In a country like India where anything good suffers a big shortage, people generally prefer to stick to rules, creating many false negatives. This is because no one wants to take up liability in case a false negative crops up. "I followed all the regulations and suggestions," they say.

So anything that involves an expected, and common path ends up needing college degrees as prerequisites. For the Middle Class which cannot afford to wait out a few years, they have no choice but to toe the line. Only if you have any capital (and in India, connections) to begin with, can you expect to change the system. (The author here is a businessman in the crudest sense : not a very conventional career path in a lot of families).

My parents generation mostly got their jobs before the liberalisation of the economy in 1991. In those days, a lot of people dreamed of government jobs : stable, decent paying, and allows you to slack off. In spite of globalisation, we cannot expect their mindset to change a lot after they've fought so badly for jobs, right? This old mindset comes into play when they suggest us to go to college : they've seen decades of public sector employment, this new path (entrepreneurship) seems new, and they honestly believe they are trying to help you. There is no ill-will here.

I do agree one can still earn a good living without college in India too. But I feel what I said has a considerable effect in societal status of middle class people (most of whom are not extraordinary), and this in turn makes people want the college degree.

There is one issue people haven't glossed over. Mozilla derives over 85% of their revenue from Google (by making google the default search engine). So a lot of their development involves getting funding from google. The problem with this is that you cannot fight for open standards (against google, it looks like of late) when you derive most of your funding from your adversary. You need an independent revenue stream, like Red Hat. Firefox can probably offer non-tracking services to corporations that have doubts over google's data policies. PS : I am a fan of Firefox, but it has been crashing way too often of late. Only the fact of me being a power web user (I have more than 70 tabs open on average) has kept me a continued Firefox user.