rajeshpant (u/rajeshpant)

rajeshpant commented on H-1B visa shift may favor tech companies sfchronicle.com/business/... · Posted by u/tareqak

maxxxxx · 7 years ago

Staffing companies should get no H1 visas at all. They are the biggest abusers.

rajeshpant · 7 years ago

Although staffing companies have abused the visas but given the way industry is structured, staffing companies do fill a lot of positions for contract workers & consulting roles. Strictly speaking in terms of law they should be able to hire people on visa as well.

The most idiotic thing here is giving a visa to a company based on lottery. As the original comment pointed out, there should be a point system where you are graded based on education and experience.

rajeshpant commented on Hello, and welcome to libh2o powerdns.org/libh2o/... · Posted by u/fanf2

ahubert · 7 years ago

Hi Rajesh, thank you for your thoughtful critique of my documentation efforts! I took a look at the sentences that are hurting you. The first part is from H2O's mission statement, which is clearly quoted. H2O is very impressive and is seeing more and more use. The h2o maintainers are indeed very friendly and helpful. But perhaps that is because I approached them with respect and did not hate them for their mission statement? We may never know. If you have anything useful to add, the document can be edited through https://github.com/ahupowerdns/hello-libh2o

rajeshpant · 7 years ago

Thank you very much for replying. I will take a look at the docs & github repo more closely and provide suggestions.

rajeshpant commented on Hello, and welcome to libh2o powerdns.org/libh2o/... · Posted by u/fanf2

rajeshpant · 7 years ago

I want to find the guy who wrote this documentation :

"H2O is a powerful web server used and developed by Fastly" - Ok.

"H2O is a new generation HTTP server that provides quicker response to users with less CPU utilization when compared to older generation of web servers" - Great

This is where it becomes cringy : "H2O as a web server is very impressive and is seeing more and more use"

more

"I have used more web server frameworks than is reasonable. libh2o is by far the most impressive effort "

"The H2O maintainers are incredibly friendly and helpful."

I scrolled half the page and still doesn't provide any useful information.

If you happen to write or own any documentation. Please don't use filler use marketing language. Please.

rajeshpant commented on Ask HN: Java Certification · Posted by u/mikazoc

jryan49 · 7 years ago

In my opinion/experience, certifications for Java programming are useless. I've been working in Java for 10 years now and not once has anyone asked or cared if I was "certified" by some random company to do Java dev. It feels like a scam to me. In regards to the other certifications I have no idea, but I feel that they are probably similar.

I agree that old tech will have EE in it for a long time. But all the docs for EE are also free to read and learn on your own. The best skill you can have when being a programming is self learning/teaching.

rajeshpant · 7 years ago

I totally agree. I did Java certification 10 years back when I was a junior dev. At that time, many people and companies valued that on resume. Over time, people realized certification doesn't add any real value as things/technologies change over time. Nowadays people would doubt your skills if they see Java certification on resume. Also, Certifications are values in consulting market. If you are looking to work in core tech companies, it is better to invest that time learning something else. Also, I would say in those times people had no other way to showing that you have the skillset. We are living in an era where github is your portfolio. Do open source contributions or do side projects. That is a way more valuable skill than Java certification.

rajeshpant commented on Amazon Plans to Split HQ2 in Two Locations: NY and VA nytimes.com/2018/11/05/te... · Posted by u/tysone

bradleyjg · 7 years ago

25k people in nyc, even very well paid, is a drop in the bucket. It’ll have a big impact in LIC. Astoria, Greenpoint, and Sunnyside will also be impacted. But beyond that the effect will fall off rather steeply.

rajeshpant · 7 years ago

You are missing a point. every 1 regular job creates 3 non-regular jobs in the market. New businesses like restaurants, coffee shops etc will created which will boost local economy.

rajeshpant commented on You can't impress developers. So don't try baus.net/you-cant-impress... · Posted by u/adgasf

combatentropy · 7 years ago

There are countless comments on Hacker News by a developer impressed with something. So this headline is wrong. What you can't do is impress all developers. But neither can you please all people. So the article's advice to "focus on impressing your users" could also lead to a very special kind of hell, about which more ink hath been spilt.

What the writer was really writing about, though, was that there is little acknowledgment of the effort that went into something, even if in the end it's not for you. Someone wrote a Python interpreter in JavaScript, and in that there is skill, even if overall you reject the effect. What the writer may be asking for is the attitude of a coach: "That was a fast throw, kid, now next time just see if you can aim it more over the plate." That is a legitimate want, and I think the forum would be better if there were more of it. But again, this isn't a deficiency endemic to developers, it's endemic to People on the Internet.

Key takeaway: seeking encouragement from anonymous or semianonymous people on the internet could be harmful.

rajeshpant · 7 years ago

your comments is exactly what the article is about. Fault finding becomes a second nature for engineers/programmers.

rajeshpant commented on Show HN: A tool to translate images across languages blog.imgtranslate.com/wha... · Posted by u/hbornfree

rajeshpant · 7 years ago

I work with marketing agencies which has huge requirement for i18n & translations. I think there is definitely a market out there that would be interested in something like this. I have seen content creators creating different sets of images with translated text(takes many hours to manually do this right now). I am not sure how you are planning to offer this product/service, I would recommend offering it as an API which your clients can call from their applications.

rajeshpant commented on Proposition C stripe.com/press/prop-c... · Posted by u/dsr12

rajeshpant · 7 years ago

I completely agree with Stripe here. The homeless problem will not be solved by increasing taxes. The problem is whether the money is being used correctly. I see huge issues with that. The department of homelessness currently has an annual budget of $250Million[1] for providing shelter to homeless. I wonder if govt. is spending $250 Million every year on providing them shelter why are they still living in streets? Where is all that money going?

[1] - https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/29-million-incre...

rajeshpant commented on Square Terminal squareup.com/go/terminal... · Posted by u/sentiental

rajeshpant · 7 years ago

How is it different from a payment terminal machine from bank?

rajeshpant commented on The highest paid workers in Silicon Valley are product managers (2016) qz.com/766658/the-highest... · Posted by u/jxub

rajeshpant · 7 years ago

In the other news, software engineers are the lowest paid workers in tech companies.