SF Bay Area

Man, if a startup can't figure out how to make it in the Bay Area, what makes them think they can make it in the real world?

For driving related startups I don't know if it's the best area to start. I feel like even driving 1 mile down the road is not constant time.

While, as a father, I instinctively hate your answer, it is a very good point that helped me see beyond my previous horizon, thanks for that!

While funny, I still cringe because of the http://www.dict.cc/?s=fremdschaemen

I switched jobs on H1B recently and I don't see what you think the leash is. The process takes about two weeks and as far as I can tell there is no realistic risk of losing the H1B even if your (about to be) former employer fires you and the new company butchers the transfer [1].

As a side-note, me changing jobs fairly dramatically increased my salary. I could presumably (I did not negotiate with old employer but a colleague did when he was about to leave) have gotten the same salary at my old place just by showing the new offer. I don't really see where the difference to a citizen is in this whole exercise.

([1] this is so because even if in the worst case you were kicked out of the country you could still reclaim the remaining time on the H1B so the worst case is still limited and I know of zero such cases.)

My understanding is that the real leash is the H1B to green card process. The process is slow and complicated and switching companies often requires you to start over (not to mention opening doors for other problems).

It's also rather expensive, and the sponsoring company paying (most of) the fees really helps.

Yeah, the green card process is hopelessly bureaucratic. Even an employee moving within the same company from San Francisco to Silicon Valley requires restarting the process from scratch.

Valgrind is nice, however, especially with multi-threaded programs the virtualized execution diverges from a non-valgrind-VM run quite a bit so I am not a huge fan.

Actually, this is pretty cool for teaching students!

I rather have them use something like this,

http://badsector.github.io/dcpustud/

I see. Haven't thought about that. Otherwise it seemed like a pointless (but interesting nevertheless) hobby project.

It takes quite a while to load, I would suggest fixing that early.

Not bad but I must say https://domai.nr/ looks better for my needs, thanks though.

I've always wondered about that myself... that's what I meant by "bogus" :-) Thanks!

That's really good, thank you!