I used the holidays to get back to coding and built a Chrome Extension called Once.
Once allows you to limit the time spent on distracting websites, encouraging focus, and mindfulness. Once lets you visit each distracting website only once per hour.
The timer starts when you close the tab of one of these websites and only applies it to the homepages. It works with websites such as Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, 9gag, and many others.
My I-94 expires at the end of the month because the expiration date of my passport. My O-1 Visa is valid until July 2022 and I just received my new passport.
Any tips on how I can get my I-94 extended/updated? Is it safe to leave the US and come back (Mexico, Canada etc.) even with the current administration and travel restrictions?
When you show up at a land border, you technically exit the US. Likewise, when CBSA turns you back, you'd be re-entering the US and going through US CBP. So for purposes of updating a US visas, the current ban is not relevant if you present at a land border.
That's technically true, but in the future I believe it also means that you have officially been denied entry to Canada, which could come back to bite you in the future (as silly as it is).
It also runs the risk of Canada not letting you in and turning you back, and then the US not letting you in (if they decide your status, O-1 here but often would be TN, isn't valid, or for whatever other reason), and you.... get stuck in no-mans-land? I've always legitimately wondered what happens in that situation.
If you do happen to be a citizen or permanent resident of either Canada or Mexico, it would be safest to do your border-trip at your home-country border.
_Update_: Did some real quick research, and it appears that for US/Canada at least there are agreements in place that if one country rejects your entrance (at a land border) from the other country, the other country must take you back, but could find you inadmissible and put you in immigration custody pending removal. Fun times.
Can't agree more. Hiring in Silicon Valley for early-stage startups now is impossible. Total Compensation numbers for software engineering is skyrocketing and you'll never be able to compete with FAANG companies. Sad reality but expected.
It's sad if you're a founder or a VC, but not sad if you're an engineer. "Total Compensation numbers for software engineering is skyrocketing" is a very good thing for the folks who grind every day.
Not necessarily true, i know entry level engineers earning well above $100k in the Bay Area who are barely getting by because they are paying $5-$6/mo in rent alone which is post-tax.
Unless these entry level engineers have families, there's no good reason to be paying $5-6k a month for rent, you can easily find a decent place of your own for under $4k, even $3k if you're patient.
My 1200sqft 2 bedroom townhouse in the suburbs of Kansas City costs me $800 a month. My families 6 bedroom 5 bathroom 3 story behemoth with a pool cost $4000 a month. The thought of paying $6000 a month for what they offer you in the Bay is depressing.
I live in NYC, in a nice one bedroom apartment, and I find those numbers mind-boggling. Not that my rent is cheap by any means but its closer to $3000 than $6000.
Yeah, as a new transplants to the bay area it is mind-boggling. $1500/mo per person in a roommate situation is common. That said, my take-home pay more than made up for the rent increase. The cost for a family type living situation is truly mind-boggling.
as someone living in New Zealand, it is very mind-boggling numbers, we'd be 1000 -> 2000 range for housing.
and the USD salaries would put you in the very very top earners of the population. Though sourcing enough devs here would be tricky for anything beyond 10 people if you actually wanted to outsource to NZ.
So they have a comparative entry level job standard of living. I've found that even the top paying companies when adjusting for cost of living pay similarly to top paying companies in lower expense parts of the country.
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np. Please take this as constructive feedback; I would love to play this game. If you want to have some sort of a registration system, do check out Reddit's method -- simple registration without the need for an email address even.
I used the holidays to get back to coding and built a Chrome Extension called Once.
Once allows you to limit the time spent on distracting websites, encouraging focus, and mindfulness. Once lets you visit each distracting website only once per hour.
The timer starts when you close the tab of one of these websites and only applies it to the homepages. It works with websites such as Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, 9gag, and many others.
It's free and available on the Chrome Web Store.
Let me know what you think!
Thank you :)