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6 months + extensions. A minor effort is required to keep the visa.

My wife is a judge and she is not alarmed. She is terrified. We are green card holders and came back to the country 16 years ago. Tonight was the first time we had a conversation about leaving this place for good.

This is certainly a move in the right direction and I'm glad a startup is caring about its employees like that.

"What is your startup's parental leave policy?"

In my country 6 months leaves (with full payment) are mandatory for mothers. Mothers also gain job stability soon as they get pregnant and cannot be fired due to their time off. I live in a 3rd world country and it really blows my mind developed countries allows such short leaves. In my company we give the mandatory 6 month leave, we also pay medical bills if there are any and 12 month health insurance for the baby (some employees choose their own insurance plans, some don't cover pregnancy). There is an option to give only a 4 month leave, but it's very expensive and most companies don't even consider that.

I'm a father of one (and expecting the second). I think 6 months is not enough. Yes, paying salaries for employees on leave adds costs, but this is diluted in the company cost and there are tax breaks over it.

I got some java contracts in my consulting company, some of them are startups. If you are building a SPA you should check out JHipster, they have plenty of information on why they chose certain tools over others.

If you are building a normal, server-side rendered app Spring-boot+data+mvc and thymeleaf (or freemarker) are usually what small companies use for fast development. Investing into IntelliJ Idea is really helpful.

There is no need to rewrite. What exactly is taking long in the development? Maybe I can help with some tips (I'm SCEA/SJCP/etc)

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> there would already be a dozen open-source versions we could use or adapt quite easily.

That never materializes into actual usable products.

Following in my father's footsteps, I became a commercial pilot really young, before quitting to pursue tech, I had logged a couple of thousand hours. I still fly teach at a flight school for fun.

"TV news increasingly reported sensationalistic stories of the dangers of ballooning, and public opinion started turning against baloeiros."

This statement made my blood boil since me and other 13 people almost got murdered by those "artists", this is what happened:

In 2009 I was flying a cessna caravan with 14 people on board. We had IFR clearance on 35R in SBSP. Since this was a precision landing you don't exactly pay attention to what's outside. At around 7500ft out of nowhere a balloon was in an odd position right above the airplane, without much time to think we "dove" a bit to go under it, only to be surprised by some kind of basket full of fireworks, attached to the main ballon with a single line. We hit the line, luckily it broke and both the balloon and the basket didn't get stuck in the airplane. The line got into the right wing 2cm short of a tank.

This balloon fell in the urban area of a city with 11 million of residents.

My story is just one out of thousands, which will not make into that documentary.

I think Orlando International Airport, FL is probably one the worst places in the world to rent a car. What they do in that airport is immoral and also illegal in pretty much everywhere I've been. This is what usually happens:

- You rent a car online, the website gives you a price and reservation You are not charged, when you get there, you are charged at least two times the original amount you saw on the website even when the reservation clearly states the amount will not change. (That happens in all reservation websites)

- They know you are probably coming from a long flight and use that as a tool to make you pay and go away; That said, I saw them purposely making lines longer at every rental booth, at the same time. When I asked why they were doing that they said '... we are closing some unneeded booths at this time'. They want you to be tired. They even had one employee, not using an uniform, which clearly worked for all companies, he was the one coordinating the lines.

- All car rentals practice the EXACT same price. They created some gimmicks (GPS/insurance/amenities) to change the bottom line a little bit, but the price is exactly the same, they even share the parking space and employees, it's all a big lie.

- Somehow there is not a single car rental near those airports every time, I think that's intentional;

- I've been to some of the worst airports in Africa and was better treated in those countries than in that airport while renting a car;

- They will try to push you into the crappiest car they have, they will give you a better car if you complain. They somehow thought I would put my family to travel around florida in a 10y/o crown victoria.

I don't have a doubt the Orlando Airport car rental is some kind of cartel.

"when the TSE granted access to more than 10 million lines of code for five hours."

The software itself is very small. They are counting the OS, etc.

The software could be safer. But this whole story about those machines involves ego and fights for notoriety between government-run universities, departments and the opposition in place, which changes from time to time. Not exactly FUD, but an exaggeration of the facts.

As we move programs we use into the browser, window managers become less important. But we also lose some functionality offered by window managers. Maybe the "next browser" will be so intrinsically attached into your OS window manager there will be virtually not difference between an installed application and a website, their windows will behave the same way.

Slack.app may be an example of how browsers will work in the future.

Yes, that's kind of my point.

We did hire a nanny, we both work 7 and 8 hours a day the rest is spent with the baby. As our baby sleep almost half of the time we aren't home, we lose just 4 or 5 hours of parenting time on weekdays.

Not sarcastic at all, What I was trying to say is that most power moms are really moms that have support of their partners.

My wife has a successful career in federal court and I'm a CTO/Co-founder of a startup that became a medium-sized company. The impact of having a baby in our careers was insignificant.

Yes we split the responsibilities, but being really honest, if you fail in whatever you are doing because of a baby, you would fail without it either. I would even say that a baby might even make you a bit more ruthless when it comes to making money and doing things in general.

Yes, you won't have time for yourself, you will sleep less and will look miserable for a while. But I'm pretty sure raising a baby is the greatest thing I'll ever do in my life.

That said, to be a power mom you just need a power partner.