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Comment · 7 years ago

Yes, probably, however, an O Visa requires the recipient to be working in the USA upon receipt, it's not meant for tourism for business or pleasure (including tech conferences).

Comment · 8 years ago

This is incorrect; you can indeed get Informed Delivery for [at least some] P O Boxes, postal employees don't know how to do it, but if you change the address on your Credit Card to be the P O Box, and then try authenticating using that card, it passes fine. That's what I did for my own P O Box, for example (it failed the first time when my card was using my street address).

Comment · 8 years ago

How does Pocket Casts compare with Breaker?

Comment · 9 years ago

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Comment · 9 years ago

Same Q as last time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14707266

Comment · 9 years ago

Thank in advance! How easy is it for a French Citizen holding a DVM (Doctor of Veterinary Medicine - 5 year degree) to secure a H1B? Are there any other work visa classes they would qualify for?

Comment · 9 years ago

SD is "South Dakota" as abbreviated in US-English. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Dakota

Comment · 9 years ago

Actual complaint (PDF): https://www.bloomberglaw.com/iframe/document/X1Q6NR78D282/do...

Comment · 9 years ago

At first glance, his is too naive a conclusion. This isn't simply language-specific, it is further locale-specific in addition to simply the language, here's why:

Ahorita in Spanish (USA) means something else from Spanish (Nicaragua) for example. If a Greyhound bus driver were to use that word to indicate the bus is departing "Ahorita", I would assume that to mean the next 10-15 minutes whereas in Nicaragua, I would have no idea if it means 10 minutes, 30 minutes or even 60 minutes, so my follow-up question would be, "Do you mean 15 minutes or less?" To me, this is more a cultural thing, not a linguistic thing since in fact the language in use is the same, i.e. Spanish. As another example, "later" (EN-US) is not the same as in EN-IN.

Or maybe I'm missing the point of the research entirely ...

Comment · 9 years ago

The first bait-and-switch apartment listed "Entire home/apt" with 4.5 stars rating is here: https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/14489610

1 or 2 of my very nice people will be in the office upstairs to help with any questions during daytime. (the bathroom is shared on Mo, Wed, Fri during daytime)

How is this even legal?

Comment · 9 years ago

A simple tweet from your verified twitter account @jankoum to indicate that your "HN username = jankoum" should suffice.

Comment · 9 years ago

Not to take any credit away from Jan, it is however worth noting that his background (and that of many of the early employees) is in Infrastructure / Backend at Yahoo! The side-effect of that is that reliability/uptime is already in his DNA, as also, just "getting things done without enjoying any of the limelight", and he's done a great job carrying over lessons/behaviors learnt in that previous life over to WhatsApp.

Comment · 9 years ago

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We have a diverse (technologies, cultural backgrounds, work experience between large and small companies) team in place currently in the heart of Silicon Valley.

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Comment · 9 years ago

DoorDash customer support is atrocious and their own CS representatives know & acknowledge this. This is also what lead me to deleting DoorDash and sticking with UberEATS.

If I were upper management at DoorDash, I would be talking to the person that runs Customer Support to see if they (a) even recognize their CS setup is terrible (b) are doing something to fix the problem.

Context: https://twitter.com/zaatar/status/849968887491776513

Comment · 9 years ago