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PointyDogon Carpenter's AirTags help uncover 'massive' case of stolen tools in Maryland

I lived in Howard County for a year. With the combination of county income tax and affluent property taxes, every service was exceptionally well funded.

Having lived in Mountain View & Sunnyvale, CA as well for a decade my experience was Howard County itself had quicker and better services than those cities.

It doesn't surprise me at all that their police department is competent and helpful.

PointyDogon I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

I replied elsewhere - but this was my (successful - now an LPR) path.

My lawyer told me you need a 4 year degree equivalent, and 4 years of experience can convert to a year.

If you have zero university education, that would be 16 years' experience required, based on that lawyer's legal instruction.

PointyDogon I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

This was my path, so it's possible. I dropped out after year two of my degree to join a startup and worked for 10 years in industry.

I converted 8 years of that experience to 2 years of a bachelor's degree to make the full 4 required, and had a University professor provide a letter of endorsement.

I was applying from Europe, and even then it was apparently a fairly expensive process for my sponsor.

PointyDogon WorkOS – Building blocks for quickly adding enterprise features to an app

Apologies if not the right place for this feedback, but the careers page does not work properly on Firefox 100/Linux - clicking any opening does nothing.

I work heavily with enterprise products. In my experience, when you're selling an enterprise-ready product it's a good idea to QA all public-facing code, even sections of a public website.

This is because I have found many enterprise customers are more interested in maintenance (which can be pre-assessed by looking at support and QA experiences) than they are the actual product.

PointyDogon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2021)

  Location: San Jose, CA
  Remote: Only for a good offer (office preferred)
  Willing to relocate: Only for an outstanding offer (Bay Area preferred.  Canadian citizen, green card holder)
  Technologies: Architecture, Java, Typescript, Python, C, Qt/C++, Linux, named on multiple patents (also a complete myriad of related web and cloud technologies)
  Résumé/CV: By request
  Email: desert_canine@pm.me