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As far as grogginess/tiredness after you wake up goes that's related to where in your sleep cycle you wake up. I use one of the numerous iPhone/Android apps that use the accelerator to detect and wake you up at the end of a sleep phase.
I'm well aware of the potential consequences health and otherwise but I see it as a short term cost for a long term benefit.
The stylus does have some lag to it and you have to get used to not seeing your writing show up immediately. When you see your writing hasn't showed up yet you tend to stop or slow down which isn't necessary, just keep writing and trust it will show up. I know that sounds terrible but it's really not.
devbootcamp is clearly not an option for you, i suggest you take spoom's advice and open source a project you can be proud of in Rails. Then maybe attend some conferences in the US, and try and network to seek jobs. I believe you can get a B1 visa to attend conferences and you should be legally allowed to interview, although IANAL so double check.
Eventually you learn: If you build it they will come; If you are lucky.
Small NodeJS app that serves the client connection webpage and acts as a proxy. Set the proxy locally, When you get requests instead of fetching them ask the socket for the data and headers.
On the client just do an XMLHttpRequest for whatever and shove it back down the web socket to the proxy server. Done, Right? I'll do a little experiment when i have time...
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Ability to fund start-ups is a start, you might also need a parallel start-up type visa so foreign entrepreneurs can create jobs and great products.
Just for the record for me a good investor visa:
-Tie the visa to the start up, if it fails they have to leave, cant work for other companies. As a corollary they cant take a job that previously existed, they can only add jobs.
-Reduce or remove current capital requirements 500,000-1m is way overkill.
-Keep the 'must create n jobs' requirement, but give more time to create the n jobs. Forcing start ups to hire 5/10 people in one year is not cool.
I'm not revealing till much later in the process but ill tell you this, so far it looks like MongoDB + geospatial indexing = win! you might find it useful as well.
I'm attempting to build a Geo-location based app right now from my list.
I clean out ideas at the start of every month, dumped a couple on the first.
List is 7 ideas right now.
On a side note, please make your own arrow on the corner of that front page of the book. I think almost everybody knows where that's from...