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timtamboy63

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CTO PennyWhale (http://pennywhale.com) Founder and Director of Startup Exchange at Georgia Tech @chintanparikh94
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timtamboy63··on I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
Hi Peter - thanks for doing this.

I'm currently on a H1B and transitioning to an E3 visa. However, I did get married to a US Citizen and am also applying for my green card via marriage. I need to move to the E3 as my H1B maxes out before I can get a green card. I have a few questions:

* The E3 visa is a non-immigrant visa, but I assume getting married to a US citizen implies immigrant intent. My lawyers tell me it's not an issue as long as I wait 90 days after getting the E3 to apply for the green card. Does that sound right / any concerns?

* How long are you seeing current wait times for the marriage based green card end to end after applying? I'm mostly concerned about not being able to leave the country for 1-2 years (even with filing advanced parole)

* I'm also going for the employment based green card and we've filed my PERM (3 months ago). That doesn't really seem like it;s going to work out in time for it to matter. Does that sound right?

timtamboy63··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2024)
Secureframe | Remote (Canada) | https://secureframe.com

Secureframe helps companies get compliant and build trust with their customers. We do this by integrating in a company's core SaaS tools, ingesting data, and then displaying all misconfigurations that need to be remediated for a given security framework. Stack is Rails/React/Typescript/Postgres/Elasticsearch

We've got three open engineering roles - apply here: https://secureframe.com/careers or email me at chintan[at]secureframe.com

timtamboy63··on Ask HN: How can I back up an old vBulletin forum without admin access?
I wrote something 10 years ago that scrapes a vBulletin forum into a Rails app and exposes a UI so the data is accessible. Happy to share the code with you if you'd like
timtamboy63··on Launch HN: MergeQueue (YC S21) – Automate rebasing and merging for your codebase
MergeQueue is phenomenal. We've been using it for a few months now and it's been great for keeping PRs green and helping merge quickly.
timtamboy63··on Ask HN: What did you do to improve your company?
Would love to see this!
timtamboy63··on I’m Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
I'm also going from H1-B -> Green Card. The first chunk of the process is with the Department of Labor and so they should be able to get started on that
timtamboy63··on GoodJob – a Postgres-based ActiveJob back end for Ruby on Rails
I've been using Rails for the past 6 or 7 years. The biggest positive is that almost any feature you need is available as a gem. We're using for an early stage startup right now, and it's crazy how quickly we've been able to crank out features. I've looked at the JS and Python ecosystems, and haven't seen the same mature ecosystem.

I don't disagree with your point around large Rails apps becoming un-maintainable. I think as long as you have a few developers who have dealt with big Rails app and know what to avoid (concerns, fat models, etc), it's not too hard to write a maintainable app in Rails.

timtamboy63··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2019)
Opendoor | Software Engineering | Onsite | San Francisco, CA

Selling or buying a home is a stressful, uncertain process that can take months. At Opendoor, we’re reshaping an entire industry to fix that. Joining our team means building a new experience that puts customers at the center of the transaction. Plus you’ll work with a passionate, mission-driven team. We're hiring across a bunch of different teams and most of our engineers are full stack. For more info shoot me an email - chintan@opendoor.com

timtamboy63··on Ask HN: What is your goto stack when building a MVP and why?
Rails + Postgres for MVP. Very quick to prototype (you can build a CRUD app with a few commands) and fairly flexible. Then when you want to scale you can add a JS framework if you need and use Rails for the API piece.
timtamboy63··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2019)
Opendoor | San Francisco / Atlanta / Los Angeles | Full-Time | ONSITE Opendoor is revolutionizing the real estate industry and changing the way people buy and sell homes. This year, we've:

• Expanded markets from 6 to 20 cities, planning for 50 markets by 2020

• Seen 1 in 2 true sellers who receive an offer choose to sell to Opendoor, up from 1 in 3

• Reduced the average fee to home sellers to 6.5 percent

• Increased our annualized acquisition run rate to $3.8B, up from $1.2B

• Grown the homebuilder trade-in program with Lennar and other homebuilders to enable over $875M in annualized sales for builders

• Acquired online home buying platform Open Listings (W15)

• Opened engineering and design offices in Los Angeles and Atlanta

• Been hiring like crazy (from 250 -> 1200 in a year and a half)

Apply for openings at https://www.opendoor.com/jobs or email me at chintan@opendoor.com

timtamboy63··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2018)
Opendoor | San Francisco / Atlanta / Los Angeles | Full-Time | ONSITE

Opendoor is revolutionizing the real estate industry and changing the way people buy and sell homes. This year, we've:

• Expanded markets from 6 to 20 cities, planning for 50 markets by 2020

• Seen 1 in 2 true sellers who receive an offer choose to sell to Opendoor, up from 1 in 3

• Reduced the average fee to home sellers to 6.5 percent

• Increased our annualized acquisition run rate to $3.8B, up from $1.2B

• Grown the homebuilder trade-in program with Lennar and other homebuilders to enable over $875M in annualized sales for builders

• Acquired online home buying platform Open Listings (W15)

• Opened engineering and design offices in Los Angeles and Atlanta

• Been hiring like crazy, and hit our 1000th employee a few weeks ago (for context I joined a little over a year ago and was employee ~250)

Apply for openings at https://www.opendoor.com/jobs or email me at chintan@opendoor.com

timtamboy63··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2018)
Opendoor | San Francisco / Atlanta / Los Angeles | Full-Time | ONSITE

Opendoor is revolutionizing the real estate industry and changing the way people buy and sell homes. This year, we've:

• Expanded markets from 6 to 20 cities, planning for 50 markets by 2020

• Seen 1 in 2 true sellers who receive an offer choose to sell to Opendoor, up from 1 in 3

• Reduced the average fee to home sellers to 6.5 percent

• Increased our annualized acquisition run rate to $3.8B, up from $1.2B

• Grown the homebuilder trade-in program with Lennar and other homebuilders to enable over $875M in annualized sales for builders

• Acquired online home buying platform Open Listings (W15)

• Opened engineering and design offices in Los Angeles and Atlanta

• Been hiring like crazy, and hit our 1000th employee a few weeks ago (for context I joined a little over a year ago and was employee ~250)

Apply for openings at https://www.opendoor.com/jobs or email me at chintan@opendoor.com

timtamboy63··on Screen sharing comes to Slack video calls
I use Slack voice a ton as well - quality has been perfect for me and I don't think I've ever had a dropped call.
timtamboy63··on Test Driven Interviewing
This is great! I recently went through the interview process and found that doing this saved a lot of time. I didn't have to ask my interviewer to repeat themselves or clarify anything in the middle of writing code.
timtamboy63··on Show HN: PlateJoy (YC S15) – Algorithmic meal planner with integrated delivery
Same! I was thinking about building this a year back and thought the best monetization model would be to add some overhead for the delivery.
timtamboy63··on Warn HN: stacks made executable on GNU by mere presence of assembly code
Yes - a common way to exploit a stack overflow is to basically "write code" in the stack and then execute it. If the stack isn't executable, you can't execute the "code you wrote" in the stack.
timtamboy63··on Change Your Name
But he's implying that having a .com correlates to success - so % starting with a .com would be a more apt comparison.
timtamboy63··on In Busy Silicon Valley, Protein Powder Is in Demand
Any idea how to get it if you're outside the EU?
timtamboy63··on Show HN: Cappio – stock research that isn't overwhelming
Shoot me an email at chintan@capp.io and I can go into more detail :)
timtamboy63··on Show HN: Cappio – stock research that isn't overwhelming
We've actually been considering making it available for others to use. Shoot me an email chintan@capp.io.
timtamboy63··on Show HN: Cappio – stock research that isn't overwhelming
Dealing with some traffic issues right now. Should work now.
timtamboy63··on Show HN: Cappio – stock research that isn't overwhelming
Totally see what you're saying, and we definitely want to get into the educational aspect at some point. But Netflix fell because of earnings, and GTAT was a fundamentally horrible company (our site wouldn't have recommended it). From what we've seen, retail investors tend to lose money when they invest with their gut, and that's the biggest issue. They hear some news and go and buy that company. They don't know how to do the fundamental analysis, and look at income statements, etc - that's what we're really trying to solve. I agree with not really trusting the analyst target price - we were actually debating whether to keep that there or not, but I disagree that technical analysis can't give you good, long term picks along with a little research.

I'd love to hear more about your thoughts. Think you could shoot me an email at chintan@capp.io?

timtamboy63··on Show HN: Cappio – stock research that isn't overwhelming
We somehow didn't find that out until we'd already built everything out. Considered a re-brand, but we figured we'd go with it :)
timtamboy63··on Show HN: Cappio – stock research that isn't overwhelming
Different places right now. MorningStar, FinViz, etc. Transitioning onto paid data asap.
timtamboy63··on Show HN: Cappio – stock research that isn't overwhelming
Yep, too much traffic. Fixing now, let me know if it works!
timtamboy63··on Show HN: Cappio – stock research that isn't overwhelming
Only NYSE/NASDAQ for now, but we're definitely going to be expanding out soon!
timtamboy63··on Show HN: Cappio – stock research that isn't overwhelming
Thanks so much! Feel free to reach out to me directly if it's easier - chintan@capp.io
timtamboy63··on Show HN: Cappio – stock research that isn't overwhelming
Definitely a timeout unfortunately. We're bumping up dynos, so hopefully it'll get better!
timtamboy63··on Show HN: Cappio – stock research that isn't overwhelming
Buying another dyno now, hopefully it can handle it :)
timtamboy63··on Show HN: Cappio – stock research that isn't overwhelming
Mind shooting me an email with some info? chintan@capp.io. Might be a little slow because of the HN effect, but it seems to be working for me.
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