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Re:Kris Nova Passed Away on Sunday August 20, 2023 @09:38PM (#37204572)
She was such a kind and impressive human, and inspired so much of my career. I can’t believe she’s just gone. This is heartbreaking.
Re:Kafka without ZooKeeper on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @12:46AM (#26643621)
Confluent Cloud Basic/Standard is a cheap managed Kafka. If the objection is to the deployment and not Kafka clients.
Re:Let's Give Visas to Startup Founders on Wednesday December 02, 2009 @06:53PM (#973327)
I think this may strongly depend on the home country (thus creating more distortion).

Home country is not necessarily Bangladesh, it could be UK or Switzerland, in which case the H1B holder can and does negotiate for market rate salary or he will go to his home country where he is payed fairly and life is just as good.