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Thank you for sharing. We recently had a kidney transplant in our family, and it's nice to hear positive stories of organ transplants, since we've been so fascinated with the whole science aspect of it.
Hi Mr. Roberts;

Thank you for doing this, yet again - your insights are always so valuable. I am on an H1B, and my company applied for a Greencard, and I have received a Priority Date with my i-140 (sorry if I'm not using the correct terms here, this process confuses me). When am I able to leave my current employer without losing my priority date? Would I need to get my new employer to apply for an H1B transfer and extension for me, or how does that work? Thank you!!

Hi Peter, thank you so much for doing this AMA! I'm currently trying to decide whether to appeal an EB1A decision - they agreed to meeting "plain language" for 3 criteria, but denied the application on final merit.

What kind of considerations would you advise your clients to think of when making this decision?

Re:My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website on Thursday July 18, 2024 @04:30PM (#40999445)
Additionally, Pixar has a really good and robust coding lesson - called Pixar in a Box - https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/pixar Not sure if this is quite the right aged resource for her, but might be nice for you to have in your back pocket.

Happy to help with pointing you to any resources you may need to keep her engaged!

Re:My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website on Thursday July 18, 2024 @04:28PM (#40999421)
OBSESSED! She did SO good!

I taught young girls to code (founder of nonprofit Girls Code Lincoln, based in Nebraska USA) for the past few years - I love this! A few resources that you may be interested in sharing with her, age appropriate for her:

Youtube series that we did where our students interviewed women in STEM - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-32uv45Ln4VJGhVr_jr6...

Podcast series where we talked about historical women in STEM + a current woman in STEM - we recommended people listen to this in the car when their kids are there. https://girlscodelincoln.buzzsprout.com/

My email if you need anything at all, or would like further resources for your daughter. [email protected] / [email protected]

TED talk that I did about HOW to get your daughter interested in STEM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guoLTuW8AX4&t=10s

I've taught code to children for years as the founder of a coding nonprofit, and this is a great way of laying out logic. Block code is very often taught to children and is a pet peeve of mine as it doesn't translate into strongly typed code for them, so we lose a number of kids in the shuffle when they believe code is too hard. Thank you for sharing!

If you were wanting to build on this, one of the greatest struggles, particularly with children, is syntax and spelling errors. They very often misspell words like "background" when we're teaching web dev, or forget their brackets and semicolons, so their code doesn't run.

If you were to make something similar but in a language they're already learning, such as Javascript, Java or Python (which, in my opinion, are the most common languages taught to kiddos), that might be useful.

Happy to chat more about this if you're looking for more on this perspective.

Re:Stubhub buying their own tickets under fake names? on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @12:54PM (#36697626)
This ^^
I work with 4th-9th grade girls teaching them code, and recommend this to them to work on over the summer! It's a great curriculum and does an awesome job pulling children in!
Re:Salary Transparency 2022 on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @11:31PM (#31105785)
SALARY TRANSPARENCY 2022 Hey everyone! Women in tech are at a disadvantage when salaries are not shared! We're putting together a survey for folks in all fields to fill out to gather salary data, and hopefully bridge the gap! To help gather info, please fill out this anonymous survey! Please send it to everyone you know!!

Survey link: https://forms.gle/UKC4C5Q1cHcqmhhV6 Link to results: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1JZa28JWRti-JpiAKjBjL...

Re:Show HN: A new daily word puzzle on Monday February 21, 2022 @09:37AM (#30416314)
I enjoyed this and agree with many of the comments here - typing would be far easier and more fun! It might also be fun to add a "hint" where it gives you one of the words in the top scoring solution - maybe just as is, or even jumbled up. Overall, great concept and I look forward to playing more often!

Ask HN: I bought a domain, now what?

Hi All - this is probably a stupid question but I am teaching myself how to code and want to build my own website. I want a section to make blog posts, have my resume/portfolio and a contact page - so pretty simple at the moment. Eventually, I would like to set up email with my domain, so that I can send and receive emails with that name.I have already bought a domain (from google domains), but...

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Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite Ted talks? on Thursday April 11, 2019 @01:34PM (#19637060)
Apologies - can't edit the post, sadly, maybe a moderator can?

I haven't heard of these ones before, but excited to check them out, thank you!

Re:TEDxTalk: Three Steps to Closing the Gender Gap in Tech on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @03:51PM (#19557925)
Hi, OP here! I gave this TEDx Talk about how to close the gender gap in tech at my local TEDx conference last month - I hope you all enjoy watching it! I was extremely nervous, but it was an honor to be able to speak on such a internationally acclaimed stage! I'm interested in hearing your thoughts on how we can reduce the gender and diversity gaps in this industry, so please share your thoughts!
Also worth pointing out that most bathrooms in India do not have toilet paper - this is not a societal norm.
The day they released this was so so funny. and awkward.

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