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I understand that when a company terminates an H1-B worker, the company must offer to pay for the return flight. But what happens if the termination occurred while the employee was overseas and the employee wasn't able to return to the US. Could the employee seek a reimbursement from the company for the costs related to terminating apartment lease early, relocating their residence or storage costs?

    Location: Melbourne, Australia
    Remote: Yes
    Willing to relocate: Yes (SF, NY, Singapore, London)
    Technologies: Scala, Java, Go, 
    Typescript, Kotlin, Swift, R
    Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/10nbMvYjjwn7Mqo_MJuTVMhsm07JOi7lHspiaOMyNaxk/edit
    Email: neuman.vong AT gmail DOT com

  Location: Melbourne, Australia
  Remote: Hybrid preferred, but fully remote OK
  Willing to relocate: Open to a few places, just ask
  Technologies: Java/Scala, Go, Javascript/Typescript, Python, R
  Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/neumanvong/
  Email: (Full name at gmail)

I grew up in Singapore, and among many excellent things I can say about its education system I have but one criticism, which is that it tends to encourage students to think of themselves as a point along a continuum between a loser and a winner. This system quantizes an infinite combination of possibilities of achieving meaningful success into a few, e.g. doctor, lawyer, banker; and this article presents a perspective that is a typical product of that system.

[samsara]: http://lcfrs.org/samsara/docs/dragndrop.html

Aussie here. Australia has in the recent years acquired a bad reputation when it comes to its treatment of immigrant populations, for e.g.: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violence_against_Indians_in_Aus....

If you truly care about avoiding an "Australians enjoy India bashing" meme, then make sure to hold Christian Marth (@cloudgroupsyd) accountable to his tweet, and other Aussies who say things like this. It belies an insensitivity toward other cultures, and we should really address this seriously.

Instead, consider this: just ignore the guy, if he waves or says Hi, just nod while you pass him. It might seem rude/dismissive at first, but if you have no underlying reason for malice and you can prove that at a subsequent interaction (e.g. conversation at a water cooler) then what you'll have done is set up an expectation that you don't want to be bothered when you're walking from point A to point B.

Socially awkward people tend to be poor broadcasters of what they expect from others, similarly they tend to be poor at reading what others expect from them.

If you want to be less socially awkward, you must communicate your expectations to others. Look at yourself in the mirror and make sure your face and body language are communicating what you intended.

Once you've learned this, you'll see that the real problem is how to deal with people who communicate their expectation of you for a response that you don't want to give.

"Hegelian dialectic... a thesis, giving rise to its reaction, an antithesis, which contradicts or negates the thesis, and the tension between the two being resolved by means of a synthesis." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialectic#Hegelian_dialectic

Anyway, could these be programmer triads/dialectics?

  * Objects are superior/closures are superior/Scala?
  * Statically-typed/dynamically-typed/some combo of both
  * Optimize/generalize/do each as required
  * Waterfall/Agile/(TDD/BDD?)
  * Relational/NoSQL/???