...so why don't you try it? You can fork and perform tests...
You are right about what the spec sais and what happens in reality as far as "loading" is concerned. Modern browsers can open multiple requests to a webserver. However "Painting" and "Rendering" is another area which most developers miss its significance.
Script parsing is blocking to rendering.
Especially when scripts are included in the HEAD the delay becomes pretty apparent.
The point of the article was to illustrate how DOM Ready is not needed when loading and executing scripts synchronously. I am not convinced that loading scripts asynchronously will result in a faster, absolute time of when the page is ready to be used by the user (events binded, complex ui that need JS are rendered.
And i am definitely not sold on the concept of polling every 5ms for the existence of elements in the DOM. Which is required for async loaded scripts if they want to be as fast as possible (and hoping that they were loaded before the elements are rendered). If I had that much a burden of manipulating an element right there and then when it was rendered, i'd plainly add a SCRIPT tag right beneath it.
While internet means international network, the internet industry isn't really international. The sooner one realizes that the sooner he/she can get in the right path to success.
While there are always exceptions that prove the rule, there is the rule. And the rule says that the internet industry lies in the SF Bay area.
Examine it under any metric you wish, quantitative or qualitative and you will end up in the same conclusion.
That's rubbish, and if you think that is true then you have been watching The Social Network movie a few too many times and brainwashed by Hollywood.
And the way the USA is acting right now trying to pass draconian laws and police the internet for everyone, every sane company will/should be moving their operations to a progressive thinking nation.
I also don't understand why you are so upset. Just because someone else got the visa is no guarantee you would. You know that saying, "don't count your chickens before they've hatched"...
You are right to reject the tourist visa option: it might work for a few quick visits to network and meet people, but it is not the best way to go if you are serious. And I have seen that when I behave in a serious and business-like way, I get serious and business-like results. (Off-topic: when I started being rigorous about claiming business expenses only for real business expenses and stopped telling half-truths on my tax returns, then I started making a lot more money. Correlation, not causation? Maybe. I put it down to an attitude adjustment.)
Back on topic. Did you prepare the E-2 visa application yourself or did you hire a U.S. immigration lawyer to do the work for you? Immigration work is 80% technical knowledge, 80% procedural skills, and 80% immaculate paperwork. That's why getting someone with deep experience counts.
(Disclosure: I have a vested interest in selling the concept of "hire an extremely experienced professional").
(Disclosure: I am not an immigration lawyer; that stuff scares me.)
Think about the category "L" visa. Executive of foreign corporation transferred to work at the U.S. branch. Set up a Swedish corporation. Create a U.S. subsidiary corporation. Decide to assign yourself to the USA to work.
Devil. Details. Etc.
These visa applications can be completed in 6 weeks or so -- this is what my immigration lawyer friends tell me.
Of course i had an experienced lawyer that took my hand throughout all the process... And we also examined all available options...
L type visas are not as simple as you describe. The criteria that have to be met are not suitable for a startup company. The killing requirement is that you (the employee that will be assigned in the US subsidiary) has to work in the mother company for at least a year.
... And let's not get into what the requirements for the mother company are...
Good all around. It sounds like you did everything correctly. Consulate officials are known to operate in a non-uniform fashion in processing visa applications. That is all I will say in public. :-)
You may also want to check out VisaJourney.com, it's helped me immensely in my immigration to the US (and will continue to do so as I Remove Conditions). They focus mostly on family class and less on business class visas, but it is still an incredibly knowledgeable community surrounding US immigration. If I were you, I would post as much of my situation on the Work Visas forum as I was comfortable and see if they can help.
But if your lawyer was so experienced, shouldn't you have been forwarned that you had a marginal case?
Did the UCSIS outright deny the application (which is a problem for the future too) or just ask for further documentation (which could be death by a thousand cuts too)?
We are in the consumer-social space (http://boothchat.com) so we need to go out in the wild and find our customers. I'll talk about the first 2-3 weeks of starting up.
At the very beginning you'll need to do direct "sales". Apart from any ongoing efforts to attract press, SEO, SEM, etc, at the beginning you'll have to go out there and beg.
Locate your target audience and create campaigns. These campaigns should create you leads, which you'll have to turn into accounts and then customers... I'm talking like a salesperson here because the principle is the same. Were i mention 'accounts' imagine visitors to your website, where i mention 'customers' imagine those visitors converting to users.
E.g. specific search for relevant to your startup keywords on Twitter. Then engage with these users both from your personal and company twitter account. Never "sell" directly, rather try to get into the conversation.
Do that in a systematic way for a couple of weeks and soon you'll have your first hundred users. Of course this method does not scale, but by the time you're done with it hopefully your other efforts (press, SEO, etc) will start to kick in and you'll move to a whole new game...
I understand what you are saying, please understand that when trying to get a picture of each high tech hub back from Europe we tend to view only things that sign, which may or may not be gold in the end.
My perception as to what Austin is, was SxSW and Gowalla. Compared to the cities mentioned these two alone where not adequate enough to put Austin in my radar... I never heard (up to today) of a great VC-er/blogger, a great accelerator program or something cool starting out from Austin...
Don't get me wrong, Austin may be great, may be awesome, it just lacks a few points in the communication dept...
That is interesting. Most of our investors (including VCs) recognize Austin as a startup hub. We have several VCs, a lot of angels, and two accelerator programs.
