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Ze Frank is hiring for a new startup
- shib71 16y agoThose job descriptions are a work of art.
- brianwillis 16y agoMakes me hang my head in shame over the tragically corporate-sounding job descriptions that I post when I need to recruit someone new.
- zaidf 16y agoYou should have sent at least one email to someone you have never met telling them that they should stop using tables. /bows out of the race :)
- mkramlich 16y agoFor the laughs alone I recommend everybody read the job descriptions he posted. He's a funny writer. Here's one favorite example from the Web Designer reqs: "... and you should be able to use HTML and CSS well enough to defend your work against Internet Explorer."
- mkramlich 16y agoooh, ooh new favorite: "You should have had a prior job that made you question your profession." I'll shutup now. Really, go read that page.
- gkoberger 16y agoI truly can't wait to see what Ze comes up with next. The Show was a great contribution to the internet, and he has created a ton of engaging and clever online games in the past few years. And, all without financial backing (he said The Show took him hours each day; his only payment was donations). I'm thrilled that he found investors to give him money to just do something cool. If anyone can create a cool game and/or start up, it's Ze.
- baddox 16y agoI like this line: You should know by experience that whatever you don’t understand you can learn quickly.
- alnayyir 16y agoIt's a good way to put how I've approached many contracts and jobs in the past.
- joshu 16y agoYay! Disclaimer: I'm an investor.
- Gianteye 16y agoYay! Disclaimer: I love little duckies.
- Gianteye 16y agoWow... -1. I suppose HN doesn't appreciate Little Duckies the way Ze and I do. http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/archives/2006/05/050806.html http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/archives/2006/05/050806.html
- ashbrahma 16y agoAre you hiring for your startup? http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/01/feeding-frenzy-as-delicious-founder-joshua-schachter-raises-round-for-new-startup/ http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/01/feeding-frenzy-as-delicious...
- joshu 16y agoMaybe after it gets funded? I will surely post on HN
- ryoshu 16y agoThis embodies the irreverence that I love in this industry.
- substack 16y agoThese are pretty great and it looks like an interesting project, but why "4+ years of experience"? First of all, what exactly is a "year of experience"? You spent the entire year using some piece of tech? You used the tech once a year ago? I hate how commonplace these sorts of non-verifiable claims are in job postings. Edit: I've been thinking about this some more and perhaps "hours of experience" is a better metric, given the 10,000-hours-to-mastery correspondence.
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- allwein 16y agoIt's simply asking that you have 4 years of experience as a developer (or designer), and not a specific technology. I think that's completely reasonable. So it wouldn't matter if the longest you've ever used a specific tech has been 3 months, as long as you've been coding in general for 4 years.
- uuilly 16y ago"You should tell your coder friends that you are a designer and your designer friends that you are a coder."
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- apsurd 16y ago"If you can see these job descriptions it means that they have not yet been filled!" Companies that post jobs, please understand how truly great this line is and incorporate it into your own job postings. Thanks!
- paolomaffei 16y ago4+ years experience for a startup makes me sad :(
- keyle 16y ago“Please make that look more like a Muppet vomited SteamPunk.” Story of my life.
- duck 16y agoI'm pretty sure most of you don't have a lynda.com subscription (I got mine through a company I did work for), but the Ze Frank interview is awesome - http://www.lynda.com/home/DisplayCourse.aspx?lpk2=53856 http://www.lynda.com/home/DisplayCourse.aspx?lpk2=53856. Actually, all of their "Creative Inspirations" interviews have been great.
- araneae 16y agoYou should have sent at least one email to someone you have never met telling them that they should stop using tables. But I like tables. There's so organized. I hate this floating div crap.
- hartror 16y agoMe too but the separation of content and layout is important.
- thetrumanshow 16y agoCan you please explain this or link to something that does? I mean, I've been 'floating divs' and 'clearing both' for a while because someone/some article told me that its better, but tables are so much more predictable. The only reason I ever use floating divs in practice is when I'm worried some designer friend is going to view source on my pages and laugh at all the tables. Also, if I am expected to use floating divs all the time, can someone just link me to a floating div table generator already? :)
- Jasber 16y agoSeparation of layout and content allows you to do things like this: http://www.csszengarden.com http://www.csszengarden.com A few benefits that may be worth the headaches of floating divs: * Redesign your pages without ever touching HTML (mobile/tv version) * Improved SEO by arranging important content up top * (Generally) lighter page sizes because CSS is in external file being cached But I actually use floating divs because I find them easier. Tables are easy too, but after years of hacking on broken CSS--most of the thorns have faded away for me. YMMV. Use what works best.
- jonknee 16y agoI think that used to be more important, but these days when your pages are being generated from templates on the fly it's not much harder to change the template than the CSS.