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> a post to the Haskell mailing list led to zero replies There is Haskell Weekly with weekly job offers: As of November 2020, over 4,100 people subscribe

> a post to the Haskell mailing list led to zero replies There is Haskell Weekly with weekly job offers: As of November 2020, over 4,100 people subscribe to Haskell Weekly. Over the last five issues, the average open rate was 37% and the average click rate was 16%. https://haskellweekly.news/issue/301.html https://haskellweekly.news/issue/301.html https://haskellweekly.news/advertising.html https://haskellweekly.news/advertising.html

littlecranky67 5y ago
Offtopic question: How can you (reliably) meassure open rate of a newsletter? I'd assume mail clients as well as webmailers preventing any sorts of tracking, and tracking only those that have lax privacy requirements would taint the whole metric, wouldn't it?
- ReleaseCandidat 5y ago
  Yes, it does (Haskell Weekly uses Mailchimp): How we calculate open and click rates The open rate is a percentage that tells you how many successfully delivered campaigns were opened by subscribers. To find this out, Mailchimp loads a tiny, transparent image into each campaign, and counts how often the image is loaded among the delivered campaigns. The image is invisible to your subscribers. https://mailchimp.com/help/about-open-and-click-rates/ https://mailchimp.com/help/about-open-and-click-rates/
  - _1 5y ago
    Doesn't gmail prefetch images, regardless of someone opening the email?
    - zeckalpha 5y ago
      With 4100 samples, you can do some statistics to estimate an overall open rate.
  - littlecranky67 5y ago
    Yepp, but most mailclients block externally-linked content in HTML emails. Only inlined content is loaded. And if you measure only those clients that ignore that/whitelist that, the metric is skewed/biased towards less-privacy sensetive users.
the_only_law 5y ago
I remember looking through some random Haskell job board out of curiosity last year and an the listings were overwhelmingly for Crypto/Web3 startups, with pay ranges clearly not targeting US devs (I think mid $30s was a common low end)

littlecranky67 5y ago

Offtopic question: How can you (reliably) meassure open rate of a newsletter? I'd assume mail clients as well as webmailers preventing any sorts of tracking, and tracking only those that have lax privacy requirements would taint the whole metric, wouldn't it?

ReleaseCandidat 5y ago
Yes, it does (Haskell Weekly uses Mailchimp): How we calculate open and click rates The open rate is a percentage that tells you how many successfully delivered campaigns were opened by subscribers. To find this out, Mailchimp loads a tiny, transparent image into each campaign, and counts how often the image is loaded among the delivered campaigns. The image is invisible to your subscribers. https://mailchimp.com/help/about-open-and-click-rates/ https://mailchimp.com/help/about-open-and-click-rates/
- _1 5y ago
  Doesn't gmail prefetch images, regardless of someone opening the email?
  - zeckalpha 5y ago
    With 4100 samples, you can do some statistics to estimate an overall open rate.
- littlecranky67 5y ago
  Yepp, but most mailclients block externally-linked content in HTML emails. Only inlined content is loaded. And if you measure only those clients that ignore that/whitelist that, the metric is skewed/biased towards less-privacy sensetive users.

the_only_law 5y ago

I remember looking through some random Haskell job board out of curiosity last year and an the listings were overwhelmingly for Crypto/Web3 startups, with pay ranges clearly not targeting US devs (I think mid $30s was a common low end)