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There are virtually no skilled people outside perhaps London, Cambridge and Oxford. That's total horseshit.

rjsw 12y ago
The comment that you are replying to did qualify the statement by saying that they were looking for employees not self-employed contractors.
- lotsofmangos 12y ago
  Fair enough. The idea that all the people employable outside London, Cambridge or Oxford are all self-employed contractors who are not interested in salary positions is also total horseshit.
  - allegory 12y ago
    It's not hard finding people; it's hard finding quality people because they've all moved to London for the salary or are self-employed. When I say quality, I mean people who can pick up anything we throw at them and pick the right tech for the job rather than be tied to a tech platform, not Joe average ASP.Net webforms or Kate average Oracle monkey. We need people who pick the tools for the job, not factory pressed programmers. Also have you tried hiring anyone anywhere in the UK that can actually write C? Totally damn impossible even offering £120k.
    - justincormack 12y ago
      They do exist. The finding people process is very broken. Can guarantee there will be quite a few C programmers at the conference I am organizing http://operatingsystems.io/ http://operatingsystems.io/
    - Nursie 12y ago
      Well if you need a C contractor and my general level of snark hasn't put you off, in this thread or others on HN, feel free to get in touch with david.hicks@starnose.net I'm not saying I'm perfect, but I have been pretty shocked at the standards I've encountered since I left big blue and decided to go it alone a few years back.
    - lotsofmangos 12y ago
      I know a few people who write very good C and they all live outside London. Only one of them makes anything near £120k though.
walshemj 12y ago
But most of them will commute to London out side of some really niche centres of excellence and non of those would be areas that tech crunch covers eg RBR and the other F1 teams near Mk and say Hybrid air vehicles out at Cardington

rjsw 12y ago

The comment that you are replying to did qualify the statement by saying that they were looking for employees not self-employed contractors.

lotsofmangos 12y ago
Fair enough. The idea that all the people employable outside London, Cambridge or Oxford are all self-employed contractors who are not interested in salary positions is also total horseshit.
- allegory 12y ago
  It's not hard finding people; it's hard finding quality people because they've all moved to London for the salary or are self-employed. When I say quality, I mean people who can pick up anything we throw at them and pick the right tech for the job rather than be tied to a tech platform, not Joe average ASP.Net webforms or Kate average Oracle monkey. We need people who pick the tools for the job, not factory pressed programmers. Also have you tried hiring anyone anywhere in the UK that can actually write C? Totally damn impossible even offering £120k.
  - justincormack 12y ago
    They do exist. The finding people process is very broken. Can guarantee there will be quite a few C programmers at the conference I am organizing http://operatingsystems.io/ http://operatingsystems.io/
  - Nursie 12y ago
    Well if you need a C contractor and my general level of snark hasn't put you off, in this thread or others on HN, feel free to get in touch with david.hicks@starnose.net I'm not saying I'm perfect, but I have been pretty shocked at the standards I've encountered since I left big blue and decided to go it alone a few years back.
  - lotsofmangos 12y ago
    I know a few people who write very good C and they all live outside London. Only one of them makes anything near £120k though.

walshemj 12y ago

But most of them will commute to London out side of some really niche centres of excellence and non of those would be areas that tech crunch covers eg RBR and the other F1 teams near Mk and say Hybrid air vehicles out at Cardington