Peroni

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by Peroni 10y ago
When was the last time you engaged with a company with a view to working with them because you saw an ad they happened to post in the right fora?
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by Peroni 10y ago
The premise that technical people with in-demand skills are hard to recruit has very little to do with the screening process. The screening process is not a difficult problem to solve. The real difficulty in recruiting in this space is fin
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by Peroni 10y ago
Thanks! It was fun and it seemed to help a few people but unfortunately after a bit of a fall-out with the dude that I ran it with, I stepped away from it and he doesn't seem to be doing anything with it at anymore.
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by Peroni 10y ago
I used to run a tech job board in the UK called Hacker Jobs. I used to get two or three emails a week from folk (almost always outside of the UK) asking me to hack into Facebook and gmail accounts. The best thing was that the job board was
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by Peroni 10y ago
This is the primary reason that you shouldn't make hiring decisions based on the test/problem results alone. The interview problem should only serve to be a conversation catalyst. If they got some help with the problem, outsourced
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by Peroni 10y ago
StreetTeam | Full-time | ONSITE | London, UK | £40k-£60k + equity | https://getstreetteam.com StreetTeam is building a global platform that enables advocates to sell the products they love to their friends. We're growing fa
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by Peroni 10y ago
Finding decent speakers is harder than finding decent sponsors. Expect to spend most of your time chasing down speakers. Start small. HN London started in someones apartment in London with 10-15 people turning up and grew from there to an a
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by Peroni 10y ago
Here you go: http://www.meetup.com/hnlondon/ Next one is likely to be at the end of November.
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by Peroni 10y ago
>I really miss old meetups where people would just present their open source projects and discuss technical topics. That's pretty much what HN London is. We like to keep the talks as diverse as possible. Everything from local develo
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by Peroni 10y ago
Wow. Thank you. The meetup has been running for about 5-6 years now and it's taken a huge amount of time and effort to get it to where it is today. We're incredibly fortunate that there's an amazing amount of interesting peop
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Hacker News London Meetup, October 2016 – Review(thoeni.io)
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by Peroni 10y ago
StreetTeam | Full-time | On Site | London, UK | £60k-£70k + equity | https://getstreetteam.com StreetTeam is building a global platform that enables advocates to sell the products they love to their friends. We're growing f
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by Peroni 10y ago
A startup in London that has both a pension and healthcare scheme in place where you work 9.30-5? That's a pretty rare beast.
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by Peroni 10y ago
Mind if I ask what the tech stack is? I wonder if there's significant disparity in relation to the tech stack.
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by Peroni 10y ago
>Freelancing JavaScript dev (Node, Angular etc), digital agencies - aprox £300-350 p/h I assume you mean per day and not per hour right?
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by Peroni 10y ago
This post covers all the basics in excellent detail. Written by an engineer, for engineers: https://blog.alexmaccaw.com/an-engineers-guide-to-stock-opti...
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Amazon's Alexa told us Echo is coming to the UK very soon(engadget.com)
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Take Eat Easy is shutting down its food delivery business as Uber muscles(uk.businessinsider.com)
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by Peroni 10y ago
Brexit didn't make ARM cheaper. On referendum day it was 1567 yen/share. On Friday was 1670 yen. https://twitter.com/jamestitcomb/status/754966707769315333
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by Peroni 10y ago
The fact is, Microsoft needed a content ecosystem. Buying LinkedIn gives it a lot of content AND a huge stake in the recruitment game which is a huge and growing market. The deal makes sense.
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by Peroni 11y ago
Poké API is coming up to 54 million API calls - pokeapi.co People still love Pokemon it seems
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by Peroni 11y ago
That's why you get them to talk you through their process during the face-to-face interview. It'll be immediately apparent if they didn't do the work themselves.
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by Peroni 11y ago
FWIW: Europass CV's generally don't go down well with employers. There's an unfair stigma attached to Europass CV's as the candidates are perceived to be of inferior quality.
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by Peroni 11y ago
This is fascinating stuff. What I find super interesting is that Industry becomes significantly more important the more experienced the developer. The only thing I can think of that would make this even better is if I could filter the dat
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by Peroni 11y ago
To give Rands the benefit of the doubt, I'm assuming the shields analogy is from the employer perspective. I don't believe he's suggesting that protective psychological barriers are consciously (or even subconsciously) raised
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by Peroni 11y ago
Caveat: I offered a similar service to HN (for free) about five years ago and I've been working in the 'talent' space for the majority of my career. >...who will make sure every detail of the resume that he is reviewing fo
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by Peroni 11y ago
Interesting solution but isn't there four more 'levels' to solve?
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by Peroni 11y ago
I implement workable.com at every single company I work/consult with. It's insanely easy to use, incredibly intuitive and makes life so much easier for everyone involved in the hiring process. I despise LinkedIn however it's
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by Peroni 11y ago
It's hardly revenge if it wasn't preconceived. A decent lesson in due diligence however the title suggests that the Sysadmin intended for this to happen.
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by Peroni 11y ago
>There are hardly self-driving trains. Almost all of London's tube network is self-driving. The human operator controls opening and closing of the doors and that's about it.

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