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by abuiles 14y ago
I remember reading your post. Really good stuff, I remember meeeting a couple of guys from couchbase in Berlin.
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by abuiles 14y ago
Thanks for you answer :), yeah, I know time zones is one of the main problems companies faced. How about this: if you were highly skilled and experienced, as a rule you would have moved to the US for the greater opportunity and the big buc
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by abuiles 14y ago
Just search "remote" in http://hnhiring.com/
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by abuiles 14y ago
Actually that's something I would like more about, Isn't easy for a company to hire a contractor in other country? I've worked as contractor for companies in the U.S and Germany, normally I would just send them a receipt and received my mon
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by abuiles 14y ago
What you said is true, but you can also find horrible code written by people in the U.S, so is not an I'm an American and you not issue. I've seen projects like the one you mention above too, they were people who hired guys for $5/hour and
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by abuiles 14y ago
See my comment here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5247350 ;)
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by abuiles 14y ago
That's true. Also I have noticed a couple of things here, one is that if you are American companies will have more willingness to hire you remotely or outsource work for you. For instance I know at least 3 companies owned by Americans in my
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by abuiles 14y ago
Have you tried writing to the companies who say "remote" in the "Who's hiring thread"? What do they say?
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Ask HN: On companies hiring remote developers and why don't you do it?
40 points by abuiles 14y ago|54 comments
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by abuiles 14y ago
Nice job :) I've been in the same spot. Looking forward to try this out.
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by abuiles 14y ago
Have you seen engager.io? ;)
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by abuiles 14y ago
Agree, actually Aline is a hackernewer too, I have seen her writing about recruitment.
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Sex, Booze, Masturbation, and Cold Showers.(hrostoski.com)
2 points by abuiles 14y ago|0 comments
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by abuiles 14y ago
Also there is this answer in quora which goes further in both approaches http://qr.ae/1zV1S :)
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by abuiles 14y ago
As Peroni mentioned, Targeted is more effective yet difficult. A good approach to this is something that I would call "passive targeted recruiting", basically implement policies as "always be recruiting" and having your doors open (office-h
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by abuiles 14y ago
Interesting! I was looking for this some days ago :)
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by abuiles 14y ago
Why do you say "I doubt anyone would have me"? J1 visas aren't that difficult. You can just try reaching out and talking with people, a lot of companies do office hours, you can schedule meetings with them through Skype or Google Hangouts.
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by abuiles 14y ago
haha I was wondering about this too, I actually asked in quora http://www.quora.com/Fallacy/What-are-some-famous-examples-o...
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Help Me Fix Tech Recruiting: Become a Recruiter(code.dblock.org)
3 points by abuiles 14y ago|0 comments
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by abuiles 14y ago
There are a bunch on interesting comments in this quora thread: "How do I get more out of less sleep?" http://www.quora.com/Sleep/How-do-I-get-more-out-of-less-sle...
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by abuiles 14y ago
hey Matt, could you give me an email where I can contact you directly, would like ask you some things personally.
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by abuiles 14y ago
Sounds good, your email is not there though :(.
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by abuiles 14y ago
thanks! I'd definitely consider this, actually when we sent email we saw a good click/opens rate. We'll experiment more with modals too.
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by abuiles 14y ago
We have been considering this, I'll give it a try for our next release, thanks!
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Ask HN: How do you tell your users about your new features?
7 points by abuiles 14y ago|9 comments
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Ask HN: Who's Hiring Data Scientists?
7 points by abuiles 14y ago|2 comments
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by abuiles 14y ago
Nice talk Jan!
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by abuiles 14y ago
Hey, I'll be visiting NYC next week too, I'm from Colombia(South America), I'm attending startup weekend and trying to connect with some people over there, let's meet if you want, builes.adolfo at gmail dot com
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by abuiles 14y ago
It was asked here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4512022 The answer was: "It's still too early to tell."
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by abuiles 14y ago
I wonder at which point did you ended up going on this direction, did the launch of recent businesses like http://developerauction.com/ influenced some how this decision? Would you still describe as the "online reputation system for devel

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