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Show HN: Meaningful jobs in software development(meaningful-jobs.fiveyearitch.com)
7 points by josh_fyi 13y ago|6 comments
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by josh_fyi 13y ago
There's my http://meaningful-jobs.fiveyearitch.com (so long as you are in the US). We've got jobs in medical research, green energy, and others.
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by josh_fyi 13y ago
And worse, that particular mess is commented out, yet downloaded to everyone's browser. But below, in live code, they have the same thing.
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by josh_fyi 13y ago
Brilliant! I'm curious to know: How did you ramp up your marketing so fast to get employers and developers to the site on short notice? (Other than posting to HN, of course!)
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by josh_fyi 13y ago
Your best bet is Clojure -- usage is growing.
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by josh_fyi 13y ago
I know the feeling, and yes, it itches! Every red-blooded engineer wants to switch technologies and find new challenges every few years. So, a few months ago, we launched a site to scratch the itch for ourselves and others who are experien
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by josh_fyi 13y ago
I don't know what country you are in, but in Germany, the Mittelstand is a quite respected part of the economy, and that describes what you do.
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by josh_fyi 13y ago
It's just a name. But when recruiters revamp their techniques, treat both the developer and the employer as their customer, and use the communication technology that respects people's time (e.g., not spam of any sort), then you ha
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Rise of the Anti-Recruiters(readwrite.com)
7 points by josh_fyi 13y ago|4 comments
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Ask HN: Whatever happened to Paranoid Linux?
5 points by josh_fyi 13y ago|4 comments
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by josh_fyi 13y ago
All these seem to be within the general level of intrusiveness seem in the US: Easy access to metadata, security cameras, etc. You haven't convinced me that the situation is much different in Israel as compared to the US (or the UK, f
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by josh_fyi 13y ago
Sure, Careers 2.0 is good. The jobs space is _very_ big, plenty of space for everyone. Among other differences, Careers 2.0 focuses on StackExchange karma, which is useful, but not everyone wants to go in that direction.
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by josh_fyi 13y ago
How did that work? Usually user groups are independent initiatives by developers, with at most a room or minor funds provided by a sponsoring company or two. Companies can't keep their employees from going to the Ruby/Java/C++ User Group i
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by josh_fyi 13y ago
> GitHub ... and StackOverflow don't appeal to the majority of developers. Those sites will capture far less than 1% Yes, exactly. That's what the proposal at the OP link is aimed at: Letting experienced developers sign up to be poache
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Why don't software communities serve as job hubs?(blog.fiveyearitch.com)
9 points by josh_fyi 13y ago|11 comments
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by josh_fyi 13y ago
The right not to incriminate yourself is a basic civil right. The Fifth Amendment is a codification of the right, which was given to you, as our Founding Fathers saw it, by the laws of nature. The Amendment may refer only to some circumstan
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by josh_fyi 13y ago
It's totally OK to leave. There is no need to "finish" complete projects which can take years. Just take care to finish off the current phase of each project -- you'll have to decide in context what that means -- and hand off to colleages.
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by josh_fyi 13y ago
Good question. First, it's for developers and other IT pros, not executives. It's for introducing people, not a full-service search firm. Employers send quick screening question to candidates. The workflow is designed to be very quick, eas
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by josh_fyi 13y ago
> Well, I lose. It's not even 18 hours and I'm breaking from my self-imposed HN break. Dammit, I suck. Or, we'll just call this thread an exception, because I really want to contribute to this discussion. Hmmm... should I feel guilty ab
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by josh_fyi 13y ago
Michael, Thanks for that comment, you've hit it spot on. The focus at FiveYearItch is not the technology, it's the workflow for connecting the two sides. > recruiters peddling horrible subordinate corporate jobs That's exactly who we ar
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by josh_fyi 13y ago
>tells the employer what you want to do >it could be a bump in pay but it usually also means a new challenge like working on a particular tech, type of product, domain, etc Sure, that's _exactly_ what FiveYearItch is all about. When
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by josh_fyi 13y ago
Thanks. Yes, this is absolutely for sysadmins, etc. The "fun quiz" on the welcome-page only had room for a few sample options. On the registration page at http://fiveyearitch.com/register just start typing in the "wanted position" field
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by josh_fyi 13y ago
Thanks! We called "that feeling" the "Itch," and built our site around it -- http://FiveYearItch.com . Song-and-dance definitely not required.
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by josh_fyi 13y ago
Right, we developed a workflow to work around it. The employer can ask for some quick qualifiers, FizzBuzz-style questions, to separate the sheep from the goats. They should take two minutes each to answer and are not intended as an in-dept
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by josh_fyi 13y ago
We're not quite worldwide yet :-/ but we have been adding countries gradually and will be adding more soon. So far, FiveYearItch supports the US, Australia, Canada, the UK, Israel, and India. You can register at our user-feedback page htt
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by josh_fyi 13y ago
Thanks, maldinii, that's exactly the problem we are trying to solve. Take a look at the sign-up page http://fiveyearitch.com/register We made it super-simple: No resume, no bio, super-short form. And even after employers contact you, we
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by josh_fyi 13y ago
Hey, Jan, by coincidence, our Ask HN item is right above yours and is a close fit. "Ask HN: Would you sign up for a "Hire-a-HN-Hacker" board?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5732624 . What do you think?
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by josh_fyi 13y ago
Clickable link: http://blog.fiveyearitch.com/2013/05/show-hn-unofficial-hire...
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Ask HN: Would you sign up for a "Hire-a-HN-Hacker" board?
38 points by josh_fyi 13y ago|27 comments
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by josh_fyi 13y ago
Why not have a plastic flap hang down and thwack the top of the too-tall truck? Next, if that's ignored, a plywood barricade hanging down: Better some splintered plywood than a jammed tunnel.

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