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by liquidcool 11y ago
Does he not know the average salaries of developers in your area? Any recruiter will corroborate that. Or does he think you should hire developers from lower cost of living areas? Or is he surprised that labor is a high percentage of total
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by liquidcool 11y ago
Agree, we use it to coordinate dog care between housemates, but if they stopped all work on networking with dog owners and just made the damn thing sync more often, I'd be thrilled. I hate walking the dog at 1AM because it took 3 hours
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by liquidcool 11y ago
I don't know Singapore, but I'm US-based and do some contingency recruiting. It sounds like you were talking to someone at the company, and they can be more hard nosed about that. My goal is to see if your salary target fit's
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by liquidcool 11y ago
IMO, if you're a junior developer you don't want autonomy, you want guidance and mentoring from fantastic senior programmers. I didn't realize it at the time, but that was a big win when I started my career. Also, I managed a
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by liquidcool 11y ago
Yes, people forget that Emmanuel Goldstein of 2600 fame was a consultant on Hackers. If you thought that was unrealistic (and OK, it was), revisit the other '95 hacker movie: The Net .
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by liquidcool 11y ago
You're right, that's a good point. And it seems Google has started to move away from BigTable with Spanner, which F1 is built on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanner_%28database%29
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by liquidcool 11y ago
I like RDBMs, they get the job done for me (yay Postgresql), but his AdWords example is no longer correct. From Wikipedia: > Eventually, Google developed a custom distributed Relational database management system (RDBMS) known as Google
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by liquidcool 11y ago
Yes, I've worked in apparel ecommerce for some major brands, and many that market to older women use vanity sizing (beyond the general trend in the article), which leads to a high rate of return. You can put a vendor size chart right o
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by liquidcool 11y ago
I'm curious, what is the risk of getting caught, and what is the penalty?
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by liquidcool 11y ago
One thing to explore is reporting. Reporting on large enough data, putting into a data warehouse/star schema, etc., gets you into "business intelligence" territory. That puts you in touch with a lot of managers, providing cle
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by liquidcool 11y ago
Getting the ratio of developers to jobs is tricky. I could check LinkedIn or a resume database, but they lag a bit since most only update them before job hunting. Still, probably not a horrible metric. Another metric is salary. Also imperfe
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by liquidcool 11y ago
I search job board aggregators and do my level best to filter out agency recruiters. I don't trust the exact job numbers, of course, but I trust the rankings because the deltas are large enough.
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by liquidcool 11y ago
I should probably narrow the query a bit (I'm using a job board aggregator), but there are a number of startups built on PHP, most notably Facebook. Yahoo uses it in places, and don't forget all the companies who need a WordPress,
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by liquidcool 11y ago
Since I started dabbling in recruiting, I've been doing rough tracking of job data for a number of technologies/stacks, broken down by region (LA, OC, and SV). When I checked outstanding jobs earlier this month, these were the ran
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by liquidcool 11y ago
I don't see a typo, nor do I see mention of ASP.NET MVC anywhere. "Spring MVC" is an extremely popular web framework on the Java Virtual Machine: http://docs.spring.io/spring/docs/current/spring
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by liquidcool 11y ago
I have many false employees on LinkedIn, but I can't completely divorce myself from blame after naming my company "Made Up Name." :-) And I also recommend a phone call. I understand it will be uncomfortable for you after firi
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by liquidcool 11y ago
There are definitely companies selling such projects (Daxtra comes to mind), but as Aline Lerner pointed out [1] the problem isn't matching as much as it is sourcing. IOW, you don't focus on conversion optimization if you don&#x27
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by liquidcool 11y ago
Anyone know if Sendgrid or AWS SES is affected? Or even the email marketing shops like MailChimp, Aweber, ExactTarget, etc.
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by liquidcool 11y ago
There seems to be more backlash against the CEO for revoking the offer than the asker.
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1. Ask them how they mentor junior members. 2. Invite them to lunch with the team so you can all interact. 3. Ask them to give a short presentation on a relevant technical topic to gauge their communication skills. (Idea taken from Peoplewa
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by liquidcool 11y ago
What's interesting is that you don't even have to be the creator of said project to profit off it. There are companies that provide commercial support and consulting for Tomcat and Postgresql, but they didn't create them. The
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by liquidcool 11y ago
Yes, it's like the Niels Bohr quote, "An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field." You have to determine if you need someone who is an expert now, or can become an expert. If you hav
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by liquidcool 11y ago
Man, this brings back memories of lying on my loft in college, listening to industrial music while reading William Gibson. Studying CS, playing with 3D on the Amiga, reading 2600, Wired, Mondo, etc., etc. It doesn't matter if it was to
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by liquidcool 11y ago
> The company originally designed a two-week indoctrination into its famously "fun" office culture that has since evolved to a four-week undertaking. ... Anyone who shows up late for the daily 7 a.m. start is fired on the spot.
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by liquidcool 11y ago
Oddly, I can't determine what location this is for. The workbetter.us domain redirects to a Squarespace landing page that has no real info (who, where, etc.). It seems they are mostly doing business as OfficeLinks (NYC and Chicago) and
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Thanks for that. I came to post this article, not by Suster but enthusiastically endorsed by him: http://blog.eladgil.com/2015/03/career-decisions.html Edit: typo
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Think of the ingenuity in crafting the device, and his business savvy to go from landscaper to millionaire (in the 70s). So much drive, and yet not enough to get himself to a GA meeting. Addiction's a bitch.
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by liquidcool 11y ago
If a startup is a marriage, do you really want to marry these people? Do you see this as a quick exit (acquisition) or a longer slog? If you want in, get a lawyer who specializes in startups (partnership agreements). They will tell you what
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This is a tough one. What everyone assumes is that a only blatantly sexist person will dismiss your resume because of a female name. Obviously, such people will flunk you in the interview. The problem is it completely ignores people who hon
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What language(s) do you already know? I'm also a fan of the Pragmatic Programmer and my lifetime language count is at 15. A few years ago I started using Groovy and haven't looked back. Very low ceremony language that gets rid of

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