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Why Men Can't Have It All(relevantmagazine.com)
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by mtoddh 14y ago
It seems like more of the people dissatisfied with Craigslist would be directing their ire at the CEO (Jim Buckmaster), and not Craig himself. Of the two I would assume (perhaps incorrectly) that despite the "Craig" in Craiglist, it would b
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Yahoo’s Marissa Mayer and the work-life dilemmas of the rich and famous(washingtonpost.com)
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Indeed.com may go public(westfaironline.com)
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by mtoddh 14y ago
Just in case you didn't already know of this, but they have a job board for the Startup Chile companies: http://startupchile.org/joinastartup/
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by mtoddh 14y ago
From the article: "Tech start-ups founded by women are few and far between, but they're highly attractive to female and male candidates who don't want to join a boys' club." I could see how this could be true for female candidates (since ge
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by mtoddh 14y ago
Yep, I'll add that for companies. I might make the jobs themselves taggable as well...
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by mtoddh 14y ago
Yep, I'm planning on indexing more jobs from countries outside the US. Right now there are jobs from about 50 countries ( http://www.neekanee.com/jobs_by_location/ ), it's just that the majority of them are concentrated within the US.
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by mtoddh 14y ago
Neekanee is a job search engine I began developing when I became a stay-at-home dad. The motivation being I could eventually use it myself once I decide to reenter the workforce. It collects jobs directly from company websites (so no recrui
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Show HN: Neekanee - job search engine built with Django, SOLR, Twitter Bootstrap(neekanee.com)
6 points by mtoddh 14y ago|5 comments
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by mtoddh 14y ago
Good points - it also a lot easier to debug what's being returned by the function as you have fewer breakpoints to set in gdb.
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It's funny to look back at news articles when past bubbles were forming and compare it to the articles that are popping up now about startups. It's hard not to see similarities. Take this 2005 NYT times article, titled "Trading Places: Real
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by mtoddh 14y ago
+1 for Tika. I've been using Tika in conjunction with SOLR for a job search engine I built (www.neekanee.com) and it's really useful for extracting text from PDFs and .doc files if you're not overly concerned with the structure of the docum
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Parody site puts Bank of America in your hands(money.cnn.com)
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by mtoddh 14y ago
Got that beat. One of the previous places I was working was still on RCS (this is in 2010). CVS is what I was able to get them to upgrade to. And it was like showing fire to the natives once they realized they no longer had to "take turns"
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by mtoddh 14y ago
"People often point out that the frothy tech startups of 2012 are fundamentally unlike the frothy tech startups of 1999..." I've always thought it interesting how 1999 is always the benchmark people use, and never any of the years prior whe
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by mtoddh 14y ago
I'm guessing that most of the people who see long hours as a badge of honor are salaried employees or people who manage salaried employees. One thing I noticed when I switched over to contract work is that once a company has to pay for each
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by mtoddh 15y ago
I launched my job search engine Neekanee this month: http://www.neekanee.com
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by mtoddh 15y ago
I'm curious, could these sort of statements made by a CEO in regards to a former employee be crossing the line into defamation? As in, if Pierce is looking for a job in the future and this is what a potential employer finds...
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by mtoddh 15y ago
Agreed - my guess is it's getting harder and harder to grab people's attention and swearing is an effective way to 'shock' some people into noticing your headline.
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by mtoddh 15y ago
I think another major strength of Django is its documentation. The docs for Django are some of the best I've ever seen for any open source project (or even commercial software for that matter). I don't see this mentioned often when people a
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by mtoddh 15y ago
I had friends back in college in the 90s who did this. Their rational being "the job market is so hot, why bother getting a degree when I can start making money right now." Back then it seemed like anyone with a CCNA could start making 60k
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by mtoddh 15y ago
Sorry but I don't see how your example of a guy initiating a dialogue with women he just met is an example of a power imbalance. Partly because you're guessing at how he feels - maybe he feels entitled or maybe he feels nervous at hell, bec
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by mtoddh 15y ago
Crazy interview story. Way inappropriate and at the very least shows he wasn't even paying attention. I'm a stay-at-home dad to my 18 month old son and also get nervous about what the job hunt will be like once I return to work. I guess whe
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by mtoddh 15y ago
men in the US felt entitled to join conversations with and sit at the same table with a pair of young women they didn't know and had just met Unrelated to the thread, but isn't this how you get know people you've just met?
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by mtoddh 15y ago
So a genuine question, are we getting to a point where you need to think so much before actually saying anything Yes - and many people are going to see this as a good thing (and some won't). I think the best route is to never include any
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by mtoddh 15y ago
Honest question - how do they achieve this? How is it they (Germany and Japan) are able to "compete on a manufacturing level without workers having to accept Chinese wages and conditions". Because it's generally framed as Americans needing
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by mtoddh 15y ago
It would be interesting- whether it's job ads comparing programmers to ninjas and rock stars, to using sexual images in slides at conferences, the tech industry seems sort of unique with regards to behavior that might be seen as juvenile in
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by mtoddh 15y ago
If the guy isn't posing a physical threat, suck it up and ignore it Judging by a lot of the comments on here, this seems to be what really makes people here upset. That she didn't just 'suck it up.' That she's complaining. A cardinal sin
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by mtoddh 15y ago
Got any links/citations that support this assertion? Specifically, cases where men in the FOSS community are being harassed because of their gender.

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